For the purposes of this manual, and for terminology on the web site, a Tournament is a container for a number of Events. A Tournament holds data such as organisers, general information, entry forms etc., whereas the Events are the individual draws and hold data such as the event format, number of players or teams etc.

Essentially, a Tournament holds one or more Events:

Types of Event

League Master can support Knockout, Monrad and Box formats and can be used for both Player and Team events, as well as Freehand. League Master also allows you to create any number of events in a tournament and each event can be of a different type.

A Knockout event will start with a draw of 4, 8, 16, 32 etc. entrants, and in each round, two teams or players play against each other, the winner goes through to the next round and the loser is ‘knocked out’. Each subsequent round is a match between two previous winners until a final is reached.



It is common to run a Plate event in association with a knockout, where the losers in the first round of the main event go into a new knockout event, which then continues in exactly the same way as the main event. In this way, each entrant is guaranteed at least two matches.

Monrad

A Monrad event takes this concept of a plate even further, in that every loser effectively goes into another plate, so that every entrant plays the same number of matches, regardless of whether they win or lose. The winner of all their matches ends up top, the loser of all their matches ends up last, and the other entrants are placed according to their individual wins and losses. A Monrad can, therefore, be displayed as a series of knockouts and is sometimes done that way. However, in League Master, it is displayed using the standard grid system shown below.



While the basics of all Monrad events are the same, there are a number of variations, such as the ‘Swiss’ system, but these generally refer to the alogrithm by which the initial matches are determined.

Boxes

Boxes are very similar to those found in a box league and are an alternative when you have a small number of entrants but you wish to ensure they get more than one match.

These are also known as ‘round-robin’ events.

Ad Hoc Events

An ad hoc event is simply a series of one or more singles matches:

There is no promotion mechanism and this is usually used for Qualifying rounds or for Playoffs, particularly if your main event uses Boxes.

Event Formats

Freehand

As with all tournaments, you start by creating a draw of as many starters as you want but in a freehand configuration you are free to enter players, teams and results exactly as you wish.

There is no underlying system to move winners into another round, nor to verify players or include them in stats but it gives flexibility for how you run your tournament.

Player Based

If your tournament is between players and you wish to record the results properly, then players are added to a Player database and are then selected for inclusion into the event. This also allows player stats to be recorded, eligibility checks against external databases to be made and maintains standardised format and spelling.

 Team Based

If your tournament is between teams, and you want to record all results properly, then you can do so as if it was a normal team match.



Teams and players are added to the database, and results can either be added by an adminstrator, or teams can login and add their own results.

Online Entry



League Master provides an online entry system for all tournaments, that optionally can also include online payment.