Run a scrimmage or tournament

Create it

Scrimmage

1. 1On the board, add your mats, then choose Scrimmage in the bout builder.
2. 2Group by weight class or weight band and choose 2 or 3 bouts per wrestler. Preview, then create: bouts are shared across mats with no back-to-back bouts.
3. 3Move, reorder or delete bouts on the board as the day changes; Re-pair replaces a scratched wrestler.

Bracket tournaments: set up and entries

1. 1Choose Bracket tournament. It opens the tournament desk, whose sidebar follows the day: Overview, Setup, Registration, Entries, Brackets, Weigh-in, Mat plan, Live, Fix a result, and Finals & wrap-up. On a phone, the bottom bar has Now, Mats, the scale and Results, and the rest is under More.
2. 2Setup: pick a division template or add divisions and weights, then set the mats, days, bracket formats, placement points, the weigh-in allowance, the most wrestlers per team and when entries close.
3. 3One wrestler at a weight, under the bracket formats, decides what a weight with a single wrestler gets: they're champion (with or without placement points), or there's no bracket and you merge or move them.
4. 4Entries: add your team and other ScoreOps teams and send each coach their Copy entry link, or add a team that isn't on ScoreOps with Import team from a pasted list. Every team from one spreadsheet loads them all at once.
5. 5Fix entries as you go: Rename a wrestler, or a team that isn't on ScoreOps, and Remove a team entered by mistake. Before a wrestler is in a bracket, Move to… puts them on another team and ✕ takes them off the team's list. Export entries downloads the list, and Update entries loads your edited file back, showing every change first.
6. 6Close entries & build brackets makes a bracket for every division and weight, keeps teammates apart in round one, and numbers and queues the bouts on the mats. Building closes entries; Reopen entries opens them again for coaches and leaves the brackets as they are.

Brackets, weigh-in and mats

1. 1Brackets: reorder or swap seeds and choose Review seed order, move a wrestler to another weight with ↗, or merge a thin weight into another.
2. 2✕ scratches a wrestler and shows what changes before you apply it; a top seed can leave a bye instead. Print changed sheets reprints only the brackets that changed.
3. 3Late entry: + Add as lowest seed, or once wrestling has started, + Add into an open seed (a bye) whose bouts haven't been wrestled.
4. 4Lock all brackets when weigh-ins are done. After that, late entries, seed changes and putting back a wrestler scratched from a bracket need Unlock brackets first.
5. 5Weigh-in: find a wrestler, type the weight and choose Save weight. Move up or Scratch anyone who misses, right there.
6. 6Mat plan: see when each mat will finish. Preview balance shows the moves that would make them finish together, and Apply plan makes them; untick a mat to keep its queue as it is.

On the day

1. 1Table links: choose Table links on Overview (Mat tables, under More on a phone), then Make a table link for each mat and give the table its QR code or link. No sign-in; results entered while the wifi is down send once it's back.
2. 2Live: every mat on one screen, with alerts that each have one fix: Run #… next when a mat waits on another result, Move … → … to send a weight's bouts to a mat that's ahead, Balance mats, or Review scratch when a wrestler who lost by default (an injury default, say) still has bouts left, which opens Fix a result to scratch them from the rest of the tournament.
3. 3A bout started on the wrong mat or too early? In the mat's Queue ›, Send back to queue clears its clock and points after you confirm.
4. 4Fix a result: find the bout, set the right result and choose Review changes to see what it changes, then give a reason and Apply correction. A later bout already wrestled with the wrong wrestler goes back to be re-run with Correct and re-run.
5. 5Scratch a wrestler from the rest of the tournament on Fix a result. Put back undoes a scratch and shows what changes first, and History lists every change and who made it.
6. 6Finals & wrap-up: send the finals to their mats in weight order, call placements from the Announcer sheet, and download Results CSV, Wrestlers CSV and Team scores CSV.
7. 7Publish fan board on Overview so families can search a wrestler and see their mat and roughly when. The gym TV shows every mat, or just some with a named screen, from Table links.

If plans change

A tournament on its own: the ScoreOps Tournament package