Your tournament is now sanctioned, and you're ready to launch registration. Here are a few steps to get you started.
Checking your Organization's Settings
Log in to Spordle ID in your tournament organization. If you don't have access, your parent organization (local or regional) can grant you access to the Tournament Registrar role.
Once logged in, click on the Manage menu and then My Tournament to ensure the following information is accurate:
Organization logo: Verify that your organization's logo is uploaded. Click here for documentation on how to upload a logo.
Organization name: Ensure your organization's name is correctly displayed. Note: Do not add the year for the tournament to the name - this will be added automatically.
Address of your tournament: Check that the address provided is accurate.
Tournament staff: Add your tournament contacts to be displayed on your tournament page. Click here for documentation on how to add staff to your organization.
Verifying your Merchant Account
If you process credit card payments, ensure your My Tournament profile has the correct merchant account information.
If you don't have a merchant account and wish to process credit card payments, click here to create one.
Note: If your merchant account does not appear in the Manage / Organization / General / Merchant Account section, please open a support request so we can update this for you.
Create Competitions
A competition in the Spordle ID platform is a tournament offered for a certain category, division, and class. Depending on your needs, it may have a limited or unlimited number of teams. It corresponds to a schedule in Spordle Play.
Competitions already sanctioned are displayed in the Competition section of your My Tournament organization profile.
Important
Approved competitions are available in Spordle ID to register teams. These are the competitions that your federation has approved.
Published competitions will be available in the public display and are therefore open for registration to all.
Make sure you are in the right season before checking. Competitions are per season.
Make the following checks for each competition:
Make sure that the correct competitions are listed.
You can delete a competition if no teams are entered or remove the publication date if a competition is unavailable. View the documentation The side panel of your request.
If a competition is missing, you can add it. This new competition will not be available for registration until it has been approved and published. View the documentation Request a sanction.
For existing competitions, please ensure that
the dates are correct;
the number of places is correct;
the team entry fee is correct.
Competition names have been set by default according to the category/division/class requested during sanctioning. This will be the name of the schedule in Spordle Play. If you wish to edit it, you can do so in this section, and it will be synchronized with Spordle Play.
Add Publication Date in the Competition
Publishing and Unpublishing Option: The update allows users to control the visibility of tournaments on Spordle ID. Once approved, they can publish a tournament, ensuring it appears on the platform. Conversely, they can unpublish a tournament, removing it from public view while retaining all data within Spordle ID.
Control Over Tournament Visibility: This feature gives organizers flexibility in managing tournament visibility, aligning with their scheduling and promotional strategies.
Approval requirement: Tournaments can be published only after the Federation approves the sanction request, which ensures that only authorized competitions are visible to users.
Where to Find My Tournament
You can find your tournament's public page in the MY TOURNAMENT tab of your organization. You can copy the public link on the left to transmit it via your website or other means.
An other place to find your tournaments is on the Spordle page network.
Tournaments are displayed in the Federation and Regional Tournament tab, and each tournament organization has its page. So it's easy for your teams to find you and register.
How to Register my Teams
A team can be added to a tournament if it exists in the current season. Registrars must create their teams or rollover teams so that the teams are available. View the documentation Creating Teams. Note that it is not necessary to have players on the team to register for a tournament.
Once the tournament has been published, there are three ways to register a team for a tournament:
As a tournament registrar, you can register a team from any organization and choose any category, even if this does not correspond to the original category of the team registered in your tournament. View the documentation Tournament - Register a team ;
As an organization registrar, you can register a team for a tournament directly using Spordle ID. This must be available for the team's category. View the documentation Organizations - Register a team;
As a team member, you can register for a Spordle PAGE tournament. See Tournament documentation for details.
Only approved teams will be displayed on the tournament pages and in Spordle PLAY.
A team from a federated organization that uses Spordle ID will be available in the team list when created. If the team comes from another federated organization that does not use Spordle ID, it can be listed as an external team.
Changing a team in a competition
Note: Use when groups in a competition are incomplete and you wish to merge two categories.
It is possible to change the competition when a team is in pending status or approved status.
Check that the team you wish to change competition has no scheduled games. If games exist, you must first remove the team from these games before proceeding with the competition change.
Note: After the change, the team will be synchronized to the new competition in Spordle Play. The system will also try to delete the team from the previous competition. This will work only if the team is not added to a game in the old competition. If this is not the case, you will need to open a support request so that our technical support team can remove the team.
Select the team concerned, then click on "Change competition" in the side panel.
You can then choose the new competition category for this team and submit the change.
Approve my Teams
The tournament registrar will be able to track registrations and approvals in the Teams menu of his tournament. Registered teams will be displayed in the tournament Teams section. The tournament registrar can filter by Competition and Status in this table.
Once the team has been approved, it will be displayed on Spordle PAGE and transferred to Spordle PLAY.
See our complete documentation Tournament - Team approval manage.
Remove an approved team from your tournament
To remove a team that has been approved for your tournament, you must complete the following two steps:
Go to the Teams menu in Spordle ID, select the team to open the side panel, and then click Manage Approval to change its status to Declined.
Go to Spordle PLAY, click on your tournament schedule, select the team you want to delete, and click Delete.
Team synchronization between Spordle ID and Spordle PLAY
When you approve a team in Spordle ID, the system will synchronize the teams in Spordle PLAY. You do not need to create your tournament teams in Spordle PLAY.
The system synchronizes Spordle ID and Spordle PLAY approximately every 10 minutes.
Note: your competition must also be published to be displayed in Spordle PLAY and thus have the teams in Spordle PLAY.
Make my Schedule and Enter my Results in Play
In a few days, we'll publish the steps you must follow to create your tournament schedules.
Any questions?
We're here to help. Feel free to request support by contacting our expert team on the platform.