Most tournaments will follow a knockout style of draw where the winner of a match progresses and the loser is knocked out of the competition and takes no further part. More often than not, the matches take place over the course of days or weeks at a central venue as opposed to playing matches at the home team default home venue.
To create a draw for this competition:
- Select the teams that are in the grade via the Allocate Teams to Grade screen.
- Go to the Team Settings page and define the seeds for each team. Using the Standard Knockout Fixture, seeds can be defined such that if matches go according to rank, the highest ranked teams will not meet each other until the latter stage of the tournament. For example seeds 1 & 2 won't play each other until the FINAL. Seeds 1, 2, 3 or 4 won't meet each other until the SEMI-FINALS and so on. See Fixture Types above.
- Start the Draw Creator and select Knockout as the Draw Type and select a fixture template from the Fixture Type drop down box (Standard Knockout will suffice for most situations).
- Set the Venue Allocation method to Specify venues for all matches (or one of the other options if you are playing matches at a teams home venue).
- Set other settings as required on the Start page.
- On the venue selection page, choose the venues to be played at and the allocation method required.
- Submit the draw.