Build a single dual or dual tournament

Use a dual bracket for team-versus-team competition where each weight class is an individual bout and those bout results contribute to a team score.

Before building

Confirm that:

1. The event structure includes Team duals.
2. Every participating team has been added to the event.
3. The event roster contains the eligible wrestlers for those teams.
4. The division has match settings.
5. You know the ordered list of weight classes for the duals.

Dual lineup weights are stored on each dual bracket. They do not come from the Individual event’s starting division setup.

Choose a single dual or dual tournament

Open Brackets, select the division, and choose Add Brackets.

• Choose Single Dual for one team-versus-team meet.
• Choose a dual tournament format when several teams advance or wrestle a round robin. The picker includes supported round-robin and elimination sizes and placement variants.

The format determines the team slots and the parent tournament matches. Each parent matchup builds a dual beneath it, and each dual builds one individual bout per configured weight class.

Choose the smallest format that fits the confirmed teams. Empty team slots can create byes, but a larger format also creates more structure to review and schedule.

Select the teams

Open Edit mode on the new bracket and choose Choose Teams. For a Single Dual, fill the two team slots. For a larger dual tournament, fill its available team slots and review their order before building. Empty slots produce byes, so confirm the intended teams before continuing.

Configure weight classes and bout order

Open the bracket settings and review Weight Classes. If the bracket has no custom list, Snapdown starts with the division’s weight classes. Add, remove, or reorder the list for this dual.

The list order is structural: Snapdown builds one bout per weight class in that order. Put the desired opening weight first. Changing or reordering the list after a dual is built marks the bracket out of date and requires another build.

Build the duals

Select the bracket and choose Build. A dual tournament creates its parent team matchups and the individual weight-class bouts beneath each matchup.

Review:

• the teams in each dual;
• the number and order of weight classes;
• the Built or Out of date status; and
• any byes created by empty team slots.

Building creates the match structure. Match Publishing still controls bout numbers, queues, and mats.

Set the lineups at the table

Lineups are assigned from Table Scoring, after the dual has been published to a mat. Coaches can keep their own team’s event roster current beforehand; see Manage event teams and coach roster access. The table then picks each weight’s wrestler from that roster.

• Tap an individual dual bout to assign its wrestlers.
• Choose Edit Lineup on the dual header to fill every weight at once.
• Choose Auto in the lineup editor to use current event weight-class assignments when the roster is ready.

The lineup editor shows each weight, both team slots, and the wrestler’s current weight. It warns when a wrestler belongs to a different team, exceeds the class limit, is already assigned elsewhere in the lineup, or could not be matched automatically. Review those warnings before scoring.

Know when one mat is enough

A Single Dual uses one mat and can stay on System-Managed Scheduling. A three-team dual round robin also has only one dual in progress at a time, so it can use the same one-mat path. Assign the competition to its mat, choose View Full Schedule to check the order, then choose Publish Schedule. Its weight-class bouts remain grouped under the dual in Table Scoring.

See Use System-Managed Scheduling across mats.

Know when the tournament needs several mats

A larger dual tournament can contain more than one team-versus-team match in the same round. Each simultaneous dual needs its own mat if the round is to move together. For example:

• a four-team round robin or elimination bracket suggests two mats;
• a five-team round robin suggests two mats;
• a six-team round robin suggests three mats; and
• an eight-team elimination or full-placement bracket can suggest four mats.

When a format needs more than one concurrent mat, Snapdown requires Director-Managed Scheduling. This prevents an ordinary bracket-balancing rule from putting the whole dual tournament on one mat and serializing a round that was intended to run simultaneously.

Use Schedule dual brackets

Open Match Publishing. When the event has dual-tournament brackets, System-Managed Scheduling cannot publish them, so choose Switch to Director Managed and confirm. Then choose Schedule dual brackets, either from the setup choices or from Add.

1. Select each uncovered dual-tournament bracket you want to prepare. Completed tournaments, Single Duals, and brackets already covered by an active rule do not appear in this list.
2. Review the dual count and the suggested number of mats. The suggestion is based on the number of duals that can occur in one round.
3. Choose the planned mats for each stage of each bracket. Selecting fewer or more than the suggestion is allowed, but Snapdown warns because it changes how smoothly the rounds can advance.
4. Avoid assigning the same mat to two tournament brackets unless they are intentionally sharing time. A mat pulls from one rule at a time, so a later run can move that mat to the later rule.
5. On Review, choose Save plan. If a clean bracket has not been built yet, the action becomes Build & save plan and builds its dual matches before preparing the queues.

The wizard creates Duals - … plans and places the duals in round order: all round-one duals, then all round-two duals, and so on. A pool format gets a rule per pool plus one per placement wave. Pools using the same mat set combine into one rule; partially overlapping mat sets need separate runs because a mat pulls from one rule at a time. Save prepares the queues and bout labels; Run loads the mats. If selected bouts are already on mats, a confirmation warns that saving moves them into the new queues.

For a complete worked example, see Run a 16-team dual tournament with pools.

If a bracket is marked as built but has no schedulable matches, the wizard stops instead of silently rebuilding it. Repair or rebuild that bracket, then open Schedule dual brackets again.

Run the dual tournament

Find the new Duals - … plan on Match Publishing and choose Run… when its planned mats are ready.

Run checks each step and shows what it will change before it saves anything:

• Bout numbers. Each dual gets a number, and its weight-class bouts follow it as N.1, N.2, and so on. A dual that has started keeps its number.
• Queue. The duals stay in round-major order.
• Mats. Choose Not yet to save the queue and load later, Keep what’s waiting; add new bouts to leave anything already on the mats in place, or Replace what’s waiting to send waiting bouts back to their queue. Started and finished bouts stay put either way.

Placement waves wait for the earlier duals. Run stops with a message such as “Finish every pool dual before running placement.” until every team in the placement rule is known.

To revise the plan, open the rule’s action menu and choose Change Planned Mats, then run it again.

When teams or the format change

Change the bracket on Brackets and choose Build updates, or choose Update & run… on the rule and update the brackets from inside Run. Snapdown rebuilds every dual that has not been wrestled, and Run puts them back in their rules’ queues.

If a dual already has results, the build stops with “N dual bout(s) already have results.” To redo it anyway, confirm Delete results and rebuild. That deletes the recorded results in those duals.

See Create a director-managed tournament flow and finals rules.

Score and finish

Table Scoring shows the live team score above the individual bouts. Score each bout normally; Snapdown updates the dual score and completion progress from the results.

If remaining bouts will not be wrestled, use Close Out on the dual header. Review the proposed forfeits, double forfeits, or no-contest outcomes before confirming. A fully scored dual closes automatically.

To deduct team points from a dual, such as for unsportsmanlike conduct, see Team scores in dual meets.

See Table Scoring for scoring controls and Round robin tiebreakers for tied dual-tournament standings.