Run your tournament from weigh-ins to results

Everything is built. This page is the order the day runs in, and which screen does each part.

The left-hand menu inside your event is already in this order: Weigh-ins, Match Publishing, Mat Control Center, Tournament Progress. Work down it.

1. Weigh in

Weigh-ins settle who is actually competing. Two things come out of it: real weights, and your no-show list.

Clear the no-shows before anything is built for real. An empty spot in a bracket causes more trouble all day than a wrestler who never entered at all.

If people are still arriving, take walk-up registrations before you build rather than after.

2. Build and publish matches

Once the field is settled, build your brackets or matchup groups, then publish.

Publishing is the line between planning and running. Before it, changes are free. After it, changes are still possible — that is what the fix-it guides below are for — but they cost more.

Review the schedule before you publish, not after: Use automatic match scheduling across mats.

3. Run the mats

Three screens, three jobs, three different people:

• You run the Mat Control Center — load matches onto mats, set queue depth, keep every mat fed
• Each table runs Table Scoring — one device per mat, scoring the match in front of it
• The room watches the Bout Board — a display showing what is up next on each mat

Get the table crews signed in before the first match, not during it. See Add event staff and permissions and Recommended scoring hardware.

4. Watch the day, not the matches

Tournament Progress is where you see whether the event is on schedule — which divisions are moving, which mats are behind, what is left to wrestle.

A mat that has stopped producing results is the thing to catch early. The Mat Control Center guide covers what a stalled mat looks like.

5. When something changes

It will. All of these are routine, and all of them are easier if you have done them once on a practice event:

• Add a late wrestler after publishing
• Fix a duplicate wrestler or wrong weight class
• Change brackets after publishing matches
• Add an exhibition match or dual

6. Finish

When every match is scored, your results are complete — placements, team scores, and exports are on the event dashboard. Nothing needs to be closed out by hand.

If a round robin ends in a tie, see Round robin tiebreakers.

Before your first real one

Ask us for a practice event. Email support@snapdown.io and we will set up a test environment at no charge. Run a weigh-in, publish, score a match, then break something and fix it. An hour of that is worth more than reading this page twice.