How do I change brackets after publishing matches?

You can change brackets after publishing. Snapdown only moves what the change touches: every other bracket keeps its bout numbers, queue order, and mat spots. Run keeps started and finished bouts in place; a bracket edit that would disturb their results needs separate review.

For the usual Director-Managed repair: open Brackets, turn on Edit, fix the wrestlers or bracket format, then return to Match Publishing and run the affected plan or rule again. You do not need to recreate its rules or planned mats.

What happens to bout numbers

It depends on whether the bracket needs different bouts.

Only the wrestlers change. Replacing a wrestler, or a withdrawal that leaves a bye, keeps every bout’s number, queue position, and mat spot. Only the names change. A bye that gets a wrestler keeps the bye’s number and goes back into its queue at that number.

The bracket’s bouts change. Growing or shrinking a bracket, changing its format, or rearranging its matchups can add, remove, or reconnect bouts. A changed match count always needs this repair; a different round or advancement structure can need it too. When you publish, Snapdown lays the changed bracket’s unwrestled bouts back into the running order:

• Every other bracket keeps its numbers, queue order, and mat spots.
• The changed bracket’s bouts are renumbered in round order. They reuse the bracket’s own numbers, use free numbers or lettered numbers like 106.A to fit between other brackets’ bouts. A bout that was 101 can become 105; the review shows it as was 101.
• On the mat, each bout goes ahead of the bout it should run before. Anything else goes at the end of that mat.
• If the number of rounds changed, the rounds re-sort into their place in the tournament order.

For example, a small bracket that grows from two rounds to three has its bouts placed in the appropriate tournament rounds again. If there is no free whole number between 101 and 102, a bout can become 101.A. The order is 101, 101.A, 102: these are distinct bout labels, so the unchanged bracket holding 102 keeps its number. A smaller bracket follows the same repair path.

In Director Managed, leave Renumber everything off for this repair. It still renumbers the changed bracket when needed; it preserves the other brackets in the rule.

Moving a wrestler out of a round robin does not shrink it. The empty spot becomes byes, which complete on their own.

A new bracket added after publishing is numbered after the existing bouts. In System Managed it goes to the least busy mat, or the mat you pinned it to. In Director Managed, Run lists it under Not in any rule until you add it to one.

Nothing renumbers the whole event unless you ask for it: Rebuild Schedule in System Managed, or Renumber everything in Director Managed.

Make the change

System Managed

1. Open Brackets, turn on Edit, confirm the published-bracket warning, and make the correction. The bracket shows Out of date.
2. Open Match Publishing and choose Review changes….
3. Check the Review schedule changes list: every bout in the changed brackets, marked new, removed, or was its old number.
4. Choose Build & publish.

See Use System-Managed Scheduling across mats.

Director Managed

1. Open Brackets, turn on Edit, confirm Edit Brackets Anyway when asked, and correct the wrestlers or format. You can move, swap, add, remove, or scratch a wrestler as appropriate.
2. Return to Match Publishing. A saved plan shows N need attention; an individual rule shows Out of date and Update & run…. Choose Run… on the plan or Update & run… on the rule. Update & run N changed brackets handles the affected rules together.
3. Run updates the changed brackets and checks Bout numbers, Queue, and Mats. Review the proposed numbers; Preview by round shows where the bouts fall. A new format is normally added to the tournament rounds for you; if Run still says it isn’t covered, choose Update rounds, or Open round order for a manually arranged sequence.
4. Leave Renumber everything and Put back in running order off. On Mats, check the planned mats and use Keep what’s waiting; add new bouts. Unchanged bouts keep their order; the changed bracket’s bouts slot back in where they belong. Choose the button at the bottom, such as Load N bouts, to save the queue and load the mats.

You can still use Build updates on Brackets first, then Run… on Match Publishing. A built bracket whose rule needs refreshing shows Run N out-of-date rules. The usual path above handles the build inside Run.

Bracket updates are a separate save: they stay built even if you cancel Run. A structural update also takes that bracket’s old bouts out of its queues and clears their numbers until you finish Run. Complete the repair before the tables call any of that bracket’s bouts.

If the session’s mats are still running another rule, Run defaults to Not yet. Save the queue now and load it when those mats are ready, as in Run morning and afternoon sessions.

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

Reprint what changed

If a printed bracket gets new or changed numbers, the confirmation ends with Reprint: and the bracket names, and Tournament Progress shows them as not printed. Reprint those brackets before they go back to the tables. See Reprint after bout numbers change.

See what changed in a bracket

The clock icon beside each bracket’s name on Brackets opens its history: who was added or removed, changed pairings, and bout number or mat changes. When you take a wrestler out of a bracket yourself, Snapdown asks why, with choices like Not present / did not weigh in or Rebalancing groups, and the history keeps that reason. Scratches and moves fill in their own, like “Scratched: No-Show” or “Moved to Girls 10U”.

The bar at the top of Brackets counts brackets that changed since Build. Tap it to select them.

When Snapdown won’t make the change

• A bout in the bracket is on a mat. Snapdown lets you edit the bracket, but the review lists it under brackets that can’t publish yet. Finish or clear that bout, then review again.
• The change would undo a wrestled bout. Move the wrestler to a different bracket instead.
• The bracket type changed and bouts have results. Building it asks you to type DELETE RESULTS to confirm Delete results and rebuild. The results are deleted.
• The new bracket type isn’t in any tournament round. Snapdown usually adds it for you. If it couldn’t, update the tournament rounds on Match Publishing, then publish again. In Director Managed, Run offers Update rounds, or Open round order if you edited the rounds by hand.

Rebuild the whole schedule

In System Managed, Change… then Rebuild Schedule deletes every match and regenerates all numbers, queues, and mat loads. Every printed bracket needs reprinting, and any wrestled results are deleted. Use it before wrestling starts, or when you change the scheduling type. It is never the fix for one bracket.

Director Managed has no rebuild button. Run the plan or rule with Renumber everything, Put back in running order, and Replace what’s waiting to reset it.

Built or posted the wrong matches?

See Repair matches and rule queues to remove matches, take them offline, or clear a queue.

Common changes:

• Add a late wrestler after publishing
• Fix a duplicate wrestler or wrong weight class
• Add an exhibition match or dual during an event