Running an event from the Control Center

The Control Center is the one screen for running an event while it's happening. It takes over the display and gives you every control in one place, so you're not hopping back to the event page between games.

Open it from the event page: tap Control Center in the header. It's available to organizers on any event that's out of draft.

To leave, tap the event name in the top-left corner.

The event controls, from any tab

Above the tabs there's a bar called Event controls. It's collapsed to a single line that tells you where the event stands — something like "Registration open · check-in open · 3 matches left" — and tapping it opens the controls you reach for most while an event is running:

• open and close registration
• Start the event, and Complete it when it's done (or reopen it if you finished too early)
• open and close player check-in
• Edit the event's settings
• on a queued event, Last call — stop drawing new games once everyone is level

It's there on every tab, so you never have to navigate away from the courts to open check-in or start the event. It stays however you leave it: expand it once and it's still expanded next time you come back to that event, on that device.

What's on each tab

Screens — the two things you set up around the venue and hand out: the Live View link for a TV or a projector, and the Kiosk QR codes for scoring tablets.

Roster — who's registered, who's here, who's paid and who still owes a waiver signature. Check players in by tapping their name, or scan their personal QR code. The check-in QR that players scan lives here too.

Courts — what's on every court right now, what's queued behind it, and who's waiting to be placed. Scores update live as they're entered. Each court card has a menu for setting a match aside if it can't be played, and Move to… for putting it on a different court — including the cards waiting to be placed. The picker says whether the court is free or how many games are ahead of it; see moving one match.

This is also where you fix the courts themselves after changing how many you're running. On a set schedule there's a Rebalance courts button that re-spreads the unplayed matches — see changing the court count. On a queued event the same spot offers Fill open courts instead, which draws games onto a court you've just opened without waiting for the current game to finish.

Bracket — the full bracket, the same one players see, with every match clickable, and the third-place match underneath if the event has one. Generating and deleting the bracket happen here, which is where most people look for them.

The tab appears on any event that ends in a bracket: straight single or double elimination, and also Round Robin + Bracket or Swiss + Bracket, where the bracket is cut from the qualifying standings once every qualifying match is finished. On a two-stage event, deleting the bracket keeps the round-robin games and their scores, so you can re-cut it; on a straight elimination event the bracket is the schedule, so the button there deletes the whole thing.

Schedule — every game the event owes, in the order it plays, with finished rounds moved into a Past card underneath. Each row has a Move link for changing which court that game is on, the same picker the Courts tab uses. The buttons that create and destroy a schedule live here: generate the schedule, edit it (dates, times and which court each match is on), generate the next Swiss round, and delete the schedule.

Bracket generation is not here — it's on the Bracket tab, above.

Standings — the standings table, the podium once the event is decided, bracket results on a two-stage event, and season points if the event is sanctioned. It links out to the full match scores and bag counts.

Things that need you

A strip at the top of every tab flags matches that are stuck:

• amber — matches submitted but not yet confirmed by both sides
• red — a disputed match you need to settle

Tap through to open the match. These matter more than they look: a submitted match that nobody confirms counts for nobody — it doesn't reach the standings or anyone's stats until both sides confirm it. It's the easiest thing to miss at the end of a night, because the score is on screen and the game looks finished.

Matches you've deliberately set aside aren't listed — you already decided about those.

Alerts follow you in

Because the Control Center covers the screen, the notifications that normally sit at the top of the app appear here instead. You never have to leave a tab to see one.

Somebody needs help. When a player taps 🆘 Need help? on their own phone, or on a scoring tablet, a red banner drops across the top of whichever tab you're on — "1 player needs help" — and it names the court they're standing at. Tap ✓ Resolve once you've sorted it out and it clears. This one reaches you within seconds of the tap rather than waiting for the next check, because somebody is standing at a court waiting for you. There's more on how players raise one in requesting assistance.

A reply to a support conversation, and a waiver waiting for your own signature, show up in the same place.

Matches waiting to be confirmed aren't repeated here — those are the amber and red strip above.

Staying up to date

The Courts tab keeps itself current on its own. The other tabs are ordinary pages, so if a co-organizer takes a payment or checks someone in on their own phone, tap Refresh in the header to pull it in.

Leaving and coming back

Generating a schedule, editing one, and generating a bracket all happen inside the Control Center, so you stay put. The one link that leaves is View all match scores on the Standings tab — and when you go there from the Control Center, its back link brings you straight back to the tab you came from.