Although there are thousands of settings across various areas that can affect how your tournament functions and displays publicly and privately, there are a set of core tournament settings which handle the foundation upon which each tournament is built. These core tournament settings are available in the Tournament Settings dialog window.

You can access the Tournament Settings dialog window in the administration panel in one of 3 ways:

• Immediately upon creating a new tournament
• Clicking the Settings link from the Actions dropdown in a tournament list on the Dashboard or Manage Tournaments pages
• Clicking the Tournament Settings button from the Tournament Setup page within any tournament

Image 1: The Tournament Settings dialog window showing the General tab (default).

The Tournament Settings dialog window includes several tabs for accessing these core settings, including General, Display, Scoring, Divisions, Registration, Pages, and Support.

Tournament Settings: General Tab

• Tournament Name: Enter in the name for your tournament. If your tournament is recurring, be sure to add a unique identifier before the name of the tournament. For example, annual tournaments can add the year before the tournament name (e.g. 2017 Fishing Tournament) or a specific designation (e.g. 24th Annual Fishing Tournament).
• Start Date: Choose the date that this tournament will begin scoring. Your tournament's leaderboards will become live on this date, as long as there is scoring available, so you should not include pre-tournament events when choosing this date (e.g. registration, kick-off events, captain's meetings,...).
• Tournament Duration: Choose the duration of the tournament from the Start Date you selected. This should be the full duration between the start date and the very last day of your scoring, regardless of any days in-between which do not include scoring.
• Timezone: Choose the timezone that most closely matches the location where this tournament will be held. Items which take this setting into account include the private catch event log and form, public catch submission forms, and leaderboard components.
• Support: If support is required for your tournament, please use the SUPPORT tab to give us the details. Support is charged for on an hourly basis dependent on the type of support you request, email only or phone & email. If you enable this option, be sure to fill out the details for your request under the Support tab. Support requests must be received at least 48 hours before your tournament via the form on the Support tab for a technician to be available on the dates you need them. Once submitted, a technician will contact you (no earlier than 45 days prior to your tournament) to review and confirm your support request.
• Tournament Contact: Enter in the name, phone, and e-mail address details of your point-of-contact for your tournament. This information will be displayed on every public-facing page (by default) connected to your tournament and will likely be used by your visitors with questions or issues before or during the tournament. If you wish to hide this information, you can remove it directly from each public-facing page after your tournament has been created.

Tournament Settings: Display Tab

• Tournament Logo: Choose a logo from your library to represent this tournament. You can upload any JPG, PNG, or GIF image from your computer to the library and select it for this purpose. Your logo will automatically be optimized for display in both the administration panel and on public pages.
• Tournament Website: If you have a separate official website for this tournament, include the address here.
• Archived: (shown only on existing tournaments) Choose whether this tournament should be archived or not. An archived tournament is no longer editable and is placed in the 'Past Tournaments' section on your website. It will also no longer show to the public on your Current & Upcoming Tournaments page.

Tournament Settings: Scoring Tab

• Default Points Per Catch: The initial value of the points an angler or team earns per catch or other event. This value can be changed when an event is recorded. It is also overridden by species-specific points settings. If you do not use points in your tournament, set this to 0.
• Points Format: Choose how you would like your points shown, if applicable, in your tournament event log, reports, and leaderboards. You can also choose to override the points field to be used as length for your catches.
• Weight/Size Format: Choose how you would like your catch weight shown, if applicable, in your tournament event log, reports, and leaderboards. You can also choose to override the weight field to be used as length for your catches.
• Catch Measurement: Choose how you will be measuring team/angler catches in this tournament. For example, if your tournament scoring is based on catch length, set this to by species length.
• 'Top Catch' Limit by Size: Count only the specified top catches by size per angler or team of any species, and whether or not to count those top catches by day or overall. When this is enabled, the catch log (and any public-facing catch submission forms) will determine which top catches match your setting and include those in your team or angler scoring; all other catches will not be included by automatically toggling their respective individual Include in scoring option.
• Scoring Mode: By default, this setting allows both points and weight/size to count towards scoring separately. With this setting, you can also choose to have your points and weight always match exactly; in this setup only a single Points/size field will display for entering scoring on the catch form.
• Allow team-only scoring?: Allows teams to receive scoring completely separate from your anglers. This will enable your team names to appear separately in the team/angler dropdown so you can apply catches to a team without choosing a specific angler on that team. Scoring entered this way will only appear on team-based leaderboards.
• Daily Scoring Cut-off Time: If your tournament scoring has a specific daily cut-off time, enter it here. Catches entered after the cut-off time will be time-stamped for the next day (through the administration area only, currently not supported by public-facing catch submission forms). This feature is based on weigh-in time, if available, or catch time if not.
• Event Approval: When enabled, each event in the Tournament Event Log will show a new Status option with two states: Pending (default) and Approved. When an event is set to Pending, the event row will show in a red color, and alternatively, when an event is set to Approved, the event row will show in a green color. This event approval status selection is purely aesthetic and has no effect on scoring.

Image 2: The Tournament Settings dialog window showing the Scoring tab.

Tournament Settings: Divisions Tab

Available Divisions

• Team Divisions/Classifications: Choose which divisions (of those set on the Manage Divisions page) will be available to your teams during registration. If you do not see this option, you'll need to create a team division or classification on the Manage Divisions page.
• Angler Divisions/Classifications: Choose which divisions (of those set on the Manage Divisions page) will be available to your anglers during registration. If you do not see this option, you'll need to create an angler division or classification on the Manage Divisions page.

Tournament Groups

• Enable Groups: Enabling groups allows you to create collections of teams or anglers outside of your divisions, with the ability to add any team or angler to one or more groups, and filter them in your leaderboards and reports. This feature works well for side bets or calcuttas.
• Angler/Team Group Label: Choose the label you want to display for your angler/team groups (e.g. 'Side Bets' or 'Calcuttas').
• Angler/Team Group Limit: Limits the total amount of angler/team connections allowed in groups. Angler/team groups can be removed from this limit manually under their respective individual settings.

Image 3: The Tournament Settings dialog window showing the Divisions tab.

Tournament Settings: Registration Tab

• Online Registration Cutoff: All of your online registration forms connected to the tournament will automatically close at this date & time. If you leave this blank, your tournament will close registration when it's complete. You can also manually shut off online registration forms within their own settings by setting the Allow registration? option.
• Required Angler Fields: Choose which fields (apart from name and gender) will be required to complete registration for an angler to this tournament. This requirement applies to anglers registered via the administration panel as well as any public registration forms. You can manage additional non-required fields by editing your registration forms directly.
• Required Team Fields: Choose which fields (apart from name, email, and boat name) will be required to complete registration for a team to this tournament. This requirement applies to teams registered via the administration panel as well as any public registration forms. You can manage additional non-required fields by editing your registration forms directly.
• Available Angler Shirt Sizes: If you require the shirt size field, or just make it an optional choice in your online registration form, you can choose which sizes to make available. You can also add or edit this list from the Manage shirt sizes page.
• Auto-assign angler/team registration numbers: Choose to auto-assign a registration number to each registering team or angler, along with how you'd like them counted (ex: starting at 0001) or setting a custom starting point for each connected division (e.g. A-0001, A-0002, ...).

Image 4: The Tournament Settings dialog window showing the Support tab.

Tournament Settings: Pages Tab

Choose which pages will be created with this new tournament. These pages are the public-facing side of your tournament, and visitors to your site can view and interact with them. After creation, all pages are fully customizable and are accessible for editing from the Tournament Setup page.

By default, the following 3 pages will be created for your tournament: About the Tournament - provides a space to enter general information about this tournament and it's sponsors, Registration - enables online registration with a single team-based registration form, and Live Results - adds a handful of customizable team- and angler-based leaderboards to customize for your tournament results.

• Title: Choose the title for this new page. This is the title that will appear in the navigation box component in the sidebar of each page. A longer, separate title is available at the top of each page (if available in the page's template).
• Template: Choose the template that will auto-fill the content for this new page. When applicable, components inside this template will be pointed to this new tournament if using the -current tournament- setting in their respective Tournament options. If you would like to edit the available templates, you can do so under Page Templates. To create a new template form an existing page, just click the Convert to template button when editing that page.
• Page Type: Choose which type of page should be used for displaying the page's contents on the publicly-facing website. Different page types can have a dramatic effect on the overall appearance of the page. For instance, a TV Output page type has much higher contrast styling for optimal display on a television screen or large monitor. If you are unsure which page type to choose, use the Tournament page type.

Image 5: The Tournament Settings dialog window showing the Pages tab.

Tournament Settings: Payments Tab

• Gateway for in-person payments: Choose which gateway to use for in-person payments made through the Tournament Setup page where you would manually register your teams and individual anglers. This list displays your available payment gateways from the Payment Gateway settings page.
  

  What about the gateway for online payments?

  For online payments, change your payment gateway settings in the Team or Individual Registration Form component settings under the Payments tab.
• Processing fee for in-person payments: Set a processing fee which applies to in-person credit card payments. This fee is shown as a separate line item on receipt. If you want a hidden fee, add it to your registration fee calculation.
  

  What about the processing fee for online payments?

  For online payments, change your processing fee settings in the Team or Individual Registration Form component settings under the Payments tab.
• Receipt type for in-person payments: When receiving in-person payments, choose a default receipt type based on your printer type.
• Receipt message: This message appears at the bottom of every receipt or voucher, including registration and catch entry receipts. To add a signature line, add 3 dashes '---' on it's own separate line.

Image 6: The Tournament Settings dialog window showing the Payments tab.