SKED lets you create a competition that includes multiple grades and multiple phases of play within a single competition. For example, a typical winter competition for junior sport might include six grades, each playing an initial round-robin phase, followed by a phase of semi-finals and finals. We recommend creating a single competition for multiple grades that share the same venues and playing days - this makes it easy to optimise venue utilisation, with a view across all venues. There’s no requirement for each grade within a competition to follow the same format. For example, one grade might play a double round-robin before semi-finals and finals, whereas another might split into top/bottom sections in round two and then progress to semi-finals and finals.
For more on creating a competition in TeamBuilder, see Creating a Competition in TeamBuilder.
Creating a Competition
1. Log in to your Sporty Site, go to your Dashboard, then click the SKED tile.
2. Select the year/season you want to create the competition for and click + to open the Add Competition modal. You can choose an existing folder to store the new competition in, or you’ll be required to choose or create one when you save the new competition.
3. Complete the details in the Competition modal (see fields below), then click Save & Continue to select a competition folder.
Competition modal fields:
Competition Name - enter the name of the competition.
Select a Player Form - select the Player Form this competition relates to. Recommended: use the Superform provided by your national body and applied to your site, or create a Local form before creating the competition, so it appears in this drop-down. Important: if your organisation is using the Game Day App for scoring, you must select the Superform when creating your competition - this is required to generate a Team Access Code for each team to use for scoring.
Team Entry Form Name - this is auto-populated from the name of the competition. Update it manually by editing the Team Entry Form once it’s created in TeamBuilder.
Grades - select which grades this competition will include.
Select Organisations - select which organisations are allowed to enter this competition. If any new organisations sign up after the competition has been created, the competition will need to be edited to enable them. Tip: it’s useful to restrict who sees your competition’s Team Entry Form. For example, if schools contribute to your competitions and you have a competition specific to primary schools, you can choose to display that competition’s Team Entry Form only to primary schools - i.e., not to intermediate or secondary schools. This simplifies registration, so organisations only see the competitions relevant to them.
Display Organisation Names - untick this to display only the team names in SKED and on draws. When ticked, the Organisation Name displays, followed by the team name.
Venues - select or deselect the venues twhere the competition will be held. This option becomes available once the competition name has been entered. For more on shared or sport-specific venues, see this article.
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