Choosing a format
The tournament systems FairGame ships — round-robin groups, the Swiss pool, knockout, groups into a bracket, the re-seeding ladder for large youth fields, and a calibration round that seeds the groups.
Adaptive rounds
A Swiss pool that draws each round shortly before it starts, from the results so far — kickoff times published up front, opponents and pitches decided as the day goes.
Categories and groups
Splitting a tournament into divisions, how team strength draws the groups, splitting and merging a category's groups, and what changes when you move a team that already has matches.
Teams and clubs
Getting the team list in — Google Sheet or Excel import, manual entry, contact emails — and why linking teams to clubs changes the schedule.
Venues and pitches
Describing where the tournament is played — sites, pitches, availability windows — and why availability is the setting that decides whether a schedule exists.
Registration
Opening a tournament for clubs to register their own teams — the join link, who pays, and reviewing submissions.
Sports and terminology
The sports FairGame ships — what each one changes about the vocabulary, the table, the length of a match and how a level score is settled.
Knockout brackets
Building the bracket — who qualifies, how seeds are decided, the five bracket shapes, drawing before the groups finish, settling a level game, and advancing a ladder.
Building a custom format
Composing your own tournament format out of phases when none of the built-in systems fits — groups, tables and knockouts, validated and previewed live.
Reusing a setup
Saving a tournament as a template, scaffolding next year's edition from it in one click, and sharing a setup with another organizer.
Fees and payments
What FairGame charges to publish, the three registration models, how entry fees are collected and split, and how the money reaches you.
Team strength and fairness
Registered strength, the skill rating learned from results, how balanced your draw is, how fair the schedule is on rest and waiting, and telling a club its team was registered at the wrong level.
Customizing the public page
Putting your own logo, theme, sponsors and information pages on the tournament's public site, and deciding whether referees are named and whether a table is published.