Reviewing and publishing
A tournament is a draft until you publish it. Drafts are visible only inside your organisation — no public URL, no results site, nothing indexed. Publishing is the deliberate step that makes it real.
Before you publish
Three checks are worth the ten minutes:
The Summary page. Competition totals, scheduling status and setup coverage in one view: how many teams are placed in groups, how many fixtures exist, how many are scheduled, what is still missing. Anything showing zero that should not be zero is a setup step you skipped.
The Matches list. Every match with its status, start time and placement. Sort by time and read the day the way a visitor will. Unscheduled fixtures stand out here more clearly than anywhere else.
Fairness. How balanced the draw is, and which teams look mis-rated. Better to know before the groups are public.
Publishing
Publishing makes the tournament available on the public results site at its own URL, and makes it findable. From then on, the schedule, standings and brackets people see are whatever the admin app currently holds — there is no second "push live" step for changes.
Publication status is in Configure → Preferences, along with the other tournament-level controls.
Depending on your organisation and the size of the tournament, publishing may involve a one-off charge; the current terms are on the pricing and FAQ page. Republishing a tournament you have already published does not charge again.
Changing a published schedule
Once published, a change to the schedule is a change to what people are looking at. FairGame keeps a record so this is reversible:
- Schedule revisions. A revision is a snapshot of the schedule. Take one before a significant re-solve and you can restore it if the new one turns out worse.
- Schedule changes. A list of what actually moved between revisions — which matches changed pitch or time. This is the list to work from when writing the announcement, rather than describing the change from memory.
The safe sequence for a mid-tournament change is: take a revision, make the change, review the differences, publish, then announce exactly what moved.
A parent who checked the schedule on Friday evening has it in their head, not on their screen. Any change after publication needs an announcement as well as a corrected schedule — the corrected schedule alone reaches almost nobody.
What the public sees
The public tournament site carries the schedule, group standings, brackets, teams and live results. It is multilingual and works on a phone, because that is where it is read — pitch-side, by someone trying to find out which hall their child is in.
See the public results site for what visitors get and how they follow a team.