Customizing the public page
Everything visitors see is configured under Settings → Public page. It is the surface several hundred people will have open at once on the Saturday, and it is worth twenty minutes.
Changes are saved with Save public view, and Preview public page shows the result. On a draft, the preview is a private link that renders exactly what visitors will get.
Logo and theme
Tournament logo sits next to the tournament name on the public page. Give it a square https image URL, or upload a file and the URL is filled in for you. Uploads are capped at 2 MB.
Theme picks the colour scheme for the tournament's public pages. The FairGame default is the fallback; a club running in its own colours picks its theme here.
Sponsors
A partner band under the public tournament pages. Each sponsor is a name, a logo URL and a website URL, and they are shown together as a strip.
This is the practical reason a sponsor pays for a youth tournament, and it costs you five minutes. Collect the logos with the entry fees.
Menu pages
Extra pages in the public tournament menu — practical information, travel, where to park, what the canteen sells, the rules you keep being asked about. Each is a title and plain-text content; leave a blank line between paragraphs.
They appear in the public site's menu and in the mobile app alongside the schedule and standings, so one page written once answers the same question for everyone who would otherwise phone you.
Removing a page discards its title and content when you save.
Naming referees publicly
Show referees publicly names the assigned referee on the public match list and match pages, so players can see who has the whistle.
Switch it on when the teams referee each other — knowing which club is officiating is part of the fairness. Leave it off for neutral officials, where the names are between you and them.
Only names are ever published. Phone numbers, email addresses and referee links are never on the public site, whichever way this is set.
Capping the margin on results
Largest margin shown publicly limits how lopsided a result can look here. Set it to 3 and a stored 10-0 is published as 3-0, a 12-5 as 8-5. Leave it empty and every result is published exactly as it was entered.
By default only the scoreline a visitor reads changes — the standings, the seeding and the bracket all keep the real result. Once a cap is set you can choose Also count at most 3 goals per match in goal difference instead, for rules where goals beyond the margin do not count. See capping published scores.
Publishing a standings table
Publish a standings table decides whether the public page ranks the teams at all. It is on by default. Switch it off to publish fixtures and results without a table — what many youth tournaments want, where the point is that every team gets even matches and nobody is crowned.
This switch is the tournament's default. Each category can override it: when editing a category, its own Publish a standings table offers Use tournament default, Show standings and Hide standings — so you can hide the youngest age group's table while publishing the others, or the other way round. See categories and groups.
A hidden table is hidden everywhere its teams appear: the table leaves the overview, match and team pages, and the mobile app's follow feed no longer shows where a followed team stands. The Standings tab stays in the public menu while at least one category publishes a table, and leaves it when none does. Anyone opening a hidden table is told "The organizer is not publishing this table. Every result is on the matches page." rather than shown an empty one.
Inside a tournament, the mobile app currently follows only the tournament-wide switch. With it off, the app shows no table for any category, even one set to Show standings; the public site does show it. A category set to Hide standings is hidden in the app as everywhere else.
Standings are still worked out behind the scenes, so seeding a later stage and drawing a knockout from the groups keep working exactly as before. This setting only decides what visitors see.
The page goes live the moment you publish, and the first thing anyone does with a new link is share it. A logo and two information pages are the difference between a site that looks like the tournament's and one that looks like a draft somebody forgot about.