How to hold the playoffs until you release them

Normally, teams are placed in the playoffs as soon as pool play ends. If you’d rather check the standings first, for example to settle a protest or correct a score, hold the playoffs. Teams stay out of the bracket until you release them, and from then on the playoffs follow the standings again.

Before you start

• You need to manage the event to turn the hold on, and to manage its results to release the playoffs.
• The hold is a standings setting, so it applies per division when the divisions use different settings.

Steps

1. In your event’s planner, click Settings at the bottom of the sidebar.

   

2. Open the Standings tab.

   

3. Turn on Hold playoffs until released.

   

4. Click Save All Settings Changes. The schedule isn’t affected.

   

5. When pool play is over and the standings are right, click Standings in the planner’s sidebar.

   

6. Select the division if your event has several, then click Release playoffs.

   

7. Confirm. To tell the division’s players, first tick Notify this division’s players (push and email).

   

8. Teams are placed in the playoffs from the current standings. The button now reads Sync playoff seeds, which places them again after a later change to the standings.