How to set eligibility rules

Set the minimum or maximum number of players or coaches a team needs, flag teams that fall short, and keep them on the waitlist until they qualify.

Open Dodgeball Hub Updated November 13, 2026

Eligibility rules describe the roster a team needs: a minimum or maximum number of players or coaches, or a number of players who gave a given answer. A team that falls short is flagged for you and for the person who registered it. A rule can also keep the team on the waitlist until it qualifies.

Before you start

  • You need to manage the event.
  • To count the players who gave an answer, first ask a Dropdown question that isn’t marked sensitive, in a form whose Who completes this is Everyone on the roster or Players and captains, in every division the rule covers. See how to ask registration questions.
  • To keep teams on the waitlist until they qualify, teams that pay later must wait on the waitlist. See how to let teams pay later from the waitlist.

Steps

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

  2. Open the Requirements tab. Eligibility rules are at the bottom, below the requirements.

  3. Click Add rule. Choose the Rule, then Who it counts, Players or Coaches, and How many. At least sets a minimum.

  4. Add a rule with At most to set a maximum.

  5. At least, who answered… counts the players who gave an answer: pick the Registration question and the Answer. At least, fully registered counts the players who have completed every step of their registration.

  6. Tick Needed to hold a place on a rule to keep a team that falls short of it on the waitlist. It can still pay, and it takes a place automatically once it meets the rule and its fee is paid, if its division has room. Without it, the rule only flags the team.

  7. Click Save All Settings Changes.

  8. Teams that fall short are flagged on the planner’s Registrations page, with what they have and what they need. The person who registered the team sees the same on the event’s registration page.

What counts

  • Players are players, captains and assistant captains. Coaches are coaches and assistant coaches. Team managers count as neither.
  • Only finished registrations count: a request to join that’s waiting for approval, or someone still registering, doesn’t.
  • An answer hidden by a condition doesn’t count.