How to put teams into groups

Teams play the teams in their own group. A division’s Teams tab, on the planner’s Divisions page, shows its groups and lets you decide which team goes where. How many groups there are is set in the event’s settings: see how to set groups and games per team.

Before you start

• You need to manage the event, its divisions or its schedule.
• If the pools are locked, unlock them first. While they’re locked, teams can’t be drawn or moved. See how to lock parts of your event.

Draw the groups

1. In your event’s planner, click Divisions in the sidebar. With several divisions, select the division’s tab at the top.

   

2. Click Randomize teams. Every registered team of the division, including teams not in a group yet, is shared out at random across the groups. Places no team has taken stay free.

   

3. To move a team, drag it by its handle into another group. Drag another team back the other way to keep the groups the same size.

   

Place teams that registered later

1. A team that registers, or that you add, after the draw isn’t put in a group, and has no games until it is. A warning lists these teams, and they also show under Unassigned teams.

   

2. To put one of them in a particular place, click the swap icon (two arrows) on that place. A free place shows a placeholder in italics.

   

3. Choose the team under Select a replacement team for this spot.

   

4. Click Confirm Swap. The team takes the place, and the games scheduled for it.

   

5. To place the others in one go, click Sync pools. Teams already placed stay where they are, the missing teams fill the free places, and the matchups are rebuilt. A team in a place takes over the games scheduled for it.

   

6. Every team now has a place in a group.

   

Other changes

• The swap icon works on a placed team too. The team that leaves goes to Unassigned teams, and the team that takes its place gets its games.
• The × on a team takes it out of its group. A placeholder takes its place and its games.
• Sync pools also fixes the other problems the warning lists, such as a place still held by a deleted team.
• To name a group, such as Gold, click the pencil (Rename group) beside its name. The name shows instead of its letter across the planner. Naming a group changes no matchups, and works while the pools are locked.