How to build your blueprint

The blueprint decides the order games are played in: which divisions and rounds play, and in what sequence. It doesn’t set times. Times come from your playing days, game length and courts when you generate the schedule.

The blueprint is a list of phases. Phases play one after the other, and every round inside a phase shares the courts. A round that isn’t in any phase gets no games.

Before you start

• You need to manage the event or its schedule.
• If the blueprint is locked, unlock it first. See how to lock parts of your event.
• If your schedule has hand-made changes, the page opens read-only with a banner. Click Modifier le plan quand même to edit it. Saving the blueprint keeps your changes; generating again replaces them.

Steps

1. In your event’s planner, click Plan directeur in the sidebar.

   

2. To start from a ready-made order, click Utiliser un préréglage and choose one. Toutes les divisions en même temps (plus rapide) puts every division’s pool play in a first phase, round by round, and all the playoffs in a second one. Une division après l’autre gives each division a phase of its own, pool play then playoffs, so a division finishes before the next one starts. A new event starts with this one.

   

3. Click Utiliser ce préréglage. Your current playing order is replaced. The schedule doesn’t change until you generate.

   

4. To change the order yourself, click Modifier l’ordre de jeu.

   

5. To give a round a phase of its own, for example a final you want played after everything else, click Ajouter une phase. The new, empty phase is added last.

   

6. Remove the round from its phase with its bin. It moves to Pas dans le plan.

   

7. Under Ajouter à la phase, pick the new phase.

   

8. Click the + button (Ajouter cet élément à une phase) next to the round. It’s added to the phase you picked.

   

9. Click Enregistrer le plan directeur.

   

10. A banner says the blueprint changed since the schedule was last generated. Click Générer le calendrier when you’re ready. See how to generate your schedule.

    

To leave without saving, click Annuler.

Move phases and rounds

While you edit the playing order:

• Each phase has up and down arrows to move it, and a bin to delete it once it’s empty. Phases are numbered by position, so a phase you move takes the number of its new place.
• Drag a round by its handle to move it inside its phase or to another phase. Click rounds to select several, then drag them together.
• A new event’s pool play sits in a folded block that repeats for every round. Click its name to unfold it, the pencil to rename it, and its bin to send its rounds back to Pas dans le plan.

Repeat a sequence with the pattern builder

The Créateur de motifs turns rounds that aren’t in the blueprint into a repeating sequence, such as one round of each group, then the next round of each.

• Under Pas dans le plan, click the up arrow (Déplacer vers le motif) next to each round of the sequence, in the order you want.
• Enter how many times the sequence repeats in Manches :, and give it a Nom.
• Click + Ajouter un motif à la phase. The rounds go to the phase picked under Ajouter à la phase, or the first phase, in your order: the first round of each, then the second round of each, and so on.

Rounds not in the blueprint

Pas dans le plan lists the rounds no phase holds. They get no games the next time you generate, and the Schedule page then counts them as matchups or playoffs with no game. The filter button beside the title narrows the list by division, group or stage.

Order by day

By default, the blueprint is one sequence for the whole event: games fill the first playing day, then carry on to the next. Turn on Trier par jour to give each day its own phases, so you can rebuild one day without touching the others. See how to regenerate one day. With it on, a preset goes on the first day.