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 Configurações at the bottom of the sidebar.

   

2. Open the Classificação tab.

   

3. Turn on Segurar os playoffs até a liberação.

   

4. Click Salvar Todas as Alterações de Configuração. The schedule isn’t affected.

   

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

   

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

   

7. Confirm. To tell the division’s players, first tick Avisar os jogadores desta divisão (notificação e e-mail).

   

8. Teams are placed in the playoffs from the current standings. The button now reads Sincronizar cabeças de chave dos playoffs, which places them again after a later change to the standings.