Lives Policy

Lives policy is part of your sheet policy, and is available in the Settings dialog.

You can set Lives policy on the Entries sheet, or on a Pool play sheet any time prior to initialising lives play.

Be sure to hit Save settings.

Shuffle entries or qualifiers

Chartroom will shuffle entries or qualifiers into random order for round 1.

Shuffle survivors each round

Chartroom will shuffle surviving teams when advancing each round.

Same clubs don't play in Round 1

Will perform a random draw such that teams from the same club or organisation don't play each other in round 1. Only check this if it makes sense for your event.

Seeded groups

If Shuffle entries or qualifiers is true then entries will be shuffled within groups depending on Groups of below.

Lives

Select 1, 2, or 3.

Bye schema

The bye schema helps to facilitate forming viable sections. The options are:

• Balanced Spread across sections and packed to maximum size of 24
• Unpacked Spread across sections with section size not exceeding 15
• All top All at the top
• None All teams with an opponent start in Round 1

Groups of

Specify an indicative group size. Defaults to 16.

Group text

Initial text that appears in the header row for each section and can be used to control section numbering etc. The section header text can be edited on the charts at any time.

E.g. Section # giving Section 1, Section 2, Section 3 … , Group #A would give Group A, Group B, Group C …

Ranking play from

This is the round of value (number of teams in the round) after which ranking play is to apply.

Limited to SF, QF, 16, or 32. E.g. specify SF (semi-final) to get a playoff for 3rd and 4th as well as the final.

Advanced Lives Policy

Add or modify custom pool policy options as JSON in Settings > Advanced.

Rich Group Text

Works with Group Text above to provide some basic text formatting. e.g.

 {
    "groupText":"Section # – 10.30am start",
     "richGroupText":{
        "delimiter":" –",
        "color1":"#CC0000",
        "color2":"",
        "remove":true
    }
 }

would colour the Section # text dark red, followed by black text, then finally deletes the delimiter.