Step 12 - Prizes

With the tournament done you need to find out who gets your big prizes, so click on Reports|Prizes to go to the prizes dialog.

This is a three-part dialog in which you describe for SwissSys what prizes you are offering.

The first page is where you enter prizes for place (1st place, 2nd place, etc.).

These could be either cash awards or non-divisible awards like trophies.

The second page lets you list class prizes — prizes that only players in a given rating range are eligible for.

Page three shows a couple of other special awards that are sometimes given.

Let’s say that your guaranteed prize fund of $50,000 is allocated as follows:

• 1st place - $40,000

• 2nd place - $9,999

• 3rd place - $1

First set the number of place prizes to be awarded to 3 (adjust this value using the box at the top.)

Then, in the grid marked “cash prizes” enter the above numbers.

You also have promised to give the first place finisher an original Picasso, so in the grid marked “Trophies and other non-divisible prizes”, type “Picasso” in the first-place spot. Leave the others blank.

For this tournament there are no class or special prizes, so you can skip the other pages of this dialog. Click the “View winners” button to see who got what.

Look this over carefully before you write the checks.

Note: If you award prizes based on rating (class or “under-” prizes)

or on age or grade, you can do that from the “class prizes” page of the prize dialog.

In the case of cash prizes, you also have the option of entering the total cash award for place or class prizes in the boxes provided and entering percentages of the total instead of the actual cash awards.

SwissSys will do the calculation for you.

You may want to award prizes based on some specific category such as sex, club/federation or any of the other registration fields. As with many things in SwissSys there is more than one way to do this.

One way is just to scan down the standings list, making note of the top player in each category. Alternatively, you could set another listings option to make things stand out a little more clearly, like this: You can sort the standings and wall chart in any of several ways, including by age or club/federation.

Any players with the same age would then be broken down by your secondary sort (which is standings by default).

This lets you do a quick survey of the winners in each category.

You can read more about this option (and hundreds of others available to you) at your leisure in the help file. Next Step: Step 13 - Wrapping up