Step 13 - Wrapping Up
The tournament is over. It’s time for some final touches.
Get Other Reports
Use this tournament to try out some of the many other dialog and report features, including ratings and upset results.
Among others, practice with these:
File | Club list | Write to Club List
This is where you can create your own list of players to choose from when registering later tournaments. Club lists are convenient (especially for smaller clubs) since they are so easy to setup.
For larger clubs, and for accessing the USCF database of players, you will want to take the trouble to learn how to work with databases.
You can create a club list from the current roster of players by selecting File | Club | Write to club. This will store all the registration information on these players without the tournament results.
Reports | Ratings
This shows performance ratings and unofficial new ratings. They will be less accurate if you have many unrated players.
Prepare Ratings for the USCF / CFC / FIDE
If your tournament was a rated one, you will want to do one thing as soon after it’s over as possible: Submit a ratings report to your parent organization. Do this with the ratings report menu choices on the Utilities menu.
Click here for the help file instructions for filling out this dialog for the case of the USCF reports.
Upload a report to the free SwissSys Events site
Now you are ready to share your tournament with the world.
With your section loaded into SwissSys, select Internet | Create report for uploading and fill in the information there.
The next step is to select Internet | My events (or just visit the SwissSys website).
After you log in, this will take you to the SwissSys page where you upload the file you just created.
For more on this topic, read the topic Create report for uploading.
Clean Up
Now that the tournament’s done, you no longer need the backup files that SwissSys created. You can safely delete these with File | Backups | Delete backups.
It is 2:27 a.m.
You can now exit SwissSys, pack up the computer, and go home to bed.
Be sure to stop by a donut shop on the way home.