Tournament Types

When setting up a tournament and confirming the setup for first round pairings, you must tell SwissSys what kind of tournament it will be. The Tournament Setup menu supports the following options:

Available Tournament Types

1. Regular Swiss

Standard Swiss system pairing for individual players.

2. Individual Team Swiss

Swiss tournament where players are assigned to teams but paired individually.

3. Fixed-Roster Team Swiss

Works like a regular Swiss but using team-by-team pairings instead of individual players. When Team A is paired against Team B, the players from Team A are matched head-to-head against the players on Team B.

4. Round Robin

All players play against each other. SwissSys will ask you to choose between:

• Crenshaw tables - More commonly used in the United States
• Berger tables - More popular in Europe

Both table types provide equally fair pairing schedules.

5. Ladder

Tournament format where players challenge those ranked above them.

6. Teams-Only Fixed Roster

If you only want to track team results without managing individual players on the teams, this is the tournament type you want. This eliminates the extra work of entering each player and switching between team and player views.

Changing Tournament Types

If you accidentally pair the section using the wrong tournament type and SwissSys will not let you change it, try one of the following:

• Reopen an earlier state of the tournament or a backup file
• Write your players to a club list and read them right back in
• Use Pairings | Back to previous round option with a round of zero

Special Tournament Formats

You can also declare the tournament in double blitz style, where players play two games each round - one as white and one as black immediately afterwards.