Team Tournaments - Overview

SwissSys supports three types of team tournaments:

• Individual/Team
• Fixed-Roster Team
• Teams-only Fixed Roster

All are handled much like a regular, non-team Swiss event, but there are some differences.

Teamcode Registration

The teamcode field becomes crucial when registering players. This can be anything up to eight characters long, usually a number or some easy-to-recall abbreviation of the team’s full name.

The team’s full name can be filled in either:

• At registration time (only needed when SwissSys detects a player with an unfamiliar teamcode)
• All at once using Team | Expanded team names (master list)

Use abbreviations for teams with longer names if needed.

Team Pairing Restrictions

Once you declare a tournament to be an Individual/Team style event (using the Multi-section tournament setup or Current section setup dialogs), players from the same team will not be paired against one another.

There are three ways to override this if needed:

• Use Plus 2 pairings

Pairing Options

You can turn off the “Use team pairings” option from the Options | Team Options menu.

You can uncheck the “Team” checkbox in the pairing restrictions group on the Rules for pairing dialog.

You can always reverse these choices later on.

Fixed-Roster Team Tournaments

For Fixed-Roster Team tournaments, there are fewer options. See the comments on Fixed-Roster Tournaments for more details. Team-only Fixed Roster tournaments are a kind of hybrid.

They are just like individual tournaments in that each team is represented by a single “player” and paired that way, but they are like fixed-roster tournaments in that each team can win its matches by different margins.

You are prompted to provide these margins of victory (the same as game points in regular fixed-roster tournaments) when you enter the match results.

Team Import Feature

A powerful feature for registering players for a team tournament is to import an entire team from a club list or database. This is handy when you are not sure what teams may show up to register, but you do know who is on them if they do.