The right way to handle your event seeding and placement

As an organizer, you already know that the step of inserting members in your event levels is crucial for its easy working, however could be tough to attain. Fortunately, Toornament helps you handle your event seeding and placement simply with all the flexibleness you might want.

The distinction between seeding and placement

Earlier than attending to the guts of the matter, we should clearly differentiate between the seeding and placement notions relating to members.

Seeding is the motion of attributing a seed quantity to a event participant, who’s given a preliminary rating for the aim of the position. The participant is then positioned into the event stage based mostly on his seed, in order that one of the best members often don’t meet till later within the competitors.

The location is the competitors step the place the members are attributed a slot in one of many levels of the event. This slot could be attributed relying on the seeding of the members, or different guidelines, or fully randomly.

The seeding and placement steps are carried out on a single interface on the Toornament dashboard.

The Toornament placement interface

Placement with out a seeding

Seeding your event members isn’t necessary. It will depend on your have to classify and separate the members earlier than inserting them in your event levels.

In case you have determined to not seed your participant, you should use the random technique proposed by Toornament to position them into the event stage.

In the event you opened the event registrations, you may as well place all of the newly validated members robotically to the primary stage, following their registration date.

Open the stage configuration part to activate the automated placement

Placement with a seeding

Predefined strategies

In case you have determined to seed your members in a ranking-based stage, Toornament gives 4 predefined strategies to position them afterward: adjoining, effort balanced, seed optimized and bracket optimized.

You possibly can verify the outline of every technique and choose one of the best one to your wants from the stage configuration web page.

Listing of placement strategies from the event stage configuration web page

After you may have chosen the position technique, you may seed your members from the position interface. As soon as seeds are validated, Toornament will place members accordingly to the position technique chosen.

Handbook

If it is advisable handle your event placement in a non-standard method, you may manually place members into the bracket instantly, utilizing the visible preview:

You possibly can choose any match and place members in it

Blended-methods

You may also determine to solely allocate a seed to a fraction of your members. It’s thus doable to position the primary X members in keeping with their seed in a stage, and the rest could also be randomly positioned.

First 8 gamers have seeding locked and others are randomly positioned

Placement between two levels

Due to the flexibleness of Toornament, you may place and seed your members between every event stage. You possibly can thus award new seeds to certified members for the subsequent stage, or preserve these they obtained in keeping with their outcome within the earlier stage.

To make it simpler for you, the Toornament interface helps you to filter the members listing to solely show these popping out of a earlier stage.

You possibly can order and choose members who certified from a earlier stage

Go additional with the position

You possibly can go even additional in the best way members are distributed, or how rounds and matches are organized, with superior guides from our Data Base: https://assist.toornament.com/placement/