Running an event

The create wizard runs in four steps — Event, Format, Floor, Review. It saves as you type, so you can start it on a phone, close the app, and pick it up later.

1. Event

   Name, date, venue and how many players you expect.

2. Format

   Swiss with a top cut, round robin, or King of the Hill. This is also where the tier is set, and where you pick the battle and match format.

3. Floor

   How many stadiums you have and what they are called. Names beat numbers — “Red Stadium” is easier to shout across a room than “Table 3”.

4. Review

   Everything on one screen before it exists.

Below 9 players a Ranked event converts itself to a round robin and drops the top cut. Above 128 it refuses to generate, because the WBO's guide does not define a structure that large — use Open tier for an event that big.

Open-tier events do none of this. What you set is what you get, and you can also reorder the tiebreakers below Wins. Both are locked once Round 1 exists.

Tiebreakers follow the WBO season the event is played in. From 1 September 2026 that is Median-Buchholz, points difference, points scored, then head-to-head; a round robin leads with head-to-head instead. An event dated before September keeps the previous order, so two events set up on the same day can differ — the Tiebreak Order card always shows what yours will actually use.

Players live on the People tab. You can add them one at a time, paste a whole list, or open registration and let them add themselves.

1. By name

   Fastest at a desk. They do not need an account and can play the whole event this way.

2. By account

   Search for their username. Their results attach to their profile and count toward leaderboards.

3. Linking the two

   If someone was added by name and later makes an account, link the guest entry to it. They see a prompt telling them to ask you — that screen is your cue.

Before Round 1 you can set the seed order: Randomize, or by rating. By Ranked Elo uses a player's overall rating and so only appears on Ranked and Masters events, where people actually have one. By League Elo appears whenever the event is in a league, including Open ones — that is the case the other button has to refuse, and it is the more useful of the two at a weekly store night where everybody has twenty local matches behind them.

Anybody with an account can be marked as a judge, including players who are competing — which is how most Beyblade events actually run. Co-organizers get the console too, and by default they keep playing.

Every organizer and judge on the Staff list carries a Plays / Doesn't play toggle, so somebody running the floor can be taken out of the playing pool without being dropped from the event. They keep their role and their console; they simply stop being paired or seated. Dropping them would say they left, which is a different thing and shows differently to everyone else.

Judges need accounts, because every score is recorded against whoever entered it. That is what makes the activity log worth reading afterwards.

Point your judges at the judge guide before the day. It has a practice mode that runs the real scoring screens without touching an event.

Check-in decides who is in Round 1. On the People tab, Check in all does the whole roster in one action — useful when everybody is already in the room and you just want to start.

Players can show a check-in code instead of giving a name. Scanning it is faster and avoids the two-players-with-similar-names problem.

Rounds move in one direction only: paired, in progress, collecting, closed. They never move back.

1. Generate the round

   Pairings are built from the standings. Once generated they are locked — that is deliberate, and it is what stops a round being corrupted halfway through.

2. Matches get played and reported

   Judges report from their stadiums. You can also enter a result yourself from the Run tab.

3. Confirm

   Confirming is what makes a result final. With a full round this takes a little while — it is working through them one at a time, so give it a moment.

4. Generate the next round

   Only possible once every match in the current round is confirmed.

The queue is how matches reach stadiums. Judges either pull the next match themselves or have one assigned automatically, depending on how you set it up.

You can reorder the queue before releasing it — Judges first, Organizers last and so on — which is how you stop the people running the event being called away at the worst moment. Nothing is pushed to anyone's phone until you press Save order.

Four things sit on the console for the day itself. None of them are required and none of them change how anything scores.

1. Judge requests

   A table that needs a ruling raises one from the match screen instead of sending somebody to find you. Open requests show on the judging board, and claiming one stops two judges walking to the same table.

2. Announcements

   One line to the room — “Round 4 in five minutes”. It reaches the player app, the public board and the venue display at once, and you can retract it.

3. Venue display

   A full-screen board for a TV or projector, on its own link from Setup. It rotates through what is playing now, the standings and any announcements, and skips a panel with nothing in it rather than showing an empty one. No sign-in — open the link on whatever is attached to the screen.

4. Stadium tags

   Label a stadium Feature, On stream or Step-free. One of them does something: Reserved keeps auto-assign off that table, so you can hold it for a feature match.

A league groups events into a season-long board. It carries two different things, and they count different events:

1. Standings

   Who has won the most here, across every completed event in the league — Open nights included.

2. League ratings

   Who is hardest to beat here. A separate rating from a player's overall one, which only Ranked and Masters events can move, so a store's weekly Open night builds a real local ranking without touching anybody's national standing.

You can add other organizers to a league so they can put their own events into it. They can add and remove their own events and nothing else — not yours, and not the league itself.

Scores are append-only. Nothing is ever edited in place, so a correction adds a new entry and the original stays visible in the log. This is what lets you reconstruct what happened when two people remember a match differently.

1. Override

   Change a single result. Say why — the reason is shown to the other organizers and stored in the log.

2. Contest

   Players can flag a result themselves inside the contest window. It lands with you to decide.

Winner stays on. It is an Open-tier format with no fixed length, so it runs until you end it rather than until a round count is reached.

1. Scoring

   Beating the king scores 1. Winning a match as the king scores 1. A draw scores nothing and leaves the king where they are, and so does losing.

2. One score per player

   Their total is every reign added together, not their best one. Three separate turns on the hill worth 2, 3 and 2 make 7. A tie is broken by whoever reached the total first.

3. The queue

   Players who have never had a turn come first, then whoever left the hill longest ago. If the next challenger is not at the table, Skip sends them to the back and Back in line undoes it. Judges can do this too — they are the ones standing at the empty hill.

Nothing ends a King of the Hill event on its own, because there is no last round to close. Use End Event when you are done, and Reopen if you were not.

Once the last Swiss round is closed, generate the cut. The bracket is seeded from the final standings, and the third-place match is always created.

Each bracket round fills itself in as you confirm the one before it — semifinals appear when every quarterfinal is confirmed, not when the first one is. There is no separate button to advance the bracket.

Rollback is the escape hatch, and the only destructive thing in the app. It deletes the target round and everything after it.

The dropdown only lists rounds that have actually been played. A top cut creates all of its rounds at once — the semifinal and final slots exist before anyone plays them — and rolling back to an empty one would break the bracket rather than undo anything, so it is not offered.

When the final and third-place match are closed, the event reads as complete on its own — there is nothing you have to press. Results appear on player profiles, and Ranked and Masters events feed the leaderboards. It moves into Finished events on your dashboard straight away — one list holding events you ran and events you played in, each row marked which.

There is an End Event button in Setup if you want to close it off yourself. It matters most when an event stops early — people leave, or the venue closes — because an event that never reaches its last round would otherwise sit in progress forever. Standings as they stand become the final result.