Knowledge BaseRunning a tournament
What happens when tournament registration closes, how staff move and swap teams, who enters scores, how Mexicano rounds run, how an Americano or Mexicano bracket ends when time runs out, and how a bracket or a tournament is cancelled.
Golf simulator competitions have no charts. They run on start lists and scorecards, described in Golf simulator competitions.
When registration closes
Each bracket confirms on its own when registration closes.
- A bracket below its minimum is cancelled, and its players are told why. The other brackets carry on.
- Limits per resource keep as many courts as the sign-ups fill and release the rest. Players beyond what the kept courts hold move to the queue, or off the bracket when it has none.
- The chart draws itself for a confirmed bracket with a format. A bracket whose format is still open waits for you to pick one.
- Payments fall due, as for events.
The courts of every bracket are held on the calendar from the moment you publish, as with events.
Charts and teams
Generate chart creates a bracket's matches from its current teams. Reset chart deletes the matches and keeps the sign-ups, payments and the queue, as long as no match has a score.
From the participant table you can move whole teams to another bracket, swap players between pairs, reshuffle the pairs randomly, or put another customer in a player's place. Make the moves before you generate the chart, or reset and generate it again after them. Tell the players about these changes in the tournament chat.
Starting order
In Mexicano and knockout brackets you can rank the teams yourself with Set starting order… in the bracket's menu, best first. In Mexicano, the top four play on the first resource in the first round, the next four on the second, and so on. In a knockout, places 1 and 2 start in opposite halves of the chart. Without an order the first round is a random draw, and Use a random draw returns to it.
Set the order before registration closes, since the chart draws itself then. Teams that join after you save the order follow the ranked teams in a random draw. To change the order once the chart exists, reset the chart, save the new order and generate the chart again.
A team moved to a bracket with a different price keeps its payments. To refund or charge the difference, open the player's Manage payment in the participant table.
Entering scores
Three groups can enter a match result:
- Players, for their own matches, in the Thril app or on the web.
- Tournament managers, for any match in the tournament. Read more in Tournament managers.
- Staff, for any match, from the bracket. Staff can also set a forfeit and the match's start and end time.
Thril accepts scores within the bracket's score rules, and the leaderboard updates as results come in.
Running a Mexicano bracket
A Mexicano bracket draws its next round from the leaderboard as soon as every match of the last round has a result. Rounds keep coming until the bracket's booked court time ends, and Generate next round draws one yourself. Players who don't fit on the courts sit the round out, and Thril shares the sit-outs evenly.
Staff correct Mexicano results. A corrected result redraws the rounds after it, until a later round has results.
Ending an Americano or Mexicano bracket when time runs out
Americano and Mexicano nights often end with the court time, with matches still unplayed. Remove unplayed matches in the bracket's menu deletes every match without a final result and keeps the results already entered. The bracket then shows as completed, with its final results, for staff and players.
Cancelling
Cancel bracket cancels one bracket, and Cancel tournament cancels every bracket. Both ask how to refund the players who paid: through Thril, to the original payment method, as credits, outside Thril, or not at all. A refund to the original payment method may carry a refund fee. A cancellation message reaches the players with the notification.
To keep the players of a bracket that might not fill, move them to another bracket before registration closes.
Exporting the players
Download participants as CSV exports the players of every bracket with their bracket, contact details, price and form answers, for name tags, a printed draw or your own records.
Tournament formats and brackets
Americano, Mexicano, round robin and knockout brackets in Thril, with team sizes, score rules and placement matches for each bracket.
Golf simulator competitions
Golf competitions on your golf simulators in Thril, with classes, stroke play and Stableford formats, start blocks, scorecards players fill in on the app, side competitions and a live leaderboard.