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Settings reference

Every tournament setting, what it does, its default and the screen that holds it.

Every setting that the tournament screens expose, grouped by the screen that holds it. Each row gives the name as it appears on screen, what it does, the value a new tournament starts with and where to find it. A setting marked as saved but not acted on is stored and shown, and nothing else in the product reads it yet.

Standings

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Speaker award depth	How many speakers the closeout packet Awards sheet and the public Speaker awards block list	3 in the packet when none is saved; the public block appears only when a depth is saved	Standings, Awards; read by Records packet and the public page
Break rule	Chooses the size of the break: Top 4, Top 8, Top 16 or All winning records. Saved per event and shared with Rounds	Top 4 when the saved size is 4, Top 16 when it is 16, Top 8 otherwise	Standings, Standings tab, Break buttons
Include elimination rounds	Counts elimination results in the table and its export. Held in the page address only, not saved	Off	Standings, Standings tab, checkbox
Find a team or school	Filters the table rows by entry name or school. Not saved	Empty	Standings, Standings tab, search field
Event filter	Chooses which event the table and bracket show. Held in the page address	First event by display order	Standings, Standings tab, Events buttons
Publish bracket	Shows or hides the public bracket page. One tournament wide flag, toggled from the bracket panel. Disabled with fewer than two entries in the break	Not published	Standings, Standings tab, bracket panel
Break rule menu on the break form	General break, or a break category. Categories can only exist as database rows	General break	Standings, Break tab, Seed the bracket
Event field on the break form	The scope in which the first elimination round is created. A scope with a break is disabled	The scope shown	Standings, Break tab, Seed the bracket
Speaker award depth	How many speaker places are awarded: Top 3, Top 5 or Top 10, or Off in Setup	Awards tab opens on Top 3 when unset or Off	Standings, Awards tab, Depth; Setup, Standings section, Speaker awards

Admin shell

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Navigation open or folded	Whether the left rail is open. Kept in the browser	Open, except on consoles that draw their own rail	Admin shell, left rail

Announce

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Announcement subject	The title of the notice and the end of the mail subject. Required, at most 200 characters	Starts as the chosen template subject, Round {round} released	Announce, Compose
Announcement message	The body of the notice and the email. Required, at most 5000 characters	Starts as the chosen template message	Announce, Compose
Announcement template	Fills the subject, message and Opens choice from one of eight fixed templates	Round released	Announce, Compose, Templates column
Announcement audience	Who receives the message: Everyone, Competitors, Judges, Judges with an open ballot, Coaches & parents, One program or One event	Competitors	Announce, Compose
Announcement event	The event reached when the audience is One event. Required for that audience	None chosen	Announce, Compose
Announcement program	The school or club reached when the audience is One program. Required for that audience	None chosen	Announce, Compose
Announcement channel	In-app, Email or Both. Email and Both behave the same today. Coaches & parents is always Email	In-app	Announce, Compose
Mark as urgent	Adds an urgent flag to the notice, the receipt and the email	Off	Announce, Compose
Announcement Opens	Where the notice lands: Round, Ballot queue, Check-in, Schedule, Results or Dashboard	Round, or the template default	Announce, Compose
Pending payment reminder on	Sends the reminder email to unpaid entries once they have been registered for the hours set	Off	Announce, Emails, Send this reminder automatically
Reminder hours after registering	How long an entry must have been registered before it is sent the reminder. Whole number, 1 to 720	48	Announce, Emails
Reminder reply-to	Where replies to the reminder go. Required to turn the reminder on. At most 254 characters	The director's own account address until saved	Announce, Emails
Reminder subject	The reminder mail subject. Required, at most 200 characters. Accepts five placeholders	Your entry in {{tournament_name}} is not paid yet	Announce, Emails
Reminder message	The reminder body in plain text. Required, at most 5000 characters. A blank line starts a paragraph	Three short paragraphs asking the entrant to reply with questions about paying	Announce, Emails

Ballots

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Queue filter	All, Overdue, Not in or Panel incomplete, and Recorded, for the ballot queue.	All	Ballots, Queue
Search the queue	Text filter over room, competitor and judge.	Empty	Ballots, Queue
Nudge message	Text sent to a judge as a message on the room's ballot page. 1 to 500 characters. Empty sends the default for the room's state.	The default for the state	Ballots, message dialog
Return to judge message	Text sent to the judge from the open ballot pane.	Please complete the RFD and speaker comments, then submit. The round is held until this ballot is in.	Ballots, ballot pane
Reason for change on a recorded ballot	Required text saved with a correction.	Empty	Ballots, ballot pane
Forfeit side	The side that did not debate. The other side wins and scores are cleared.	None	Ballots, ballot pane, Forfeit or no-show
Resolution of a dispute	Corrected ballot, Upheld original result or Dismissed.	Upheld original result	Ballots, Disputes view
Typed reason of a dispute ruling	Required note of 1 to 2,000 characters.	Empty	Ballots, Disputes view

Code

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Reminder test limit	Test sends allowed for one admin and tournament in ten minutes. Not editable on screen	30	Code, described in Announce, Emails

Code constant ANNOUNCEMENT_REPLIES_GO_TO

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Announcement reply rule	Where replies to an announcement email go. Set in code to the sending director. Not editable on screen	Director	Code constant ANNOUNCEMENT_REPLIES_GO_TO, shown as Replies go to in Announce, Compose

Code constant REMINDER_BATCH

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Reminder batch	The most reminders the job sends in one pass. Not editable on screen	20	Code constant REMINDER_BATCH, described in Announce, Emails

Code constant SCHEDULED_MAIL_DAILY_CAP

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Scheduled mail daily cap	The most scheduled mails sent in any 24 hours across all tournaments and other platform jobs. Not editable on screen	50	Code constant SCHEDULED_MAIL_DAILY_CAP, described in Announce, Emails

Competitor room page

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Dispute text from a competitor	What the tab desk should review. Required, 1 to 2,000 characters.	Empty	Competitor room page, Question this result

Compliance

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Issue Type	The kind of compliance report: Script Check, Code of Conduct or Other	Script Check; required	Compliance, File a New Report
Competitor / Team	The entry a compliance report is about	General / Unspecified; optional	Compliance, File a New Report
Compliance Room	The room where a compliance matter is handled	Empty; optional free text, no length limit set by the screen	Compliance, File a New Report
Notes / Details	The details of a compliance report	Empty; optional free text, no length limit set by the screen	Compliance, File a New Report
Report status	pending or resolved; Mark Resolved moves it one way only	pending	Compliance, report cards

Create an organization

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Organization name	The league's display name	Required, 1 to 120 characters	Create an organization, form
Subdomain	The organization's slug and address name; cannot be changed later	Required, 3 to 63 characters, lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, not reserved	Create an organization, form

Create tournament

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Starting preset	Fills format, first event, venue and pacing and seeds tab rules	Configure manually	Create tournament
Pacing	Live paced or Long form	Live paced	Create tournament
Who may register	Open registration or Invite only	Open registration	Create tournament
Organization	Owner of the new tournament	Preselected when one choice is possible	Create tournament
Tournament name	Name on public page, pairings and ballots	Required, 1 to 200 characters	Create tournament
Format	Debate format text	Required, 1 to 100 characters	Create tournament
Location	Free text place	Required, 1 to 200 characters	Create tournament
Venue format	In-person or Online	In-person	Create tournament
Start date and End date	Tournament days	Required, end not before start	Create tournament
Time zone	Zone for every posted time	Browser zone if listed, else America/New_York	Create tournament
Description	Optional public page text	Blank, up to 4000 characters	Create tournament
Max participants	Most entries, counted across every event; Entry cap in the organization pane	100, 1 to 100000	Create tournament
Registration fee	Fee per entry in US dollars; zero disables payment	30, zero or more	Create tournament
Divisions	One event, or Novice and Varsity from a preset	One event	Create tournament
Event name and Short code	First event	Required, up to 200 and 20 characters; code upper cased	Create tournament
Second event name and Second short code	Novice event	Required with Novice and Varsity; codes must differ	Create tournament

Database table break_categories

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Break category	A named break with a size, a rule of standard, aida-1996 or aida-2016, and an institution cap. Database only, no screen edits it	None	Database table break_categories

Database table team_break_eligibility

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Break category eligibility	Marks an entry not eligible for a category. Database only	Eligible	Database table team_break_eligibility

Documentation

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Bug report text	The report sent to operations. Required, at most 5,000 characters	Empty	Documentation, Report a Bug

Exports

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Import file	The spreadsheet to import. csv, tsv, txt, json, xlsx, xlsm or xls, up to 5 MB, up to 20,000 rows per sheet	None	Exports, Import a spreadsheet
Import sheet	Which sheet of a workbook is read	The first sheet	Exports, Import a spreadsheet, sheet buttons
Import column mapping	What each column is read as, or Ignore this column	The suggestion when its confidence is 0.75 or more, otherwise Ignore this column	Exports, Import a spreadsheet, section 01 Columns
Import row decision	Skip leaves a row out. Resolve picks the entity a name matched	Commit every row	Exports, Import a spreadsheet, section 02 Rows
Import event	The event for imported entries whose row names no event. Required for registrations	The first event in display order	Exports, Import a spreadsheet, section 03 Event
Interchange event	The event that a DebateXML or JSON file's teams and rounds come in as	The first event in display order	Exports, Debate interchange
Interchange file	A DebateXML or Meridian JSON file to import. Up to 2 MB	None	Exports, Debate interchange

Field

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Compliance statement acknowledged	Records that a judge signed the compliance statement; required before the judge can be confirmed	Unticked	Field, Judges, judge panel
Self check-in switch	Lets competitors on online tournaments, and coaches for their own entries, record arrival themselves. Staff can always check people in. Not read for in person tournaments.	Off	Field, Check-in, Settings page, Participant self-check-in
Roster freeze	Records the time the roster was frozen. Disables the desk's check-in buttons, refuses roster changes from non admin accounts, and refuses self check-in and coach check-in. Has no effect on the round release check. Cannot be undone from the product.	Not frozen	Field, Check-in bar and Settings page, Roster freeze
Check-in record	Marks a competitor entry or a judge as present, with who marked it and when. Undo ends the record without deleting it.	Nobody checked in	Field, Check-in desk
Partner present	Recorded with a check-in of a pair entry. Both here records true, Partner absent records false. A paired entry with false blocks round release.	Not recorded for a single entry	Field, Check-in desk
Payment status of an entry	Pending, Paid, Failed or Refunded set by hand. Refunded is full admin only and hidden for a Stripe payment.	Set at checkout, or Pending or Paid for a hand added entry	Field, Registrations, entry panel, Payment
Roster status of an entry	active, waitlisted or dropped. Dropping needs the typed name and forfeits a released undecided pairing. Waitlisted to active promotes and makes the fee due.	active	Field, Registrations, entry panel, Roster
Entry details	Competitor name 1 to 200 characters, email up to 320, school. Corrections to the person, not the entry.	Taken from registration	Field, Registrations, entry panel, Entry details
Partner name	Changes or removes the partner on an entry. Up to 200 characters. Hidden for an individual event.	As registered	Field, Registrations, entry panel, Partner
Pod of an entry	Pod number from 1 up to the tournament's pod count, or None.	None	Field, Registrations, entry panel, Pod. Shown only when Setup draws in pods
Gate bypass reason	Required reason, up to 500 characters, for bypassing the gates of an entry added by hand. Waives an unpaid fee. Full admin only.	Not bypassed	Field, Registrations, entry panel, Gates
Refund reason	Required reason for a refund, kept in Records. Full admin only.	Empty	Field, Registrations, entry panel, Refund
Add a registration form	Makes an entry with no cart. Fields: Participant name, Email, School or organization, Event, Partner name, Mark paid, Send invite if no account exists.	Event No Event, Mark paid off, Send invite on	Field, Registrations, Add a registration
Invite list	Addresses that may register themselves when the tournament is invited only. One entry per address, up to 320 characters.	Empty	Field, Registrations, Invite list. Shown only for an invited only tournament
Not on list filter	Flags entries whose school is not on the affiliation list. Appears only when at least one entry is flagged.	No list means no flag	Field, Registrations toolbar. The list itself is saved in Setup, Registration
Registrations filter and search	Narrow the roster. Kept for the browser session, per tournament.	All, empty search	Field, Registrations
Invited filter and search	Narrow the invitations. Kept for the browser session, per tournament.	All, empty search	Field, Invited
Invitation resend and cancel	Resend mails the claim link again and does not change the expiry date. Cancel removes the invitation and drops the entry or withdraws the judge.	Not applicable	Field, Invited, panel
Invite someone	Makes a competitor entry with no event, or a judge, and mails an invitation. A claim link expires in seven days.	Competitor	Field, Invited, Invite someone
Judge accepted	The judge accepts the place from their judge page. Adding a judge accepts at once when no account owns the address or the admin's account does.	Not accepted when another account owns the address	Field, Judges
Judge compliance statement acknowledged	Tab can tick it on the judge's behalf. Required before the Confirmed status.	Not recorded	Field, Judges, panel, Readiness
Judge orientation completed	Tab can tick it on the judge's behalf. Required before the judge can be seated.	Not recorded	Field, Judges, panel, Readiness
Judge approval	Approve or Approve all. A judge added by hand is approved at once. Approve all handles up to 500 judges.	Approved when added by hand, waiting when self signed up	Field, Judges, panel and toolbar
Judge status	pending, confirmed or withdrawn. Confirmed needs the compliance statement. Withdrawn clears unreleased pairings and tells competitors in released rooms.	pending	Field, Judges, panel, Status
Judge school	The school or club the judge judges for. Up to 120 characters. The judge is never seated with an entry under it.	Empty	Field, Judges, panel, School
Judge available days	Tournament days the judge can sit, at most 31 days listed.	None recorded	Field, Judges, panel, Availability
Judge hours on a day	Start and end on a 24 hour clock, start before end.	08:00 to 18:00	Field, Judges, panel, Availability
Judge max rounds per day	Whole number from 1 to 8.	3	Field, Judges, panel, Availability
Judge paradigm	The judge's written statement of how they evaluate debates. Up to 4000 characters. Public and shown to competitors.	Not filed	Field, Judges, panel, Paradigm
Judge categories list	The league's own judge categories, comma separated. At most 8 names of at most 40 characters. A category held by a judge cannot be removed.	Empty	Field, Judges, panel, Category, Categories for this tournament
Judge category	One category from the list, or None.	None	Field, Judges, panel, Category
Judge conflict	School, Team, Household or Adjudicator, with a reason up to 2000 characters and an optional soft flag. Adjudicator is recorded and not enforced. A household ignores the soft flag.	None declared	Field, Judges, panel, Conflicts
Household	Links two people, two judges or a judge and a competitor, who are never placed in the same room. Label up to 200 characters, reason up to 2000.	None	Field, Judges, Nominations, conflicts and households section
Nomination status and response	contacted, accepted or declined, with an optional response up to 2000 characters. Accepting rosters the nominee.	pending until reviewed	Field, Judges, Nominations, conflicts and households section
Add a judge form	Judge Name up to 200 characters, Email up to 320, Send account invite.	Starts pending and approved	Field, Judges, Nominations, conflicts and households section
Judge unsaved edits guard	Asks before leaving a panel with unsaved edits.	On	Field, Judges, panel

Field rail

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Field rail counts	Registrations owing payment, judges short or not ready, people not here, unclaimed invitations. Computed, not configurable.	Not applicable	Field rail

Observers

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Enrolled observers	The accounts enrolled as observers of the tournament	None	Observers, Enroll observer
Spectate request approvals	Whether the affirmative and negative sides have approved an observer's request. Both must say yes	Neither answered	Observers, request cards

Organization console

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
League description	Text about the organization	Blank, up to 2000 characters	Organization console, League profile
Logo	Image shown on every public tournament page of the organization	None; PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF up to 2 MB, or an https address	Organization console, Branding
Primary color	Six digit hex color for public tournament pages	Blank means the default	Organization console, Branding
Accent color	Six digit hex color for public tournament pages	Blank means the default	Organization console, Branding
Stripe Connect	Routes registration fees to the organization	Not connected	Organization console, Billing; setup Payments step
Organization admin	Account seated as admin or owner	Creator is owner	Organization console, Access
Connectivity switches	Read API, Webhooks, MCP reads, MCP write proposals	Off until Meridian licenses them	Organization console, Connectivity
Requests per minute, per key	API rate limit per key	Set by Meridian, 1 to 6000	Organization console, Connectivity

Organization setup

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
About your organization	Description saved in the setup wizard	Required in the wizard, up to 2000 characters	Organization setup, Profile step
Tournament contact email	Where tournament questions are routed	Required in the wizard, optional on League profile	Organization setup, Profile step; League profile
Offered events	Events the organization commonly runs, shown as defaults	At least one in the wizard, up to 20 of 100 characters on League profile	Organization setup, Events step; League profile
Starting default	Preset format that fills Format and the first event when creating a tournament	None	Organization setup, Defaults step

Quick-start walkthrough

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Walkthrough progress	The step and the dismissed flag of the Quick-start walkthrough, kept in the browser for each tournament	Step 1, shown on the admin's first visit	Quick-start walkthrough
Welcome seen	Whether the admin has already dismissed the welcome card, kept in the browser for each admin	Not seen	Quick-start walkthrough

Records

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Finalize without a break	Records that no elimination round was run and finalizes on the planned preliminary rounds	Not set; set only by the Finalize without a break button	Records, Closeout band
Search records	Filters the loaded audit rows by person, action, reason or touched label	Empty	Records, log toolbar
Records filter chip	Everything, Overrides, Without a reason, Ballots, Pairings, Rounds or Entries	Everything	Records, log toolbar
Rows loaded on Records	The latest audit entries shown on screen	250, fixed; the CSV export holds all	Records, log header

Rounds

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Reveal to competitors	Full shows the winner and speaker points after each round. Winner only hides speaker points until the break.	Full	Rounds, round settings in the inspector
Spectating	Open or Closed for the round. A demo tournament refuses Open.	Closed unless saved Open	Rounds, round settings in the inspector
Window start	The round's start date and time in the tournament's zone. Optional.	Empty	Rounds, round settings in the inspector
Window end	The round's end date and time. Optional, and must be later than the start.	Empty	Rounds, round settings in the inspector
Running late minutes	Whole number of minutes to move every unstarted, unreleased, scheduled round by. A negative number brings the day forward. From 480 minutes earlier to 480 minutes later, never zero.	15, in steps of 5	Rounds, round settings, Shift what is left
Judges per room	Judges seated in every room of the round Prepare creates. 1 to 9.	Setup's judges per preliminary room, else 1, and the bracket's panel size for elimination	Rounds, Next round panel
Approve the proposed break	Checkbox that must be ticked to prepare the first elimination round.	Unticked	Rounds, Next round panel at the break step
Auto-allocate judges panel size	Sent with the button, from the round's seat count. Limited to 1 through 9.	1 for a preliminary round, Setup's panel size for elimination	Rounds, Judges step and above the table
Room for a pairing	The room chip, or a text field when no rooms are defined.	First free room for a new pairing	Rounds, room inspector
Reason for change on a released room	Required text recorded with the edit.	Empty, required for a released room	Rounds, room inspector
Competitors and judges of a pairing	Chosen from searchable lists. Competitors are locked once a ballot is in.	Draw result	Rounds, room inspector
Severity of a support request	Urgent, Normal or Low.	Normal	Rounds, Open incidents and Raise a support request
Owner of a support request	Nobody yet, or a staff member who can own a request.	The director raising it, when raised from Rounds	Rounds, Open incidents and Raise a support request
Issue kind of a support request	A competitor is missing, The meeting failed, The room or link is broken, A safety or conduct concern, or A ballot question or anything else.	A ballot question or anything else	Rounds, Raise a support request
What happened	Text of a raised support request. Required, up to 1,000 characters.	Empty	Rounds, Raise a support request
Incident response	Text sent to participants with a status of acknowledged, resolved or closed. Up to 2,000 characters.	Empty	Rounds, Open incidents
Judge request response	Optional text with approved, rejected or escalated. Up to 1,000 characters.	Empty	Rounds, Judge requests
Schedule escalation response	Optional text with acknowledged, resolved or closed. Up to 2,000 characters.	Empty	Rounds, Schedule escalations
Rounds filter	All, Blocked, Advisories or Unreleased, for the table of rooms.	All	Rounds, above the table of rooms

Search palette

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Search query	The text searched in the palette. Two letters or digits start a search, at most 80 characters read	Empty	Search palette

Setup

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Require the compliance policy before an entry is complete	Makes each claimed cart entry carry a policy acknowledgment before checkout; the Policy signed stage in Field counts them	On when never set	Setup, Registration section; read by the registration cart and Field, Registrations
Draw	Read here: power-paired, random draw, round robin, pods or by hand. Decides what Generate pairings does.	Power-paired	Setup, Rounds and break
Sides	Read here: balanced or random.	Balanced	Setup, Rounds and break
Number of preliminary rounds	Read here: stops Add Round N once reached.	Unset	Setup, Rounds and break
Elimination panel sizes	Read here: seats in each elimination room.	Three	Setup, Rounds and break
Never seat a judge with a team they have judged	Read here: turns a judge repeat finding from a warning into a blocker.	Off	Setup, Rounds and break
Release rounds automatically when the check passes	Read here: releases a round after a Rounds save, a Prepare or a check-in change that clears the check.	Off	Setup, Rounds and break
Available rooms	Read here: the rooms offered to a pairing.	None	Setup, Rooms
Judges may record a forfeit or no-show	Saved with the ballot form and not read by either ballot screen.	On	Setup, Ballot
Speaker comments	Per speaker, Per team or Off. Saved and not read by either ballot screen.	Per speaker	Setup, Ballot
Visibility	Whether the tournament is listed for everyone or reachable by link only	Private for a new tournament, Public shown when the stored value is not private	Setup, Tournament
Description	Opening paragraph of the public page, up to 10,000 characters	Empty	Setup, Tournament
Rules	Rules text on the public page, up to 10,000 characters	Empty	Setup, Tournament
Schedule notes	Notes the posted round times do not say, up to 10,000 characters	Empty	Setup, Tournament
Contact	Who to reach on the day, up to 10,000 characters	Empty	Setup, Tournament
First day	First date of the tournament, bounds judge availability and round windows	Required	Setup, Tournament
Last day	Last date of the tournament, not before the first day	Required	Setup, Tournament
Time zone	Zone in which every posted time renders	America/New_York when none is stored	Setup, Tournament
Where	In person or Online, online makes each room a meeting link and adds a chat to each pairing	In person	Setup, Tournament
Pacing	Live paced or Long form, hybrid is no longer offered	Live paced	Setup, Tournament
Conflicts group by	School or Club or household, saved but no screen reads it	School	Setup, Tournament
Coaches may strike judges	Turns on Report a conflict in each room, does not remove a judge	Off	Setup, Tournament
Debaters may propose round times	Turns on the Time scheduler in each room	Off	Setup, Tournament
Warn when a judge owes a ballot	Saved but nothing acts on it	On	Setup, Tournament
Event name	Name of an event, 1 to 200 characters	Required	Setup, Events
Event short code	Code used in pairings and postings, 1 to 20 characters, unique in the tournament, saved in capitals	Required	Setup, Events
Speakers per side	1 or 2, sets ballot columns and whether entries take a partner	1	Setup, Events
Event format	Debate format from the catalog, read only to recognise Moot Court events	None	Setup, Events
Entry cap	Most active entries an event takes, 1 to 100000	Blank, no cap	Setup, Events
Event active	Open for registration and included in pairings	On for a new event	Setup, Events
Event order	Order of events, set by dragging the index number	New events go last	Setup, Events
Room name	Name of a room, up to 100 characters, unique ignoring case	Required	Setup, Rooms
Room site	Building or campus, up to 100 characters	Blank	Setup, Rooms
Room capacity	Seats counting judges, 0 to 10000	Blank, no limit	Setup, Rooms
Room notes	Text shown in the room picker in Rounds, up to 2000 characters	Blank	Setup, Rooms
Room number	Number shown in the room list, set only by the bulk import, up to 100 characters	Blank	Setup, Rooms
Bulk room import	Pasted lines of name, number, building, capacity	1 to 500 rooms per import	Setup, Rooms
Ballot instructions	Text shown above the scores, cut to 2000 characters	Empty	Setup, Ballot
Scoring mode	Category points or Judge-assigned rank	None until saved	Setup, Ballot
Scoring categories	Name and point range per category for Category points, maximum above minimum	New row is New category 1 to 5	Setup, Ballot
Rank scale	Highest rank a judge may give, 1 to 2, 1 to 3, 1 to 4 or 1 to 6	Saved scale, else standings rank scale, else 2	Setup, Ballot
Speaker points range	Lowest and highest speaker points under Judge-assigned rank	20 to 30	Setup, Ballot
Reason for decision title	Heading of the written decision box, cut to 120 characters	Reason for decision	Setup, Ballot
Speaker comments	Per speaker, Per team or Off, saved but the judge ballot does not read it	Per speaker	Setup, Ballot
Allow forfeit or no-show	Switch for the forfeit option, saved but the judge ballot does not read it	On	Setup, Ballot
Preliminary rounds	Number of prelims, 1 to 12 on screen, not below the number created	Saved count	Setup, Rounds & break
Judges per prelim room	Odd number of judges per prelim room, 1 to 7 on screen	1	Setup, Rounds & break
Sides	Balanced or Random side assignment	Balanced	Setup, Rounds & break
Draw	Power-paired, Random draw, Round robin, Pods or By hand	Power-paired	Setup, Rounds & break
Pods	Number of pods, 2 to 12 on screen	4	Setup, Rounds & break
Entry with no pod	Stop the draw or Place them anyway	Stop the draw	Setup, Rounds & break
Who breaks	Top seeds, Winning record or No break	Top seeds	Setup, Rounds & break
Break size	Entries that break under Top seeds, 2 to 128	16 when none is stored	Setup, Rounds & break
Wins or better	Record for the Winning record estimate, not saved	Half the prelims rounded up	Setup, Rounds & break
Break depth per event	Own break size for an event, 2 to 128, blank inherits	Blank	Setup, Rounds & break
Elimination panel size	Odd number of judges for each elimination round, 1 to 9	3	Setup, Rounds & break
Never seat a judge with a team they have judged	Makes a repeat a hard conflict	Off	Setup, Rounds & break
Balance judge categories across panels	Mixes judge categories on panels	Off	Setup, Rounds & break
Scheduling unit	Fixed rounds or Weekly timeslots, saved but nothing reads it	Fixed rounds	Setup, Rounds & break
Release rounds automatically	Rounds releases itself when the check passes	Off	Setup, Rounds & break
Show the plan to competitors	Public page lists round count and break before the draw	On	Setup, Rounds & break
Tiebreak order	Order of the tiebreak lines	Wins, Total speaker points, Adjusted speaker points, Opponent strength, Head-to-head, Coin flip	Setup, Standings
Adjusted speaker points drop	None, 1 or 2 high and low scores dropped	1	Setup, Standings
Adjusted ranks drop	None, 1 or 2 high and low ranks dropped	1	Setup, Standings
Speaker awards	Off or Top 3, Top 5, Top 10 speakers	Off	Setup, Standings
Publish standings	After every round, At the break or Manually	After every round	Setup, Standings
Competitor sees the tab sheet	Whether a competitor sees standings	On	Setup, Standings
Competitor sees their record	Whether a competitor sees won or lost	On	Setup, Standings
Competitor sees speaker points and ranks	Whether a competitor sees their own points and ranks	On	Setup, Standings
Competitor sees judge comments	Whether a competitor sees the reason for decision	On	Setup, Standings
Registration opens	Opening time, saved but not enforced	Blank	Setup, Registration
Registration closes	Closing time, saved but not enforced, not before the opening time	Blank	Setup, Registration
Drop without forfeit until	Date, saved but no screen reads it	Blank	Setup, Registration
Status now	Open or Closed, the switch that stops or allows self-registration	Closed	Setup, Registration
Who may register	Anyone or Invited only	Anyone	Setup, Registration
Fee per entry	Dollars per entry, 0 or more, full admin only	0.00	Setup, Registration
Refunds	Automatic until close or By hand only, a label and nothing refunds automatically, full admin only	Automatic until close	Setup, Registration
Require the compliance policy	Adds the Policy signed stage in Field	On	Setup, Registration
Promo code	Code of 6 to 32 letters, digits, dashes or underscores, full admin only	None	Setup, Registration
Promo discount	Percent up to 100 or fixed dollars off the fee per entry	Percent	Setup, Registration
Promo uses in all	Entries a code may cover in total, 1 or more	Blank, no limit	Setup, Registration
Promo uses per account	Entries one account may have covered, 1 or more	1	Setup, Registration
Promo starts and ends	Window in which a code works, the end after the start	Blank	Setup, Registration
Promo only these emails	Addresses a code is limited to, up to 500	Blank, anyone	Setup, Registration
Maximum entries	Most entries the tournament takes, 1 to 100000, counted across events	Database default 100	Setup, Registration
Waitlist entries once the field is full	Queues entries after the cap instead of refusing them	Off	Setup, Registration
Registration questions	Up to 20 questions, Short text, Yes / no or Choose one	None	Setup, Registration
Affiliation list	Schools and clubs expected, up to 2000 names	None	Setup, Registration
Tiebreak order	The order in which ties are broken, top first. A coin flip is added at the end when missing	Wins, Speaks, Adjusted speaks, Opponent wins, Head to head, Coin flip	Setup, Standings section, Tiebreak order
Adjusted speaker points drop	How many highest and lowest speaker point values are dropped before summing: None, Drop 1 high 1 low, Drop 2 high 2 low. Takes effect only with at least 2N plus 1 values	1	Setup, Standings section, Adjusted totals
Adjusted ranks drop	The same drop applied to ranks	1	Setup, Standings section, Adjusted totals
Publish standings	When the public page and dashboards show standings: After every round, At the break, or Manually. Manually follows the Publish bracket button	After every round	Setup, Standings section, Awards group
What competitors see	Four switches for a competitor's own results: The tab sheet, Their record, Speaker points and ranks, Judge comments	Set in Setup; the code treats an unset value as the saved default	Setup, Standings section, What competitors see
Elimination panel size	Judges on each elimination panel by bracket size, odd numbers from 1 to 9	3 for a bracket nobody sized	Setup, Rounds and break, Elimination rounds

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Sponsor application status	pending, approved, rejected or withdrawn. Approved lists the sponsor on the public page	pending	Sponsors, Approve, Reject and Reset

Standings tab Break buttons; Setup

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Break size	The number of entries that advance. Written together with the break rule. All winning records saves the count of active entries with more wins than losses, with a floor of 2	Not set until Setup or the Break buttons save it	Standings tab Break buttons; Setup, Rounds and break

Stored tournament value

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Ballot delivery	After each round, after the tournament or never. Read by the Ballots status bar. No control writes it.	None stored	Stored tournament value

Tournament Setup

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Include QR Codes	Printed ballots carry a code that opens the digital ballot	On	Tournament Setup, Printing, Ballots
Show Judge Instructions	Printed ballots carry the judging instructions	On	Tournament Setup, Printing, Ballots
Layout Density	Comfortable or Compact spacing and margins	Comfortable	Tournament Setup, Printing, Ballots
Mask Participant Names	Postings and ballots show entry codes such as NYU A instead of names	Off	Tournament Setup, Printing, Postings and Pairings
Hide Room Locations Until Release	A draft posting prints rooms as withheld until release	On	Tournament Setup, Printing, Postings and Pairings

Users & roles

Setting	What it does	Default	Location
Admin seat for a new person	The seat granted when a person is added: Admin, Tab or Compliance	Admin	Users & roles, Role
Invite by Email	The address of the person to receive a seat. Required. Read in lower case	Empty	Users & roles
Seat of an existing person	Changes a person's seat to Admin, Tab or Compliance as soon as another option is chosen	The person's current seat	Users & roles, seat select in a row