Creating a Tournament

Creating a tournament in Netball Connect is similar to creating a regular competition. 

Firstly, in the Registration Module, select "+ New Registration" to create your Tournament. (See separate document for help with setting up a competition)

- On the competition setup page under Type of Competition select ‘Tournament’.

- Under Competition Format select ‘Enhanced Round Robin’.

Complete the other competition fields as required. You then have the choice of how you want to invite associations to participate in the tournament.

For Association Tournaments follow Option 1.

For Tournaments with direct entry for independent teams follow Option 2.

OPTION 1 - ASSOCIATIONS / LEAGUES

a. Under the ‘Registration Invitees’ header, tick ‘Associations/Leagues’, and proceed to search for each Association that you would like to invite to participate in your tournament. 

b. Once invited, the Tournament will appear under their Registration module 'Participating in Competition’ section.
 

c. The invited Associations will receive a notification to open their registration forms. After the invitee opens their registration form, they can then create and submit the participating teams in the tournament via their Competitions module.
 

d. This tournament structure allows the participating Association to submit teams directly to the competition. You will need to invoice the association externally for team entry.
 

e. It is a good idea to invite your own Association at this point. If you have individual teams wanting to participate in the tournament, by inviting your association you can create a tournament registration form and share the link with these individual teams to enter directly.

Participating Associations will add teams using the ‘Create Team’ function.
 

Once these teams have been added, the participating Association will ‘Propose a Grade’ for this team. Your Association can then finalise the grades for the tournament draw, as you would a regular competition.

OPTION 2 - DIRECT ENTRY
 

Select Direct.

Direct Entry is for tournaments taking independent team entry rather than association teams. 

Teams will register via your registration form link. Direct Entry and inviting your own association are effectively getting the same result, so if you need to invite Associations and also allow for independent teams, please use Option 1 and remember to invite your own Association as well.

This option is not always the most ideal one for Associations, as all registered teams will be submitted by an individual and all registered teams would be listed under that individuals' profile. Also, the system only allows one team to be registered at a time, so team entry fees and associated transaction fees will be charged at every single time of registration.

When setting up your tournament, you have the option to apply ‘Team Registrations’ as a registration option under the ‘Fees’ tab. These fees will be charged for any teams registering directly through your registration form using Option 2. Option 1 (which allows invited Associations to submit teams) will need to be invoiced externally.

Select Team Registrations, Team Fee (charged for the whole team) then Charged for Full Season. You can then add the charge for each team via either of the Deposit Fees or Competition Fees boxes. 

After publishing your competition, setup your registration form. Tick the membership types that correspond to the ‘Team’ registration types for each of your created registration divisions. (See separate document for help with setting up a registration form)

NOTE: If you do not tick a selectable box for a ‘Team’ registration type for each of your divisions, then your participating Associations will not be able to register teams to this particular division. 

Successfully registered teams will populate in your Competitions module ‘‘Team Grading’ page, where you can allocate teams to their final grade for the tournament and create fixtures.