Players, check-in and the waiting list

The cockpit's Players tab is your control room for everyone taking part: confirming entries, checking players in on the day, adding late entries, and handling absences and withdrawals.

The player list

Individual tournaments list every player with their pairing number, name, rating, title, registration status, check-in and withdrawal state. Team tournaments show teams with their rosters instead. Search, filter by status or payment, and sort by pairing number, name or rating.

Useful list-wide actions:

• Update all ratings and Refresh info pull the latest ratings and details from the federation and FIDE data.
• Export CSV respects your current filters and lets you pick columns.
• Team tournaments have a printable Check-in Sheet listing each team's boards with a checkbox column.

Checking players in

Players must be checked in to be included in pairings. On tournament day:

• Toggle check-in per player, or select several and use the bulk Check In action.
• Check-in All checks in every confirmed player at once; Uncheck-in All reverses it.

Tip: Players can also check themselves in online when they view their registration — you'll see their status update live. Do a final pass with the Players tab before generating round 1.

Adding a late entry

Click the add button on the Players tab. Two ways to find players:

• Search — by name or FIDE/federation ID; matches existing profiles or creates a new one, so no duplicates appear.
• By Club — pick a federation club and select players straight from its member list (for countries with a supported federation, currently Belgium).

Entries added from the cockpit are immediately Confirmed, with fees calculated automatically. If a player doesn't meet the tournament's age or rating restrictions, Chesstide shows a confirmation asking whether to add them anyway.

Absences, byes and withdrawals

Per player you can record, from the row's editor:

• Absent rounds — rounds the player will miss; the pairing engine skips them for those rounds.
• Bye requests — if allowed in the Configuration tab, requested byes score the configured bye points. A round can't be both absent and a bye, and completed rounds can no longer be changed.
• Withdrawn — the player leaves the tournament from a given round onwards; badges show Withdrawn, Absent R… or Bye R… in the list.

Deleting a registration removes it entirely — use withdrawal instead once a player has results.

The waiting list

When your tournament is full, new registrations become Waitlisted automatically. Open the Waiting list view to manage the queue:

• Promote confirms the player into the tournament.
• Remove cancels the entry.
• Drag entries to reorder the queue.

Important: While pairings are being generated the player list is briefly locked — a check-in or bulk action attempted at that exact moment shows a "pairing in progress" notice; just retry a moment later.