Completing, cancelling and copying
What happens after the last round — closing the tournament properly, fixing something after the fact, cancelling an event, recycling a tournament as a template, and running tournament series.
Completing a tournament
Most tournaments complete automatically when the last round is completed. The Mark as Completed button on the manage page is the manual override — use it when an event is cut short or you want to close it despite an unresolved situation.
A completed tournament stays publicly visible with its final standings and remains in every player's history.
Completing also locks the published standings: results, ranking settings and round states freeze so a later recalculation can't rewrite numbers players and the federation already have. Standings and tie-break configuration lists exactly what freezes.
Fixing something afterwards
Reopen Tournament returns a completed tournament to published. Use it when a result was recorded wrong or a round must continue after all. Correct what's needed (reopen the affected round with Revert to In Progress — see Entering results), then mark the tournament completed again.
Reopening is also the only way to unlock a completed tournament: while it stays closed, Chesstide refuses result corrections, recalculation and ranking-settings changes.
Important: Recomputing standings after a correction also recomputes tie-breaks. Published prize lists may shift — double-check the Prizes tab before re-announcing winners.
Cancelling
Cancel Tournament withdraws an event that won't take place. Cancelled tournaments disappear from public listings. Cancelling cannot be undone from the manage page, so prefer it over deletion only when you want to keep the data.
Delete Tournament is the nuclear option: it permanently removes the tournament with all rounds, results and registrations, and is limited to the creator. There is no undo.
Copying a tournament
Copy Tournament duplicates the tournament's settings and round schedule into a new draft with an auto-numbered name — no players, pairings or results come along. For a monthly blitz or an annual open, configure once, then copy and adjust the dates each edition.
Tournament series and festivals
Under Groups, you can bundle tournaments:
- Collection — a simple series page, no combined ranking.
- Points challenge — one combined ranking; points from each tournament add up, with a configurable placement-points table, dropped results and a minimum number of tournaments.
- Cumulative challenge — scores accumulate leg after leg; players can register for the whole challenge in one go.
- Festival — parallel tournaments where each player enters exactly one. You can also mark a leg as common (non-exclusive): a shared side event such as a blitz, rapid or puzzle-solving contest that any player may opt into on top of their one exclusive leg. The "exactly one" rule applies only to the ordinary (exclusive) legs; players can join as many common legs as they like. The festival roster lets you move a player between exclusive legs, leaving any common registrations untouched.
Attach tournaments as legs (with an optional label and a multiplier — whole, half or fine decimal steps such as ×1.25 or ×0.75), publish the group, and the Combined ranking page updates as legs finish. On a challenge group the combined ranking now shows inline on the group's public page, and each leg header links to its tournament.
Explaining the rules to visitors
A challenge group's public page shows an auto-generated scoring summary — how points are aggregated, the placement-points table, per-leg multipliers, drops, the minimum number of legs and the tie-break order — built from the live scoring config, so it always matches the ranking above it. You can add your own Rules text (in the group's manage settings) to explain anything the summary doesn't cover; it appears as a Rules section on the public page for any group type.
Categories in a combined ranking
A points or cumulative challenge can define Categories — sub-rankings by age, rating or gender, set up on the group's manage page with the same editor as a tournament's categories. Age is counted at the group's start date, not each leg's. Save categories recalculates the combined ranking, and the public ranking then offers a category filter that re-ranks the filtered players.
The group's public page
A group presents itself as an event in its own right. In the group's manage settings, give it a Description (markdown) and, under Dates and location, its own start and end dates, venue, city and country — leave those empty and the page falls back to the dates and location of its tournaments.
The public page then shows that date/location line and the organising club, the number of players, tournaments and registrations, an About section, and the leg schedule with a status badge per leg — Upcoming, Ongoing, Completed or Cancelled. Dates decide that badge, so a leg whose end date has passed reads as completed even if you left it published. When the page has more than one section, jump links at the top move between About, Tournaments, Combined ranking, how the ranking works, and Rules.