A. To Create Your Tournament

1. On the Tournaments page, click "Edit Tournament", then "Add New Tournament".
2. If you haven’t already logged in to the reporting site, log in using your UPA online account info. Use the same email and password you would use to pay or change your contact information online. If you don’t have an online account, or can’t remember how to log in, follow the “UPA Member Login Page” link.
 

1. Click on the box containing your basic event info.
2. Enter the name of your event.
3. Enter in all the info for your event into the appropriate fields, including website if there is one and make sure the correct division is selected.
4. Enter any notes about the event you think people/players should know.
5. Create a password for your event. Make sure it’s a password that you won’t forget. This will give you exclusive access to change basic event information, including teams attending, formats, and schedule.
6. Click on the “Submit” button.

1. Click on the “Teams” box or the list of teams.
2. Find the teams that will be attending your event using the alphabetical list. To select a team for your event, simply click on the team. You can arrange the list by clicking on and dragging teams up and down the list.
   * If you can’t find a team - Click on the “Teams” link on the menu bar at the top of the page. Use the search function to see if the team is listed under a different name than you were expecting. If you still cannot find the team, click on the “Add New Team” link at the bottom of the page. Enter the name of the school and any other information you have about the team. Do not password protect the team.
3. To remove a team from the list, drag the team down the list into the “Remove” space.
4. Seeded - Select whether or not the teams are listed in order of seeding. You will need to seed them before the tournament. Use the “Pools” selection on this menu if you are setting up pools without listing the teams in true seeding order.
5. Click on the “Submit” button when you have your list of teams (seeded or unseeded).

1. Click on the “Pools” box.
2. Arrange the pools according to seed. You can do this either by clicking on one of the automated options, or by entering the pool arrangements by hand. When entering by hand, enter the seeding numbers separated by spaces (no commas).
3. Click on the “Submit” button when you have the pools arranged correctly by seed.

E. Format - Editing Pool Schedule Info

1. To edit a pool, click on the box for that pool.
* At this point if you don’t know the schedule details, you do not have to change anything else. Hit the “Submit” button. You can decide in the Tournament Information section which information you want to publish. (See Section G. Publishing Your Tournament). If you do want to enter more detailed info about the pool schedule, continue with #2.
2. Fields - If you know which fields this pool will play on, enter the field numbers here. Enter only numbers (no commas) and leave a blank space between each number.
   If you don’t want to use this function, leave this field blank.
3. Schedule – You can select one of the pool schedule options from the drop-down list. Or you can enter in the pool schedule by hand (Custom). The pairs of numbers indicate which seed is playing which during that round. There is a space between games for a round. There is a comma between rounds. If you don’t know the schedule yet, you can leave this blank.
4. Bye Round - If there is a bye round for the entire pool (not just one team), indicate whether it is round 1, 2, 3, etc.
   *5-11 - If you don’t know the start times, or don’t want to use the timing schedule function, you can skip #5-11. (See Section G. Publishing Your Tournament)
5. Start Time – Enter the start time, hours and minutes. Do not use a colon “:”. (For example for 9AM, enter “900”.
6. Game Time – Enter the length of each round in minutes.
7. Between Games – Enter the length of time between the end of the last round and the start of the next round.
8. Break Round – If there is a break in pool play other than a bye, indicate which round that break will occur during.
9. Break to 2nd Day – If pool play extends into the 2nd day, indicate Yes here.
10. Break to Time – If there is a break in pool play other than a bye, indicate the time that the pool schedule will resume.
11. New Row – If you want the pool to appear on a different row than the pool above it, select “Yes”. If you want the pool to appear on the same row as the pool above it, select “No”. This change won’t take effect until you publish the event.

1. Click on the “Brackets” box.
2. Select the appropriate bracket for your tournament format. Repeat steps 1-2 to select more than one bracket, if necessary.
3. To edit a specific bracket, click on that bracket in the Bracket box.
4. In the top field, fill out the title/name of the bracket.
5. In the fields above each round of play, fill out the game time or name of the round. For example: “Pre-quarters, Quarters, Semis, Finals, 2nd place game, 3rd place game, etc.” If you don’t want to use this feature, leave these fields blank.
6. In the fields above each line of the bracket, fill in the appropriate team designation. For example: “A1, A2, B3, B4, etc.”.
7. In the fields next to the “#” symbol, fill out the field number if you know it. If you don’t know the field number for the games, or you don’t want to use this function, leave these fields blank.
8. New Row – If you want the bracket to appear on a different row than the bracket above it, select “Yes”. If you want the bracket to appear on the same row as the bracket above it, select “No”. This change won’t take effect until you publish the event.’
9. Click the “Submit” button when you have entered all the info for that bracket.
10. Repeat steps 3-9 for each bracket in your format.

* You will need to Publish your event to have it show up on the tournament list. You will need to publish it with the Schedule in order to report game scores. You do not need to use/publish round times, but you can if you want.

1. Click on the Tournament Info box.
2. In the Publish field, select one of the following
   - “No” if you don’t want your event to show up in the list.
   - “Date” if you only want the name, date, location, and notes to show up in the list.
   - “Teams” if you only want the name, date, location, notes, and list of teams to show up in the tournament list.
   - “Schedule” to publish the event with the format (pools and/or brackets) as you’ve entered it, without round times.
   - “Schedule + Times” to publish the event with the format as you’ve entered it, including round times.
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1. a) Go to the Tournaments page.
   * Select your tournament's division at the top of the page.
2. Click on the “Edit Tournament” link at the top of the tournament list.
3. Scroll through the list of tournaments to find your event.
   * Note that events that have been published to the tournament list will be green, and events that have not been published yet will be gray.
4. Click on the event to edit it. You will have to enter your event password in order to access the event to edit event, format, or schedule info.
5. Refer to the appropriate section of these instructions to edit a specific area of your event.

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