As soon as your participants or teams are ready, Slams builds the schedule automatically. You don't have to pair up matches by hand: Slams matches the opponents, spreads them fairly across your courts and lines everything up per round. What the schedule looks like depends on the chosen format.
How the schedule is built per format
- League: a round-robin in which every team plays every other team, optionally split into groups. See League with groups.
- Tournament: first a group stage (round-robin per group), then an optional knockout. See Groups + knockout.
- Americano and Mexicano: round by round, with partners and opponents changing each round.
- Team Clash: a round-robin between all teams.
- King of the Court: a ladder rotation where players move up and down the courts each round.
Generating the schedule
First add your players or teams and set up your courts. Then open the part in your dashboard and go to the schedule tab (for a tournament it's called Groups, and for Americano and Mexicano it's called Rounds). Click generate and the full schedule is ready. You need at least 2 teams.
Regenerating and redrawing
If you want to rebuild the schedule, a league gives you two options:
- Regenerate: keeps the current group setup, including manual moves from the Setup tab, and only rebuilds the matches and rounds. Scheduled times and round dates are preserved.
- Redraw: discards the setup and randomly redistributes the teams across groups of the configured size.
For a tournament, when you generate the groups you choose whether Slams draws them randomly or based on rating (seeding). Note: regenerating or redrawing rebuilds the matches, so it's best to do this before any results have been entered.
Courts and planning
Slams spreads the matches across your available courts. If you want to decide yourself which court and time something is played on, use the day planner. To move a single match, use rescheduling matches. After that you enter the scores and the standings update automatically.
