Every tournament and match moves through a series of statuses. Status Control lets you manually trigger transitions when you need to override automatic timing or handle unexpected situations.
Tournament Statuses
Tournaments progress through these states:
Draft → Published → Registration Open → Registration Closed → In Progress → Completed
At any point before completion, a tournament can be Paused or Cancelled.
Available Transitions
From Draft:
- Publish Tournament — makes it visible in public listings. Registration will open automatically at the scheduled time.
- Cancel Tournament — permanently cancel before publishing.
From Published:
- Start Registration — opens registration immediately, overriding the scheduled open time.
- Pause Tournament — temporarily suspend, hide from public view.
- Cancel Tournament — permanently cancel.
From Registration Open:
- Close Registration — stop accepting new registrations. Overrides scheduled close time if set.
- Start Tournament — skip registration close and begin competition immediately.
- Pause Tournament — suspend during registration. Existing registrations are preserved.
- Cancel Tournament — cancel with active registrations.
From Registration Closed:
- Reopen Registration — re-open to allow more teams. Requires setting a new close time and start time.
- Start Tournament — begin competition immediately.
- Pause Tournament — suspend before competition starts.
- Cancel Tournament — cancel before competition begins.
From In Progress:
- Complete Tournament — finalize all results and rankings.
- Pause Tournament — suspend active competition. Matches are frozen.
- Cancel Tournament — cancel mid-competition.
From Paused:
- Resume — return to the state the tournament was in before pausing. May require setting new schedule times depending on which state you’re resuming to.
Completed and Cancelled are terminal states — no further transitions are possible.
Risk Levels
Each transition is labeled with a risk level:
- Low risk — safe actions like publishing or completing
- Medium risk — actions that override schedules or affect registrations
- High risk — irreversible actions like cancelling or starting competition early
High-risk transitions require typing a confirmation word before proceeding.
Match Statuses
Matches have their own lifecycle:
Not Scheduled → Scheduled → In Progress (shown as “Live”) → Completed
A match can also be Cancelled at any point.
From the group or pairing page, you can access Match Status Control for any match to manually transition it. This is useful for starting a match early, marking it complete after entering scores, or cancelling a match that won’t happen.
Scheduled and In Progress matches block stage completion — they must be either completed or cancelled before you can complete the stage.
Accessing Status Control
For tournaments: from the tournament dashboard, go to Status Control. For matches: from the group page, select a match and open its status page.
Last modified on March 3, 2026
