Close inscriptions & confirm seeds

Role requiredTournament organizer

What you’ll achieve: a final, locked field — no new sign-ups, correct seeds, and only the teams that will actually play left in the running.

Prerequisites: registration is effectively finished. Do this before generating groups.

Open in Competition Manager→

1. Close inscriptions

1. In the top bar — right next to the tournament name — turn the Registrations toggle off.
2. Confirm the Close inscriptions? dialog — “Players (including those on the waitlist) will no longer be able to sign up. Existing registrations are not affected.”

The Registrations toggle sits in the top bar, next to the tournament name.

You can re-open registrations at any time; existing teams are never affected.

2. Confirm the seeds (entry points)

Entry points exist to create the entry ranking — the deciding factor in how teams are distributed into the groups. The entry ranking is determined entirely by the entry points: high entry points mean a good entry ranking (the team with the most points is ranked #1). So if you want to change a tournament’s entry ranking, you simply modify the entry points.

Where the points come from:

• Default — Volley World level. Volley World App uses each team’s level (the average of the players in the team) to compute default entry points, giving you a sensible entry ranking with zero work.
• Manual — your own or an external ranking. Every value is editable, so you can override individual teams or replace the defaults entirely with a fully custom or external ranking.
• Automatic — a custom league. If you connect a custom league to the tournament event, the league produces your own automatic entry ranking instead.

Entry points drive the ENTRY RANKING column — the seed order used when drawing groups.

To adjust the seeds:

1. On the Teams table, edit the ENTRY POINTS cell for any team whose seed you want to change.
2. A Save seeds button appears in the header — tap it. You’ll see a Seeds saved confirmation.

Equal entry points are fine

Teams can share the same entry points — duplicate rankings exist in real tournaments, and the draw stays predictable. When you generate groups, a seed check runs first:

• Some teams share entry points → a Seed Configuration dialog opens. Tied teams are highlighted and share the same entry-ranking number (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 3, 5). Drag the handle to set their relative priority — the team placed higher gets priority in group placement. You can also edit entry points inline, or hit Auto-Assign Unique Seeds to spread them out. Save & Continue stores your order and proceeds to the draw.
• No team has entry points at all (everything is 0) → you get a Duplicate Seed Values warning instead. Assign entry points first so the distribution isn’t arbitrary.

If every team already has a unique entry value, no dialog appears and the draw runs straight through.

3. Remove non-playing teams

Any team that won’t play must be out of the field before you draw groups — otherwise it gets placed. Use the per-team status control:

• Disqualified — keeps the team on record but out of play.
• Deleted — removes the team and releases its players. You’ll confirm “Are you sure you want to mark this team as Deleted?”. Deleting is final.

Delete/disqualify before you draw

If a team is already in a group or has matches, deleting is blocked — “This team is already assigned to a group/matches. Please delete all groups and matches first.” Clean up the field before generating groups to avoid having to tear the draw down.

What’s next

• Generate groups
• Back to Stage 3 overview