User guide

Run your tournament with confidence

Learn how to confidently set up, plan, run, and publish badminton tournaments with the Tabminton desktop app.

Getting started

Understand the interface and core concepts

Learn Tabminton navigation, sidebar counters, tournament data levels, competition objects, and status labels.

Set up app defaults and directories

Configure Tabminton defaults and prepare reusable venues, players, doubles pairs, and CSV imports.

Create and configure a tournament

Create a tournament and configure its dates, venue, courts, events, scoring, rest rules, and contacts.

Participants

Manage players and registrations

Manage entries, doubles pairs, and seeding

Create singles and doubles entries, manage partner requests and swaps, and declare tournament seeds.

Planning

Plan the tournament format

Compare tournament structures, estimate matches and court time, and choose a primary format plan.

Plan a draft schedule

Place virtual matches into draft slots to test tournament capacity and timing before generating draws.

Build draws, groups, and playoff brackets

Create groups and playoff draws, assign entries, generate matches, and configure source positions.

Lock standings and progress qualifiers to playoff

Review and lock group standings, resolve ties, and move qualifiers safely into playoff positions.

Schedule actual matches in Planner

Build the working court schedule, place generated matches, and resolve timing and player conflicts.

Tournament day

Run the tournament on Match day

Operate courts and queues, start matches, track readiness, and handle player availability during play.

Record match results and monitor tournament progress

Enter, validate, and correct match results while monitoring group tables and playoff progression.

Outcomes

Record final places and tournament points

Compile final places, fill tournament points, handle ties, and review event outcomes.

Prepare and print tournament reports

Generate and print schedules, draws, standings, player lists, results, and other tournament reports.

Publishing

Publish a tournament snapshot to its public page and verify what players and spectators can see.