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This is the online documentation and knowledge base for Tabroom.com. It contains helpful guides for learning how to use Tabroom, whether as a tournament director, coach, or participant. It also contains a page explaining how to use each corresponding page of the main Tabroom website.

FAQ/Quick Starts

If you have a troubleshooting issue, the first place you should look is the:

Frequently Asked Questions

For first-time Tabroom users, check out these sections of the manual:

How To Register For A Tournament

Tournament Quick Start

Manual

The manual is divided into sections which correspond to the main things you do on Tabroom.

Your Tabroom Account

How To Sign Up - Walks you through creating a Tabroom account.

Your Account - Managing your Tabroom account, changing your password, and linking/unlinking your account to a student or judge.

Your Results - Viewing personal results or judging history.

Judging - Using Online Ballots as a judge, editing your paradigm, entering conflicts/preclusions, and how to offer yourself for hired judging.

Administer a School/Circuit

School Administration - Everything you need to know about managing your school in Tabroom - student/judge rosters, joining circuits, registering for tournaments, and accessing your school results.

Registration - How to register for a tournament on Tabroom.

Prefs - Filling out a pref sheet for mutually preferred judging.

Circuit Administration - If you're a circuit administrator, this will explain how to approve tournaments, communicate with member schools, and fix tournament results.

Setting Up A Tournament

Tournament Quick Start - General overview on how to run a tournament on tabroom, including links to more in-depth information at each step.

Request A Tournament - How to create a tournament on Tabroom.

General Settings - General tournament options, dates, controlling access and providing housing.

Rules & Results - Configuring tiebreakers and sweepstakes rules.

Judge Groups - Settings up judge groups, including judge registration settings, MPJ placement formulas, and judge pools.

Events - Creating and configuring the different events offered at your tournament.

Schedule - Set up the schedule of rounds.

Sites & Rooms - Set up available rooms at your tournament site(s), including room pools for different events.

Money - Registration fees, fines, and tournament concessions (like parking passes).

Website - Configure your tournament's public website, such as posting an Invitation or other tournament info.

Running A Tournament

Managing Entries - Working with entries for competitors and judges

Pairing Rounds - How to pair rounds, including powermatching, breaking to elims, and auto/manual round creation.

Judge Assignments - Assigning judges to rounds, pref diagnostics, and working with judge pools.

Tabulation & Ballot Entry - Entering ballots and tabulating results.

Publishing Results - Viewing and publishing final results, speaker awards, cume sheets, etc.

Public Info

Calendars - Viewing tournament information on the main Tabroom calendar, circuit calendars, or your upcoming tournament list.

Tournament Info - Finding public information about tournaments, invitations, entries, and judges.

Public Results - Where to find results from completed or ongoing tournaments.

Live Updates - Configuring your account to receive "Live Updates" about pairings and results via email/text, for a student, judge, or school.

Paradigms - Viewing, uploading, and editing judge paradigms.