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This is the online glossary for Tabroom.com. It describes the function of each feature of Tabroom for tournament directors, coaches, and participants.

It was written by Aaron Hardy, with substantial assistance from Chris Palmer, Jon Bruschke, and Jim Menick, with the support of the National Speech & Debate Association.

You can also download a PDF of the whole glossary or use the links at the top of each page to print or download a PDF of a single section.

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:

Creating Your School (PDF Doc)

Creating And Linking Your School Video Webinar

How To Register For A Tournament

Tournament Quick Start

Tournament Checklist

Glossary

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

Your Tabroom Account

Students - How to navigate the Tabroom homepage features as a student.

Coaches - How to navigate the Tabroom homepage features as a coach.

Judges - How to navigate the Tabroom homepage features as a judge.

Administer a School/Circuit

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

Registration - How to register for a tournament on Tabroom.

Competitor Signups - New feature allowing competitors to self register for tournaments, with coach confirmation and optional parental notifications.

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.

Viewing Results & Online Ballots - How to see tournament results as a coach and access online ballots as a judge.

Register for Nationals (Coach) - How to register for the NSDA National Tournament in Tabroom.

District Chair Nationals Guide - How to post your district results to Nationals so coaches can register, register WSD teams, and add Congress legislation.

How to Set Up And Run A Tournament

The headers on the left side of this page reference the main tabs a tournament administrator sees when they go into the administrative side of the Tabroom tournament they are running: Settings, Entries, Paneling, Schemats, Tabbing, Results. The subheaders refer to the buttons that appear when you hover over each of these tabs.

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.

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 === Your Tabroom Account ===
-[[Students]] - Walks you through creating a Tabroom account.
+[[Students]] - How to navigate the Tabroom homepage features as a student.
-[[Your Account]] - Managing your Tabroom account, changing your password, and linking/unlinking your account to a student or judge.
+[[Coaches]] - How to navigate the Tabroom homepage features as a coach.
-[[Your Results]] - Viewing personal results or judging history.
+[[Judges]] - How to navigate the Tabroom homepage features as a judge.
-[[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 ===
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 [[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 ===
+[[Viewing Results & Online Ballots]] - How to see tournament results as a coach and access online ballots as a judge.
-[[Tournament Quick Start]] - General overview on how to run a tournament on tabroom, including links to more in-depth information at each step.
-[[Tournament Checklist]] - Chronological checklist of things you need to do to run a tournament on Tabroom.
-[[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]] - Setting 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.
-[[NSDA Campus]] - How to set up your tournament using NSDA Campus
-=== Running A Tournament ===
-[[Managing Entries]] - Working with entries for competitors and judges.
-[[Pairing Rounds]] - How to pair rounds, including powermatching, breaking to elims, auto/manual round creation, and judge assignments.
+[[Register for Nationals (Coach)]] - How to register for the NSDA National Tournament in Tabroom.
-[[Tabbing|Tabulation & Ballot Entry]] - Entering ballots and tabulating results.
+[[District Chair Nationals Guide]] - How to post your district results to Nationals so coaches can register, register WSD teams, and add Congress legislation.
-[[Publishing Results]] - Viewing and publishing final results, speaker awards, cume sheets, etc.
+=== How to Set Up And Run A Tournament ===
-[[Running Asynchronous (Recorded) Events]] - Setting up and running an online tournament where judges adjudicate student recordings instead of live performances.
+The headers on the left side of this page reference the main tabs a tournament administrator sees when they go into the administrative side of the Tabroom tournament they are running: Settings, Entries, Paneling, Schemats, Tabbing, Results. The subheaders refer to the buttons that appear when you hover over each of these tabs.
 === Public Info ===