Welcome to the Tabroom.com Help Center
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:
For first-time Tabroom users, check out these sections of the manual:
How To Register For A Tournament
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, filling out prefs, 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.