Good Game Sports
Round Robin to Bracket

Create a Round Robin to Bracket event

Create the event with the bracket variant you want, then run pool play and generate the playoff when pools are done. Teams register as fixed pairs.

Pick the variant at creation — you choose the bracket type here, not later.

Choose your format

  • Round Robin to Single Elimination — one loss and a team is out

  • Round Robin to Double Elimination — teams must lose twice

  • Round Robin to Compass — four cascading brackets, everyone keeps playing

All three run the same pool stage. See How Round Robin to Bracket works for the comparison.

If you do not want a playoff at all, use Round Robin (Set Partner) instead — that format ends when pool play ends.

Create from CourtReserve

Use this when the event already exists in CourtReserve and registrations should stay linked.

Before you start: club owner access in Good Game Sports, CourtReserve admin access, and a CourtReserve plan with API access (Scale or Enterprise). If the integration is not set up, complete Enable API access in CourtReserve and Connect CourtReserve first.

  1. Open your club page, then click Manage Club.

  2. Select CourtReserve Events.

  3. Find your event under Unpublished. Events sync from 2 days in the past to 100 days in the future.

  4. Click + Create Event on GGS.

  5. In the Create GGS Event dialog, set:

    • Event Type: Tournament or Single Day Event

    • Type: Doubles for partner pairs, or Singles

    • Format: your chosen Round Robin to… variant

  6. Click Create Event.

An event created directly in Good Game Sports cannot be linked to CourtReserve later. If you want registration sync, start from CourtReserve.

Create directly in Good Game Sports

  1. From the dashboard, click + Create Event.

  2. Enter the Event Name, then set Event Type to Tournament or Single Day Event.

  3. Set Format to your chosen Round Robin to… variant.

  4. Fill in Location Details and Date and Time.

  5. Choose your Registration Type and pricing, then continue.

  6. On the divisions step, set Division Type to Doubles or Singles and confirm the format.

  7. Complete the description sections, then create the event.

Add teams

Teams are fixed pairs, so the roster needs to record who is with whom.

  • Spreadsheet import with both partners per row is fastest for a doubles event.

  • Add players individually and use the pencil icon to set each player's partner.

  • CourtReserve sync pulls registrations — go to the Players tab and click Sync CR. See Sync players into an event.

Any doubles player still unpaired when you generate pool matches is paired automatically, and a leftover odd player becomes a single-player team. Set partners deliberately first if the pairings matter.

Run pool play

The pool stage is a standard set-partner round robin. Generate it from Admin → Generate Matches, choosing single, double, or custom rounds and how many pools you want.

For the full pool-stage detail — pools, cross-group play, court restriction, byes, and regeneration — use the Round Robin (Set Partners) articles, which describe the identical dialogs:

What to do next

Once pool matches are scored, generate the playoff — see Generate the playoff bracket.

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