Getting started with team events

A team event pits clubs, squads or friend groups against each other. Each meeting between two teams is a matchup, decided across several lines (individual matches such as three doubles lines and a Dreambreaker). In the app, create it with the Team Event / MLP format, found under Team Formats; MLP-style events use this same format.

Start here

• How Team Events work: teams, matchups, lines, and how a winner is decided

• MLP vs. Custom Team Event: how to set up an MLP-style event with Team Event / MLP

Set up your event

1. Assign and change team captains: captains, team passwords, and claiming roster spots

2. Free agent settings: how unattached players get placed onto teams

3. Captain permissions in team events: what captains can do on their own

4. Configure team lineups: the lines each matchup is played over

5. Configure team scoring: how lines add up to a matchup win, and how ties break

Run the event

• Generate team matches: build the round robin schedule

• Manage rounds and courts for team events: round dates, labels and courts

• Add line names for a round: label lines for specific rounds with Edit Line Names

• Edit team lineups by round: who plays which line

• Hide or show lineups for team events: when lineups become visible

• Score team matches: enter results line by line

• Edit team matchups: fix a matchup after the schedule exists

• Manage MLP matches from the host view: run every division from LIVE, QUEUE and COMPLETED tabs

Rename a team

Hosts can rename a team from the Players tab.

1. Open the event's Host Dashboard and go to the Players tab.

2. On the team's row, tap the pencil icon (Edit team).

3. Change Team Name and tap Update Team.

The same form also sets the Team Password (up to 10 characters).

Finish with a bracket

Many team events end with a knockout stage on the KNOCKOUT tab after the round robin. See Generate a team knockout bracket.

When something goes wrong

See Troubleshooting team events for the common problems and fixes.