Managing rounds and dates in Ladder formats

A ladder league's whole schedule is managed from Manage League Dates in the admin menu: add a week when the season needs extending, date each round, run more than one round on the same night, or clear a round to redo it.

Set round dates

1. Tap the admin button.

2. Select Manage League Dates.

3. Tap a round card to set or change its date and time.

4. Use X to clear a date.

Round dates also control the opt-in deadline countdown.

Add a week to the season

Do this when the league has run out of dated rounds and you need another play night. The new round is dated a week after your latest date, so it lands as its own week rather than as another round on the last night.

1. Tap the admin button.

2. Select Manage League Dates.

3. Use Add Round. If you have renamed rounds to Week, the button reads Add Week.

4. Change the date and time on the new card if the following week is not when you play.

5. Save.

The new week arrives empty. Open it and generate the matches there.

Run multiple rounds on one date

In ladder leagues, you can assign more than one round to the same date. This lets you use a single play night for back-to-back rounds.

When more than one round shares a date, the app labels them as Week 1-1, Week 1-2, and so on. The first number is the league date. The second number is the sub-round for that date.

Create the next round for a date

There are two ways to continue play on a league date that already exists.

1. If the next sub-round already exists and is empty, open that round and click Generate Week 2-1 or the matching round label.

2. If you need to create another sub-round first, open the Admin tab and click Add round for this date. This creates a new empty sub-round for the same date.

When you generate a round, you can choose the Bye Mode for handling uneven player counts. See Bye Mode for Ladder Leagues.

After you add a sub-round, go to that empty week and generate the matches there. Adding the sub-round does not generate matches by itself.

Change the round label

By default, rounds are named Round 1, Round 2, and so on. You can replace Round with a label such as Week, Session, or Night.

1. Tap the admin button.

2. Select Change Round Label.

3. Enter the new label.

4. Save.

When a date includes multiple rounds, the custom label is used in the sub-round naming too. For a dedicated walkthrough, see Configuring custom round labels.

Clear a round

Use the Clear Rounds dialog to remove all matches and scores from a round so you can regenerate it. This is useful if you need to adjust player groups or fix an error after matches have already been created.

The dialog only shows rounds that have matches or scores to clear. Empty rounds with no matches do not appear in the list.

To clear a round:

1. Tap the admin button.

2. Select Clear Rounds.

3. Choose the round to clear. Only rounds with matches appear.

4. Confirm.

Delete an empty round

If you create an extra round and have not generated or played it yet, you can remove it entirely. After you delete an empty round, the sub-round numbering updates automatically.

Move between rounds

Use the left and right arrows at the top of the matches view to move between rounds. If a date has several sub-rounds, use the scrollable round tabs to move between them. The Generate button shows the exact round label, such as Generate Week 2-1, so you know which round you are creating.

In non-league ladder events, round navigation stays the same as before because those events do not use sub-rounds.

To automate later rounds, see Auto-generation in Ladder formats. To review results while moving through rounds, see How Standings Are Calculated. For substitution workflows in ladder play, see Make substitutions across event formats.