On MeinTurnierplan.de you can link tournaments. Thus, you can create as many tournaments as you like. In doing so, one tournament can have up to eight predecessors. The number of successors is unlimited.
Prepare connected tournaments
In order that a tournament can be a predecessor tournament it needs to be played in any Only Group-phase mode. A tournament with a final round can not be a predecessor tournament. The remaining settings can be chosen as usual.
Set up connected tournaments
For the next tournament that you’re going to create, in step one of Prepare Tournament, go to Take Over Participants and click the button Add +1. A new line will appear in the form.
You can make the just created tournament a predecessor by checking the box on the left. In the box right next to this one you can enter a name for this tournament. This name will appear in the tournament schedule to refer to the predecessor.
If you want to delete a single predecessor tournament just click on the button with the little cross right next to it. In order to delete all predecessors, click Delete all.
By enabling the checkbox Activate settings for participant take over from predecessor tournaments by rank across all groups, you will gain access to advanced settings to select participants based on their rank across all groups.
After clicking on Save and Continue, you can specify for each participant from which predecessor tournament they should be taken over and from which position. Three options are available:
- By rank in group (e.g., 2nd in Group B)
- By rank within ranks (e.g., Best Third, Second Fifth, etc.)
- By rank across all groups excluding the top x (e.g., a ranking of all 3rd to 6th places is created, and the fourth-best is selected)
The last option is only available if the corresponding checkbox is enabled. In this case, settings will also be displayed on this page for how many of the best ranks per group should be skipped.
Run connected tournaments
To run a connected tournament you first have to play off all predecessor tournaments. Subsequently, you’ll have the opportunity to carry over the participants of the predecessor tournaments with their ranking. To do this, just click “Import Teams” from group stage to final stage.
The participants will now appear in the match schedule. If you carried them over too early, you can undo this by clicking Revert taking over participants. The participants will now be erased from the match schedule.