Submitted by WebMaster on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 12:58
When you register or later edit your tournament, you have got four headings under which you can fill in data into a mask:
"Tournament", "Participants", "Results" and "Post Results". Under the heading "Participants" you can list players who want to partake in (or already have been to) your tournament.
As long as the tournament has not taken place, players can use the online player registration on openCards (if you as TD has activated that function - see: How does the online player registration for my tourney on openCards work?). All users who have done this will automatically appear under the heading "Participants". But there are also players who can’t or won’t register online (for example because they don’t have internet access). To compensate this you as TD may fill those player’s names and click on "Sign in" afterwards.
But why should you put in the extra effort to register players for your tourney?
a) The increasing number of players will make your tourney more desirable for players.
b) The number of seats may be limited and you will give players without internet access the possibility to have a guarantee for participation in your event, while online users will be better informed about possible effects of the limitation (see How can I limit the number of players on my tournament?)
c) When filling in results for your tournament, you will have to register those players anyway - and you can use all information from the advance registration here (see also: How do I fill in results of my tournament?)