We now have a built in feature for Smashboards that allows you to submit your tournament results directly to the site, and then easily include them in your thread.
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This is a guide for using this new system to submit your results, and then include them in your results thread.
Submitting Results
Begin by clicking Rankings in the top navigation bar and then selecting Submit Brackets in the secondary navigation. Alternately, you can click Submit Results from the Tournament Results forum.
From here, you can choose to import from Challonge, Tio/TioPro (Both work) or manually writing out your results.
If you ran a large event of at least 50 players that had pools, submit the pools under the Pools category. This will award points to those players for participating. Then submit the main bracket to the appropriate category for the whole event.
Events with less than 50 players that had pools should not have their pools submitted.
Importing from Challonge
This can only be done by a user with user/score management privileges for the event. Simply link the Challonge bracket URL, and grab your Challonge API Key from your settings on Challonge.
To get your Challonge API Key, go to your settings on Challonge and select Password and API Key. Click Generate a new API key if you have never done so before. The bracket image will automatically be grabbed for events done via Challonge.
Importing from Tio or TioPro
You can use a bracket file from both Tio or TioPro. Simply click the icon and then select your bracket file.
On the next page, you will be able to choose which event from your Tio file you wish to import, as Tio files can contain multiple events.
If you have multiple events from one file to submit, you will have to do each one individually.
Manual Submission
Choose to manually import brackets on the submit page. Fill out the information for your event and then click Import Bracket.
On the next page you'll be able to start adding results for the event.
Once you are done importing or writing out your bracket, you have a few final details to take care of. Before doing any of that, please be sure to click the Lock Bracket Results button.
If you have a YouTube playlist for the event, you can add the URL as a 'Media' link type on the submission page, which will then be embedded on the results page below the bracket image(s). You can link the event and results threads with the 'Thread' link type and finally, you can link any relevant websites such as Facebook, Twitter or general sites for the event via the 'Website' link type.
After your bracket is in the system, players can claim their placing in the results to link it to their Smashboards accounts, and receive their reward points. If you know a players account on Smashboards, you as a TO have the ability to connect their account to a placing.
Posting Results Thread
On the results page for your rankings submission, the sidebar will contain bbcode for embedding your results in a thread. You can post a traditional results thread and easily include the results using the bbcode.
Examples of all possibilities:
Full results embed
Only Top 8
Full results without bracket image
Only top 3 without bracket image
Read the full announcement
This is a guide for using this new system to submit your results, and then include them in your results thread.
Submitting Results
Begin by clicking Rankings in the top navigation bar and then selecting Submit Brackets in the secondary navigation. Alternately, you can click Submit Results from the Tournament Results forum.
From here, you can choose to import from Challonge, Tio/TioPro (Both work) or manually writing out your results.
If you ran a large event of at least 50 players that had pools, submit the pools under the Pools category. This will award points to those players for participating. Then submit the main bracket to the appropriate category for the whole event.
Events with less than 50 players that had pools should not have their pools submitted.
Importing from Challonge
This can only be done by a user with user/score management privileges for the event. Simply link the Challonge bracket URL, and grab your Challonge API Key from your settings on Challonge.
To get your Challonge API Key, go to your settings on Challonge and select Password and API Key. Click Generate a new API key if you have never done so before. The bracket image will automatically be grabbed for events done via Challonge.
Importing from Tio or TioPro
You can use a bracket file from both Tio or TioPro. Simply click the icon and then select your bracket file.
On the next page, you will be able to choose which event from your Tio file you wish to import, as Tio files can contain multiple events.
If you have multiple events from one file to submit, you will have to do each one individually.
Manual Submission
Choose to manually import brackets on the submit page. Fill out the information for your event and then click Import Bracket.
On the next page you'll be able to start adding results for the event.
Once you are done importing or writing out your bracket, you have a few final details to take care of. Before doing any of that, please be sure to click the Lock Bracket Results button.
Lock Bracket Results
is your sign to the Rankings Moderators that your event is ready for approval. Make sure to do so after all results are listed.
Note: Locking Results does not prevent claiming. It simply means the results and placements are final.
is your sign to the Rankings Moderators that your event is ready for approval. Make sure to do so after all results are listed.
Note: Locking Results does not prevent claiming. It simply means the results and placements are final.
If you have a YouTube playlist for the event, you can add the URL as a 'Media' link type on the submission page, which will then be embedded on the results page below the bracket image(s). You can link the event and results threads with the 'Thread' link type and finally, you can link any relevant websites such as Facebook, Twitter or general sites for the event via the 'Website' link type.
After your bracket is in the system, players can claim their placing in the results to link it to their Smashboards accounts, and receive their reward points. If you know a players account on Smashboards, you as a TO have the ability to connect their account to a placing.
Posting Results Thread
On the results page for your rankings submission, the sidebar will contain bbcode for embedding your results in a thread. You can post a traditional results thread and easily include the results using the bbcode.
Examples of all possibilities:
Full results embed
Code:
[event=full]3[/event]
Rank
Player
Characters
Points
Earnings
User
9th
POOPFACE
7
13th
Wide
4
Only Top 8
Code:
[event=8]3[/event]
Rank
Player
Characters
Points
Earnings
User
9th
POOPFACE
7
Full results without bracket image
Code:
[event=nobracket]3[/event]
Rank
Player
Characters
Points
Earnings
User
9th
POOPFACE
7
Only top 3 without bracket image
Code:
[event=nobracket,3]3[/event]
Rank
Player
Characters
Points
Earnings
User
9th
POOPFACE
7
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