Opening a Challenge session for your club
A club granted the permission opens Challenge sessions itself, right in the app: dates, venue, categories, receiving account — then publishes it themselves.
Updated 9/27/2026
A Challenge session is a small tournament run by the club itself: a session with prizes, running on exactly the same Superstar draw and scoring machinery.
Not every club can open one — Superstar grants the permission to a community once, after which the club runs as many sessions as it likes without asking for approval each time.
Who can open one?
You have to be a manager of the club, and that club has to have been granted the self-hosting permission by Superstar. Missing either one and the entry point doesn't appear. If you don't have the permission yet, contact Superstar — it is granted once, not approved per session.
Six steps to open a session
Go to your club page
Open your club → «Manage» → «Open a Challenge session». The sub-line reads «Your community is allowed to self-host».
Name the session
The name players will see. For example: «Military Zone 7 Club Challenge».
Pick the date, time and duration
Enter the play date, start time and duration. The end time appears right below so you can check it.
Pick the venue
The list suggests venues near you. If nothing appears, turn on location and try again.
Declare the categories
Each category needs a name, a type (Doubles / Mixed doubles / Singles), a registration fee, and the allowed skill-rating range.
Choose where the money goes
The club's own account, or let Superstar collect on your behalf and reconcile it back to you.
Creating it does NOT mean it's open
A session is born in DRAFT so you can prepare — at this point only club managers can see it. When you're ready, tap Publish yourself; you don't wait for Superstar to review it. Plenty of people create a session and then sit waiting for registrations that never come, purely because this step wasn't done.
The skill-rating range decides who can enter
Each category has a minimum and a maximum skill rating. Leave them blank for no limit.
Think carefully about the maximum: leaving it blank means you cannot later reject a registration on the grounds that the skill rating doesn't fit — because you yourself declared the category unlimited. For a session split by level, set the ceiling from the start.
Where the registration money goes
Two options, chosen when you open the session and changeable later under Settings → Payments:
The club's account — the money goes straight in. A Challenge session can use an account from your book immediately, without waiting for Superstar to approve collection on your behalf. In exchange, if the account isn't linked to SePay you reconcile each transfer yourself in the registration management screen.
Superstar collects on your behalf — players transfer to Superstar's account, the system confirms automatically, and Superstar then reconciles and pays the club back.
«Pay later» — when to turn it on
With it on, teams are approved first and pay afterwards, and an approved registration carries an UNPAID label. That suits a session collecting cash at the venue. With it off, teams have to complete the transfer before they enter the approval queue.
Frequently asked questions
I opened it and only then noticed a missing category — can I fix it?
Yes. Go to Manage → Settings → Categories to add, edit or delete. One caveat: a category that already has registrations can no longer change its type, because changing the type changes how many players are on a team.
I can't see my club's venue in the picker?
The list suggests by your location, so location has to be on. If the venue isn't in the system yet, search by address — the system adds new venues. A Challenge session requires the venue to have coordinates.
Once published, can I pull it back to draft?
The status can be changed back under Settings → Status. But if people have already registered and paid, pulling it back to draft does not delete those registrations — you still have to handle refunds separately.
Does a Challenge session count towards the season standings?
No. It is a community session with prizes and doesn't feed season ranking points. That's also why the rules are looser: captains can change teammates even while the session is under way, unlike the official competition series.
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