Opening a Superstar tournament
An administrator opens a new tournament in the Admin area or clones an old one, then hands it over to the organising team through permissions.
Updated 9/27/2026
This article is for Superstar administrators
Only senior administrators can open a Superstar tournament. If you are an organiser who has been handed an existing tournament, skip this article and go straight to the configuration section.
Two ways to open one
Go to Profile → Admin area → Tournaments. The list filters by type and by status (Draft · Published · In progress · Finished · Cancelled).
Create new — the «+» button at the right. The form collects the five minimum things a tournament needs to exist legitimately; everything else is edited afterwards in that tournament's «Settings».
Clone — for a tournament that repeats as a series of legs, open the old one and tap «Clone». The copy keeps the configuration but does not bring results, registrations or draws, and lands in the «Draft» tab.
The five fields of the create form
Tournament name
For example: «Superstar Cup 2026 – Hanoi Leg».
Start and end
The competition dates and times. For a one-day tournament enter the same date — the system merges it when displaying.
Venue
The tournament's province is taken from the venue you pick; it isn't entered separately.
Series
Decides which standings and badges this tournament feeds. Choose «No series» for a standalone tournament.
Receiving bank account
Required. Registration money goes straight to this account; the list only shows accounts in your own book.
Settle the series at creation time
The series decides which standings this tournament feeds and which badges it awards. Changing the series after results exist means the points already credited to players have to be recalculated — pick the right one from the start.
A tournament is always born in DRAFT
The form deliberately has no status field. One mis-tap straight to «Published» would mean an empty tournament with no categories appearing on every user's Discover feed.
Publishing is a separate action, done after configuration is complete, under Settings → Status.
Handing the tournament to the organising team
Once the tournament is open, the next job is assigning people. Go to Settings → Staff, invite each person and tick exactly the permission group they need.
The principle: grant the job they do, not the whole package. Someone scoring courtside only needs result-entry permission — they don't need and shouldn't have access to the phone numbers, skill ratings and conduct flags of everyone who registered.
Frequently asked questions
Does cloning bring the categories and format across?
Yes — that is exactly why you clone for a tournament that repeats as legs. What doesn't come across is data from the previous run: registrations, results, draws. Remember to fix the name, dates and venue after cloning.
Is creating a tournament in the app different from the web admin?
Not in terms of data — both go through exactly the same write path. Only the number of fields differs: the app version collects the five minimum things, and the rest is edited in the tournament's Settings.
I created the tournament but the organisers say they can't edit anything?
Check the permissions you ticked for them under Settings → Staff. Editing tournament info needs the «Edit info» permission; adding categories needs «Manage categories». Being on the staff list doesn't grant any permission by itself.
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