Tournament Categories and Types

Overview

Dr. Neau's Tournament Manager supports many different types of tournaments. This page will help you select the appropriate tournament for your needs.

Tournament Categories

Tournaments managed by Dr. Neau's Tournament Manager can be broken into two main categories: Standard and Simple. The main different between the two is that "Standard" manages players and "Simple" just manages player counts. More detail follows:

Examples of differences between standard and simple to further distinguish them.

Event In a standard tournament In a simple tournament
A player hands you money to buy-into the tournament You select the player on the roster and hit the "buy-in" button You increment the tournament buy-in count by one
A player is eliminated You select the player on the roster and hit the "eliminate" button. The player is automatically placed in the standings. You decrement the tournament remaining player count by one. If you wish to denote where the player finished, you go to the standings and type their name into the appropriate spot.

See the Tournament help page for even more detail, including the components of each type of tournament.

Tournament Types

Now that you hopefully understand the difference between "standard" and "simple", this will make a bit more sense.

Dr. Neau's Tournament Manager is architected to handle different types of tournaments. The tournament types currently supported are: