A championship is a set of one or more tourneys, organized by the same club with the same format: all tourneys of a particular championship are obligatorily all singles or all doubles and use the same prize-giving method.
Each championship has a description that must be unique within the same club.
Players per team determines the maximum number of players participating as a single competitor: 1 for singles, 2 for doubles, up to 4 for teams.
With skip worst results you specify how many worst result will be ignored in the final sum for each player at the end of the season. This is in order not to penalize who have not been able to participate in all the events.
The pairing method is used as the default value when creating new tourneys within the championship and determines how SoL will pair the participants at each round (see pairing generation method of the tourney for details).
The prize-giving method field determine the method used to assign final prizes. These prizes have two primary scopes:
One particular case is the value No final prizes, which basically means that the prize-giving will simply assigns a monotonically decreasing sequence of integer numbers, starting from the number of competitors down to 1 as the final prize, just to allow swapping competitors ranking positions after tournament’s final rounds. These prizes won’t appear in the final ranking printout of the tourney. Moreover, the championship’s ranking does not sum up competitor’s final prizes, but rather his points.
The other four values have the following meanings:
The field closed indicates whether the championship is complete: no other tourney can be associated with these championships. The championship lookup combos (for example, when inserting new tourneys) show only those still active.
Previous championship allows browsing the various seasons of tournaments. It allows the selection of one closed championship.
The responsible is usually the user that inserted that particular championship: the information related to the championship are changeable only by him (and also by the administrator of the system).