The tourney is clearly the primary element of the whole system, everything has been designed to allow an easy and fast management of these events.
Each tourney has a date and a description of the event and there cannot be two dictinct tourneys in the same date associated to a single championship.
The location is optional.
The duration and prealarm refer to the length of a single round, and are expressed in minutes. They will be used by the The alarm clock window. window.
A tourney may use a particular rating: in such a case, the first round is generated accordingly with the rate of each player instead of using a random order.
The pairing method determines how the pairing are done at each new round:
The phantom score is the score assigned to a player in the matches against the phantom player, when there are an odd number of competitors. By convention these matches assign a score of 25 to the player but there may be cases where a different score is more appropriate, for example when the number of competitors is very low and winning 25—0 would be an unfair advantage.
The responsible is usually the user that inserted that particular tournament: the information related to the tournament are changeable only by him (and also by the administrator of the system).