If you have a tournament that has been run outside of WinTD and you want to import the pairings and results into WinTD (to use its report or master player maintenance capabilities), note that this is generally a tedious process unless the tournament is quite small. For a larger tournament, a better strategy is probably going to be to convert the data to a spreadsheet file and import it—see How To: Import a Completed Cross Table. Manual entry is more convenient and more common for Round Robins, so we'll address that first.

 

Round Robin Tournaments

This is quite easy if you don't care about the rounds and colors in which specific games were played. We assume that you have a standard RR cross table, with players on rows and their opponents in columns. Follow these steps:

 

1.Create the section, making sure that you choose "Round Robin" in the Pair As box.

2.Enter the player's names, ID's, ratings, etc., exactly as you would for any other tournament.

3.Once the players are all in, select the section in the Sections Window and use Section>Manual Pairing Numbers to put the players in the order listed on the table that you want to transcribe.

4.Do Section>Pair a Round and click on the Pair All Rounds? box so the entire schedule will be filled.

5.Do Section>List All Games, RR Table Order. This will show you a list of all the games in the order you would see by reading across the cross table above the diagonal, with the lower player number always listed on the left side. For instance, in a quad (four player RR), you'll see the games Player 1 vs Player 2, 1 vs 3, 1 vs 4, 2 vs 3, 2 vs 4 and 3 vs 4 in that order. You can then do quick keys entering the results from above the diagonal.

 

Example

 

   1 2 3 4

1  x W W D

2  L x L W

3  L W x W

4  D L L x

You'll enter W W D (first line, above the diagonal) L W (second line, above the diagonal) W (third line, above the diagonal)

 

If you want to reproduce the full details, you'll be in for quite a bit of work unless the tournament was run with exactly the same round robin schedule as is used by WinTD, and you know the pairing numbers used in forming the schedule. If these are both true (if not, you're better off working with it as a small Swiss), in step 3 above, enter the pairing numbers actually used, then create the schedule as in step 4. If you have the cross table in that pairing number order, just do the step 5 as listed above. If not, and you have round by round results, the simplest process is probably to input the results from those. Just do Section>List Games-Specific Round for each round in turn and enter the results.

 

Swiss System Tournaments

As mentioned above, this can be quite tedious unless the tournament is small. You're generally better off with board by board results from the rounds than with only a Swiss system cross table.

 

1.Create the section, making sure that you choose the "Standard Swiss" in the Pair As box.

2.Enter the player's names, ID's, ratings, etc., exactly as you would for any other tournament.

3.If you have ten players or fewer, the quickest method to get the pairings in is probably to use Section>Enter Manual Pairing as many times as required. With a larger section, it's likely to be simpler to have WinTD pair the section, then correct the pairings as needed. In pairing the first round, make sure to assign the correct color to the top board. That will make it easier to keep the colors straight the rest of the way. Round one pairings usually should match almost exactly. The most difficult rounds to match up are usually two and three. As the score groups get smaller in later rounds, the pairings tend to be closer to being forced.

4.If you had WinTD pair the section, do Section>List Games. Drag and drop players to match the known pairings. This is usually not too difficult if you have the board by boards, provided there were no scoring errors which affected the pairings. If you put the pairings in manually, do Section>List Games, Specific Round. WinTD will ask if you had, indeed, paired the round manually. By answering yes to that, WinTD updates its information about how many rounds have been paired.

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