Scoreboard and handicap tournaments

Following the feedback of the new scoreboards, we learned that some organizations use the handicap system in specific ways that we didn't support with the new scoreboard.

To activate handicaps for your tournament or league, you activate the setting under your tournament settings page and select a handicap list (note that you should do this before you open for entry, to make sure players are added to the list when signing up). Depending on how the handicaps have been defined in the Handicap lists, the system will take these values and link them into the tournament or league.

After the draw has been made, all information regarding the handicap is loaded from this list and can be seen next to the participant. The same now happens when you start one of these matches and it is loaded on the scoreboard:

As you see above, the value from the handicap list for player B has automatically been loaded (positive and negative values are accepted) and showing on the startscreen as prefilled Start score.
For player A another type of handicap is shown, and since we do not know what it means the corresponding value has to be entered by the player or whoever is operating the scoreboard.

This will allow all the organizers to access and manage handicap scores outside of the scoreboard itself. Of course, there also organizations that use a different tiersystem for handicaps, that uses text or big values (like the Fargo rating of a player). In this case both Start scores will be empty and has to filled in. A value has to be filled in before the match can be started.

To minimize possible mistakes, there is a check that the Start score < race to length and that the start score is within +/-100. 

See more about setting up and using handicaps in our manual here.