Getting started with TopDeck.gg

TopDeck.gg splits your work into three levels.

• The organizer workspace at /tournaments holds every event you own, plus your store page, community, payments, and campaign links.
• Each event workspace has that event's roster, check-in desk, rounds, standings, judge tools, public page, analytics, and staff.
• Circuits and conventions are their own workspaces for a season or a weekend made of many events.

The sidebar moves you within the current workspace. The TopDeck.gg wordmark at the top left takes you back to the organizer dashboard.

Create your first event

1. Sign in and open Host in the main TopDeck.gg navigation.
2. On Dashboard, select Create.
3. Stay on the Tournament tab.
4. Enter an Event name longer than three characters.
5. Pick the Start date and time. The timezone beside the field is your device's.
6. Choose a Game, then its Format.
7. Leave Allow self-reporting on if players should report their own results.
8. Turn on Set up the event page next to go straight to the public page and open registration.
9. Select Create tournament.

Prepare the event

Open the event and work through these in order:

1. Configuration for round length, best-of, point values, tiebreakers, decklist deadline, and the player-facing feature toggles.
2. Event Page for location, contact email, description, header image, capacity, registration cutoff, price, and payment methods. Publish when it is ready.
3. Staff. Invite anyone who needs access, at the smallest role that fits their job.
4. Roster. Add players by search, pasted emails, or by name for walk-ups.
5. Check-in. Open self check-in, or check players in at the desk.

An event works fine with no public page at all; share the sign-up link instead. Publish the page only once its date, contact details, and registration settings are right.

Run the first round

1. Open Rounds.
2. Read the Before you pair this round panel. Fix it to resolve a warning, or Pair anyway.
3. Select New round and choose Swiss (recommended).
4. Publish the pairings, then Start the clock.
5. Enter results from the table cards, or let players self-report.
6. Use the Needs result filter to chase the last tables.
7. End round once every table has a result.

Standings shows ranks and tiebreakers at any point. Judge Center holds judge calls, penalties, and deck checks. Full detail is in Running an event.

Find anything quickly

• ⌘K on macOS, Ctrl+K on Windows opens workspace search. It knows section names and the words you'd actually use: "pairings", "decklists", "payments", "audit log".
• / on any list page focuses that page's search box.
• On the round page, just type a table number and press Enter. It jumps straight to that table's result entry, with no mode to turn on and nothing to click first. See Running an event for the rest of the keyboard flow.

What to read next

• Organizer workspace
• Creating tournaments and leagues
• Event configuration
• Creating and publishing event pages
• Running an event