Overview

Multiple day competition

Tomato is now able to support multi-day tournaments in one document. Previous version has also been used a lot for organizing multi-day tournaments, but competition had to be split in several files after entering of competitors.

You can now have the overview of a complete tournament in front of you. You can view modern lot tree charts or print any of Tomato's well known reports for a specific competition day, or for a complete multi-day tournament. Selecting the data you want to have displayed is done by just one click on the number of the desired day. Day numbers are displayed on the left side of the title area just below the toolbar. Here is a picture that shows it:

By selecting number one, only categories from day one will be displayed. Also, if you print competitor list, only competitors that have matches on the first day will be on the list. Even placement report will take in consideration just the first day of the competition.

If, on the other hand, you wish to print a report that will include all competitors and all the matches, regardless on the day of competition, you can simply select 'X' which is always next to number one, and that's it. You will have all the data from all competition days, just as everything would be if all matches were really in a single day.

If you have started organizing multi-day competition in a previous version of Tomato, you can load the file in Tomato 3, create additional competition days and assign the desired categories and matches to one of them. That way you can avoid splitting the file in just a few minutes, and continue enjoying the advantages of the new Tomato 3 by quickly accessing the data of the desired part of the tournament.

Printing a complete tournament report sorted by competition areas

A simple way to disjoin competitors from the same country at an international competition

Tomato has always had the option to disjoin competitors from the same club. The criteria have been matching of all letters in the club name. At international competitions different clubs from the same country were that way regarded as simply different clubs. Two competitors from the same country (but from different clubs) could have easily been placed to have match in the first round.

In Tomato 3, you can now simply add a three letter prefix to the club name and make that the criteria for disjoining competitors. In practice it has been usually suitable to add a three letter country code inside of parenthesis, just like in the next picture:

So, if you are organizing an international competition and want to disjoin competitors from the same country, start all the club names with any of the open parenthesis sign "(", "[" or "{" and make the next three following letters be the country identification. That way Tomato will avoid making competitors from the same country meet at the first round.

CSV Import - (Comma Separated Value file format import)

Manual entry of competitors was the most time consuming job in organizing the competition so far. This option enables import of clubs and competitors from an external source, making the time necessary for tournament organization to drop to the smallest possible values.

The perfect solution is online competitor registration where clubs and competitors themselves are responsible for their enlistment. The only thing left for the tournament organization is to come at the end of competitor registration period and export competitor list to Tomato, which is the matter of minutes.

Besides competitor name and club, Tomato also imports competitor age and weight category, so tournament organization goes straight ahead to assigning categories to available competition areas. Since that job can be done in a few minutes, and the only thing left after that to do is the lot itself, done in a part of a second, the complete tournament organization can now be done in 10 to 15 minutes without a hurry.