Who's who in a tournament: staff, officials, coaches, players
The roles in a TorMatch tournament: staff run it in Manage, officials, coaches and players work in Your space, and anyone can follow it.
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Every tournament on TorMatch has its own people, and each of them has a role there. These tournament roles decide what you see and what you can do. You use one account for everything, and your role can be different in each tournament: you might run one tournament and coach a team in another.
| Role | Who it is | Where they work |
|---|---|---|
| Staff | The organiser who created the tournament, and the people they add to help run it | Manage |
| Officials | Referees and other match officials | Your space |
| Coaches | The people who look after a team: its players, lineups and details | Your space |
| Players | The members of a team | Your space |
| Everyone else | Fans, families and anyone following along | The public tournament page |
Manage is where staff set up and run the tournament. Your space is your personal page in a tournament as a coach, player or official: what to do next, your matches and, depending on your role, your team or your assignments. The public tournament page shows the teams, matches, results and standings to everyone once the organiser publishes the tournament. What is TorMatch? introduces the three places.
Whoever creates a tournament is its owner. The owner and the administrators can add other people as staff, each with a role that decides which parts of Manage they can use:
- Tournament Owner: Full access to all features and settings.
- Administrator: Full access, including configuration and features.
- Moderator: Full day-to-day management; no configuration, staff, billing or settings.
- Competition Manager: Manage participants, format, scheduling and results.
- Admissions Manager: Manage tournament registrations.
- Content Manager: Manage gallery, posts, showcase, sponsors, widgets and public site.
- Result Entry Manager: Enter and edit match results only.
A new staff member accepts the invitation with their own account and can then open Manage for that tournament. Staff roles explained goes through each role, and Invite a staff member shows how to add someone.
On the website, staff see a Management Mode bar at the top of the tournament's page, with links into Manage. In the app, the tournament's overview shows a card with your role and Open management.
Coaches, players and officials each get their own Your space in the tournament. It shows what matters for their role and leaves out the organiser's tools.
- Officials are added by the organiser, each with a role such as Referee or Medic. An official who accepts the invitation sees their assignments in Your space and, if their role allows it, enters results. Officials without an account can still get their schedule through a link the organiser shares. Respond to an official invite.
- Coaches look after a team. The organiser invites you to manage your team, and you accept the invitation with your account. In Your space you manage your squad and, if the tournament uses them, your lineups; the organiser decides what else coaches may change. See accept a coach invite, and register your team to sign a team up.
- Players belong to a team. You join through an invitation or a team signup link from your coach or the organiser, and Your space then shows your matches, your team and the tournament's news. Join a team as a player.
On the website, open Your space in the tournament's menu. In the app, tap Open your space on the card on the tournament's overview.
You don't need a role to follow a tournament. Once the organiser publishes it, its public page shows the teams, matches, results and standings to anyone, signed in or not. With an account you can also follow the tournament to get its updates. See a tournament's public site and follow a tournament.
Staff, coaches, players and officials can use the public page too: having a role adds Manage or Your space, it doesn't take the public page away.
One person can have several roles, in different tournaments or in the same one. A coach can also referee, a player can help as staff, and a coach can look after two teams.
- Staff and a team or official role: you have both Manage and Your space in that tournament, and open each of them on its own.
- Several roles in Your space: Your space shows one role at a time. On the website, choose another role or team under Role at the top of Your space; in the app, tap Switch. TorMatch remembers your last choice for each tournament.
- On the tournament's overview in the app, the card then says You have multiple roles; tap it to choose where to go.
Switch between your roles shows each step.
Why don't I see Manage for my tournament?
Manage is only for staff. Ask the tournament's owner or an administrator to add you as staff, then accept the invitation with the account you sign in with. Working in a staff role explains what each role sees.
Why don't I see Your space?
Your space belongs to the account that has the role. Check that you're signed in with the account that accepted the invitation or joined the team. If the organiser has removed you from the tournament, you no longer have a Your space there.
Can I be a coach and a player in the same team?
Yes. Your space then has both roles, and you switch between them as described in Switch between your roles.
- What is TorMatch?: the platform and the three places in every tournament.
- Website or app: what to do where: which tasks belong on which.
- Staff roles explained: what each staff role can do in Manage.
- Your official space and assignments, your coach space and your player space.