Glossary - Tournament System

Each term has one meaning, and every page uses it that way.

The Tournament System

Term	Meaning
Tournament System	The whole product: the staff console, the Player Hub and the broadcast scenes. Made and run by MelCat Interactive.
staff console	Everything staff sign in to, with the sidebar on the left. See The staff console.
Dashboard	The first page in the staff console: the season at a glance.
Player Hub	The players’ part of the site: the schedule, the teams, the rules and their own team. See The Player Hub.
organiser	Someone who runs a tournament.
player	Anyone with a Player Hub account.
your time zone	How every time in the Tournament System is shown: each person sees their own time zone.

Access

Term	Meaning
role	A named set of things a person may do in the staff console. Each organiser sets up their own.
access	What a person may do, from all their roles together. See How access works.
ban, unban	Stopping a player’s signed-in access, until a date or permanently, and restoring it. A ban overrides every role. See Keep staff notes and ban players.
staff notes	Private notes staff keep on a player. Players never see them.

Teams

Term	Meaning
sign-ups	Players creating new teams. Staff open and close sign-ups on Settings. See Open and close sign-ups.
sign-up deadline	When sign-ups close automatically.
team size limit	The most players a team can have, from 4 to 30. Set on Settings.
captain	The player who runs a team, starting with the player who created it. Passing it on is transferring captaincy. See Captain your team.
invite code	The code the captain shares so players can join a team. The join form labels it Access Code.
Building	A team’s status while its captain puts it together.
Pending	A team’s status after the captain submits it for review. Players see it as Pending Review.
Terms of Participation	The terms a player agrees to before joining or creating a team. A player agrees again after leaving or being removed from a team, after a ban, and when the terms change.
Verified	A team’s status once staff accept it. Only verified teams can be put in a match or appear on the Player Hub’s Teams page. See Review and verify teams.

The schedule

Term	Meaning
season	Everything between opening sign-ups and the last match: the teams, the schedule, the rules and the results. See How a season runs.
match	Two teams playing a Best of N series.
Best of	The number of sets in a match, from 1 to 7, as in Best of 3.
set	One part of a match. A Best of 3 match has up to three sets.
game	One part of a set. Teams swap sides between games.
round	The stage label on a match, such as Round 1 or Semi-final. Matches with the same round share a column on the Player Hub’s Bracket tab.
stream	One broadcast night and its matches. Set up on Schedule and chosen on Live. See Plan the schedule.
event	A schedule item that isn’t a match or a stream, such as a finals date.
rule set	One version of the rules. Staff choose which one players read on the Player Hub. See Write and publish the rules.

The broadcast

Term	Meaning
scorecard	One match while it’s being scored in Live, from Create Scorecard to Finish Scorecard. Only one is open at a time. See Score a match in Live.
operator	The person scoring a match in Live.
killer, survivor	The two sides in a Dead by Daylight game. One team plays killer and the other survivor, and they swap each game.
Gens	Generators a team completes while playing survivor.
Hooks, Fresh	Hooks, and fresh hooks (the first hook on each survivor), a team scores while playing killer.
scene	One of the eight broadcast screens OBS shows: Starting Soon, Caster Chat, Game Intro, In-Game, Intermission, Result, Stand By and End Stream. See Broadcast scenes.
scene collection	The file downloaded from OBS Setup and imported into OBS. It holds every scene. See Set up OBS.
Preflight Checklist	The extra scene in the scene collection for connecting audio and game capture before the first stream.
caster profile	The name, @username and picture shown on Caster Chat. See Set up your caster profile.

Next steps

How a season runs

How these terms fit together across a season.

The staff console

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