> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Glossary > What each term on this help site means, from stream and scorecard to invite code and team size limit. 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](/get-started/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](/players/player-hub). | | organiser | Someone who runs a tournament. | | player | Anyone with a Player Hub account. | | your time zone | How the Tournament System shows every time: in each viewer's 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](/get-started/access). | | 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](/season/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](/season/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](/players/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 a team or losing their place on one, after a ban and when the terms change. | | Verified | A team's status once staff accept it. Only verified teams can go in a match or appear on the Player Hub's Teams page. See [Review and verify teams](/season/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](/get-started/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](/season/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](/season/rules). | ## The broadcast | Term | Meaning | | :- | :- | | scorecard | One match while the operator scores it in Live, from **Create Scorecard** to **Finish Scorecard**. Only one is open at a time. See [Score a match in Live](/broadcast/score-a-match). | | 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 a team scores while playing killer. A fresh hook is the first hook on each survivor. | | 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](/broadcast/scenes). | | scene collection | The file downloaded from OBS Setup and imported into OBS. It holds every scene. See [Set up OBS](/broadcast/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](/broadcast/caster-profile). | ## Next steps How these terms fit together across a season. Sign in, use the sidebar and read the Dashboard. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.