Read a tournament page: results, draws, and scores

Open an event to see its results

Results are read from the tournament page itself — the public page at imatch321.com/t/<tournament>, or the same tournament reached through its organization at imatch321.com/o/<organization>/tournaments/<tournament>. Both pages show the same results in the same shapes; no sign-in is required for a public tournament, and no separate results app exists.

On the public page the results sit under the Overview tab, in the Events list. Each event is a card, and each card expands in place into that event's results. The Draws tab beside it is a different, simpler view: one plain placings table per bracket. The Schedule tab remains times and table assignments.

1. 01
   Portal

   Open the tournament page

   Use the organizer's link, the tournament's QR code, or find it through the organization's page.

2. 02
   Portal

   Stay on Overview

   The Events list is the surface that expands. Draws and Schedule are the summary and timing views.

3. 03
   Portal

   Tap an event card

   The card opens into that event's groups and draws. Opening a second event does not close the first, so two events can be compared side by side.

   Outcome Standings, brackets, and scores for that event
4. 04
   Portal

   Search the page if you are hunting one name

   Every event's results are in the page even while its card is collapsed, so the browser's own find-on-page reaches a player in an event you have not opened.

A knockout draw reads as a bracket

A knockout bracket renders as a draw tree: one column per round, match cards joined by connectors, the final on the right. The round names sit above the columns and stay in place as you scroll down a tall draw.

Wide draws scroll sideways inside their own frame, so the page itself never scrolls sideways on a phone; a soft fade on either edge shows there is more draw in that direction.

• Tap any player's name to light that player's whole run through the draw — their cards and the connectors between them. Tapping the lit name again clears it.
• Until you tap someone, the bracket winner's path is the one lit. That is a reading default, not a claim about a match in progress.
• Tapping a name only follows the player. Tapping the card itself opens that match's own page.
• A slot nobody was ever going to play is labelled Bye, quietly and in italics — never 'TBD', which would promise an opponent who is not coming.
• A slot still waiting on an earlier match shows what it is waiting for: 'Winner of QF2'. Only slots with a genuine feeder are drawn, so a bracket does not sprawl into empty acreage.
• Sub-draws are their own trees under the same event, each under its own name — a play-off for 5th/8th, a 3rd/4th place match — in the tournament's own order, with the main draw first.

A round-robin group reads as a card

Round-robin, pool, group, and Swiss brackets render as group cards with two faces: Standings, which is what the group finished on, and Matches, which is how it got there. Consecutive groups sit side by side — up to three across on a wide screen — so a qualifying round is read across rather than scrolled through.

Fold a score open to the individual games

Every match row carries the match score — games won by each side — plus a small strip of marks beside it, one mark per game, on the side that took that game. A 3–0 sweep reads as a solid run down one side and a 3–2 as a zig-zag, before anything is expanded.

The chevron next to the strip swaps the marks for the actual points: one column per game, each side on its own row, the winner of each game set in the heavier weight. The same control behaves the same way in a group card, in a bracket, and in a flat list of matches.

• The strip is drawn from the games actually recorded. A best-of-five that finished in three shows three marks; it is never padded out with games that were not played.
• Inside a bracket, one card's scores are open at a time, because the panel floats over its neighbours. Opening a second card closes the first.
• In a bracket, Escape closes an open score panel, and so does clicking anywhere outside the card that owns it.
• Opening a score never navigates. The card's link to the match page stays underneath the chevron, not around it.
• A match with no score recorded at all prints no numbers on either side. A blank is a blank — the page will not fill one side with a zero it was never given.

When a page admits its results may be incomplete

Tournament pages assemble their matches by walking the server's match list one page at a time. The walk stops after five pages, after roughly one thousand matches, or after about eight seconds — whichever comes first — and it also stops if a page after the first fails to load.

When the walk stops short, the page says so instead of presenting a partial draw as the whole thing: 'Only the first N matches of this tournament could be loaded — results may be incomplete.' The count is the load-bearing part — everything before the stop is what is on screen.

Imported tournaments are finished records

Some tournaments on the site were not run in iMatch at all. They are completed events imported from an external federation system into a dedicated imports organization, so their results can be read and linked alongside native tournaments.

They display exactly like any other tournament — the same event cards, bracket trees, group cards, and per-game scores — but they are read-only records. They materialize in the completed state, and ordinary operator actions against them are refused rather than silently applied; the only operations that touch them are a fresh import or a removal by the administrator who imported them.

• Expect no table numbers and no clock on an imported match: the source usually carries neither, and the card is built to read whole without them.
• Expect the group card's PTS column to be the page's arithmetic here as well — the import does not carry the published match points.
• Expect some imported draws to fall back to the by-round list, because the source carried no round numbers.
• A correction to an imported result belongs with the federation that published it. Nothing an organizer does inside iMatch will change one.

For organizers: what publishing now puts in front of everyone

The reading surfaces above are fed by the same certified results you record in Manager. Nothing here is a separate publishing step, which is exactly why it is worth knowing what an entry now exposes.

• ✓A wrong game score is now visible as a game score, not just as a match total. Correct it through the result correction and certification path before the next round depends on it.
• ✓A walkover or a no-show renders as a labelled badge on the match card. Typing a fictional numeric score instead is now visibly wrong to every spectator.
• ✓Group standings show a PTS column computed by the page at 2/1/0. If your competition publishes different match points, say so to participants rather than letting the column pass as yours.
• ✓Sub-draws appear under their own names, in your bracket order. Name a play-off bracket the way you want participants to read it.
• ✓A tournament beyond roughly a thousand matches will show spectators the incomplete-results note. Expect the question at the desk, and answer it with the page rather than a side list.
• ✓The Draws tab still shows the plain per-bracket placings table. Point people at an event card on Overview when they want the draw itself.