The Smart Space Competition Manager is now up and running. Stage 1 of the systems allows you to:

• Use a number of pre saved draw templates and finals templates to create competition draws
• Easily attach a program or competition instance to a saved competition draw
• Create just about any form of competition draw of your own
• Use divisional/player formats or Team/Player formats typical in Squash, Tennis and other indoors competitions
• Allow for holidays and other suspended days during the draw
• Be able to use a number of pre saved score sheets which can be printed for any day's draw, quickly and easily.

Stage 1 displays are limited to predominantly round robin competitions. A future version of the package will allow for results inputs which will mean that results based draws (eg knock out type draws or Swiss draws) will be supported for display and management.

So what does all this mean for the average Sports Centre staffer who wants to put together a weekly round robin.

As always, the efficiency of the system depends on the input of the participants, this being the key part of the whole Smart Space system. Once this is done (new customers should be registered on a daily basis) it is very simple to create all your Teams and/or divisions, then attach them to your selected competition draw using the Competition Wizard.

• Create your teams (or carry them forward from your last comp)
• Attach the selected the competition draw (or create a new one)
• Set all the instance preferences and details
• Advise all participants of the details via email/phone using the integrated promotions manager.
• Now your draw is automatically attached to the relevant Program/Competition in the What's On page for viewing by your customers/participants
• You can print out the individualised score sheets on a weekly basis

If you used a pre saved draw and have your teams/divisions prepared, this process will take about 5 minutes. Creating a new team or division can take as little as a minute for a three person team.

Watch the Competition Preparation video for more on creating a competition

If you have a different competition draw which you want saved for you, email or fax it to me and I will enter into the system for all to use. I will also create new Score Sheets and format them for easy weekly management.

I am interested in developing our library of draw and score sheet templates, so don't hesitate to let me know if you have one that you think might be useful.