Getting started with Taft

Once you’ve created an account and bought a tournament, the first step is to adjust your tournament settings. You can configure the date your tournament will take place, the cost of entering the tournament, and the point values of questions. Taft supports powers, tossups, and negs/interrupts. Entering a zero for the value of powers or negs will remove those fields from your statistics and game entry fields, if you don’t need them. You can also turn off individual stats if you will not be collecting them.

To add a school to your tournament, click on “Schools” in the Administrator Controls, then on “Add a school.” There you will be able to fill in all the relevant details for the school you wish to register, including the number of teams. The only way to add teams to your tournament is by adding their school. When viewing a school’s details, you can add or drop teams from their registration, or drop the school entirely.

To add players to a team’s roster, click “Teams and Rosters,” then click on the “No players yet” link next to the name of the team you wish to add players to. You will then be able to fill in the names of the players for that team. Afterwards, you can click on “Roster” on the team list to edit or delete the name of each player.

If you need more help, feel free to contact us.