# Tournament System

> How to run your tournament on the Tournament System by MelCat Interactive.

- [Overview](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/index.md): What the Tournament System does today: sign-ups, teams, the schedule, rules, live scoring and broadcast scenes.
- [How a season runs](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/get-started/how-a-season-runs.md): From sign-ups to the last broadcast, with the page that covers each step.
- [The staff console](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/get-started/staff-console.md): Sign in to the staff console, find pages in the sidebar, read the Dashboard and use the account menu.
- [How access works](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/get-started/access.md): How roles decide what each person can see and change in the staff console, and why the staff console greys out some controls.
- [Glossary](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/get-started/glossary.md): What each term on this help site means, from stream and scorecard to invite code and team size limit.
- [What's new](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/whats-new.md): Recent changes to the Tournament System, newest first.
- [Give someone staff access](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/season/give-staff-access.md): Add someone to the staff console by Discord account, change their roles, or remove their access.
- [Open and close sign-ups](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/season/sign-ups.md): Let players create teams, set when sign-ups close, and set the most players a team can have.
- [Review and verify teams](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/season/verify-teams.md): Check submitted teams, verify them or send them back, and edit, unverify or disband a team.
- [Plan the schedule](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/season/schedule.md): Add the season's matches, streams and events, put matches in a stream, and correct a result.
- [Write and publish the rules](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/season/rules.md): Write a rule set, preview it, choose the one players read on the Player Hub, and export it as Markdown.
- [Keep staff notes and ban players](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/season/players.md): Find a player, keep private staff notes on them, and ban or unban them.
- [Reset teams and bans for a new season](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/season/reset.md): Disband every team and lift every active ban between seasons, and know what each reset keeps.
- [Set up OBS](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/broadcast/set-up-obs.md): Download the scene collection, import it into OBS, and connect audio and game capture with the Preflight Checklist.
- [Set up your caster profile](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/broadcast/caster-profile.md): Set the name, @username and picture shown on the Caster Chat scene when you're picked to cast.
- [Control the scenes](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/broadcast/control-scenes.md): Start the countdown, pick the casters, run the game clock and set the messages the broadcast scenes show.
- [Set up the Game Intro](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/broadcast/game-intro.md): Choose the map, killer and four survivors for the next game, and show them on the Game Intro scene.
- [Score a match in Live](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/broadcast/score-a-match.md): Choose the stream, start a scorecard from a scheduled match, score it as it's played, and save the winner.
- [Broadcast scenes](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/broadcast/scenes.md): What each of the eight broadcast scenes shows, where its content comes from, and which audio plays on it.
- [Run a stream](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/broadcast/broadcast-night.md): The order of work for a stream, from the countdown to the sign-off, with the page for each step.
- [The Player Hub](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/players/player-hub.md): What's on the Player Hub's home, schedule, teams and rules pages, and what changes when you sign in.
- [Join or create a team](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/players/join-or-create-a-team.md): Sign in with Discord, then join a team with its invite code or start your own. Also covers leaving a team.
- [Captain your team](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/players/captain-your-team.md): Share your invite code, set your team's name, colour and logo, submit it for verification, and manage players and captaincy.
- [Set up your player profile](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/players/profile.md): See what your player profile shows, choose a preferred name and region, and share a link to it.
- [Fix sign-in problems](https://docs.tournamentsystem.xyz/help/access-problems.md): What to do when sign-in fails, staff ban you, or a player's profile isn't available.


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