How to Create and Manage a Voting Bracket?

A voting bracket enables your users to vote for their favorite teams in a tournament. The following tutorial applies to all tournament types. 

For a comprehensive video on this topic, please refer to the following video:

Setting Up Voting Brackets:
In the widget editor, go to the Settings tab, locate the Bracket Type option, and open the dropdown menu. From the menu, choose the bracket type you are interested in, but make sure you choose the one with the word “Votings” to enable the voting option. 

Enabling Voting:
As soon as you enable the voting type, the voting option will become available to your users. To manage votes and related settings, go to the Votes tab.

Here’s what you can do with your voting bracket from within this tab:



1. Customizing Voting Button Text
You can change the voting button’s text by entering your desired text in the Button Text option. Changes are immediately reflected on the bracket.

2. Votes Validation:
You can add validation options to your votes, like preventing users from creating more than one vote, for example. To do so select the Detect User By option and choose the desired option from the ones presented.
For more details about this option click here.

3. Automatic Winners:
You can enable the Automatic Winners option to move winners to the next round automatically. In case of ties, the final winner is chosen randomly.

4. Votes Calculation:
The Votes Calculation option enables you to decide whether to show votes as a percentage or by the total number of votes.

5.  Show Results:
Using the View Results option enables you to choose when users can view results: 

• Always - Results will keep on updating and always be displayed to your users.
• After Vote - Only after user votes he can see the results
• After Round Ends - Votes can only be visible once the voting round ends
• Never - Votes will remain hidden, and only visible to the admin, i.e. you
  
  

6. Voting Rounds:
In the Voting Rounds setting, you can configure the voting start and end dates for each round, including Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals. To do so, choose the needed round, open this round options, and select the Voting Start Date and/or Voting End Date.


To reset a round and all the votes in that round, click on the refresh icon next to the round’s name.



Remember, this is an irreversible action and once you reset, you will lose all your votes for this round. If you wish to proceed, click Reset Votes and all votes will be restored for that round.




Publish your bracket:
Follow this guide for publishing your bracket: How to Start a Tournament and Publish Your Bracket.

Sharing your bracket:
Once your bracket is published, share it with users. To do so simply navigate to the Voting tab and copy the URL under the Bracket Link section.




Managing Votes:
Under the Entries tab, view all the submitted votes. Export all your votes using the Export to CSV button.



In addition, delete votes by selecting the desired votes and clicking on the Delete button.

By following these steps, you can create, manage, and share a voting bracket for your bracket & tournament.

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