Classes, groups and competition format

Sports graded by body weight work differently: the "class" is an age and gender category, and the weight classes are levels inside it.

The federation owns the catalogue. Profixio keeps a list of weight categories per federation. Each entry has Code, Description, Only licensed players ("Turn off to register with free text name"), Age, Gender (Male / Women), Weight classes — "Comma separated list of levels" — and Order. Contact Profixio support to change the catalogue.

Setting up a tournament. In the new-tournament flow, the classes step is replaced by a picker of the federation's weight categories. Choosing them creates one class per category, and Profixio fills in the details from the catalogue: gender, the birth year and age span derived from the age specification, one player per entry, the tournament's registration deadline, and one level per weight class from the comma-separated list. Deselecting a category removes it again, as long as no one has registered in it.

What organisers can and cannot change. Because the catalogue is the source of truth, the class code and description are locked, and the gender, birth year, jersey-number requirement, front-page message and number-of-players fields are hidden on the class form. Adding and deleting classes by hand is disabled. Fee, deadline, registration limits and the public switches still work normally. Weight classes themselves — the levels — are edited per class from the class list's level action, exactly like ordinary levels.

Registration is person-based and licence-bound. Classes created this way register individuals rather than teams, and every participant needs a valid licence unless the catalogue entry has Only licensed players turned off, in which case a free-text name may be used.

Today this applies to Swedish wrestling. Other federations do not see the weight-class pages at all.

Registration classes live under Settings → Klasser in tournament administration. You need the categories permission for the tournament — tournament administrators have it automatically, and it can be granted to a colleague through the tournament's user-access page. Being a club administrator or team leader is never enough.

Adding a class. The plus button at the top of the list opens a panel with the essentials: birth year, whether it is a senior class, Kjønn (Herrer / Miks / Kvinner), Klassekode, Beskrivelse, maximum number of teams, squad size, whether the class is closed, Påmeldingsavgift, and — for federations that use member pricing — Klasse medlemsavgift. The class code and description fill themselves in from gender, senior flag and birth year as you type; type over them and they stop auto-filling. If you change the fee and other classes had the same fee before, you are offered a checkbox to update all of them at once.

Editing a class opens the fuller form, grouped as: identity (Klasse kode, Klasse beskrivelse, Klasse er senior, Klasse fodt aar, Klasse kjonn, Max num of players), Registration Pricing, deadline and squad size (Klasse paameldingsfrist, Ant spillere, Play date), a front-page message for the class, Restrict number of registrations, and a block of switches (Draktnr obligatorisk, Show players public, Klasse lukket, personbasert, Sortering).

Working on many classes at once. Select rows in the list and use the bulk actions to set Deltakeravgift, Show players public, Max antall lag ved pamelding, Registration date limit or Num players for all of them. The list itself can be dragged into order (that is the Sortering value, which decides the order classes appear publicly), and it can be exported to Excel.

Per-language names. The three-dot menu on a row has a Translations action where you give the class description a text per language. Participants see the description in their own language when one exists.

Two errors you will meet.

• "The category has teams and cannot be deleted." A class with registrations cannot be removed. Close it or set it inactive instead.
• "Another category with this code exists for: …" Class codes must be unique within the tournament.

When classes cannot be added or deleted at all. The plus button and the delete action disappear for series run in Profixio League, for ranking tournaments, and for federations that use weight classes. You can still open a class and change the fields that are shown.

A class can be divided into levels. The typical use is to keep the playing standard even inside one class: one class Boys 13 with the levels Medium skilled and Highly skilled. When a team registers, the team leader must pick the level, and the level follows the team into the groups and tables.

Levels are edited from the class list: the three-dot menu on a class row, then the level action. Each level has Name of Category Level, Description of Category Level and Sortering. The list shows the levels of a class as a comma-separated summary.

Copying levels. The Copy to other empty classes button copies this class's levels into every other class in the tournament that has no levels of its own. Classes that already have levels are skipped, so the button is safe to press twice but cannot be used to overwrite.

Levels and team names. Team names must be unique within a class. When the class has levels, the uniqueness is per level — the same club may enter IL Example at two different levels. Trying to reuse a name gives "Team name already exists" (or "Duplicate team name:" when the clash is inside the same registration).

Levels are not the same as groups. Levels are chosen by the team when it registers; groups are decided later by the organiser when the schedule is built.

The Restrict number of registrations block on the class form is where you cap a class. It has two fields and a live counter.

A full class does not block registration — it queues it. The team is put on the waiting list if any of these is true:

• the whole tournament is set to waiting list;
• the class has Venteliste ticked;
• the tournament's own maximum number of teams is reached;
• the class's Max lag is reached;
• the class already has at least one team waiting — so later registrations queue behind them rather than jumping ahead.

The team is recorded as waiting because of the tournament or because of the class, which is why the class picker on the registration form shows a class as … - [venteliste] when it is full.

Two consequences worth knowing.

• Moving a team off the waiting list is a one-way manual decision. As soon as an administrator edits a team's waiting-list value, Profixio stops re-evaluating that team automatically. It will not be pushed back onto the list even if the class is over its maximum.
• Person-based classes behave differently. In a class where individuals register instead of teams, a full class is a hard stop: the registration is refused with "The class is full" instead of being queued.

Closing a class. Klasse lukket takes the class out of registration entirely. A per-class registration deadline (Klasse paameldingsfrist) does the same once it passes; if you leave it empty, the tournament's own registration deadline applies. If the class deadline falls on the same day as the tournament deadline, the tournament's time of day is used, so the two do not disagree by a few hours.

Anyone with team-edit permission in the tournament — the organiser — can still register and edit teams in a closed or expired class. The lock is on the club and team side only.

Each class carries its own registration fee, Klasse deltakeravgift. Federations that use member pricing also get Klasse medlemsavgift, the price for a member team or club, with the note "The member price is the price for a member team/club."

Early bird is done by changing the fee over time, not by scheduling it. There is no from-date/to-date on the class fee. If you want NOK 800 during January and a higher fee from February, you set the fee to 800 and change it on 1 February. Invoices already produced keep the fee that applied when the team registered, so early registrations are not repriced when you raise the fee. Use the bulk Deltakeravgift action on the class list to change many classes in one go.

Discount codes are attached per class from the three-dot menu on the class row.

Everything else about money — services, add-ons, discounts, invoicing and how the fee reaches an invoice — is on the fees and invoicing pages.

The match side of a class is edited from the Categories page in the match programme. Opening a category gives you up to four tabs: Category, Teams, Match table, and — for series run in Profixio League — Other settings. The whole page requires the categories permission; without it the page returns "forbidden". On the public competition pages, people with the categories permission also see an Edit category pencil in the competition header when a category is chosen, or when the competition has only one; it opens the same tabs inside the competition page.

Category tab.

Changing period settings rewrites future matches. On standalone tournaments (and for Swedish beach volleyball) saving the Category tab pushes the new period count and period length down onto the class's matches that are in the future and have no events recorded yet — playoff matches get the playoff values, everything else gets the group-play values. Matches that have already been played, or that already have live events, are left alone.

Saving also queues a rebuild of the class's standings table and a refresh of player statistics, so the table can take a moment to catch up.

Editing many categories at once. The match list has an Edit categories action that opens a grid of every category in the tournament with Klasse kode, Klasse navn, hide-table, Klasse kamplengde, Klasse lukket, Klasse ant omganger and Klasse omgangslengde editable inline. Opening it needs either the match-edit or the match-scheduling permission; typing into the fields needs match-scheduling permission. Changing the match length here also updates the slot length on the class's visible matches, and changing the period fields updates group-play matches that have no result yet. To change several categories at once, select them and choose Multi edit → Edit match length, Edit number of periods or Edit match length each period; the value you enter is applied to every selected category and its matches in the same way. These bulk actions need match-scheduling permission, and match length, number of periods and period length are required both in the grid and in Multi edit.

Teams tab. Lists the teams in the category and lets you set, per team: Forced position (pin a team to a place in the table), Guest team? (a team that plays but is not ranked), Excluded from A playoff? (keep a reserve or second team out of the top bracket), and — in series — the team's initial starting points. Deleting a team here removes it from the match programme but not its registration.

Inside a class, teams are divided into groups (puljer). A group has a name, a display name and a sort order, and it owns its own standings table.

Default naming. Groups get letters: group 1 is A, group 2 is B, and so on. You can override the shown name with anything — a number, a sponsor name, "Morning pool". The override wins over everything else, so clear it if you want the letter back.

Where to rename groups. On the match list there is an Edit group name action under Shortcuts. It lists the tournament's groups with their category code, and lets you edit the display name and the ordering number inline. A search box at the top filters the list by category code. Editing requires match-scheduling permission; the action itself only appears when you are in match-edit mode. The ordering number decides the order the groups are listed in. On a class's match list page, groups that have a start time come first, earliest first, and the ordering number only decides among groups with the same start time or none.

Where groups are created. Groups appear as a by-product of building the match programme: the schedule-generation tools create a group per pool you define and drop the teams into it, and for series run in Profixio League the groups come from the league level. Creating groups and drawing teams into them is covered on the match generation and scheduling page.

Pool play and cross-pool play. A class can be flagged to play as pools rather than as independent groups. This changes how the standings are computed:

Publicly this shows up as one combined match list with a separate table per pool. In a cross-pool setup without a play key, teams meet the others in their own group twice and the teams in the other group once, and only two groups are possible.

These flags are not set in the Profixio web app. They are configured in Profixio League, on the league level, together with the play key that defines the actual fixtures. If a class should be pool play and is not behaving that way, the fix is in the league settings, not on the category page.

Intermediate rounds. A class can also have an intermediate round (mellomspill) between group play and the final: a small round-robin between teams that qualified from the groups, with its own table. Intermediate rounds are held in the playoff structure, not in the group structure, and appear on the class page as their own block.

A class can have one or more playoffs. Each playoff is a tree: a set of matches wired together so that the winner of one match becomes a team in the next.

Several playoffs per class. Playoffs are numbered, and an unnamed playoff is shown as Playoff A, Playoff B, and so on from that number. Give it a name and the name is used instead. The typical use is a main draw plus a plate competition, or separate brackets for placings 1–4 and 5–8.

Hidden playoffs. A playoff has a published flag. While it is off, the playoff and its matches are invisible to everyone without match-scheduling permission, so you can prepare a bracket and reveal it when the group stage is settled. On the match list, the Change playoff action lists the class's playoffs and lets you edit the number, the name and the published toggle inline. It needs both the match-edit and the match-scheduling permission — having only one of them is not enough, and the fields stay read-only without match-scheduling permission.

Where the teams in a bracket come from. Each slot in a playoff match points at exactly one source:

• a position in a group ("winner of group A", "second in group B");
• a position in a playoff series;
• a position in another class's ranking, including "x best of" constructions such as "best second place across all groups";
• the winner or the loser of a specific earlier playoff match.

A slot can also be given a free-text name for a team that is not decided yet ("Team not decided", "Decided in week 12"). A slot filled that way is not advanced automatically — you must also pick the team for the next round by hand.

Profixio resolves the bracket when a result is saved. The moment someone registers a match result, the teams that depend on it are filled in. Until then the match shows the placeholder text — Winner 12, Loser 12, or the group position it comes from. If a bracket cannot be resolved (for example because the same team would end up in two slots), the slot is flagged as impossible rather than filled with a wrong team.

Playoff series (best-of). A tie can be played as a series of matches instead of a single match. A series has its own standings, calculated by the same criteria engine as a group table — so which team wins the series follows your federation's criteria (typically matches won first, then the goal criteria), and if every criterion is level the winner has to be decided by drawing lots. Once the series has a winner, that team is filled into the next round.

Position matches. A playoff match can be marked as deciding final placings, and the loser of a match can be sent into a placing match — this is how "losers of the quarter-finals play for places 5–8" is modelled. The graphical bracket draws those as separate lines out of the match.

Locking teams. A playoff match can have its teams locked so that a re-calculation does not overwrite a manual choice. This is set from the match edit screen.

Keeping a team out of the top bracket. A team marked Excluded from A playoff? on the category's Teams tab is skipped when positions are read out of the group table and out of "x best of class" constructions for the lowest-numbered playoff. It is a hard guard: the team cannot end up in a top-bracket match even if something else tries to put it there. This is how federations keep reserve teams and second teams out of the main final.

Drawing the bracket itself is not done in the Profixio web app. For series, the bracket is built in Profixio League. What the web app gives you is the bracket display, the naming and publishing controls, the placings, the exclusions and the automatic progression.

For sports played in sets — volleyball, beach volleyball, table tennis, badminton — a class can register the score set by set instead of only the final result.

Turning it on for a class. On the category's Category tab there is a Register set results checkbox. Switching it on for a class that had no sets configured sets the class to three sets; if the class already had a set count, that count is kept.

Changing the number of sets. From a match in the class, the advanced tab has a Category block with Register Set Results? and, when it is on, How many sets to display. Whatever you set there applies to the whole class, not just that match.

You cannot turn sets off once they are in use. If any match in the class already has set scores recorded, unticking the box is refused with "Cannot disable set results when there are existing set results in the class". Delete the set results first if you really need to change the format.

Sets feed the table: set ratio and set difference are available as ranking criteria, and game-ball totals become available as columns and criteria once the class registers sets.

Some formats decide round two from the results of round one — winner meets winner, loser meets loser — inside the group stage, without a playoff bracket. Profixio supports this through matches whose home or away team is defined as the winner of match X or the loser of match X.

How it behaves. Round one runs normally. As soon as its results are registered, the teams in the later rounds are filled in automatically and the match shows Winner <match number> or Loser <match number> until then. A playoff can be added afterwards in the usual way. When such a class is open, the table-explanation panel shows a Using Fourset badge, so you can tell at a glance that the class is running this format.

Setting it up is done in the scheduling system, not on the category page. The format comes from choosing a play key of this type when the fixtures are generated, and it requires seeding to be switched on. In practice the group must have 3, 4 or 5 teams; a three-team group can be run either as a semi-final plus final (#2 v #3, winner meets #1) or as a full round-robin of three matches, depending on which key is used.

Other special formats — pool play with play keys, cross-pool play, connected opponents — are chosen the same way, on the league level in Profixio League, and are covered on the match generation and scheduling page.

A quick reference to the fields on this page. "Registration" fields live on Settings → Klasser; "Match" fields live on the category page in the match programme.

Guest teams and forced positions. Setting a team to a forced position overrules the calculated position, but the matches against that team are still included in goals scored and the other table figures. Setting a team as a guest team forces it to the last position in the group, and no match against the guest team is included in goals scored or any other table figure — the rest of the table is calculated as if those matches were not played. A guest team is shown with (*G) after its name in the table.

Work down the list — these cover almost every report.

A class is missing from the registration form

• Is Klasse lukket ticked?
• Has the class's own Klasse paameldingsfrist passed? Remember it overrides the tournament deadline only when it is set.
• Has the tournament's registration deadline passed, or has registration not opened yet?
• The class may be there but full — look for [venteliste] after the name.
• Organisers see closed and expired classes that team leaders do not. Check as a club user before concluding the class is visible.

A class is missing from the match programme

• Match categories are a separate record from registration classes. A class that only exists on the registration side has no match category until the match programme is built for it.
• Check Klasse lukket on the category page.
• Check whether the whole match programme is hidden for the tournament — that is a tournament setting, not a class setting.

The standings table is missing or empty

• Klasse skjul tabell on the category hides it publicly; administrators still see it with a note that the table is hidden in public view.
• A class with no matches played has no table yet.
• Open Table explanation under the table. If it says "Criteria not found", the class has no ranking calculation selected — Rang type on the category page is empty or points at nothing.
• Guest teams are deliberately excluded from the table, and withdrawn teams are removed.
• Tables are rebuilt in the background after a result or a category change. Give it a moment before reporting it wrong.

Two teams are level and the order looks arbitrary Use Calculation for teams with same points under the table: it shows exactly which criterion separated them. If they are genuinely identical on every criterion, the order is undecided until you record a draw of lots from a match's advanced tab.

A playoff is not showing

• The playoff is not published. Only people with match-scheduling permission see unpublished playoffs; use Change playoff on the match list to publish it.
• The class is hidden, which hides its playoffs too.
• The bracket exists but has no matches yet — a bracket and its match schedule are two separate steps.

A team is in the wrong place in the bracket

• Check Forced position and Excluded from A playoff? on the category's Teams tab.
• A slot given a free-text team name is never advanced automatically.
• A bracket slot that Profixio could not resolve is flagged rather than filled — usually because the same team would appear twice.

A class cannot be deleted It has registrations. Close it instead. If the plus and delete buttons are missing entirely, the tournament is a series, a ranking tournament, or uses weight classes, and its class list is derived rather than edited.

Most of this page is the same everywhere. These parts are not.

Ranking criteria are per country and sport. A class inherits the criteria your federation uses for that sport, including the points for a win, a draw and a loss. Handball, football, volleyball and bandy do not share a scheme, and neither do two federations in the same sport in different countries. Criterion labels and short names are maintained per sport and per language.

Regulation-time criteria (basketball). Swedish basketball has criteria that look only at regulation time — win percentage in regulation, wins in regulation, points scored and point difference in regulation — so that games decided in overtime are treated correctly.

Sets. Set ratio and set difference only mean anything in classes that register set results, which in practice means the set sports. Game-ball statistics become available at the same time.

Weight classes exist only for Swedish wrestling. That federation's tournaments get a different class-setup step, a locked class form and person-based registration.

Member pricing — the second, lower fee for member clubs — is only offered to federations that have it enabled.

Number of players per class is only editable on the match category for federations that have that enabled; elsewhere it comes from the registration class.

Series versus standalone tournaments. Classes in a series run in Profixio League cannot be added or deleted in Profixio, the promotion and relegation fields and the match-move deadline only exist there, and the playoff-round period settings only exist on standalone tournaments.

Some rules come from your federation. The promotion and relegation counts are a presentation setting: Profixio shows how many teams are in the promotion and relegation places, and your federation decides which teams change division for the next season. Likewise, your federation decides whether a young age group may have a public table; use Klasse skjul tabell on the class to hide it. Eligibility rules such as overage players or licence requirements are handled on the playing-rights pages, not here.