The tournament report, every section explained

Where to find the report

• Sign in and open your event as the host.
• Look for the report option in your event's menu (it's part of the host's own views, alongside your Games/Players/Settings tabs).
• Open it. The report loads all 8 sections in order.

Printing or saving as PDF

The report is built to be printable directly from your browser's print function, and the same print output can be saved as a PDF instead of printed on paper (this is a normal browser feature, not something unique to PingPongArena — when your browser's print dialog opens, look for a "Save as PDF" destination instead of a physical printer).

• Open the report (see above).
• Use your browser's print command.
• Choose "Save as PDF" (or your printer, if you want paper).

Section 1: Standings

The final table or rankings for the event — who finished where. This is the headline result most people look for first: final positions from 1st place down, based on how your event's format resolves standings (for example, group results, ladder position, or knockout outcome).

Section 2: Groups

If your event used group play (round robin in small groups before any knockout stage), this section shows the group-stage results matrix — every match result within each group, laid out so you can see how each group played out. If your event didn't use groups, this section won't have anything meaningful to show.

Section 3: Timeline

A chronological, match-by-match record of the entire event — every match, in the order it happened. Use this when you want to reconstruct "what happened when" rather than just the final standings.

Section 4: Brackets

If your event included a knockout stage (single-elimination, finals, or a consolation/plate bracket), this section shows the bracket tree — the visual path of who played whom and who advanced. If your event was pure round robin or ladder with no bracket stage, this section won't have anything meaningful to show.

Section 5: Tables

Shows which physical table each match was played on, in table-by-table sequence. This is useful for clubs that want a record of table usage across the event, or for spotting whether one table was overloaded compared to others.

Section 6: Journeys

Each player's individual path through the event — their own sequence of matches and results, one player at a time. This is the section to check if you want to see one specific player's full story (who they played, in what order, and how each match went) without scanning the whole timeline.

Section 7: Warnings

This section only appears if the event actually has warnings to show — for example, data inconsistencies the app flagged for the host to be aware of. If your event has none, there's nothing to see here and the section is effectively empty. Warnings are informational; they don't block you from doing anything, they just flag something worth a second look.

Section 8: Audit Log

A log of exactly how each result got into the system — which results were entered manually by the host versus produced by live point-by-point scoring, plus a count of manual results and any results still pending. If your event had any tie-breaks resolved by a decider match, those are logged here too, with wording like:

"{positions} were decided by a decider played on {date}: {result}."

This names every position that was settled this way (for example, "1st, 2nd and 3rd"), not just medal positions. Think of the Audit Log as the report's transparency section — it tells you how trustworthy each number in the report is, by showing you where the data came from.

Summary

The report always builds in this order: Standings, Groups, Timeline, Brackets, Tables, Journeys, Warnings, Audit Log. Some sections (Groups, Brackets, Warnings) may have nothing to show depending on your event's format and how clean the data is — that's expected, not a bug. It's host-only, and printable or exportable as a PDF from your browser's own print function.