Organizer Tools

A countdown for the active round sits in the top bar of the tournament admin area. Click it to open the timer panel.

• Set Timer — type a number of minutes and click "Set" to start a fresh countdown for the round.
• Pause / Resume — freeze the countdown at its current value and pick it back up later.
• Reset — put the timer back to its original duration without stopping it.
• Stop — clear the timer entirely (asks for confirmation).

The display turns amber under 10 minutes and red under 5 minutes, and the same countdown is broadcast in real time to the player portal, the public live pages, the Mirror display, and any linked Timer Board.

Auto-advance buffer

When Auto-Advance is on (its own toggle in the top bar), you can add a "Round starts in" buffer — a countdown played before each automatically generated round so players have time to find their new table before the match clock starts. Set the buffer length in minutes and save; set it to 0 to skip it while still enabled.

Timer Board quick link

From the same panel, attach this tournament to a Timer Board without leaving the page: pick an existing board and click "Add", or type a name and click "Create". Once linked, "Open" jumps straight to the public viewer, and "Unlink" detaches the tournament from the board.

The Mirror is a live screen meant to be projected on a TV or monitor at the venue, or shared with a stream. It shows the round timer, pairings, and standings, and refreshes automatically as the tournament progresses.

The Mirror control page lets you customize what your venue screen looks like:

• Theme presets — 10 built-in themes (Default, Ocean, Crimson, Forest, Royal, Gold, Neon, Sunset, Arctic, Midnight), or customize every color yourself.
• Background — gradient colors and angle, header/panel opacity, and a visual effect (None, Starfield, Honeycomb, Metallic, Aurora, Carbon, Grid, Particles), or a background image.
• Layout — Classic (stacked), Side → , or ← Side.
• Visible sections — toggle Header/Branding, Timer, Pairings, Standings, and QR Code independently.
• Timer — Start / Pause / Stop the same countdown as the top-bar round timer, plus its size, color, and backdrop opacity.
• Standings — how many players to show and the auto-scroll speed.
• Announcement — a custom text message overlaid on the display, with font size and position.

Every change saves automatically and updates the open Mirror tab live — share its URL with spectators or streamers.

Timer Boards are independent, multi-timer displays that live at the organization level — useful for a venue running several side events, drafts, or club nights at once, each with its own clock.

Create a board with a name, then open its Control panel to build it out:

• Add Timer — add a new independent countdown to the board, optionally linked to one of your tournaments (with an "Open pairings" shortcut).
• Start All / Pause All / Reset All / Stop All — control every timer on the board at once.
• Per-timer Start, Pause, Resume, Reset, and Stop, plus a visibility toggle to hide one timer from the display without deleting it.
• The same theme presets and background effects as the Mirror, applied per board, plus a board overlay color/opacity, card opacity, and grid column count.

A board's Viewer is its own public URL. If you run several boards, the combined multi-board viewer at /timers displays them all on one screen — handy for a store with multiple simultaneous events.

Every round and every standings view can be exported or printed for the venue or your records. These live in the pairings page's "More" menu and the standings page toolbar, and require the Report Export staff permission.

Pairings

• Match Slips — printable per-table result slips (table number, player names, seats, result checkboxes) for the current round — 1v1 pairings or multiplayer pods.
• Print Pairings — a printer-friendly sheet of the round's pairings to post at the venue.
• Print Bracket — a printable elimination bracket for the current phase (single or double elimination).
• Export Round — the current round's pairings as an Excel workbook or a CSV file.
• Export All Rounds — every completed round's pairings in a single Excel or CSV file.

Standings

• Print and Export CSV — the current standings view, print-ready or as a spreadsheet.
• MTGTop8 (Magic: The Gathering only) — export the Top 8, 16, 32, or 64 finishers in the format the MTGTop8 community site expects, ready to post. Top 32 and Top 64 ask for a confirmation password — contact platform support if you need it.

A crash-recovery package you can download at any time, and optionally have download itself automatically after every round.

The ZIP contains four things:

• backup.json — a complete signed backup, restorable inside the platform.
• rescue.html — a standalone offline scorekeeper that runs entirely in a browser with no internet connection. It embeds only this tournament's data, prints pairings, standings, and match slips, and can recompute 1v1 standings and generate the next Swiss round by itself if the site goes down mid-event.
• a readable Excel workbook of the whole tournament;
• a README explaining how to use the other three files.

When enabled, a fresh package downloads automatically about 10 seconds after each new round's pairings page has finished loading — nothing is stored on the server. Allow automatic/multiple downloads for getpaird.io in your browser.

Two ways to rebuild a tournament from your own data, both reachable from your organizer area's "Restore a tournament" quick action. Both always create a brand-new tournament — nothing existing is touched.

From a backup file

Upload a .zip rescue package (or a .json / .json.gz backup) and the platform recreates the whole tournament — players, pairings, standings, decklists, and history — as a new draft tournament in your organization. Players are matched by email or username; anyone unmatched is recreated as a named guest so no data is lost. Payment references are not restored and join codes are regenerated.

Reconstruct from data

For a 1v1 (or Team Trio) tournament you ran on paper or in a spreadsheet and never had in the platform. A 4-step wizard turns pasted spreadsheet data into a real, continuable tournament:

1. Players — paste your player list (name and/or email, one per line, or a full sheet column) and review the parsed table.
2. Phases — add phases in order, e.g. Swiss 5 rounds then a Top 8 cut, setting rounds and match format for each.
3. Rounds — paste each round's pairings and results column by column. A player who plays a round but is missing from the next is auto-detected as dropped — review and adjust the drops list.
4. Review — click "Generate preview" to build the whole tournament and see the exact result (players, phases, rounds, byes, drops) before anything is saved, then confirm to create it for real.

A "1v1 / Team trio" switch at step 1 handles 3-player teams grouped by a Team column (Swiss only). Sending a welcome email to newly created accounts is off by default, so you can rebuild a past event silently; existing accounts still get a normal registration confirmation. Once created, a success screen offers "Import decklists in bulk" — the bulk decklist importer, pre-configured to match players by name so even guest players without an email get their list attached.

A virtual queue for high-demand paid sales — it holds buyers in a fair line and admits them at a steady rate so a registration rush never overloads checkout. Registration itself stays free for players.

Turn it on per tournament with the "Enable virtual waiting room" checkbox in the Registration settings (paid entries only). An automatic circuit-breaker can also engage the room on its own if a surge of demand is detected, even if you left it off.

The tournament's Waiting Room dashboard shows live stats: Waiting, Live now, Admitted, Purchased, Remaining, Ahead in line, Est. wait, Admit rate, and Reclaimed (buyers who timed out and were sent to the back of the line). Once the tournament sells out, remaining waiters are routed to the regular waitlist.

A live floor map of which physical tables your tournaments and side events occupy — shared in real time across every device that has it open.

• Set the table range for the event, or click "Auto-fit" to size it to every linked tournament automatically.
• Link tournaments — overlay other in-progress tournaments of your organization so their occupied tables show on the same map. The event's own side events are always included.
• Tap tables (or hold Shift and hover) to select a range, then pick a color and click "Apply". "Clear selected" resets only the highlighted tables, "Deselect" clears the selection, "Reset all" wipes every color override.
• Occupancy is read live from the current round's pairings, so a Conflict tag appears if two events land on the same table.
• "Export JPG" saves a snapshot of the map; "Fullscreen" opens the same live map, full-screen, with the same edit controls, for a second monitor at the door.

getpaird charges no fee to players. On a paid tournament, a small per-player platform fee (EUR 0.50) applies only to organizers above 128 paid participants seated at round 2 — most events never reach it. A "Fees" indicator lives in the top bar next to the round timer.

• Fees: TBD — shown once you pass 100 enrolled players, before the round-2 count is known.
• Fees: ~X.XX€ (estimated) — shown after round 2, once more than 128 players are paired. This is only invoiced at tournament completion.
• Once invoiced, the chip shows the exact amount with a status:

Click the chip for the breakdown (participants in round 2, amount above the threshold). Two actions may appear there:

• Retry Invoice — re-attempt a failed invoice. Available to the tournament owner or a platform admin.
• Waive Fees — cancel the fee for this tournament. Platform admin only.

Send a push notification to some or all of your players — a feature match call, a round-start reminder, a decklist check in progress, or any custom message.

Recipients

• All Players, Enrolled Only, Dropped Only, Waitlisted (when a waitlist exists), or Individual Players.
• For individual players, search by name, or look up a table number to add both players seated there in one click.

Message

Write a Title and a Message, or click "Use template" for a ready-made scenario:

• Feature Match
• Round About to Start
• Decklist Check
• Time Extension Granted

Every announcement you send is kept in an "Announcement History" list below, with who sent it, when, and who received it.

Email every enrolled player who has not submitted a decklist yet, from the tournament's Decklists page. The button label adapts to what has already happened:

• Before any send: it lists how many players are missing a list and are about to be reminded.
• After a first batch: it becomes "Remind N new players" — only players who enrolled since the last send and still have no list. The original batch is never re-emailed.
• Once everyone is covered, the button stays inactive until a new player enrolls.

Running the same event again? From your event's tournament list, click "Duplicate" on any tournament row.

A copy is created in Draft status with "(Copy)" appended to its name and a fresh URL. Update the name and settings, then publish it — registrations, pairings, and results are never carried over, only the configuration.