Hello! Welcome to gtsystem, and thanks for signing up for the National Gaming Day @ Your Library DDR High Score Contest! You should all have received a gtsystem site and login in the email recently. To participate in the NGD DDR High Score contest, you'll need to create a gtsystem event and enter your players' scores after each match. Scoring will be based solely on perfects; after each dance, it will list how many perfect steps each player acheived, and that will be their score for that round.
Here's how to create and score an event.
1. Log into your gtsystem site (at whateveryoursitecodeis.gtsystem.org) with your admin account and password. This is the account that was mailed to you when your gtsystem site was created.
2. Click 'Create Content' in the left menu, then 'GT Event'.
3. Enter a Title for your event and select the game you'll be playing. If you are running more than one tournament (say both DDR and Rock Band), create a separate event for each.
4. Choose 'National Gaming Day' from the Series dropdown and optionally choose a Conference from the Conference Dropdown.
5. Enter any promo text you'd like to use for an Event Description.
6. optionally choose or add a location for your event. This isn't required unless you have more than one location holding events.
7. Enter a start date and time and end date and time. This should be local time. Enter a maximum number of attendees. Registration open and close times are optional.
8. Click Save, or Preview then Save, and you're all set!
To run your event, log in with your admin account and click on your event, then click on the gt registrations tab to add players to your event.
Once all your players are signed in, click 'gt results' to be prompted to build your first bracket. For most DDR events, you'll want to have 2 players per station and 1 or 2 matches per player depending on how much time you have. After each match, enter the number of perfects for each player and the name of the song if desired, then click commit. You can revise the score later if needed.
To make an elimination round, choose 'build new bracket' under the event standings on the right side. Enter how many players should advance, how many stations, and how many matches per player (usually 1 for finals). It will build your finals bracket and you can score as you did before. If you have a tie you may want to break it before you advance.
If this seems overwhelming to you, feel free to keep score in a spreadsheet or even on paper and send us your top scores after the event.
After everybody's scores are in, we will announce the top 10 scores and the top 10 libraries, plus you'll be able to view full leaderboards. Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any trouble, and good luck with your event!