Creating a New Competition in Notch

Setting up your first Competition in Notch is one of the first things new assignors will learn how to do. A competitions configurations will allow you to easily create games, track payments, and so much more.

First sign into your assignor dashboard here. Once signed in click on "Competitions" at the top of your dashboard. This will open the competitions page as shown. To start configuring your first competition click on the green "New Competition+" button at the top of the page.

Within this new page you will see a handful of required configurations;

Once you have selected those 3 settings and save your changes the "Competition Sports" section will unlock for you to continue. When your ready, go ahead and click the "+Add Sport" button.

The add sport button will trigger a popup as shown above. All competitions will require at least one sport. However, competitions can have multiple sports if needed such as baseball & softball or dance & cheer. For now we will select just a single sport, baseball, to set up our configuration. At the end of the guide we will circle back and review adding a second sport.

Once you have selected your sport simply click "Next" to proceed. You will then be prompted to "Configure" your sport as shown. Lets take a moment to review these two configurations because they will be important later on when you create games.

When ready, click "Configure Sport" to continue to the next screen.

The "Official Labels" configurations will be used when generating games to add a label for the position an official is working. These labels will be determined by the crew size of each game, with Notch offering a max crew size of 10.

For simplicity, we have a simple umpire configuration of UMP1,UMP2, and UMP3 in our example. When configuring your labels set these to whatever fits your needs. When your finished, simply click "Save and Proceed".

Next up, we will set up our "Age Group" configurations. Lets break down what we have;

By default each competition needs to have at least 1 age group configured. To add more age groups simply click the "Add New+" button.

Additionally, you can copy and delete age groups by using the buttons shown below. When deleting age groups please proceed with caution. If deleted by mistake age groups will need to be recreated manually and cannot be recovered.

In the "Levels" page you will configure the levels for your competition. Like before, each competition needs at least one level. If you need to add additional levels simply click the green "Add Another+" button. When your finished click the "Save & Proceed" button at the top of the page.

Arguably the most important configurations for the whole competition are the pay scales. These configurations will be used when generating games to determine how much both the officials and assignor(s) are paid. Lets break each field down and review;

Were almost done! The last portion of the competitions configurations is setting up the teams. If you plan to import your games via CSV your teams will automatically generate with your import. However, if you plan to create individual games you will need to configure your teams here first.

In this section you can invite Admins and Sub-Assignors to your competition. To invite a new user simply click the "Select Role" drop down to select the user type and either copy the invite link or enter the users email before clicking "Invite User".

Once you have completed your initial set up you can return to your competitions "General Info" page and click on the blue "+Add Sport" button to add more sports to the competition.

With a new competition created you will now be able to generate games based on your competitions configurations. If you selected 'Notch Pay' when creating your competition you can also view your competitions balance or add funds when selecting balances within the Payments tab in your assignor profile. Once your ready to move on check out our other articles for creating games and inviting new officials to your group!