A participant who withdraws midway through the tournament does not affect the record: points and matches already played are never changed; only the way pending matches are resolved changes, and that depends on the format.
League and Mini-League
The schedule is already set: all of the withdrawn participant’s remaining matches are awarded to the opponent by default (W.O.). Matches already played remain as they are and continue to count toward the standings.
Knockout Round
Their pending match is awarded to the opponent, who advances to the next round. In two-match series, a win by default decides the entire series: the withdrawn participant does not advance to the next round even if the aggregate score would have been in their favor.
Swiss System and McMahon
The withdrawn participant is no longer paired in subsequent rounds, with the option to skip a specific round instead of withdrawing entirely. Their initial McMahon score may be manually adjusted if necessary.
Mexicano
Their pending match in the current round is awarded to the opponent, even if the withdrawn participant was their partner on the court. They are not matched again in subsequent rounds.
Ladder
Their pending challenges are canceled, and no one can challenge them until they are reactivated.
Absences and byes (Swiss and McMahon)
If a player can't play a specific round but stays in the tournament, don't withdraw them: mark the absence in Manage → Players & byes, also reachable from the Absences & byes button above each round in Matches.
- Skip next round: they are left out of the next pairing and get a bye worth half the points of a win.
- Absent rounds: list several rounds in advance (e.g. 3, 4) and they sit out each of them.
- Half-point bye: if the round is already paired and some results are in, pick a player whose game hasn't started: they get half a point and their opponent a full-point bye.
Mark absences before entering the last result of the current round: at that moment the next round is paired automatically. If it is already paired but has no results yet, you can regenerate it from the same panel. The bye for an odd number of players is automatic; its value is set in the phase's “Bye score”.
Manual Pairing
From that same panel, before generating a Swiss or McMahon round, you can manually set specific pairings—late arrivals, an ad hoc pairing among the top players—and the engine respects them exactly as set, automatically pairing the remaining participants without checking whether they have already faced each other.
Reactivation
A withdrawn participant can be reactivated at any time. If the seeding for the next phase has already been assigned, reactivation does not re-include them in the bracket, but simply prevents them from being excluded from new rounds starting at that point.