Settings

The Settings page, the last item in the sidebar, holds the few options that apply to the whole application rather than to one step of event setup. Every operator role can open it and change the theme for its own device. The Chroma Key Color and Match Flow cards appear only on Admin devices, and the values you set there are saved in the event file. Display devices never see this page.

[Screenshot: Settings page showing the Theme, Chroma Key Color, and Match Flow cards]

Theme

The theme is remembered by the browser on the device you are using, so every device keeps its own choice. Dark theme suits scoring tablets in a dim arena, and light theme suits a brightly lit check-in table. Display screens use their own fixed appearance and are not affected.

Chroma Key Color

The chroma key color only shows on display groups where Overlay is turned on, which you do per group on the Displays page. A streaming program keys out that color so match graphics appear over a camera feed. The color saves when you close the picker or leave the hex box; a hex code that is not valid is discarded and the previous color returns. Leave the default unless your streaming program has trouble keying it, since bright pink rarely appears on a field or in team colors. Slides taken from the Slides page also follow the audience group's overlay setting, so the chroma key color appears behind them unless the slide is set to always show solid. See Award Ceremony.

Note

If a TV shows a solid pink background, Overlay is on for its display group. Turn it off on the Displays page. Overlay is meant for streaming sources only.

Auto-queue Next Match

The card describes the setting as When a match finishes, automatically queue the next unplayed match. When a field timer finishes and any hold time at the end of the match has passed, Competition Control looks through the unplayed alliance matches in the active session in playing order. It takes the first one that has a field assigned and is not already on a field timer, and queues it onto its own scheduled field. The field display switches to the match introduction just as if a scorekeeper had clicked the queue button, and the scorekeeper still starts the timer and enters the score. See Field Control and Scoring and Queueing.

If the next match's field still has a match on it, nothing is queued; Competition Control does not skip ahead to a match on another field. Matches without a field are never queued automatically, solo matches are always queued by hand from the Solo page, and in a league only the active session is considered. Turn the setting on once qualification matches are running smoothly, and leave it off while you are still assigning teams or moving matches between fields.

The related Auto disable devices setting lives on the Devices page. See Client Devices.

Overview Page

Overview is the first item in the sidebar and the page a device lands on after it is authorized. It contains one card, Printouts, with a menu button for each group of reports: Teams, Matches, Rankings, and Judging. Every operator role sees the first three menus. The Judging menu shows only the reports the role can open, so it appears in full for Admin and Judge Advisor and is hidden from roles with no judging permissions. Clicking a report opens it in a new window ready to print. What each report contains is covered in Reports and Printouts.

[Screenshot: Overview page showing the Printouts card with the Teams, Matches, Rankings, and Judging menus]