Competitions

What does Round Robin mean? How is the winner decided?

Hajime doesn't leave you alone. Your network may!

How the Best-of-N Series format works in Hajime and how to configure the series length for head-to-head match-ups.

How the Double Elimination Format works and how to manage it in Hajime

How the Single Elimination Format works and how to manage it in Hajime

How the Swiss Format works and how to manage it in Hajime

Learn how to start a new event on Hajime and fill in the organizer, registration, and venue details before moving on to specialities and the readiness checklist.

A speciality is a competition style within your event, such as Gi Sparring or Kata. Learn how to add specialities by hand, import them in bulk via CSV, and reuse templates across events.

Categories define the divisions athletes actually compete in within a speciality, combining gender, age group, weight class, and belt rank. This article covers setting them up by hand or CSV and how they drive registration.

Weight category names are yours to choose. What the weigh-in station can check against them depends on the optional minimum and maximum you set, and this article lists exactly which values are read and when the warning appears.

Fees control what an athlete pays to register, and whether they can pay online, in person on the day, or not at all. This article covers setting fees on a single event; see the academy and federation articles for recurring fee templates.

Mats are the physical spaces where matches take place. Learn how to create them, assign brackets, generate per-mat schedules, and resolve scheduling conflicts across multiple competition areas.

Hajime runs an automated readiness checklist before you can start an event, catching the mistakes that otherwise surface as chaos on event morning. Learn what the required and recommended checks cover and how to force-start past warnings.

Covers the three tools you'll actually use at the desk on event morning: check-in, walk-up registration for athletes who never pre-registered, and roster-level cash settle.

How to prepare and run a mat entirely on paper when live scoring isn't available, then reconcile results digitally once connectivity returns.

How to enter results from paper score sheets into the Paper Entry screen so brackets finalize correctly, including out-of-order entry, walkovers, and correcting mistakes.

A short map of what happens once brackets start running live, plus where to go if a mat needs to fall back to paper.

Hajime can open and close your registration on the dates you set, and close the event once it is over, so you do not have to remember to press a button. Both settings are off until you turn them on.