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

What is a mat and how to manage it

Keep registration open to everyone, or limit it to invited athletes, chosen academies and organizations. Here is how the rules combine and what athletes see.

Write one message, pick who gets it (everyone, one status, or one speciality), choose in-app or email, preview the recipient count, and review what you sent.

Give registration desk, weigh-in, treasurer and bracketing helpers access to just the parts of your event they need, with an optional end date.

Turn registered athletes into divisions and brackets, fix them by hand, then publish so athletes and the public can see them. Includes when to regenerate.

Work the waitlist from your event's Registrations page: see who is next, promote an athlete by hand, free seats, and know what the athlete is told.

Start a new event on Hajime and fill in the organizer, registration, venue and sharing details before you move on to specialities and readiness.

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 organization 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.

How publishing works when an organization must approve your event, and how the readiness checklist decides when you can start it.

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 require an accompanying adult for minors at your event, and how check-in staff record whether the guardian, a delegate or someone else is with each minor.

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.

How to require a medical certificate or a membership card for your event, what counts as valid, what athletes and guardians see, and how check-in staff accept an athlete without documents.

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 lets you cap how many athletes an event accepts overall and, independently, how many can enter each speciality. When a cap is reached, new entrants join a FIFO waitlist that promotes automatically until brackets are generated.

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.

How organizers of events that allow minors ask staff and coaches to confirm they have read the code of conduct and safeguarding policy, follow who still has to, and remind them.

How an organizer allows minors, sets how strictly guardians are verified, chases pending consent from the roster, handles the check-in desk and exports the consent evidence.

Set up a league that ranks athletes across a season of events: choose a point template, add events and categories, then publish the standings.

How league points are calculated: placement points, event multipliers, bonus rules, best-of results, qualification, tiebreakers and who sees the standings.

Run a club trophy in your league: which club gets the points, the rules and their defaults, club adjustments, and how to read the breakdown of a club's total.