You can add blocks without play to the schedule — a lunch break, the prize ceremony, a meal. Within such a block no match starts or ends.
During automatic planning the generator moves matches past the break window. You can add several breaks per day, each with its own fields.
If you add a break while matches are already scheduled at that time, they shift automatically as soon as you fill in the times of the break. Every match that starts at or after the start of the break moves by the length of the break; earlier matches stay put and the gaps between them are preserved. A global break shifts all fields, a break with fields only the ones you ticked. So you do not need to regenerate — a message shows how many matches were shifted.
That shifting only happens once the break block is complete and you leave the row: while you are filling in the times, your schedule stays put. Make an existing block shorter or longer afterwards and the gap shrinks or grows with it; remove the block and the gap closes completely. Move the start time of an existing block and the matches stay where they are — shift them yourself with ⇥ Close gaps — optionally only between two times, so the rest of your day stays put — or generate again.
A gap closes field by field: the matches on that field move back until they reach the start of the break, and never end up closer together than they already are. If a category has its own start time — the U12 you generated from 12:45, say — it stays where it is. So removing a morning break no longer drags your afternoon series forward.
If you tick one or more fields in a break row, the window only applies there — handy when e.g. two fields are temporarily unavailable while the others keep playing. The button shows which fields are ticked (from three onwards just the number). Untick everything and the break applies to all fields again.
In a multi-day tournament every break block gets an extra list with the playing days. It defaults to All days: the break then applies to every tournament day — e.g. every lunchtime from 12:00 to 13:00. Pick a single day and the block only applies to that day, e.g. a prize ceremony on Sunday afternoon. So you do not have to invent a break for a day when nothing is planned.
Make a moment public and it appears on the live page in the Schema tab, between the matches at its own time, and in the app as well. If it falls at the same time as a block of matches, the moment goes first. On the presentation screen it shows in the side column once it is running or starts within the hour. Leave the box unticked and the block still keeps the fields free, but visitors see nothing of it — handy for an internal block. Breaks you created before this addition stay non-public.
On the schedule board every moment shows as a bar between the match cards; in the timeline view as a hatched band with its name in it. The printed schedule (PDF) shows all moments, including the non-public ones, marked "not public".
If you manually schedule a match inside a break window anyway, a warning appears at the top of the schedule and the match turns red. In the timeline view every moment shows up as a hatched band with its name in it; in the list view as a bar between the match cards.
The field Break in between (min) is something else: it is the fixed margin between two consecutive matches on the same field (e.g. for warming up or switching).
Yes. Every match starting at or after the beginning of the break automatically moves by the length of the break; matches before it stay put and the gaps between them are preserved. So there is no need to regenerate — a message tells you how many matches were moved.
There is none. After filling it in, click outside the break row or press Enter and the break is stored. While you are still working in the row your schedule stays untouched — the shifting only happens once the block is complete and you leave the row.
Yes. Click the pitch button and tick the pitches the break applies to — handy when two pitches are briefly unavailable while the rest play on. If you tick nothing, the break applies to all pitches. For a multi-day tournament the day list also lets you pick a single day or All days.
That is something else: the fixed margin between two consecutive matches on the same pitch, for example for warming up or changing over. A break window is a block in the day during which no match starts or ends.