Glossary

Tournament and players

Term	German	Meaning
tournament	Turnier	The event, with a name, date, place and tables. It holds the categories.
category	Konkurrenz	One competition in the tournament, such as Men A or Under 15, in singles or doubles.
singles	Einzel	A category where everyone plays alone.
doubles	Doppel	A category where players play in pairs.
roster	Spielerliste	Everyone you have ever entered, for every tournament.
rating	TTR-Wert	A player's strength. It orders the seeding and is copied into a tournament when the player is added.
pair	Paar	Two players who play doubles together. Only complete pairs are drawn.

Phases

Term	German	Meaning
phase	Phase	One stage of a category: a group stage, a knockout or a Swiss system.
group stage	Gruppenphase	Everyone plays everyone in their group.
group	Gruppe	One part of a group stage, with its own standings.
knockout	KO-Runde	Lose and you're out, or play on for your exact place.
bracket	Turnierbaum	A knockout drawn as a picture, round by round.
Swiss system	Schweizer System	A set number of rounds, paired on the standings so far. Nobody is knocked out.
rule	Regel	Says who goes from one phase into which later one.
main draw	Hauptrunde	The knockout for the best of a group stage.
consolation draw	Trostrunde	A phase beside the main draw, for the other players.
places played out	ausgespielte Plätze	Places a knockout plays on for, such as in a third-place match.
draw size	Feldgröße	The number of places in a knockout. Empty places become byes.

The draw

Term	German	Meaning
draw	Auslosung	Places a phase's players in groups or in the bracket. Only then are there matches.
seeding	Setzliste	A phase's players, strongest first. The draw follows it.
seed	Setzplatz	A player's number in the seeding.
bye	Freilos	An empty place in the first round. Whoever is drawn against it goes through without playing.
draw again	neu auslosen	Replaces every match of a phase. Results already entered are deleted.

Playing

Term	German	Meaning
match	Spiel	Two players or pairs against each other, over several games.
game	Satz	Goes to 11 points, or from 10:10 to a two-point lead. Tables count games won as "sets".
best of	Spiellänge	The most games a match can have. Best of 5 means three games to win.
points	Bälle	The points within the games. Point difference separates players the sets don't.
standings	Platzierungen	The places in a phase, its page's first tab.
ranking	Platzierungen	The places in a whole category, across every phase.
round of 16	Achtelfinale	The round with 16 players. Before it come the round of 32 and the round of 64.
third-place match	Spiel um Platz 3	The beaten semifinalists play for third, when places are played out.
walkover	kampflos	A match that isn't played, such as after a withdrawal. It goes to the opponent.

Withdrawals

Term	German	Meaning
withdrawn	zurückgezogen	No longer playing. Results stay, and open matches go to the opponents as walkovers.
reinstate	wieder aufnehmen	Brings a withdrawn player back into every later draw.
eliminated	ausgeschieden	No rule takes the player on to another phase. Results and place stay. The players page says "Out".

Tournament day

Term	German	Meaning
score card	Spielzettel	A match's printed slip. It goes to the table and comes back with the result.
card code	Zettelnummer	Three characters on the score card that fast entry finds the match by.
fast entry	Schnelleingabe	Entering results by card code, without finding the phase first.
table	Tisch	A match stays on its table until its result is complete.
call	aufrufen	Sending a match to a free table and calling its players there.
schedule	Zeitplan	The order of the categories, and each round's estimated time.
start rule	Startregel	When a category or phase may start: after another, or not before a time.

Sharing and certificates

Term	German	Meaning
public link	öffentlicher Link	The address spectators watch from, without an account.
public view	öffentliche Ansicht	The results as spectators see them.
presentation	Präsentation	The results in turn on a screen in the hall.
slide	Folie	One screen of the presentation: a phase, or part of one.
certificate	Urkunde	A printed sheet for a place, on blank or pre-printed paper.