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Scoring Setup

Old World Rankings · Published 12 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

Choose how games are scored, add soft score awards and set pairing and ranking rules.

Setup > Scoring decides how games turn into points, which soft score awards you run, and how players are paired and ranked. Click Save in the status bar when you are done.

Battle Scoring

  1. Under Select Scoring Template, pick Matched Play (the default, the official table), Battle March, 20-0 System or Win-Loss-Draw. Switching template resets the points table to that template's defaults.
  2. To change the bands, open VP Differential Chart. For Win-Loss-Draw, set the points and the Draw margin (VP) instead.
  3. Open BYE Handling to set the points for a bye and whether it counts as a win, draw or neither.
  4. Turn on Enable Secondary Scoring if players score objectives as well as VP. See Secondary Objectives.

For a teams event, Team Scoring sets whether a team wins a round on Combined TP or Match Wins.

Soft Scores

Click Add Soft Score and pick Painting, Sportsmanship, Best Sports, Best Painted or Custom Soft Score. Open one to change who scores it and how.

Counts Toward Overall Score is off by default, so soft scores stay as separate awards. Turn it on to add them to the overall total. More detail: Soft Scores for Organisers.

Pairings / Rankings

Most events can leave this alone. The defaults are Swiss pairings and the standard tiebreakers. What each card does:

  • Tournament Format: Round 1 Format is random, or seeded by region or global ranking (pick a Seeding Style when seeded). Rounds 2 onwards are Swiss. Table Assignment puts the top pairings on table 1 (Ranked) or anywhere (Random).
  • Official Final Ranking: Best Overall (battle points plus soft scores that count toward overall) or Best General (battle points only). This decides placings, the podium and ranking points.
  • Pairing Metrics: what Swiss uses to decide who plays whom. Battle results only, never soft scores.
  • Event Rankings: your tiebreakers, in order. The default is Wins, then Tournament Points, then VP Difference, then Strength of Schedule. Switch metrics on or off and drag to reorder.
  • Advanced Settings: starting table number, and Pairing Avoidance to keep the same faction, subfaction or table apart where possible.

What each tiebreaker means, with examples: Pairings, Tiebreakers & Strength of Schedule. Using Head-to-Head? Read Understanding the Head-to-Head Tiebreaker first, as it can rank a player above someone with more points.

What players and followers see

Under Pairings / Rankings, the What Players & Followers See card controls what everyone outside your staff sees during the event.

All three switches are off by default. Click the card to open it.

  • Public live pairings: anyone can open the Battle Board link and see pairings on the event page, and followers get round emails. Off, only staff and players in the event see pairings.
  • Standings between rounds: players see standings and their rank during the event. Off, they only see score submission progress until you reveal final results.
  • Soft scores in standings: players see a Soft column in standings, results and on the Battle Board. Off, it's staff-only and Overall still shows. It never shows when Best General is the official ranking.

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