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What is your preferred method of submitting rated filler games?

Creating a Swiss Manager rating file?
Use the ECF LMS directly?
Some other method?

John Upham wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:58 am

What is your preferred method of submitting rated filler games?

Creating a Swiss Manager rating file?
Use the ECF LMS directly?
Some other method?

I create an "Extra Games" file, and run that alongside the tournament, manually adding the results to Swiss-Manager as we go along.

Depending on the event (e.g. reserve games in a team event), I might just manually add the extra games to a separate "match" object in the rating file, by adding them manually into the rating text file.

I manually crafted a rating data submission file using Notepad+ and....

it worked first time!