Adventures in Tabroom.com: access

1/16/2015

Using multiple devices

Quick tip: Sometimes you work on a computer in the tab room, and during the tournament want to walk around using your tablet or phone to scare up a missing judge or whatever. Problem is, if you log in on a different device, you lose the log-in on the last device. Simple fix: Give yourself two different accesses to the tournament. Give admin rights to the tournament to a second email (create one if you need to). I generally log in with my gmail account but if I want a second access, I use my Yahoo account.

It's a small detail, but it can make things just that much more convenient.

Tournament Tool Kit

In addition to the tabroom.com manual, there's other things people about to throw a tournament might be interested in.

Setting up registration at a tournament: The difference between a smooth registration process and a traffic jam is knowing how tabroom.com works, and how to use it to move people quickly out of the world and into your events. This pdf works regardless of whether you're actually tabbing on tabroom.

E-Ballot instructions. Using e-ballots and want to make sure your judges are plugged into tabroom.com? First, here are the instructions from one tournament, in a docx file. Edit it with your own wifi specs, and claim it as your own: Word file for editing Or, take this general PDF and distribute it without your own specific site instructions.

A definitive approach to tournament conflicts, for teams and for judges I recommend that you distribute these before every tournament.

How to judge A collection of how-to materials for judging both speech and debate. Print up some of the relevant ones for your tournaments where you're training a lot of new judges.

Tabbing Best Practices. This is a handy short guide to what should be going on in tab rooms. A more elaborate version, with detailed explanations, also exists here.

Mutual Judge Preferences This explains how MJP works, and urges all teams to use it as the best tool for engineering the activity towards their own preferences. Recomended as part of an invitation to college events where a lot of the attendees may not be familiar with MJP. (This article was also published in Rostrum.)