Competitions
17 articles
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Australian Open now taking login Entries
Entries are now open for the world’s greatest bowls festival! After a record breaking edition in 2023, the Australian Open will be bigger and better than ever in 2024, running from June 18-21. This ye...
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Create custom ladders using Ladder Presets
Ladder Presets were introduced to BowlsLink in November 2023 to give Competition administrators flexibility to create custom ladders with ladder sorting by any of the available methods. How to Create…
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Creating a Competition – Checklist
To use BowlsLink’s simple and easy to use Competition module, we have provided a checklist of items to tick-off before setup, during and after to ensure a trouble free and minimal work for Club and Co...
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Entering scores for Competitions
If your club is hosting a Bowls Australia BPL Cup round, you will need to enter the results into BowlsLink. To be able to enter results, you will need to have one of the following permissions in Bowls...
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Fixture Templates
Below are competition templates that can be downloaded to be imported into BowlsLink. For more information and help on importing a template see Import fixtures using a template. If any updates or othe...
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How to create a Club Competition
BowlsLink provides clubs the opportunity to run their Club Championships and other competitions online. This provides several benefits to clubs most notably it will improve the admin process for runni...
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How to create a Program in BowlsLink
Video guide Creating a competition Creating a Participation Type Creating a Signup Promotion of your Program Other Helpful guides A program is a participation event in a modified format of bowls (i.e....
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Import fixtures using a template
Importing a fixture template is a quick and easy way to create matches within the BowlsLink application that conform to some custom structure which the application may be unable to “auto” generate. Th...
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Jack Attack BowlsLink Manual
This manual will give you an overview of how-to setup a Jack Attack Competition. As there are variables with Jack Attack, this manual will look at the different options available to setting up the com...
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Link or QR Code for Accepting Entries
With more and more clubs/districts/regions moving entries to BowlsLink, you might want a way for the players to enter quickly and easily. A great way to do this is to make the use the competition entr...
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Live Scoring – Club Competitions
Live Scoring is a great tool that can be utilized to give anyone interested up-to-date results of games as they are in progress. It can also be used as a replacement for a scorecard using the competit...
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Marker Scoring – Live Scoring App
The BowlsLink Live Scoring App offers two methods of scoring, Marker or Competitor and this article will explain how a Marker can operate the Live Scoring via the mobile app. It is important to note t...
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National Ranking Events
Introduction National Player Rankings Event Calendar Register your Event National Ranking Event Tiers Step-by-step guide: How to Create a National Rankings Event on BowlsLink Step-by-step guide: How t...
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Pennant Competition – Managing Teams and Results
As a Pennant Manager, your responsibility will be to manage and assist the overall flow and operation of a Pennant competition. Some of these duties may include assisting with entering players and tea...
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Setting up a Pennant Competition
This is a how to guide on setting up a Pennant Competition is BowlsLink. Logging into BowlsLink BowlsLink Competition Overview Copy a Previous Competition Competition Setup 1 – Details BowlsLink App D...
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Shuffle Team Feature
A new feature in BowlsLink with the update on the 5th of August 2024 is the ability to shuffle teams in a sides game within BowlsLink. This feature will only be available for the Home Team and the com...
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Use team name syntax when setting up a competition
When creating a competition administrators have the flexibility to set up custom naming formats for entries. This can be particularly useful to display information that might be helpful for anyone loo...