# Managing playoffs

In cases where one tournament is not enough to determine the winner, you can configure one or more playoffs tournaments. Match Play will create links between your qualifying and playoffs tournaments so players can easily jump between them.

## Creating playoffs

Click the **More...** button and then the **Manage playoffs** menu option. From that page, you can create playoffs in two ways. You can create a new tournament from scratch, or you can link an existing tournament as the playoffs.

You may create up to nine separate playoff tournaments. Typically, a playoff tournament would represent the A division finals, B division finals and so on.

### Editing playoffs

When you create playoffs, you won't see all the usual options when creating a tournament. This is just to speed things up since most playoffs follow set formulas. But after the playoffs have been created, they are normal tournaments and you can edit the tournament details just like any other tournament. You can change the tournament format or any of the other details.

### Adding players and arenas

Once you've created the playoffs, you can add players and arenas. You can do this in two ways:

1. From the **Manage playoffs** page, click **Actions...**
2. From the playoffs tournament, go to the **Players** and **Arenas** tabs and click the **Add from qualifying…** button.

Both options function the same way. Choose the one you find most convenient.

## Series playoffs

You may also create up to nine playoff tournaments for a tournament series. From your series, open the **Playoffs** tab where you can manage playoffs the same way as you manage them for tournaments.


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