Coordinators and Conference Admins: How to assign a host team and location to games

The previous "Location" field on games has been split into "Location" and "Host Team".

This will give you better information when assigning closest officials and allow you to add host teams who can view the game and assigned officials. Below is an explanation of the new fields:

Location is now a specific address which can optionally be associated with a school. All of your existing schools have automatically been added as locations.

To manually add a location to your site, go to Games —> Locations in the menu.

Click on the "Add a location" box on the right-hand side of the next screen.

Next, enter the Location Name and Full Address. Optionally, select the Associated School and then click on the "Create Location" tab.

• Associated School should be used when the location will be used several times throughout a season for that school.

Mileages will automatically be calculated for officials after a location is added.

Host team is only necessary when a team other than the Visiting or Home team needs to be able to view the game and official/staff assignments. This is mostly used for MTEs (multiple-team events) hosted at a neutral location.

Host team will default to “n/a” and in most cases does not need to be changed.

• If you have an MTE (multiple-team event) located at another school and the host school is not participating in the event, and you need to let the host school know game and crew details, you will identify the host school in this field. The game will then post to the schedules of all affiliated personnel (coach, game management, etc.,) of the host school.

Conference will default to that of the home team once the game has been saved. If the assigning conference is different, you can specify the conference in the drop-down.

Contact the BlueZebra help desk [e-mail] with any questions regarding these changes.