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Must know
  • Available when a superadmin enables Bye Requests for your club. It is new in Uplifter Curling (CCM’s generator had no requested nights off), so it is off for every club until Uplifter switches it on — ask your Uplifter contact.
  • A bye request covers a whole league night, every draw time on it. A team can hold up to 20 requests in a league.
  • Requests shape the schedule only when you generate (or regenerate) or optimise. Adding a request never moves a game that is already saved; the panel warns you instead.
  • The generator never changes who plays whom, how many games each team gets or how many byes each team has. It rearranges the order and moves games; anything it cannot honour is listed before you save.
With the feature on, a Bye requests panel sits on the league’s Draws tab — “Nights a team asked to sit out.” Convenors see the same panel in the League Portal’s Schedule section. Admins, the league’s managers and league convenors can add and remove requests for any team. Members can ask too, from My Teams → Nights off, until the club has scheduled that night; their requests appear here tagged member, with Asked by and any note.
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Record the requests

On the league’s Draws tab, open Bye requests. Pick the Team, the Night (the list offers the league’s nights, and a night already on the schedule says (scheduled)), add a Note (optional) such as “away at a bonspiel”, and click Add request. The badge counts the requests. Click the × on a row to remove one.
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Generate around them

Click Generate schedule (or Regenerate). When the league has requests, the dialog shows Honour N bye requests (M teams), ticked, and under it Add make-up draws after the last night for games that cannot move, also ticked. Set up the rest of the dialog as usual.
3

Preview

Click Preview. The preview says N of M bye requests honoured before anything is saved. Any request it could not meet is listed as {team} still plays {night} with the reason, and games sent to make-up draws are listed with the note “Their opponents sit those nights out instead.”
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Save

Click Create schedule (or Replace schedule). The confirmation repeats the count, for example Created 8 draws — 3 of 3 bye requests honoured. Preview and save give the same grid.

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How the generator honours a request

First it looks for an arrangement where the requesting team simply has that night’s bye: it reorders the teams within each division and the rounds within each round-robin cycle, which changes neither the matchups nor anyone’s game or bye count. Two teams asking for the same night are paired against each other where possible, so one moved game clears both. Whatever is still on a requested night is then moved or swapped into a free sheet on another night. When a game still cannot move — typically in a league where every team plays every draw — Add make-up draws puts it on a make-up draw after the last league night, skipping holidays, excluded dates, nights either team asked off and game times reserved for another division. The opponent then sits the original night out, which is why this is a choice. Untick it to leave such requests unmet instead. The reasons you may see for an unmet request: A league with an odd number of teams has one bye per night, so two teams asking off the same night, or one team asking off two nights in one cycle, cannot all get the bye without make-up draws.

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After the schedule is saved

A request added for a night the saved schedule still has the team playing shows a warning that stays visible even with the panel collapsed — {team} requested a bye on {night} but is scheduled ({draw}) — regenerate or move the game. (with Draw Optimizer enabled it ends regenerate or optimise unlocked games.) — and a scheduled anyway badge. Nothing moves on its own: regenerate, move the game yourself, or, with Draw Optimizer enabled, run Optimise unlocked games, whose preview shows On requested byes: before → after. In the classic view, the Generate Games screen honours the league’s requests the same way, and its result line adds N of M bye requests honoured (with the teams and nights still scheduled). The classic screen has no requests panel; record requests in the new view. Turning the feature off hides the panel, the member button and the dialog line, and generating ignores the stored requests; turning it back on brings them back unchanged. Related: How do I generate the draw schedule? · How do I clear or regenerate the schedule? · What is the draw optimizer? · How do I ask for a night off (a bye)? · What is the Features page?