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# How to Create and Assign Stations

# How to Create and Assign Stations

A station can be any location that a game or match will be taking place during an event or tournament. Stations can be anything; courts, rinks, diamonds, tables, consoles, PCs, chessboards, dart boards, corn hole boards, swim lanes, you name it. Challonge has convenient and easy-to-create stations and assigning matches to them is just as convenient and easy.

| When in the tournament screen, click the  `Create new station` button in the `Stations` tab.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/station-1png_tk0pjq.png)


| From here, enter the station's location in the `Name` field.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/station-2png_mjexmz.png)
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|| You can add a live stream link if individual stations have different streams running, and you can also include private details for each station, like a room code, match ID, password, etc. and it would show up for the participants playing at that station.

||| From here, there are two options: you can either manually assign matches to your stations or have Challonge do it for you!


| To manually assign a station, click the radio button next to whichever match-up and then click the `Assign Match` button.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/station-3png_12fahye.png)


| Or, you can have Challonge assign match-ups to different stations by enabling these toggle switches located beneath your stations:

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/stationoptionscropcleanbox_17rnzk.png)