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# How to manually assign tie-break points in your tournament

Participants can end up tied despite all the other tie-break settings. Organizers have the option to manually assign tie-break points to break ties. For example, if two tied users decide to play rock paper scissors to declare the true winner, the organizer can break the tie by assigning a tie-break point to the winner. 

|| Go to settings and ensure the 4th tie-break box is set to Manual Tie Break

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/man-tbpng_x1d3d1.png)


|| To break a tie, simply select "assign manual tie-breaks" in the standings tab


![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/manual-tie-break3png_daisyp.png)
|| After clicking the "assign manual tie-breaks" you will see the following menu. From here you can add the tie-break points.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/manual-tie-breakpng_10kl1ps.png)

|| Once you assign the tie-break points, click save and you will see the points shown in the standings. 

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/manual-tie-break2png_160qto8.png)

||| *Note: If you do not use tie-break points, ties between participants that are tied despite all other tie-break methods will be broken based on pre-match seeding.*
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