Match Officials

Firstly congratulations on officiating at a competition. As match officials ourselves, we understand more than anyone the sacrifice of time and dedication that is required to be a match official at sport no matter what level.

The information in this article will help you understand how to best provide accurate information to the competition coordinators and also make sure you know how to view your appointments. After all that is the most important thing you need to know.

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Register as a Match Official

Finding and joining a competition

The first step is to find and register for a competition.

  1. From our home page locate the competition you wish to register for in the list of upcoming competitions.
  2. Click the Register button
  3. You will need to log into the site at this point. If you do not have an account follow the navigation to Create an Account.
  4. Once logged in you will be asked to complete the competition member profile. Here you can provide competition specific information such as.
    • Contact information (if different to your site profile)
    • Competition specific details (e.g. school affiliation)
    • Availability
  5. When ready, click Register to complete the process.

If you were not able to locate the competition on the home page use this method.

  1. From the main menu select Competitions > Competitions Search.
  2. Use the form to locate the competition you wish to join
  3. In the search results, select the View link for the competition you wish to join
  4. From the Competition details page click the “Join Competition” button
  5. Complete the registration form and click the button to complete the process.

Things to note: If you cannot locate the Join Competition or Register button, it may be that the competition administrators have disabled registrations.

Updating your registration details

After registering for a competition you can return to the competition and update your details. This includes providing availability and other information which competition administrators and coordinators may request you to provide after the initial registration.

NOTE: Competition Admins can disable this functionality for security reasons. If you find you cannot follow these steps to update your details we recommend contacting the competition administrators and coordinators directly for assistance as they can override the registration details.

The easiest method is from our home page:

  1. From our home page locate the competition you wish to update your registration for in the list of upcoming competitions.
  2. Click the Register button, as this will take you the update registration page.
  3. You will need to log into the site at this point using the same account you registered with.
  4. Once logged in you will be shown your existing registration. Make any of the required changes.
  5. Click the “Update Registration” button to save your changes.

If you cannot find the competition on the home page use these steps:

  1. Use the Navigation Menu to browse to the My Competitions page
  2. Locate the competition you need to update your details for in the list
  3. Follow the link to view the details of that competition
  4. From the Competition details page click the “Edit Registration” button
  5. Complete the registration form.

Parents/Guardians

To support parents/guardians we provide the capability to create multiple member profiles under the one Sports M8 account per competition. Each parent/guardian will have individual requirements in the way they want to manage their child’s registration based on the level of independence that they wish to allow their child within our platform. We have attempted to accommodate this need and can summarize the possible options as follows. The exact configuration will depend on your specific scenario and may differ slightly from these suggestions.

The following options are targeted towards the scenario where you as the Parent/Guardian ARE NOT participating/officiating at the competition along with your child.

Option 1 Create a SportsM8 account in your name as the parent/guardian. When you join the competition enter the details of your child. If you have additional children to register, click the button to create a linked member and enter the additional child’s details. Repeat as needed for additional children.

The advantage to this option is that you can login as yourself into SportsM8, but can see all your children’s profiles within the competition.

The disadvantage to this is option is that the children do not have their own login. Should the children need to log into the portal while at the competition, you would need to share the login details with those children to allow them to check the appointments themselves. Obviously a potential security concern and please make sure you are not using a common password you use on other sites.

Option 2 Same as above but create the SportsM8 account in the name of one of the children. Think of this as giving the older sibling the ability to login and pass the information onto the younger sibling.

The advantage to this option is that you can login (as the first child) but can see both children’s profiles within the competition.

The disadvantage to this is option is like the first option where only one child officially has a SportsM8 account to login, so that child would be responsible for informing the other children of their details, or the children would need to share the login details between them if they needed to check the appointments themselves.

Option 3 Each child has their own individual SportsM8 account and login, and then joins the competition individually from that login.

The advantage to this option is that each child can login and track their own games etc.

The disadvantage to this option is that as the parent/guardian you would need to log in as each child separately to see or manage their details and availability. However that may be ok if the trade off is to give the children more independence.

The following options are targeted towards the scenario where you as the Parent/Guardian ARE participating/officiating at the competition along with your child.

Option 4 Create a SportsM8 account in your name as the parent/guardian. When you join the competition enter your details. Once registered, click the button to create a linked member and enter your child’s details. Repeat as needed for additional children.

The advantage to this option is that you can login as yourself into SportsM8 and see your details/appointments/etc, but you can also see all your children’s profiles within the competition.

The disadvantage to this is option is that the children do not have their own login. Should the children need to log into the portal while at the competition, you would need to share the login details with those children to allow them to check the appointments themselves. Obviously a potential security concern and please make sure you are not using a common password you use on other sites.

Option 5 Create a SportsM8 account for both yourself and each of your individual children. Join the competition individually from each of those logins.

The advantage to this option is that yourself and each child can login and track their own games etc.

The disadvantage to this option is that as the parent/guardian you would need to log in as each child separately to see or manage their details and availability. However that may be ok if the trade off is to give the children more independence.

Ultimately the decision as to which way to manage this is yours to make as the parent/guardian. There are different options as each parent will have different levels of independence they want to give to their child.

The level of independence you choose to give to a child may change over time too. It’s ok if you want to have full control at the present time (Option 1), but want to increase the level of independence and change to another option at a later date. Simply have a conversation with your Competition Coordinators as they can make the appropriate changes to the competition profile.

Option 5 example steps

This is targeted towards the scenario of a parent/guardian wishing to register their child at the same competition, or perhaps a team coordinator being responsible for all the officials they are bringing to the venue. The key factor is that the parent/guardian is participating/officiating at the tournament along with the child.

To add a new child/linked profile to your existing membership.

  1. First follow the steps above to register in the competition. Then return to the registration page as though you are updating your details.
  2. Click the “Create Linked Member” button at the bottom of the page. This will create an additional profile for you to complete.
  3. Enter the details of your child in the registration fields, together with the availability etc.
  4. Click Register
  5. Follow the wizard type navigation to provide additional information as required (e.g. payment info)

Accessing the Child profiles

A new “Switch member profile” dropdown will appear at the top of the Registration and the My Appointments pages to allow you to easily alternate between the profiles and view/edit the relevant information.

The following video contains a walk through of this new feature.

Remember when registering multiple profiles you are still bound by the terms and policies of our site.

Next Steps

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