Event Page

What this section does

Every event has a public page anyone can open at croquettools.com/tournaments/<year>/<slug> — no login. It's created automatically and always shows the event name, country and dates; everything else — players, schedule, brackets — stays hidden until you turn it on here.

The tab is laid out in four parts, top to bottom: Who can see this page, Name & design, What's on it and Write it. A live preview of the real page sits beside them. Everything saves as you go — there is no Save button.

Who can see this page

One choice for the whole page:

Only people with the preview link — the public link is switched off. Anyone who opens it, including people you send it to, sees "This event page isn't available". The Preview link box beside the public link holds a secret URL that shows the page exactly as your current choices have it, with no sign-in; Copy preview link copies it. People on the preview link don't see the purple Test event banner.
Everyone — the public link opens for anyone, and the event is listed on the public Tournaments page.

On a test event Everyone is greyed: a test event can't be public. A note says so, with Copy preview link and Go to Details, where Test event is turned off. The tick box Open the page to everyone as soon as Test event is turned off decides what happens at that moment; untick it and the page stays on the preview link until you choose Everyone.

Under the choice, the Public link box shows the URL with Copy link and Edit URL. Edit URL changes the slug, with a live availability check. Changing the URL is safe: any link you've already shared automatically redirects to the new one.

Three states

Each part of the page carries one of these:

● Live — visitors see it now.
Ready · hidden — the players, the schedule or the knockouts exist and their switch is off. Publish all … that are ready at the top of What's on it switches every one of them on in one press.
Hidden — switched off.
Nothing to show yet — there is nothing to publish, so it has no switch. The row names the tab that creates the data instead: no entries means no field, no schedule means no order of play.
Empty — a section you can fill in but haven't (a priority notice, registration details).
Automatic — armed, and showing itself when there is something to show: Winners before the event ends, Latest before the first result, Live before the first live game.

The readiness prompt

Above the list, a line reads "Your page answers 4 of 6 questions visitors arrive with" and names the single next thing worth doing — write a description, review the compiled Event details, add the venue map, publish the field, publish the schedule, show the winners. How does it run? counts as answered only once the compiled Event details section is published and shown; while it is a draft the prompt offers Review Event details and jumps to it, and if the section was removed it offers Add Event details back. Only questions this event can answer are counted: a club social with no bracket is not marked down for having none. The prompt changes as entries, schedules and results land, so it is worth glancing at each time you open the tab.

Name & design

The title over your page and how the page is dressed. It sits beside the preview, so a change shows straight away.

Event name — the title (defaults to the event name) and a subtitle. The header shows a GC, AC or A6W badge beside the title unless the title already names the game ("Golf Croquet", "GC", "Association Croquet", "AC", "American Six Wicket" or "A6W"). An Advantage GC event always shows its ADV GC badge.
Design — how the whole page is dressed: - Logo — an optional logo. Logo size sets how big it sits in the page header: Small (the setting when nothing has been chosen) is a small square level with the title; Medium and Large stand beside the dates, title and venue together and keep a wide logo's own shape, shrinking on a phone so the title keeps its room. Shared links use the logo too: the preview card a link shows in WhatsApp, email or Facebook puts it on a light tile beside the title (PNG, JPEG, GIF or SVG; a WebP logo is left off the card). With a logo, a header photo or an accent other than Lawn green, the green line under the Croquet Tools bar at the top of the page is left off. - Accent colour — one of eight colours (Lawn green, the default, Navy, Royal blue, Teal, Maroon, Purple, Amber, Slate) for the date line, the tabs and chips, links and buttons. Every one is dark enough to read on the page. Results keep their own colours: a win is green and a loss red on every event, whatever its accent. - Header photo — an optional wide photo at the top of the page, placed one of two ways. Above the name (the setting when nothing has been chosen) shows it as a band across the top, with the name, dates and logo on the light header below. Behind the name fills the header with it: the name, dates and venue sit on the photo in white over a dark layer, so they read on any photo, and the logo gets a light tile. Slim, Standard (the setting when nothing has been chosen) or Tall set the height — above the name it is the band's height; behind it is the least height the header takes, and a long name makes it taller rather than being cut off. Every height is shorter on a phone (about 85, 110 and 140 pixels on a typical phone, against 150, 230 and 320 on a laptop) so the tabs stay on the first screen. Which part shows slides the photo from its top to its bottom. A large photo is resized to 2000 pixels wide before upload.

Write it

What visitors read. Your page always shows the event name, country and dates. Home sections and Registration also have a row under What's on it, where their switch sits; Edit on that row brings you down here.

Start my home page

While the home page has none of your own sections, a box at the top of Write it reads "Your home page is just the name and dates" with Start my home page. One press adds the sections the tool can fill from what it already knows:

Where to play — a Location section with this event's venues and map pins, when the event has venues and no map yet.
Event details — when the event doesn't have it already.

It switches Home sections on and takes you to Event details, which stays a draft until you press Publish it. It writes no text of its own: anything else visitors should know goes in a + Text section. The readiness prompt's What is this event? offers the same button while the page has no sections of yours.

Home sections — the bulk of what a visitor reads. Build it from + Text, + Location (starts with this event's venues, address and map pin filled in; club search with a map pin for anything else, and any event venue not yet on it offered as a one-click add) and + Image blocks; reorder, hide or remove each. Adding the first section turns Home sections on — writing something is the answer to whether it belongs on the page — and the Home sections switch under What's on it takes it back off. Once you have hidden them, adding more sections leaves them hidden: that choice stands until you change it. Beside them: - 📍 Add your venue(s) — turns the venues this event is played at into a Location section, with the club catalog's address and map pin already filled in. If you have already pressed + Location and left it blank, this fills that section rather than adding a second one. - With two or more titled sections, Show "Jump to" links on Home adds a bar of clickable section headers at the top. - Event details is a fourth kind of section, written for you — see below.
Priority notice — a red banner at the very top of the page, above everything. For time-critical news: a rain delay, a venue change. Leave blank to hide it.
Registration — the open/closed switch (also on its row under What's on it) and all its fields. Fill in only what you have — blank fields are hidden. Cost, Registration deadline (the section turns itself off the day after), Registration link, Contact name / email, Host club(s), and a rich-text Registration details body for anything else an entrant needs to know. A deadline is required before registration can open: it is how the listing closes itself.

Event details

A section written from your settings, so you review rather than type. By the time setup is done the tool knows the dates, the venue and its lawns, every competition and how it runs, how many go through, every handover, the match format round by round, the tiebreak order, the merit cut and who is barred from it. Event details compiles that into themed groups — When, Where, Format, Deciding ties — each appearing only when it has something true to say.

Format carries a block per competition, in the order they appear on the page, and inside that a stanza per stage — the block stage, then each draw in the order it is played. A stanza says what that stage is, who is in it, how it is seeded and how a match is played, so a reader settles one draw without reading past the other two. The stanza's heading carries the name, so its lines don't repeat it. Anything belonging to the competition as a whole — a handover out, an eligibility bar, a doubles note — sits above the stanzas.

The eye works at every level: hide one bullet, one stanza, one competition, or the whole group.

Deciding ties says what a block's standings are decided on — matches won in best of 3 or 5, games won in single-game matches, win percentage in a Swiss — then the tiebreak order, or "with no tiebreaker" when the list is empty. When the competition's tiebreak note is showing (Scoring tab), the note is added here as its own bullet, in your words: this is where an event says, for example, that ties for qualifying places are settled by playoffs.

It is drafted into every event the first time you open this tab, and nobody can see it but you until you press Publish it. The row carries a Draft · only you pill until then. Publishing also switches Home sections on if they were off, since publishing means putting it on the page.

It is a Home section like any other, so it sits where you put it: ↑ ↓ to move it above or below your own writing, 👁 to hide the whole thing, ✕ to remove it, and its title is yours to edit — "Event details" is only the default. Removing it is remembered, and + Event details adds it back.

Inside it:

Every bullet has an eye, and so does every group. Nothing is compulsory. A group whose bullets are all hidden does not appear; a section whose groups are all hidden publishes nothing and says so. Hiding a group also hides anything that lands in it later (hide Deciding ties, change the chain next week, and it stays hidden); hiding bullets one at a time does not.
＋ after any bullet writes your own line there — a time limit, say, beside the match format. Yours sit in the group you chose, survive every change of settings, and on the public page look exactly like the compiled ones. Edit or remove them from the same row.
Under each compiled bullet, in small type, is the setting it came from — Format, Knockout setup, Pathway, Scoring settings — so a line you disagree with points at the tab that fixes it.
Nothing here is stored as text. Change a setting and the bullet changes with it, on the page as well as here. After you have published, a settings change shows a Settings changed since you published this note naming what moved; It's fine clears it. The page is never held back by that note — it already says the new thing.

What it will not say: no opinions ("a popular format"), no promises ("venue to be confirmed" — an absent fact is an absent bullet), no regulation codes (the planner cites Croquet England's F-codes because a manager choosing a format wants to know it is official; a player reading a page in Australia does not), and nothing about Z games or WCF submission. Team and One Hoop events do not get one.

What's on it

Every part of the page, one row each, with its switch on the row: a part shows only while its switch is on, so what visitors get reads at a glance without opening anything. Open a row for its finer options. Home sections and Registration come first; their content is written under Write it.

Event details has its own row under Home sections, because it is drafted for you and stays unpublished until you publish it. While it is a draft the row is amber, reads Draft · only you and carries Review and publish, which takes you down to the Event details section.

Players — the field/draw: names, seeds, dGrades. Then: show players grouped by the event's own structure — blocks, competitions, or both, and the button is named for whichever the event has — or just the flat field (the "draw is public" switch); show or hide dGrades (in a competition seeded on the max dGrade of the last 12 months there are two columns: Max dGrade (12 mo), the max used for the seeding, first, then dGrade, the current one; each sorts on its own, the list opens sorted on the max and the block average is of the max; a player with no games in the last 12 months has no games in 12 mo in the max column). The name columns are as wide as the longest names in the field and the grade columns have fixed widths, so every block card lines up; and an optional rich-text Notice at the top of the tab. Beside each name are up to three chips: Follow puts that person at the top of Latest (see below), Schedule opens that entrant's games on the Schedule tab (a singles player's view includes their doubles games), and Ranking profile opens their ranking profile — shown only for a player with a ranking code. On a phone the first and last name share one column, and the chips that don't fit beside the name go together on the line below. A pair gets Follow beside the names and Schedule on the line below — Follow on a pair follows both partners; each partner's name links to their own profile. An event with both singles and doubles shows one kind at a time, with a Singles / Doubles switch at the top of the tab. The All players box at the top works like the Schedule tab's View box: a list of every person (a pair counts as one), people the visitor follows first, that narrows as you type — by name, club or country code, ignoring accents. Picking someone shows their block with their row highlighted (in a flat list, just their row); × or All players returns to everyone.
Latest — every result in the event as a full-width card, one under another, newest first, grouped by day. The tab appears with the event's first result. From then until the end date the page opens on it; after the end date it opens on Details again. (An event whose competitions are all Swiss keeps opening on its Swiss rounds.) A card's top line says where the game was played ("Championship · Block B · R5") and when the result went in ("12 min ago" within the hour, the time of day after that); a match still being played adds a "game 2 of 3" badge there. Under it the winner's line sits over the loser's with the winning score in bold, and the scores sit in columns on the right so they line up down the day. A best-of-3 shows a column per game and then the games won. Advantage cards add each side's scoring fraction underneath. Tapping the top line's round opens that block's standings with both players' rows marked, or the competition's bracket for a knockout game. With more than one competition, chips at the top — All and one per competition — narrow the list, and the choice is remembered on that visitor's device. Block results are listed once Players is shown with the draw public; knockout results once Knockouts is shown.

Following. A visitor follows someone by tapping Follow beside their name on the Players tab, the ☆ beside it on a Latest card or a standings row, or Follow on their Schedule card; the same tap stops following. A note at the foot of the screen confirms it ("Following Jimmy Jumper") with See on Latest → when the visitor is on another tab, and hovering a star says what following does. Following is kept in that visitor's browser — no sign-in, and nothing is sent anywhere — and there is no limit on how many people. Each followed person gets a card at the top of Latest, in one row that scrolls sideways, so following four people takes the same height as following one. When there are more cards than fit, the row ends part-way into the next card and that edge fades; on a computer a round › button sits on the faded edge and scrolls the row along (‹ scrolls back), while a phone swipes. A card shows, for each block they are in, their place and record ("2nd in Block B · 3 won, 1 lost" — no place before their first game); then On now with the lawn and opponent while they are playing, or Next with "~14:45 · 3rd on Lawn 1" and the opponent (the time and lawn only when the schedule is shown); then their last four results; and All their games →, which opens their Schedule card. A ★ Following chip narrows the results to the games of the people followed, and in All those cards are tinted gold. Following a person covers every entry they hold, so a singles player's doubles games are included. Before the event's first result, a visitor who follows somebody already sees the Latest tab, holding just those cards; everyone else sees no Latest tab until there is a result.

Schedule — the day-by-day order of play, with its own Show pairings & times / Withhold choice and its own Notice.
Live — the games logged live, point by point, by people at the event. Its switch turns live logging on or off; the row holds who can log and the Live tab setting: see Live below.
Swiss board — (Swiss competitions only) settings rather than a switch: the live board shows on the Scores tab, and here you set "show waiting times" and a Notice ("No new games after 4pm").
Knockouts — the bracket, with a Notice. On an event with one competition it is a tab of its own. With two or more, the Knockouts tab lists every competition with its draws, and the quick links row picks the competition or draw there; its chips read KO, Plate, 3rd Place. While the row is showing, the Knockouts tab has no brackets box of its own; a double elimination or Draw & Process keeps its All and section chips above the draw. On a competition played as cross block a block card's Matrix button is named Cross block and draws one grid for the pair rather than one per block. A competition played entirely as a knockout shows its bracket directly. A double elimination or Draw & Process opens on All: every section on one board, the feeding halves stacked and the deciding final beside them, with the trophy on that final only — winning the losers' bracket makes nobody a champion. Its sections stay one tap away as Winners, Losers and Grand Final (or Draw, Process and Final), and hovering a card lights the match its feed label names. Above the draw a line says when it was made, how many were seeded and drawn, and where the randomness came from; How this draw was made opens the record, re-checked in the visitor's browser, with any hand changes since the draw listed (see Draw record). Safe to show early: the draw displays seed positions ("Block A 1st", "W C1") until a block's finishing order is decided, then fills in the real players automatically. Once a seat holds a player, their dGrade follows the name where the event shows dGrades, and in a handicap event their handicap — the same figures the standings and Latest print, so a player reads the same on every tab. Where the field is short of the draw size the spare places are byes, and each is drawn as a dashed card naming the player who walks through — so a 14-player field in a 16 draw reads as two byes rather than as a bracket with cards missing. Two viewer controls sit above it, remembered in that visitor's browser and never touching the event: ☀️ Light / 🌙 Dark for the clubhouse-TV look, and — on a draw that halves cleanly to a single final — ↔ Meet in middle (the default) or → Left to right. Folded, the bottom half comes back on itself so the two halves converge on a centre final, the way a large draw is printed; left to right runs the rounds in one line. A draw that doesn't fold (Draw & Process, a placement pair, anything under three rounds) isn't offered the choice, and nor is a phone: folding turns three columns into five, so on a narrow screen it is wider than left-to-right rather than narrower. The bracket runs the full width of the screen rather than the page's reading column. ⤢ Fit (the default) sizes the draw to the screen — shrinking a large one so the whole thing is visible at once, and growing a small one so a two-card playoff isn't a postage stamp in the middle of a widescreen. ⤡ Full size keeps the names at natural weight and scrolls sideways instead. A very large draw stops shrinking at half size — past that the names stop being readable — and scrolls for the remainder. The match format is stated once above the draw ("Single game · 19-point game, first to 10 throughout"; an AC draw says "26-point game"); a card repeats it only where that round differs, so a longer final stands out instead of being lost in the same line on every card. Round headings sit centred over their columns, and the final is marked — gold trim, a 🏆 by its match number, and the champion's name in gold once it is decided.

Seeds shown on the draw sets how many of the field were seeded. Enter 4 and the bracket puts a small 1–4 beside those players and nothing beside anyone else — the honest reading when the rest were drawn at random. Blank means no numbers; the full field size suits a draw where every place was seeded. Show them hides the numbers without forgetting the count. A player carries their number into later rounds.

Winners — a trophy card at the top of the page saying who won. Its switch turns the card off for good. Open the row for Show when the event is over waits until the day after your end date, so a winner decided on the final morning isn't published before the last game; Show now publishes immediately, for announcing from the prize-giving. Winners come from the results — whoever won each knockout final, and whoever finished 1st in a single-block or Swiss competition. A competition that ended level shows nothing until you settle it on Scoring.

The Scores tab appears whenever Players is on — it shows "No scores recorded yet" until results are entered, so the roster stays private until you publish the field. Each block's card opens on Standings (a cross-block competition on its Cross block grid, a Swiss on its rounds), with Matrix and Order of play beside them on the card itself; the newest-first list of results is the Latest tab. An event played entirely as a knockout has no Scores tab at all: with no blocks there are no standings, and the results are on the Knockouts tab and in Latest. An event with Z games keeps it, since those are listed there.

Order of play lists each block's games by round. A game still to play says where and when — Lawn 8 · 08:00, with the day in front (Wed 16 Sept) where the block's games are not all on one day. Once the competition's bracket is public, its scheduled games follow the blocks in a Knockouts card, in time order with a date heading per day, each tagged with its round (Plate · Semifinal).

The full schedule reads On now first or In order. On now first lists the games on court, then Up next, then the rest still to play day by day, then the games already played, most recent day first. In order is every day from the first, each in time order. The page opens on On now first while games are on court today, or once some results are in and games are still to play; before any result and after the last one it opens In order. The Schedule tab's View box is a search: typing narrows the list to matching names, ignoring accents and capitals, with names where a word starts with the typed letters listed first, and a club or country matches too. Before anything is typed it lists the people a visitor follows first, under Following. When the event's players represent countries, each name carries its flag; a club event or one with no representation shows none. The × returns to the full schedule. It names each person once, not once per entry — people only, including both halves of every doubles pair, so somebody entered only in the doubles still finds their own name. Picking a name gives that person's whole event in one time-ordered list, singles and doubles together, with chips to narrow it to one competition; Save PDF produces whatever the card is showing. Pairs are not listed separately: on a schedule row each half of a doubles name is its own link, so tapping your own name in a pair opens your games, not the pair's.

Quick links

Under the tabs, a row of chips names every block and draw on the page, one tap each: A · B · C · D · KO · Plate on a one-competition event; with several competitions the chips sit under a label per competition (a Plate's chips under the Championship that feeds it, as Plate · Draw). The label is itself a tap: it opens that competition, and it is green while that competition is on screen. While the row is present it is the only competition picker: the tab bar keeps the event-wide pages (Details, Latest, Players & Blocks, Schedule) plus Scores and Knockouts, and the Singles / Doubles or per-competition tabs, the Stages row inside a ladder, and the Jump to block chips above a table all step aside, since the row already does each of those jobs. On Scores the row holds only the blocks, on Knockouts only the draws; every other tab shows the whole row. The tabs say what to show and the row says which competition: a block chip opens that block on Scores, a draw chip that draw on Knockouts, and a competition's label opens that competition on the tab already open (on Scores when it has no draw, on Knockouts when it has no blocks). Scores is there before any result, as on a one-competition event. The label of the competition on screen is green. An event whose row would hold a single chip has no row, and keeps those tabs. A Swiss block's chip reads Swiss, a Z pool's Z, and a double elimination or Draw & Process is one chip for its All view. A block chip opens that competition's tables scrolled to the block, on whichever view is showing (Matrix stays Matrix); a draw chip opens its bracket. Each block's card carries its own Standings / Matrix / Order of play switch beside its games count, so a visitor dropped at Block C changes that block's view where they are, and Block A can show a matrix while Block B stays on its table. A Z pool's card offers Standings and Order of play only: a crosstable of one-off games between players who mostly never met is empty squares. A block whose finished table calls for a play-off gets its own chip after the blocks (C Playoff), which opens that block's table scrolled to the play-off card. The row shows only what the tabs show — a hidden draw or field never appears in it — and is absent when there is only one place to go, so a one-block event keeps its header as it was. The chip a visitor tapped stays lit until they tap a tab. A block chip puts ?block=block-b in the address (?tab=first-flight-singles&block=block-b inside a competition), so a link to one block can be shared; a draw chip publishes the bracket's own ?ko= link.

Live

Live logging lets someone at the lawn keep a game's score on their phone while it is played, for anyone to follow. Starting one from the event fills in the event, the players, the round, the lawn, the best-of and the points, so the logger taps once and starts logging. The Live row under What's on it holds two settings. It needs the schedule shown with its pairings and times: with the Schedule tab hidden or withheld, neither the Score live buttons nor the Live tab appear.

#### Who can log games live

Anyone signed in (the setting when nothing has been chosen) — every game on the Schedule tab that is on now, up next or still to play, with both players known, carries a Score live button. Anyone with an account can start a live log or join one already running; a visitor who is signed out is asked to sign in first.
Event scorers — only the event's owners, managers and scorers (see Roles & sharing) see Score live. Everyone else can follow a game that is being logged.
Off — no Score live buttons. Games already being logged carry on until they finish.

The event also appears under From an event on the Live Scoring page's Log a live game screen while it is running (a day either side of its dates), for the people this setting lets in. That list opens the event's Live tab.

Score live opens in a new tab, so the event page stays where it was. Tapping it asks which game of a best-of the logger is joining at, with the scores of earlier games filled in from the results already entered. A GC logger joining partway through a game can type the score so far; an AC logger picks the ball colours and gets the AC board. The GC pad logs hoops and scores, not shots.

The start screen says Score live is for live scoring updates, to be used only by someone courtside who can update the score for viewers, and has a Cancel button back to the event. A log is not shown as live anywhere (the schedule, the Live tab, the Live hub) until its first hoop or score is logged, and a log with nothing logged 15 minutes after it started is dropped: the next person to tap Score live on that game starts a fresh one. Several people can log the same game at once. Each hoop tap names the hoop it is for, so the same hoop tapped on two phones counts once, and the second phone is told the score it already has. On the GC pad, Game setup (tap Change) holds the ball colours, the score of the game under way (for a logger who joined late or missed a hoop), and in a best-of which game is being played with the earlier games' scores. Picking a different game there renumbers the log, so a wrong answer at the start can be put right at any time. The top of the pad links back to the event page and lists the event's other games being logged; tapping one opens its pad, so one person can log two lawns side by side. Leaving the pad and coming back resumes where it was. In GC, the ball colours say who played first in game 1 (blue, or green with the secondary colours), and in later games the loser of the previous game plays first. When that is not known and the game reaches the hook (6–6 in a 13-point game, 9–9 in a 19-point game), the GC pad asks who played first this game. AC logs set only the ball colours; who played first is not recorded. Loggers can post comments from the pad and edit or delete their own; the game page's chat is open to anyone signed in, and loggers see it on the pad.

On the Schedule tab a game being logged shows its live score in place of the button — 4–3 LIVE, PAUSED, or FINAL once the log has ended — and the score opens the game. On the game page, the event's name links back to the event's Live tab, and a strip under it lists the event's other games being logged at that moment, with their scores; tapping one opens it.

Results entered on the event are the record. When a result is entered for a game that was logged live, the live log is ended and takes that result; if the result differs from what was logged, the live log is corrected to it and says so, on the game page and on the Live tab. Games the live log holds beyond the entered result are left as they are.

#### Manage this live log

The person who started a live log, the event's owners and managers, and site admins see a Manage this live log card at the foot of the game page and of the scoring pad. Everyone else sees no card.

Stop logging ends the log and locks it: the pad refuses every further hoop, score and comment, and the timeline says who stopped it ("Logging stopped by the event"). Allow logging again unlocks it. The person who started the log cannot unlock one that a manager or admin stopped.
Delete log takes the log off the event's Schedule and Live tabs, the Live hub and its own link, and takes its games out of public view; nothing is erased. Opening the game's link afterwards offers Restore log to the same people. The person who started the log cannot restore one that a manager or admin deleted. A log cannot be restored once someone has started a new live log of the same game.
Comments and chat messages: a ⋮ beside a comment or chat message opens its actions — Delete, and Edit on the pad for a comment of your own. The same people get it beside every comment in the game's timeline and every chat message, and on the pad's comment list, which shows them every comment rather than only their own. Each logger still gets it on their own comments, and each chat writer on their own messages.

Following a live log needs no account: the game page, its timeline and its chat can be read signed out. Posting in the chat, posting a comment from the pad, and logging all need a signed-in account.

#### Live tab

Show when a game is logged (the setting when nothing has been chosen) — the tab appears once any game in the event has been logged live, and stays as a record after the event. An event nobody logs never shows it. A visitor who arrives from From an event sees it on the event's days.
Show through the event — the tab is up from the first day to the last, whether or not anything has been logged, as long as live logging is not Off. After the event it stays only if a game was logged.
Keep it hidden — no Live tab. Score live on the Schedule tab is still governed by the setting above.

The tab lists Being logged now, then the games On now, Up next and Later today that nobody is logging, each with Score live, then Logged: every game that was logged, kept once it finishes. Tapping a logged game anywhere on its row opens its live game page, with the play by play, the chat and the event's other live games (games with a player you follow on this device come first, starred). Help score this game at the foot of that page opens the scoring pad for a second scorer. A game that was never logged drops off the list once it is played. The tab's label carries a count of the games being logged at that moment.

The preview

The panel on the right is the real public page, loaded through your private preview link, so it shows exactly what a visitor gets — including on a test or unlisted event. It reloads a moment after your edits settle; ↻ reloads it now, Open ↗ opens it full size, and Hide preview gives the editor the full width. Anything marked Hidden, Ready · hidden or Nothing to show yet in the list is missing from the preview on purpose — the gap between the list and the page is the point.

Details — test vs real controls whether the page is reachable at all.
FAQ — the visibility model in one answer.