The Presentation Draw turns the draw into a ceremony on screen. Teams are revealed in order with an animation, so an audience in the room or on a stream can follow it live.
Does the animation decide the result?
No. The server produces the result and writes it to the draft before the presentation opens. The spinning names are decorative; they cannot change which team comes out. The Automatic Draw and the Presentation Draw use the same draw engine.
Presentation formats
- Timed draw presentation
- The system reveals teams one after another. The duration you choose is how long a revealed team stays on screen: the team is revealed, remains visible for that time, then slides into its group slot, and only after that does the next team start spinning. Choose between 1 and 15 seconds, 5 by default. The duration is a presentation preference only; it does not affect the result.
- Scheduled draw presentation
- A timed draw presentation that starts automatically at the date and time you set; it is not a separate draw method. The draw becomes official automatically when the presentation ends. See “What is a Scheduled draw presentation?” for details.
- Manager-controlled draw presentation
- When the presentation opens nothing spins yet: the stage shows “Ready to start” and waits for “Start”. Each team takes two steps: “Start” sets the names spinning, “Stop” reveals the next team and settles it into its group. The system never advances on its own; you press “Start” again for the next team. You decide when a team is revealed, not which team it is.
Does the draw become official when the presentation ends?
No. When the presentation ends the result is still a draft. You review it, redraw if needed, then select “Make the draw official”. Automatic finalisation belongs only to the Scheduled draw presentation.
What does the audience see?
- It sees: the process and the teams as they are drawn.
- It does not see: seeding numbers, pot layout or other management details. In a seeded draw the reveal order does not give the seeds away either; which teams are seeded cannot be told from the presentation.
- It can also be followed from the Live section of the public tournament page (in all three presentation formats): before each reveal the names cycle briefly, then the revealed team appears on the same stage, in its correct group, with a delay of a few seconds. The cycling names are decorative only; the draw result decides which team comes out and where it is placed. A viewer who opens the page later sees the teams revealed so far already placed. The page has no draw controls; viewers only follow.
For viewers with reduced motion enabled the spinning name animation stops, but the draw flow works exactly the same. The animation is decorative.