Covers hosting, announcing and monetising the format end to end, verified
against the live code and database rather than inferred from column names.

The headline finding is that the built-in multi-phase path — the preset
literally labelled سويسري ← إقصاء — cannot work: startSwissPhase reads a
swiss_event_id column that does not exist, startPhase merges that error into a
success envelope so it fails silently, getQualifiedPlayers can only read the
external Swiss service, and tournamentFinish completes the tournament before
the advance buttons can be pressed. tournament_phases, tournament_brackets and
bracket_matches all hold zero rows in production; it has never run.

The document gives the path that does work — the Swiss natively, a manual cut,
and the knockout as a second tournament whose phase 1 is the bracket, which is
reachable because getPhasePlayers reads registrations directly for phase 1 —
and is blunt about entry fees and prizes being displayed but never moved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>