# Glossary

Kickertool and the tournament.app API sometimes use different words for the same thing. The API keeps one
name per concept for every sport, the manual uses the words of the app.

| Manual | API | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Tournament** | `tournaments` | One event with its disciplines, participants, tables and results. |
| **Organizer** | `organizers` | The account, club or association that runs tournaments. |
| **Discipline** | `disciplines` | One competition inside a tournament, for example Open Doubles. Has its own participants, stages and standings. |
| **Player**, **Team** | `entries` | A participant of a discipline: a single player, a doubles pair or a named team. The API calls all of them entries. |
| **Stage** | `stages` | One phase of a discipline with one [mode](/kickertool/modes/), for example a Swiss System followed by an Elimination. |
| **Group** | `groups` | A subdivision of a stage in modes that play in groups, such as [Round Robin](/kickertool/modes/round-robin/). |
| **Round** | `rounds` | The matches drawn together at one point of a stage. |
| **Match** | `matches` | A game between two participants, or between two drawn teams in [MonsterDYP](/kickertool/modes/monster-dyp/). Its result is counted in sets and goals. |
| **Table** | `courts` | Where a match is played. The API says court because tournament.app is not limited to table soccer. |
| **Standings**, **Table** | `standings` | The ranking of a stage or group, built from the [table columns](/kickertool/table/table-columns/). |
| **Bye** | | A free round for one participant when the field is odd. Modes handle it differently, see the mode pages. |
| **Check-in** | | Marks a participant as present, only checked-in participants take part in the draw. |
| **Result** | `result` | The outcome of a match: sets, goals, and who won. |
| **Webhook** | `webhooks` | An HTTP callback tournament.app sends to your server when tournament data changes, see [Webhooks](/api/webhooks/). |