Hide the Overview tab from public visitors
You can now hide the entire Overview tab from public visitors while keeping it visible to yourself and your fellow organizers. One toggle in Advanced Settings, and your participants only see the tabs they need.
Two ways visitors see your tournament
When someone opens your tournament link, they see one of two things:
- As a public visitor — they see the tabs everyone is meant to see: Matches, Standings, Participants, and so on.
- As an organizer (Owner or Admin) — once you're logged in, you also see Advanced Settings, scheduling tools, and editing controls that visitors never see.
The Overview tab used to fall in the first bucket — visible to everyone. Now you can flip it into the second.
How to hide the Overview tab
- Open your tournament and go to Advanced Settings.
- Find the Visibility section. The first row is "Search visibility" (the existing toggle that controls whether your tournament shows up in Google).
- Right under it is a new row: Overview tab visibility.
- Pick one of two options:
- Visible to everyone (the default)
- Only visible to organizers
That's it. Save the change and your public tournament link instantly stops showing the Overview tab.
What public visitors see when it's hidden
A visitor opening your link won't see the Overview tab in the navigation at all. If they happen to click a direct link to Overview — for example, an old bookmark or an embedded tournament — they're sent to the first live tab instead:
- Register, if your tournament is open for registrations.
- Otherwise, the first stage of your tournament (group stage, knockout bracket, etc.).
- Otherwise, Participants.
No error, no blank page, no broken link. They land somewhere useful.
What organizers see
When you're logged in as an Owner or Admin, the Overview tab stays right where it was. You'll see a small banner at the top of the tab reminding you that it's hidden from public view — so you can use it for organizer-facing info without forgetting who can see what.
If you regularly check on your tournament away from your desk, the same view follows you — see managing a tournament from your phone for the organizer-side experience.
What this is, and what it isn't
This toggle hides the Overview tab. The rest of your tournament — Matches, Standings, Participants, Stages — stays publicly accessible via the direct link, just like before. If you want fewer people to find your tournament at all, the Search visibility toggle (right above the new one) keeps your tournament out of Google and Score7's search. Together they give you fine control over what's discoverable and what's visible.
What this is not: a "private tournament" feature. Anyone with the link can still see the bracket and results. That's by design — Score7 tournaments are link-shareable by default. If you need fully private tournaments, that's a separate request — let us know.
What about the Description field?
The Details section on the Overview page has a Description field that supports markdown and HTML — great for posting rules, schedules, or contact info. Just remember: that description has always been visible to everyone with the link. The editor now shows that reminder right below the field label, but it's worth saying again here. If you've been using Description for internal notes, this is a good moment to move those notes somewhere else (a notes app, a shared doc, a chat thread) and keep the Description for things your participants should read.
Good to know
- The Overview tab visibility toggle is free for every plan.
- Existing tournaments are unaffected — the default for everyone (old and new tournaments) is "Visible to everyone."
- If your tournament has no other tabs yet (no stages created, no open registration), Overview stays visible to everyone as a fallback. The toggle takes effect as soon as there's another tab for visitors to land on — your public link will never end up on a blank page.
- Embeds are covered too: if you'd set an embedded tournament to start on Overview, the embed will land on the first public tab instead, and Overview won't appear in the embed's tab dropdown.
Want to keep customizing how your tournament looks and feels? Check out the guide on brand colors, logos, and custom URLs — same Advanced Settings page, more ways to make your tournament feel like yours.