Planning the season

Put the next tournament on the calendar, first day and last day. That is the whole first step, and it buys you a reminder the evening before, dots on the training calendar, and a practice match that starts live tracking with one tap when the day comes.

The ceilings that come before any calendar (hours a week, tournaments a month, rest months) are in Overuse injuries: the basics for parents.

The Schedule

Open Week → Schedule. Tap + ADD and pick a type: tournament, practice match, camp, or other. Give it a title, its first day and last day (a one-day event is the same day twice), and a location if you want one. It lands on the timeline under its month, and its days get a dot on the training calendar.

Plans change. Tap any event to edit its dates or details, or delete it. A scheduled practice match does double duty: when the day arrives, tapping it starts live tracking with the opponent pre-filled, and if the day has passed, it offers to log the result instead.

Reminders that respect you

The evening before any scheduled event, whether a tournament, a practice match, or a camp, the app sends one local reminder at 6 PM. Pack tonight, play tomorrow. That's the entire interruption model: no morning-of panic, no spam, and every notification is scheduled on the phone itself. The bell on Today collects the same information quietly: what's coming this week.

One weekly target

The Week tab holds a days-per-week number that the daily ring measures against. Set it honestly rather than ambitiously; it is the bar you are trying to clear most weeks, not your best week. You can change it any time, and it takes effect immediately.

Why plan rest? Flip Rest day on Week and planned recovery counts as a won day, exactly like a training day. The athletes who last are the ones whose calendars say "rest" out loud.

The summer stretch

Summer is when the calendar stops being theoretical. Events stack up, weeks blur, and the schedule quietly becomes the training plan whether you designed it or not. So design it. Put the events in first: every tournament you've already entered, with its real first day and last day. The open weeks are what's actually left.

Working backwards is the trick. When the events go on the timeline first, the honest amount of room for building becomes obvious, usually less than it felt like in May. Then set the weekly target against the summer you're actually having, and move it when the summer changes.

When the plan breaks, and it will

Draws move. A back-draw match appears on a day you'd written off. Somebody wakes up sick. Tap the event, change its dates, or delete it, and reshape the week around it. Nothing in the schedule is a promise you made to the app. It's a plan you're allowed to edit at the fence with one hand.

The entry-list question. Most families ask "how many tournaments this summer?" The more useful version: after this event, where is the recovery, and is it on the calendar? If you can't answer that, the entry is one too many.

Where the events come from

You enter them. TierBreak does not pull a tournament list from anywhere, because we would rather hold a feature than power it with scraped data about other people's kids. Entering the tournaments you already know about takes seconds, and everything downstream works fully today: dots, reminders, and the match-day flow.

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