The Linked Games feature can be enabled for sites on-request. If you don’t see a Linked Games panel on the game edit page, contact [email protected] and we'll be happy to help.

Linked Games let you tie two or more games on the same date together into a single block. Once games are linked, an official treats the whole block as one commitment:

This is useful whenever you want to guarantee an official works (or doesn’t work) a whole set of games together — for example, a doubleheader, a pool-play set at a tournament, or any group of games where partial coverage isn’t acceptable.

Linking games does not change anything about how you build the schedule or assign officials day-to-day. A linked game still shows up as a normal row on your games list — you'll just see a chain icon to the left of a linked game.

Linking games only changes what happens when an official accepts, declines, requests, or self-assigns those games.

You can link games together:

You can link games together, one game at a time, by:

To create or edit a game and add it to a block of linked games, follow these steps.

1. Navigate to Games → All Games.

To create a new game, select + New Game. To edit an existing game, select Edit to the right of the game.

Fill in, or edit the game details as you normally would.

2. Under Linked Games, for a new game, select Choose a Game to Link.

Select from the Group dropdown. Depending on the game’s current state, you can choose from the following options:

3. Select Save.

If you need to link many games at once — for example, an entire day of pool play — you don’t have to open each game individually. Instead, follow these steps.

1. Navigate to Games → Batch Update.

2. Find Games to Update. Search/filter for the games you want to consider for linking.

3. Select Next: Confirm Action.

4. Select Link Games into Blocks and enter a Maximum # of Games per Group (must be 2 or more).

5. Select Change All to change all games. Or select the checkboxes to the left of the games you wish to change, then select Change Only Selected.

Linking runs in the background. You’ll see a notice that the games are being processed, and the change will appear in your games list shortly thereafter.

Here's a breakdown of the Batch Linking logic:

You can unlink games one of three ways:

This allows you to remove one game from a group of linked games, but leave the remaining games linked.

Select Edit to the right of the game and remove it from the Linked Games selection in the Linked Games panel, then select Save.

The game becomes a normal, independent game again; the rest of the block is unaffected.

Select Edit to the right of one of the linked games.

Under the Linked Games panel on any game in the group, select Dissolve Group.

This removes the link between every game in the block — each game becomes independent again.

No assignments, confirmations, or fees are affected; only the block relationship is removed.

Note: A group always needs at least 2 games. If you remove games until only one is left, the group is automatically dissolved and that last game becomes independent — you don’t need to dissolve it manually.

To reverse linked games in bulk, use the same Batch Update flow we reviewed above, but for your Action in step 3, select Un-Link Games instead.

This removes every selected game from its group, without needing to open each game individually.

When an official accepts or declines a linked game they’re assigned to, the system automatically applies the same accept or decline to every other game in the block they’re also assigned to. The official sees a message telling them this will affect the whole block before they confirm.

Important: Propagation only reaches games the official is actually assigned to. If an official is assigned to 2 of the 4 games in a block, accepting one of those 2 games only affects that pair — it has no effect on the other 2 games, because the official was never placed on them.

If you want the all-or-nothing guarantee to cover the entire block, assign the official to every game in it (or let them request/self-assign the whole block themselves — see below).

Cancelled games in a block are skipped — accepting or declining doesn’t propagate to a game you’ve marked cancelled.

If you have game requests or self-assign turned on, and a block of games still has open positions, then eligible officials can request or self-assign to the whole block at once, from their Unassigned Games view.

They'll pick one open position per remaining game and submit their request. It’s all-or-nothing: either every remaining game in the block gets covered, or none do.

An official already assigned to part of the block only needs to pick positions for the games they’re not yet on.

Whether this immediately places the official on the games, or creates pending requests for your review, depends on whether (and how) you have Game Requests or Self-Assign set up within your Site Settings.

You Game Requests & Self-Assign Settings determines what officials can do — for both individual games and linked blocks. You can access and edit these settings from the upper right-hand corner of your account. Select [Your Name] → Settings → Edit Site Settings. Then navigate to the Game Requests & Self Assign section.

If you also maintain Self-Assign Rules restricting which positions/age groups/etc. can be self-assigned, those rules are checked against every game in the block — the official must satisfy the rules for the entire block, not just one game.

When your site has Game Requests turned on (as opposed to Self-Assign), an official submitting a block request creates one ordinary pending game request per game in the block for assignors.

Because approvals are per-game, approving one request in a block does not automatically approve the rest. If your intent is to honor the official’s block request, go through and assign them on each game in the block individually.

If you only approve some of the games, the official ends up partially covering the block — the same as if you had assigned them manually to just those games.

The official is likely not assigned to those other games yet — propagation only applies to games the official already holds an assignment on. Double-check who’s assigned to each game in the block.

Either your Game Requests & Self Assign setting doesn’t allow requests/self-assign, or at least one remaining open game in the block has no eligible position for that official (a conflict, a filled position, or a Self-Assign Rule mismatch).

The official will only see a block-request option when every remaining game is coverable by them.

Not through the request/self-assign flow — that’s all-or-nothing by design.

You, as the assignor, can still manually assign an official to just one or a few games in the block; there’s no restriction on partial manual assignment.

The all-or-nothing rule only governs the official-initiated accept/decline/request/self-assign actions.

A cancelled game stays visibly part of the block, but is excluded from the accept/decline propagation. Officials on the other, still-active games aren’t affected by that game’s cancellation status.