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Rugby Knockout Widget

Add a rugby knockout bracket to a post.

The Knockout widget shows the elimination rounds of a rugby competition stage as a bracket, so readers can follow how ties progress.

The fastest way to add a Rugby widget: hover any block and click the Rugby icon directly — no need to open the full block picker and search a category list.

Preconditions

  • Your project must have the Rugby feature enabled. Widget categories are switched on per project, so if Rugby widgets does not appear in the block picker, ask your administrator to enable it.
  • You need permission to create or edit articles.
  • The stage you choose must be a knockout stage. Group stages have no bracket to draw.

Adding the Rugby Knockout Widget to a post

To set up the widget:

  1. Open an article for editing, or create a new one.
  2. Hover over a block in the article body. A row of icons appears, one for each sport enabled on your project — the Rugby icon is highlighted here.

    The icon row revealed by hovering a block, with the Rugby icon highlighted among the other sports available on this project.

  3. Select the Rugby icon, then choose Knockout from the widget list that opens.

    The Rugby widgets list opened from the sport icon, showing all ten widgets with Knockout among them.

  4. Set the widget options. Competition, Season, Stage, Refresh time control what it shows.

    The Knockout options panel as it first opens.

  5. Check the options are the ones you want. Some fields depend on others, so a list can be empty until you set the field above it.

    The Knockout options panel with its fields set.

  6. When done, select Save Block.

    The saved Knockout widget block in the article body.

  7. Hover the widget block and select the preview control to see the real widget.

Rugby Knockout Widget options

  • Competition (required) — The competition whose data you want to show.
  • Season — The season within the chosen competition. Options depend on which competition you selected above.
  • Stage — Limits the widget to a single stage of the competition, such as a group phase or a knockout round.
  • Refresh time — Controls how often the published widget refetches its data. Leave empty to use your project’s global refresh setting.

What the Rugby Knockout Widget shows

Each tie in the bracket shows:

  • Teams — the two sides: the teams contesting the tie
  • S — score: the aggregate or match score deciding who advances

Preview of the Rugby Knockout Widget

The widget draws the bracket for the stage you selected, round by round.

Good to know

Only the preview shows the real widget. The collapsed block and the options panel show a CMS summary card instead — always check preview before publishing.

  • The preview area is narrower than a published page, so the widget uses its compact layout there and may hide columns that the published version shows.
  • The widget always renders whichever version of the sports widgets library your project is on. There is no version to set.
  • This covers Rugby Union and Rugby League alike — which competitions and matches are available depends on your project’s data, not on the widget itself.
  • If your development team integrates this data directly through the API rather than through this CMS, the sport key to use is rugby_union, not rugby — the CMS handles this translation for you automatically.
  • Any odds market shown for a knockout tie is an early, provisional feature — treat it as indicative rather than final.