Yes, because once everything was properly fixed, the players were in fact in the event for every round. It was just that it had to be done manually, rather than automatically like you can do when adding a player late who wasn't previously in the event.

Originally posted by Sean Hunt:

At my WMCQ this past weekend, I had all the players with byes entered before round 1, so that I could do a seat-all and collect decklists and do opening announcements, and then dropped them before pairing round 2.

To my surprise, when adding them back in after Round 1, WER did not prompt us on whether it wanted to give them losses or byes for the rounds in between. It simply entered no result for the round. The solution was to delete round 2 and manually grant byes to all the players in round 2. Since the 2-bye players would have the same problem if they were readded after round 2, and it would be impossible to go back and give them byes for round 1, we added the two of them after round 1 and manually broke their pairing and gave them byes for round 2.

So it seems that nothing is perfect, but the “drop and re-add” method would be my preferred if WER would allow those players to be given byes.

I entered all the players for the seatings as well and dropped the one with byes before round 1. When I reentered them, i was asked the question if I want to give them loss or byes.

The only difference I did was I entered them during the round 1, not after round 1. It could be, that you only get asked the question if the current round is not finished.