User guide
Run a tournament
Create a bracket, record results, share the live board, and rebuild the setup when the entrant list changes.
1. Sign in
Sign in with your organizer account before creating or managing a tournament. New organizers use Create one under the sign-in form: pick a password, confirm it, accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, then open the confirmation link we email you before signing in. Use Forgot password? on the sign-in page if you need a reset link. Public tournament links can be viewed without signing in, but only the organizer or a superadmin can record results, undo results, reshuffle, or rebuild a bracket.
2. Set up event locations
Open Profile to add as many event locations as you need. Give each one a name and optionally add an address, description, website, and logo (PNG, JPEG, or WebP, up to 2 MB). You can edit or replace a logo later. Only the location name, website, and logo appear on its public tournament brackets; the address and description stay private. Changes to a location appear on every bracket linked to it. A location used by a tournament cannot be deleted.
3. Create a tournament
Enter a tournament name, optionally choose one of your saved event locations, choose singles or doubles, select single or double elimination, and add the entrants. Add teams one at a time, or paste a list for singles events and doubles that don't use woman advantage. Duplicate names are rejected. You can leave the location blank, and the owner can add or change one later from the tournament page, including on older brackets.
4. Choose doubles options
For doubles, add an even number of individual entrants. The optional woman advantage setting prefers mixed teams when enough male and female entrants are available; while it is on, entrants have to be added one at a time so each gender is set deliberately (the paste box is hidden). Review the generated team preview before creating the bracket.
5. Set seeding
Leave seeding off for a random draw. Turn it on when the entrant order matters; the first entrant is seed #1. Use the up and down controls to adjust the ranking before creating the bracket.
6. Run matches
Open a ready match and select the winning team. A match becomes available when both teams are known. Winners advance automatically, and double-elimination losers are routed to the losers bracket. Up next recommends the ready, unboarded match with the longest remaining path to the final, favoring the losers side when paths are equal so it can catch up. The recommendation recalculates after results, undo, and board changes. If you set Boards / Tables / Lanes when creating the tournament, each match card has a Board dropdown in the colored rail on its left: pick the board, lane, or table the match is playing on. A ready match with a board is marked Playing. A board already in use by another undecided match won't appear in the list. Clear the selection to free a board, and boards free up automatically when their match is decided or undone. When the bracket is complete, the tournament page shows a Final results podium for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (plus 4th for single-elimination semifinal losers) with each team's win–loss record.
7. Prize money and payouts
Under Prize money on the creation form you can add an entry amount per player and an optional host add — either a per player amount or one total for the event. The main pot is entry fees plus the host add. You can also set up to three side pots, each with a name and a fixed buy-in; side pot money is collected separately and is never part of the main pot. The tournament page then shows a Prize money panel with the main pot, the amount each place is paid, and a Buy-ins box for each side pot where the organizer types how many buy-ins have been collected. By default the panel pays the venue's Friday night house schedule: its printed amounts for a main pot of $180 to $750 — 12 to 50 players at $10 money plus a $5 bar add each — paying three places and then a fourth once the pot reaches $480. A pot with no column of its own, such as an odd number of players or a different entry amount, falls back to the scale closest to the sheet (50/33/17, or 43/30/20/7 for four places), and $5 or so may be held back when the pot won't split evenly. If you would rather pay your own percentages, choose Custom % and set any three percentages that add up to 100; Use Friday schedule switches back. Confirm payouts snapshots the exact dollar amounts for the paying places, and Un-confirm re-opens editing if the numbers change. Payouts are always whole $10s so they can be handed out in notes: a place may sit up to $10 off its percentage, a place that is owed money is never rounded down to nothing, and any money that can't be split into whole $10s stays in the pot — the payouts never add up to more than the main pot.
8. Correct a result
Use Undo on a completed match. Downstream results that depend on that match are removed automatically so the bracket can be replayed correctly.
9. Share the bracket
Use Tournaments to browse active and completed events, or use Share on a tournament page to open the device share dialog or copy its public-view link. Anyone with the link can view the bracket and the selected location's current name, website, and logo without a QR code, even if the owner opens that shared link while signed in. The owner sees the on-page QR code on the regular tournament page for players to scan at the event; that code also leads to the public view. Editing still requires organizer access.
10. Rebuild when the setup changes
If an entrant was missed or the wrong singles/doubles format was selected, choose Rebuild bracket. The saved entrant list and tournament settings open in the creation form. Add or remove entrants, switch formats, and create a fresh bracket without retyping everyone.