User guide

The home of your tournament: its status, details and links.

• Status: select the status you want and confirm. You can publish the tournament, take it back to draft, finish it once all matches are final, reopen it for a late correction, or archive it.
• Details: name, description (Markdown works), time window and logo. Here you also decide whether results from scorekeepers need your confirmation.
• Categories: add categories such as U12 or Women, put them in order, and close one early when it is done while the others keep playing.
• Visibility and names: public, unlisted or private, and whether names show in full, as first name and initial, or as team only.
• Admin link: copy it, generate a new one if it may have leaked, or add the tournament to your account.
• Export: standings, results and participants as a CSV file for Excel or Numbers.

Tip:Publishing needs a confirmed email address and a stage with allocated groups. The status card shows what is still missing.

Let teams and players register themselves through a public form.

• Open registration for a period, with a contact who is named on the form.
• Set up the form per category: who registers, how many places, a deadline for changes, the fields you need, and a parent or guardian for youth categories.
• Registrants confirm their email; then you confirm, waitlist or decline them, one by one or several at once. Or let the app confirm them in order until a category is full.
• Mark registrations as paid with a note, and export them as CSV.

Tip:A confirmed registration becomes a participant, roster included. Registrants get an email about every decision.

The teams, pairs or players who compete, per category.

• Add a participant with name, short name, seed, colour and logo. Without a logo it shows with its colour and initials.
• Import many at once from a CSV file: say what each column holds, check the preview, import.
• Open a team's roster to add players and set captain or coach, shirt numbers and lineup order. With a roster, scorekeepers name each goal's scorer by shirt number or from the list.
• Withdraw a participant: before the draw it is removed, after it its open matches become walkovers. Or swap in a team from the waitlist.

Tip:A person can be on several rosters. The schedule warns you if they would play two matches at once.

Where the tournament takes place.

• Sites: address, map position and notes such as parking. Viewers see them on the public page.
• Venues: fields, courts or tables, added one by one or several at once, with the times they are available, such as around a lunch break.
• Each venue has a scoreboard for a TV or tablet next to the pitch, with a bright version for screens in the sun.
• Golf courses: type the club’s scorecard once, holes with par and stroke index and each tee with its course and slope rating, or copy it from the course library and adjust it for the day. “Save to library” keeps it for your next tournament.

Tip:If you haven't added venues yet, "Generate schedule" creates numbered fields for you.

How matches are counted. The rules apply to the whole tournament.

• Choose the format: goals (football, handball, …), sets (volleyball, tennis, …), darts x01 (501, 301), darts cricket, individual events (sprints, jumps, throws, …) or golf (Stableford, stroke play, scramble). Sport defaults fill in the usual rules.
• Set playing time, draws, extra time, shootout and table points, sets to win and points per set, or the starting score, double out and legs to win. Settings you rarely need are under "More options", such as table points for walkovers.
• Put the tiebreak criteria in order, such as points, goal difference and head-to-head.
• Give a stage, a group or a round its own rules, for example a final played best of five.
• With an account, save the rules as a preset for your next tournament.

Tip:Save applies your changes, Revert discards them. The format can change until the first match has a result; between individual events and the other formats only while there are no stages.

The format of each category: groups, knockout and placement matches. A category without stages starts from a common format with "Choose a format".

• Round robin: everyone plays everyone in their group, once or home and away.
• Knockout: a bracket of up to 64 participants, with an optional 3rd place match.
• Placement matches: pairings that decide further places, such as 5th and 6th.
• Allocate the groups or seeds by hand, at random or by strength. You can allocate again, also after publishing, until the first match has a result.
• A later stage takes its qualifiers from an earlier group stage: choose the stage and the number of places, and the top of each group (plus the best of the next place when it doesn't divide evenly) are linked at once. Change them under “Set the qualifiers”. The places fill in as results come in.
• Assign venues to each group, resolve a tie by lot, and set the prize places of the final standings.
• Individual events: each discipline is a stage of heats or one ranking, with its own rules and its entrants, optionally by year of birth and gender. Draw the heats at random, by seed or by hand; the start order is the order in each heat. A final or a cut is a further stage with qualifiers from the heats: the first of each heat (Q), then the best of the others (q).
• Special prizes such as the highest checkout, the best average or the top scorer fill in from the results, for one category or the whole tournament, each with its prize places and an optional sponsor. Darts categories also get a statistics table of every player. Scorers show under the tournament's name display, and not at all with "Team only".
• Golf: a round is a stage on one of your golf courses, with the tees for men and women. Draw its flights at random, by seed or by hand, and type the cards handed in hole by hole in the flight's match dialog; the round's leaderboard ranks them with countback.
• Handicaps: each player's index is frozen when they join and shown in the roster, with a button when the person's index has changed since. A round's “Handicaps” dialog sets indexes, tees and fun allowances and shows course and playing handicaps; flights already playing get the new handicaps at once. Indexes never show on public pages.
• Flights and starts: draw flights mixed by playing handicap or with similar handicaps, then plan tee times (from hole 1, or 1 and 10) or a shotgun where every flight starts on its own hole, and print the start sheet. For a scramble, “Form teams” on the Participants page turns the individuals into teams with close handicaps.
• Golf prizes: add “Longest drive” or “Nearest the pin” on a hole of the round's course as a special prize, with a sponsor if you like. Markers record each new best on their flight; the best across all flights wins.
• Rankings: add more rankings to a round or a discipline, such as net for playing handicaps 18.1–36, women or men, or years of birth. With “One prize per person”, someone who already won a prize place earlier is skipped for the later prizes.

When and where every match is played.

• Generate the schedule: pick the venues, the first start, match and changeover times and an optional minimum rest.
• Edit schedule: drag matches to another time or field (they snap to 5 minutes), or onto another match to swap them. "Insert break" moves every later match of one field or all. Nothing is saved until you save.
• Open a match to enter or correct its result, record a walkover, cancel it, move it or pick a referee team. A match ended by mistake can be reopened, or its result cleared.
• Warnings point out double bookings, too little rest and similar problems. They never block you.
• If results from scorekeepers need your confirmation, a banner lists the provisional results to review.
• Print schedule: all matches, one category, one field or one team on an A4 sheet with the QR code of the public page and your sponsors; print it or save it as a PDF.

Links that let others enter results on their phone, without an account.

• Create a link for all matches, a category, a venue or one match, and optionally send it by email.
• One link per venue: print the QR codes and put one up next to each pitch.
• Teams report themselves: one link per team, to print or to email to the teams that registered.
• "Send again" replaces a lost link with a new one; "Revoke" stops a link at once. Results entered with it are kept.
• Golf: one link per flight prints a QR code for each flight's marker, with its time or starting hole and its players; or let the players enter themselves.

Tip:A new link is shown only once. Copy it or print its QR code before you close the dialog.

Sponsor logos on the public pages and scoreboards.

• Add a sponsor with logo, dark logo, website and short text, or pick one you saved before.
• Choose a tier and where it shows: the whole tournament, categories, venues, tables or special prizes.
• Viewers tap a logo to open the sponsor's website.

At the end of the Overview, after Export: tools for the personal data in your tournament.

• Answer data requests: search a name or email, export what belongs to the person, or erase it. Results stay; only what identifies the person goes.
• See when the tournament was last used. After 90 days without use we email you, and delete it 7 days later unless you keep it.
• Delete the tournament with everything in it. Type its name to confirm.

The Overview tab: description, dates, where it takes place (with a maps link), categories and sponsors.

• Find your team and tap "This is my team": the page shows its next match and remembers the team on this device.
• A live marker shows how many matches are running.

All matches with time and field.

• Filter by team, group or field.
• Tap a match for its details.

The group tables, updated live.

• A dot marks a running match; its points are provisional.
• A line shows which places go through to the next stage.
• Places decided by lot are marked as such.

The bracket fills in as results come in: a placeholder such as "Winner KO1" turns into the team's name.

• Placement matches have their own tab and show which places each match decides.

Appears once every place of a category is decided. Prize places are highlighted.

The live score, the result in words and how the match went: goals with scorers, the score of each set, or a golf flight's scorecards with birdies and bogeys marked as on a printed card.

A full-screen page for a TV or tablet next to a venue: the current match, the last result and what comes next, with the venue's sponsor. Open it from Venues on the dashboard. On a golf course it shows the round's leaderboard ten rows at a time and the current best of longest drive and nearest the pin.

While registration is open, teams and players sign up on the form linked from the tournament page. The form names the organiser's contact for questions about the data.

What a scorekeeper sees after opening their link: the link's matches, split into now, later and done.

• Start a match so viewers see it live, then score goal by goal, point by point or, in darts, dart by dart with checkout hints, or enter only the final result.
• Undo takes back the last entry. End match saves the result and shows the next match.
• No network? Keep scoring: entries wait on the phone and are sent once the connection is back.
• Take over moves scoring to another phone; the first one can then only watch.
• Golf markers start the flight on the first tee, then score hole by hole: a tap on + starts at par, "Pick up" where allowed, putts if you like. "Card" shows every hole with the gaps; once all are in, sign the card.

The same screen for a team that reports its own results, limited to its own matches.

• The organiser or a scorekeeper can overrule a team's result at any time.

After registering, people get a private link by email.

• It shows the status of the registration and the organiser's message.
• Until the deadline, the registration and the roster can be changed there. It can also be withdrawn.
• Lost it? A new link can be requested on the registration page.

Optional, for organisers who run several tournaments.

• My tournaments lists all your tournaments; add older ones with their admin link.
• Libraries of persons, sponsors and golf courses you reuse across tournaments, and your rule presets. A course you publish can be copied by every organiser, with your name as publisher.
• Turn off link access, so a tournament opens only through your account.
• Data requests across all your tournaments in one place.

The link of the same name, in the footer of every page, sends a new admin link for each tournament created with your email address. The old link stops working once you open the new one.