User guide

Four people run a tournament.
One has a password.

Every screen below is the real one, drawn by the same components the app ships — scroll to whichever of the four you are, and do what it says.

Organizer

Set the tournament up, then let it run.

You are the only person here who signs in. Everything from the roster to the final result is yours to enter, and everyone else arrives through a link you hand out.

01

Create the tournament

Name it, give it the days it runs over and where it is being held. Nothing else is required to start — draws and scheduling can wait until entries close.

New tournament

A single-day tournament repeats the first day here.
02

Add the players

Type them in, or paste a spreadsheet and map the columns on screen. Duplicates are caught before anything lands. Players are records on your roster, not accounts — nobody is asked to sign up.

Roster

24 players
CSV
Anita Rao
Added by hand
Vikram Nair
Added by hand
Priya Iyer
From roster.csv
Sunil Das
From roster.csv
03

Set up the categories

Singles, doubles, mixed, divisions, age groups. Choose the shape of the competition and the rules it plays to, then assign players into it and build pairs.

New category

Changeable until the draw is generated.
04

Generate the draws

Knockout, round robin, or groups feeding a knockout. Seeds are separated and byes placed for you, and the whole draw is reproducible from a stored seed if you have to show your working.

Men's Doubles · Quarter-finals

Seeded
Rao / NairBose / Pillai
Khan / MenonIyer / Das
Shankar / VermaJoshi / Reddy
Byes placed automatically. Regenerate until you publish it.
05

Put it on a schedule

Courts down one axis, time across the other. Auto-assign honours rest gaps and refuses to put one player in two places at once.

Saturday · order of play

3 courts
Rao / Nair v Bose / Pillai09:00 · Court 1
Khan / Menon v Iyer / Das09:00 · Court 2
Shankar / Verma v Joshi / Reddy09:40 · Court 1
06

Score it live — or hand that out

You can key the points yourself from the console. More often you will send a scorer link to whoever is sitting by that court, and watch the results arrive.

Court 2 · Men's Doubles QF

Live
LiveGame 3
Serving. Rao / Nair2118 · 19211411Iyer / Das
07

Share the public link

One read-only link for the whole tournament, made to be pasted into a group chat. Send it to the wrong group and you can rotate it — every old copy stops working at once.

Public link

Read-only
Contact details never appear behind this link.
Rotating the link kills every copy already sent.
Player

You do not need an account. You may want one.

Being in a tournament takes nothing at all — the organizer enters you, and the link tells you the rest. An account is a separate thing you can keep: your own record of every tournament you have played, across every organizer.

Your account

Optional, and entirely apart from any roster you appear on. Signing up does not tell an organizer anything, and it does not change the record they typed in.

01

Create a player account

Your own sign-up, separate from an organizer’s. If you already organize tournaments with this email, the same password works here — you are not asked for a second one.

Create a player account

Already organize with this email? Use that password.
02

Sign in

A player session reaches your profile and nothing else. It cannot open an organizer’s console, and an organizer’s session cannot open your profile.

Player sign in

03

Open your profile

Everything you have claimed, gathered in one place regardless of who ran the tournament. It is private to you.

Anita Rao

Player
Riverside Open · Men’s DoublesRunner-up
Company Games · Mixed DoublesQuarter-final
Autumn League · SinglesIn progress
04

Claim the records that are yours

Roster entries matching your verified email are offered to you. Claiming one links it to your profile; it does not hand you any control over the organizer’s roster.

Records matching your email

2 unclaimed
Claiming links a record to your profile. It changes nothing on the organizer's roster.

The tournament you are playing in

None of this needs an account — the link the organizer sent does all of it. An account only means you do not have to keep the link.

05

Find your matches

Who you are playing, when, and on which court. The order of play updates as the day moves around it, so check it rather than the printout.

Your matches

Riverside Open
v Bose / Pillai · Quarter-final09:00 · Court 1
Winner of QF2 · Semi-final13:30 · Court 1
06

Follow one as it happens

Scores arrive as the points are keyed, whether the scorer is you, your opponent or a volunteer. There is nothing to refresh.

Your quarter-final

Live
LiveGame 3
Serving. Rao / Nair2118 · 19211411Iyer / Das
07

See the result

When the match is called, the winner advances on the draw and the tables recalculate themselves. Your profile keeps the result.

Quarter-final · result

Won
Rao / Nair2118 · 1921 · 211521Iyer / Das
Scorer

A link, a phone, and two big buttons.

You were handed a URL ninety seconds ago and you are standing at the side of a court. There is nothing to install, nothing to log into, and it keeps working when the signal does not.

01

Open the link you were sent

It opens straight onto your court — not a menu of the whole tournament. The link scores that court only, expires with the tournament, and can be switched off at any time.

Court 2

Scoped to this court
LiveGame 3
Serving. Rao / Nair2118 · 19211411Iyer / Das
No sign-in. Nothing else in the tournament is reachable from here.
02

Key each point as it is won

One large target per side, sized for a thumb at arm’s length. Undo is right there, because the mistake you will make is pressing the wrong one. Periods, changes of serve and the finish are worked out for you.

Court 2 · Men's Doubles QF

Offline · 4 queued
LiveGame 3
Serving. Rao / Nair2118 · 19211411Iyer / Das
03

Submit the result

Confirm the final score and you are done. Lose the network mid-match and nothing stops — points queue on the device in order and sync themselves when it comes back.

Match complete

Rao / Nair
Rao / Nair2118 · 1921 · 211521Iyer / Das
Queued points send themselves as soon as the signal returns.
Spectator

Open the link. That is the whole of it.

No account, no install, no sign-up wall. Read-only, and it never shows anybody's contact details.

01

Open the tournament link

Everything live right now, across every court and every category, on one screen. It is fast enough for a hundred people to open it at the same time.

Riverside Open

2 live
Rao / NairIyer / Das21 19 1418 21 11
Khan / MenonIyer / Das
Updates as points are keyed. No refresh.
02

Follow the draw

The full bracket or group table, as it stands. Winners advance themselves as results come in, so what you are looking at is current.

Men's Doubles · draw

Quarter-finals
Rao / NairIyer / Das21 19 21 218 21 15 1
Khan / MenonIyer / Das
Shankar / VermaJoshi / Reddy
03

Check the order of play

What is on next, and where. Useful when you are trying to work out whether you have time to go and find a coffee.

On now and next

Saturday
Rao / Nair v Iyer / DasCourt 2 · now
Khan / Menon v Bose / PillaiCourt 1 · 10:20
Shankar / Verma v Joshi / ReddyCourt 3 · 10:20
04

Watch the scores, then the results

Scores move as the points are keyed — under two seconds from courtside to your screen — and settle into the result when the match is called.

Results

As they are called
LiveGame 3
Serving. Rao / Nair2118 · 19211411Iyer / Das
Rao / Nair2118 · 1921 · 211521Iyer / Das
Get started

That is the whole product, in four walkthroughs.

Create the tournament, paste your roster in, and share the link. Everything else on this page can wait until you need it.