TourneyCourt

TourneyCourt helps organizers create tournaments, publish public signup pages, manage categories, add participants, generate schedules, enter scores, and share public links, QR codes, standings, and category results.

After you sign in, your menu may include:

My Tournaments shows tournaments you own, help organize, or participate in. Organizer cards include Details, Categories, and Admin tools. Participant-only cards open the public tournament page.

My Matches shows your upcoming and recent matches across tournaments, including score entry and confirmation when enabled.

My Leaderboards shows standings and results for categories you are in.

The owner can manage everything, including organizer access. Added organizers can manage tournament/category settings, participants, schedules, and scores. Added organizers do not see the Organizers button and do not own payout/delete actions.

A Full tournament is the standard public event format. It supports public links, category signups, participant fees, multiple categories, schedule generation, scores, leaderboards, and public category pages.

A Light tournament is a quick one-day event with simplified setup. It costs $3 in organizer credits, is limited to one day with up to 16 teams (or 16 singles players), and is designed for fast local events where organizers enter players directly.

A Ladder tournament is an ongoing ranked ladder. Participants challenge eligible players or teams based on rank, challenge range, expiry days, availability, and rematch rules.

League mode is a longer-running competition format currently in development. It will use the same tournament and category foundation as Full events, with league-style standings over an extended date range.

Each tournament gets a short code (for example BQT262) that becomes a shareable public page, such as https://tourneycourt/BQT262. The page shows date, location, signup fees, categories, and links into each category.

From tournament Details, open the public link panel to copy the link or download the QR code. Use it on flyers, posters, or social posts. The QR code opens the same public tournament page as the link.

Feature on homepage controls whether the event appears in the public upcoming tournament list. The direct public link still works even when the tournament is not featured on the homepage.

Players can view public tournament and category pages without signing in. Action buttons such as Sign up, Cancel signup, Pay, and partner actions stay disabled until the user signs in.

Each category can have its own public link, such as https://tourneycourt/BQT262/38. Category links show schedule, players/teams, leaderboard, rules, and standings when available.

Core settings include name, sport, tournament code, date range, registration deadline, location, court count, public contact details, signup fee collection, payment instructions, and homepage visibility.

The tournament court count defines available courts. Categories can use all courts or selected courts, and schedules use those court numbers when assigning matches.

The owner can add existing user email addresses in Organizers. Added organizers can help manage settings, categories, participants, schedules, and scores after signing in with that email.

A category is a competition inside a tournament, such as Open Singles, Mixed Doubles, Women’s 3.5, or Junior Boys. Each category has its own format, dates, participants, schedule, and leaderboard.

Common formats include Round Robin, Americano, Group Stage + Knockout, Single Elimination, Double Elimination, and Ladder (as a category format). Available settings change based on the format you choose. Note: a Ladder tournament is a separate event type for ongoing ranked play; the Ladder category format is used inside scheduled events.

Americano is a rotating-partner round-robin format, often used in social padel or tennis events. Players are paired across rounds so partners and opponents change. Standings are tracked per individual, not per fixed team.

Event type controls singles or doubles. Gender category labels the competition, for example Open, Men, Women, Mixed, Boys, or Girls, depending on configured lookup values.

Categories can define minimum/maximum age and rating requirements. Rating systems can require external registration IDs, use custom bands, or set minimum and maximum accepted rating values.

Team cap limits entries in a category. For singles this acts as a player cap; for doubles it limits teams.

Scoring formats determine how many games are recorded per match and how scores are interpreted. Knockout formats can also use separate semi-final or final scoring formats.

Knockout settings include teams advancing, seeding mode, shuffle/randomize qualifiers, bronze final, and final reset match for double-elimination style finals.

Players open the public tournament link, sign in, choose a category, provide any required rating or partner information, and submit.

For doubles categories, a player can add a partner by email after signing up. The partner must have an account with that email. Organizers can also manage doubles teams directly.

Yes. Organizers can open category/participant tools to add players or teams, adjust pairings, remove entries, and manage direct signup situations.

Players can cancel from the public tournament page when cancellation is allowed. Organizers can also remove participants from category management.

Organizers can choose whether TourneyCourt collects signup fees. Fees can use a first-category price and an additional-category price, with optional discount codes and payment instructions.

When signup fee collection is enabled, organizers can add discount codes with a code name, percentage off, valid until date, and optional max uses. Leave max uses blank for unlimited. Players enter the code on the public tournament page before paying.

If online collection is not enabled, payment instructions tell participants how to pay the organizer directly. The public page shows the instructions action when payment is required outside TourneyCourt.

Credits are prepaid organizer balance used for Light tournaments ($3 per event) and ladder coverage (monthly organizer fee, currently $25/month, to keep a ladder active). Buy credits from the Credits page in your account menu.

Ladders have a monthly organizer fee (currently $25/month, paid from credits) and may charge participants a monthly fee (currently $2/month) depending on tournament settings. The organizer chooses who pays the TourneyCourt fee when creating the ladder.

When TourneyCourt collects signup fees, the owner can request payout after the registration deadline if payout details are complete and the payable amount qualifies.

Organizers create schedules by choosing date/time windows, court availability, scoring format, groups, advancement rules, and seeding options. TourneyCourt then generates matches.

Yes. Starting a new schedule can clear the current schedule, groups, and leaderboard. TourneyCourt asks for confirmation before replacing an existing schedule.

Tournament owners and added organizers can enter scores from schedule tools. When participant scoring is enabled, players can submit scores from My Matches. The other side can Confirm or Dispute. Disputed scores are flagged for the tournament desk to resolve.

Leaderboards appear when a category format supports standings and scores have been posted. Public category pages and My Leaderboards show standings, match results, and final placements where available.

For group-stage knockout formats, Create next round moves selected or qualified teams into the knockout bracket. Review settings first because knockout creation is not intended to be undone.

Click Log in in the top menu and choose sign up. You need an account to sign up for categories, add partners, pay fees, or manage your matches.

Use the password reset link from the login dialog, or open a reset link sent to your email. You must be signed in with the same email address organizers add for organizer access.

My Matches lists your upcoming and recent matches across tournaments. From here you can enter scores, confirm opponent-submitted scores, or dispute scores when that workflow is enabled.

My Leaderboards shows standings and results for categories you are registered in. Use it to track your position, recent results, and final placements without opening each category page separately.

Players open the public ladder link, sign in, and sign up from the tournament page. Organizers can also invite players by email. Invited players must sign up or log in with the invited email address.

Players challenge eligible opponents based on ladder rank and configured range. Opponents can accept, decline, or propose availability depending on challenge state.

Organizer settings include starting mode, challenge range, challenge expiry days, expiry action, and whether immediate rematches are blocked.

Players can set weekly availability windows. Challenge scheduling uses these windows to help find match times that fit both players or teams.

Check that the tournament has a public code and is not inactive. Direct public links should open even when the event is not featured on the homepage.

Public pages can be viewed without login, but action buttons stay disabled until the user signs in from the top menu.

The email must belong to an existing TourneyCourt account. Ask the person to sign up first, then add the same email address in Organizers.

Confirm the organizer signed in with the exact email that was added, then reload My Tournaments. Added organizers should see the tournament and category management controls.

Participant-submitted scores usually need confirmation from the other player or team. Check My Matches for Confirm or Dispute actions. Organizers can also enter or correct scores directly.

Confirm the code is spelled correctly, has not expired, and signup fee collection is enabled for the tournament. Each code applies a percentage discount at signup.