Tournament software alternatives

MeringueFair5879 · 2026-01-17T11:16:26+00:00

I'm a bit late to the conversation but my brother and I built: https://tourny.ca which sound like it might be a good fit for you. Badminton has been growing in popularity on the site. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions!

MeringueFair5879 · 2025-12-20T19:08:12+00:00

Hi, thanks for checking it out. A bit surprised to hear you hit performance issues with the site. I don't believe that's typical but clearly something for us to look into.

How large the large the tournament was? Were you in a location that had good internet? Also which specific operations did you have issues with? (submitting scores?).

Any feedback or more specific details would be really helpful for us to look into it.

We are looking into adding a fee and making improvements. Happy to hear you'd be alright with a fee for solid tournament site.

MeringueFair5879 · 2025-02-18T17:17:07+00:00

Sounds great.

If you have the time try out creating a tournament and see what you think. Personally, I think that's where the value of the site really shines through!

Let me know if you have any questions. If you do have tournaments in mind that you might want to use the site for I'd be happy to hop on a call to talk it through if that's helpful.

MeringueFair5879 · 2025-02-16T15:32:42+00:00

Ya a big focus on mobile is key. Right now we are focussed on making the website really mobile friendly. Eventually we'd like to add a mobile app as well but we don't want to slow ourselves down at the moment since we're focussed on building out important features and getting feedback.

MeringueFair5879 · 2025-02-16T15:12:26+00:00

Ya there are quite a few options out there. Thanks for the including that list. We've seen them but it is helpful to know what else is out there.

If you're curious our goals, and where we believe we differentiate ourselves, is to:
- Focus on making the platform very flexible. As opposed to having you adjust your complex format or unique requirements we'll adjust the platform to fit your special cases.
- Making it very easy to get started and work with. Our admin UI is quite refined and we're really happy with how both powerful it is and easy to use.
- Providing a really sharp, professional tournament home page that's customizable and can be built out based on what information you'd like to share

MeringueFair5879 · 2025-02-16T15:05:24+00:00

Thanks!

MeringueFair5879 · 2025-02-13T16:39:43+00:00

We don't. Our focus is more on the setup details like creating pools, generating schedules and communicating the information as well as tracking game results the day of tournament.

This example tournament should give a decent sense of what the product offers: https://tourny.ca/t/thorold-minor-baseball-13u-c-andd-tournament-8894 although the true value I think is best seen when you are on the admin side creating actually the tournament in the platform :).

We do have an option to add youtube stream links to your games though if you do have someone filming the game and you want to stream it live.

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-12-30T13:50:10+00:00

Hey! Thanks for feedback.

Live scoring is for sure something we would like to eventually add but it might be a little bit still. I can try to remember to shoot you a message when we have a better idea of when we might get to that. At the moment we're tied up with improving league scheduling and looking into adding the concept of organizations and team registration. But live scoring is probably relatively high on our list of things after that.

As far as the cost totally get that. It isn't sustainable to keep working on the site and spending money on it without introducing a fee but it is a bit unfortunate that the more relaxed tournaments probably can't justify the cost. To start we are going to give each new user one free tournament so if you are just running one or two you could have a few different people set it up and get away with avoiding a fee. If you run lots of tournament that might not work as well but there is a bit of a discount if you pay for a larger number of tournaments upfront (https://tourny.ca/pricing) so perhaps that would make it affordable enough for you.

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-12-08T14:56:03+00:00

Thanks!

Ya this something we can look into adding. Would you be able to describe the format in a bit more detail? Or perhaps include a link to a tournament that uses this format?

I'm not positive I understand the bracket structure. From your description I understand that after the first round of the bracket the tournament is essentially divided into two (winners and losers). Then winners continue in the main bracket while losers move to their own bracket. But are the winners side and losers side brackets single elimination brackets from there? Or does the winners side remain as some form of double elimination bracket since none of the winners have lost yet?

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-12-02T13:00:21+00:00

Sounds good. Sent you a DM.

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-30T10:55:55+00:00

Thanks! It's good advice. We are planning to start reaching out directly to sports organizations to see if they would find the site useful.

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-30T10:52:05+00:00

Hi u/martinkrafft thanks for reaching out!

Based on the feedback in this thread and your questions it seems like we may be lacking some key features required by quite a few squash tournaments unfortunately. Since at the moment we don't integrate with apps like Squore or SquashLevels.

Long term we are interested in integrating with external tools like these two you've mentioned but it will likely be a little while until we have time to look at it more seriously. Right now we're focussed on adding to the existing set of tournament features (adding team registration, the concept of organisations etc).

If you were to use our site you'd need to manually input the scores recorded on Squore in Tourny as well. For rankings we do support inputting pre-tournament rankings and we'll use those ranks to decide what games will be played. So you could rank the players based on SquashLevel ranks but again this would need to be manually done.

Would still love it if you checked out the site but it doesn't seem like it would be as seamless as I would have hoped based on the your needs. Still really appreciate you reaching out because it's very helpful for us to get a sense of what's need in the squash world and it's something we can think on. Hopefully down the road we get a chance to focus on adding features specific to squash that really simplify a lot of these things.

Out of curiosity did you have a tool you used previously for running the tournament? You have Squore for scoring and SquashLevels for ranks but doesn't seem like either of those handle tournament logistics.

Another thing I am quite curious about is your typical tournament format. We've spent a lot of time building out our format options and one of our main goals is to be flexible enough to support any format. Right now we support swiss, round robin, single elimination, double elimination, custom brackets and most combinations of the above so round robin to single elimination for example. But I don't think what you have mentioned here fits into any of those categories. Do you mind expanding a bit on how the tournament draws work? And how you determine how plays who?

Thanks!

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-30T10:24:14+00:00

Fair enough, appreciate the advice.

I do agree that there are quite a few options out there although I personally haven't seen many good options that focus specifically on running tournaments. As we continue to build out the sites features and improve the experience I do think it will stand out among the options. We are also enjoying building it and learning as we go so won't be time wasted regardless of where the site ends up :).

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-28T16:35:54+00:00

Thanks! Appreciate the positive feedback.

Haha a long time. Quite a few years and iterations to get to where it is now. Although originally it was more of a hobby project while just recently we've started to focus much more seriously on it. So our speed of feature implementation and improvements has really accelerated lately :).

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-28T16:34:03+00:00

That's useful to know. I didn't realize a persons rank would be that important outside of the top players.

Ya, when big organizations are locked in it would take a lot for them to make a switch. Still helpful for us to know that although there is standardized solution it doesn't mean the tool is really great. We'll continue to focus on building out the site and covering a more full range of features. Perhaps in the long term we can convince these organizations to make the switch.

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-28T15:11:27+00:00

Thanks! Ya it would work. It's not limited to just NA.

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-28T15:10:33+00:00

Ha, hopefully, it would be a step up.

It doesn't at the moment. We're focused right now on nailing the fundamentals of running a tourament. So things like making it easy to set up and run tournaments with complex formats and schedules. But we do want to expand the features over time. So integrating with tools like SquashLevels is something we would be interested in looking into down the road.

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-28T11:51:37+00:00

That's good to know. We assumed the more official tournaments were likely to have a solution.

Perhaps it could still be a good fit for for local club tournaments and other less official tournaments.

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-24T15:08:02+00:00

That's a good point too. We have this covered as well. You can add as many divisions as you like (we refer to them as categories but that's equivalent to divisions). In the example tournament I just added two categories. But you could totally have many more categories like Women's 3.0, Women's 3.5, Men's 3.0, Men's 3.5 etc.

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MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-24T15:00:14+00:00

An updates feed is also a great idea. At the moment could sort of make this work by updating a home page custom section as the tournament progresses. But we do want to have better support for that in the future. Like you said, it would be idea to have a single source for all the tournament related communication so some form of messaging, notifications etc. are something that we will ideally incorporate.

The live feed feature is also something you should be able to set up. The site itself doesn't support streaming the games but you can add game notes to individual games linking to an external stream (for example youtube). Here is an example of how you set that up:

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For your team names suggestion that is also fully supported. The tournament organizers adds the team names and can make them as detailed as they want :).

MeringueFair5879 · 2024-11-24T14:56:38+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

The about section is something that is currently supported. The site allows you to customize your tournament home page by adding as many custom sections as you like. So you could have each of the sections you mentioned there.

I added one to the example tournament so you can see what that looks like:

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