Tournament software,tuned to your sport
A padel draw is made of pairs, a football tournament runs groups across four pitches, a chess open is paired Swiss and a road race starts in one go. That is not ten programmes. It is one system with the dials set differently per sport.
What changes per sport, and what never does
Managing entries, collecting entry fees, drawing and publishing work the same way whatever you play. Exactly three things differ, and you choose them per event.
Who enters
A player, a pair, a team, a crew or a relay squad. The sport decides what is on offer, and the entry form asks for that and nothing else.
- Men's doubles in padel, four to eight boards in chess
- Team-mates confirm themselves through their own link
- A line-up and reserves per team, with a floor and a ceiling
- Categories by age, gender and level
How it is scored
Sets in padel and volleyball, legs and sets in darts, goals in football, points to 13 in petanque, a finishing time in running. You pick the scoring per event and the results work the table out themselves.
- Best of three sets, best of five legs or a game to 13
- You decide what separates two competitors who are level
- Scores entered at the court, the table or the board
- The standings are right while play is still going on
How it is played
Groups, knockout, double elimination, Swiss or a mass start. The draw and the playing schedule follow that choice, per event, and in stages one after another when you play pools first and a bracket after.
- Pools first, then the bracket, inside one tournament
- Swiss for an open field, so nobody goes home after an hour
- Mass start for a race, where nobody is drawn against anybody
- Courts, pitches, tables and boards all count in the schedule
And the rest of the list
These ten are a selection, not the full catalogue. Below is the whole list that is ready now, and it grows one sport at a time, because each one is checked before it opens.
- American football
- Archery
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beach tennis
- Beach volleyball
- Tenpin bowling
- Brazilian jiu-jitsu
- Bridge
- Carom billiards
- Chess
- Curling
- Cycling
- Darts
- Disc golf
- Diving
- Fencing
- Field hockey
- Floorball
- Football
- Futsal
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Handball
- Ice hockey
- Judo
- Karate
- Korfball
- Padel
- Petanque
- Pickleball
- Pool billiards
- Powerlifting
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Running
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Snooker
- Softball
- Speed skating
- Squash
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Triathlon
- Ultimate frisbee
- Volleyball
- Water polo
- Weightlifting
Sports that are ready today
The catalogue holds over a hundred sports. These are the ones whose scoring, formats and governing body have been checked, so you can set a tournament up in any of them today. More join all the time.
Team sport13
- American football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Field hockey
- Floorball
- Football
- Futsal
- Handball
- Ice hockey
- Rugby
- Softball
- Ultimate frisbee
- Water polo
Racket and net10
- Badminton
- Beach tennis
- Beach volleyball
- Korfball
- Padel
- Pickleball
- Squash
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Volleyball
Target and precision9
- Archery
- Tenpin bowling
- Carom billiards
- Curling
- Darts
- Petanque
- Pool billiards
- Shooting
- Snooker
Combat5
- Brazilian jiu-jitsu
- Fencing
- Judo
- Karate
- Taekwondo
Mind sports and esports2
- Bridge
- Chess
Outdoor and adventure2
- Disc golf
- Golf
Judged and artistic2
- Diving
- Gymnastics
Strength and fitness2
- Powerlifting
- Weightlifting
If yours is not here yet, that does not mean PlayTour cannot handle it. The system has no favourite sport, because a tournament is everywhere the same three things: entrants, a format and a way of counting. What is still needed is for somebody to go through your sport’s rules, and we do that on request. Use the contact form to tell us which sport you are missing.
Ready to run your first tournament?
Create a free account, pick your sport and set out your events. You only have to think about a subscription once your tournament outgrows the free plan.