Leagues vs tournaments
When you create an event, you choose between a league and a tournament. They share registration, scoring, and stats, but differ in structure.
League
A league is recurring, regular-season play. Use it for a weekly night or an ongoing series. Leagues support:
- Round robin — everyone plays everyone.
- Round robin → bracket — a round-robin group stage that seeds into a playoff bracket.
Leagues don't carry specific calendar dates the way tournaments do; they're meant to run over time.
Tournament
A tournament is a one-off, single- or multi-day event with a defined date (or set of dates) and start times. Tournaments support every schedule type:
- Round robin
- Single elimination
- Double elimination
- Round robin → bracket
Public tournaments can also be listed on the public Tournaments page (the club must be public).
Picking one
| If you want… | Use |
|---|---|
| A weekly/ongoing season | League |
| A bracket on a specific date | Tournament |
| A group stage that feeds a playoff | Either (both support RR → bracket) |
| To list it publicly across clubs | Tournament (public) |
"Just for fun" events
When creating or editing either a league or a tournament, you can mark it Just for fun. The event still records everything — scores, standings, the bracket, and its own per-event stats page all work normally — but its results are left out of the club, season, and global leaderboards and out of every player's profile stats. Use it for one-off socials, warm-ups, or practice nights you don't want affecting anyone's record. See Stats & ratings for the full detail.
After it's created
- Formats (singles/doubles and the doubles variant) are set at creation — see Event formats.
- Schedules and brackets are generated separately — see Generating a schedule and Brackets & seeding.
Heads up
A completed event is a permanent historical record. Once you mark it complete you can't edit it or re-open it — the only remaining action is to delete it. Make sure all scores are final first.