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 its settings, and its matches can no longer be scored. Make sure all scores are final first.
If you marked it complete too early and some matches are still unfinished, a Reopen button appears on the event page — it moves the event back to Active so you can finish scoring, then mark it complete again. Once every match is finished the Reopen button goes away and the only remaining action is to delete the event.
Found a genuine mistake in a finished event? A site admin can correct it — they can edit a completed event's settings in place, or reopen it so a wrong score can be fixed. Corrections are recorded and shown on the event page, so the club can see that one happened. Get in touch through Report a bug if you need one.