Feature overview

A full tournament stack, not just a bracket builder.

See how Bracket Assistant supports instant play, registration, leagues, communication, game day, and scale-up operations. Many workflows exist on both plans, including shareable flyers and branded event pages, while Pro adds more capacity and premium unlocks like league seasons.

Free instant brackets
Registration and payments
League seasons and playoffs
Live standings and follow alerts
Player stats and discovery
Organizer controls that scale
Instant Tournaments

Fast setup for brackets and same-day competition when registration isn't needed and the goal is to get matches moving immediately.

Free + Proorganizer

Instant Starts

Launch a bracket in seconds for pop-up events, club nights, and game-day scrambles.

Create an Instant Tournament without signup, add teams yourself, and get moving fast when you need a working bracket right now.

Free + Proorganizer

Saved Events

Keep instant tournaments available after the day ends instead of losing them with the browser session.

Organizer accounts store instant events so you can reopen, manage, and share results later instead of rebuilding from scratch.

Pro raises the cap so you can keep more active and historical events on the account.

Registration and Planning

Tournament and league setup tools for divisions, signup flow, partner requests, season planning, and organizer-side control before the event starts.

Free + Proorganizerplayer

Registration Pages

Publish a real tournament signup flow with event details, division choices, and payment-ready entry.

Turn a tournament plan into a public registration page that collects names, partners, fees, and organizer-specific details cleanly.

Pro supports larger tournament volume and more room to operate.

Free + Proorganizer

Division Control

Manage multiple divisions, start times, close dates, and tournament states from one place.

Organize men's, women's, mixed, singles, doubles, and custom divisions with separate schedules and status tracking.

Pro is the better fit once you need to run more divisions and more concurrent tournament complexity.

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League Seasons

Run recurring league seasons with public registration, weekly scheduling, standings, and playoff handoff in one Pro workflow.

Create published league seasons with divisions, entry fees, partner options, weekly match schedules, live standings, team approvals, bulk email, and a clean handoff into playoffs when the regular season wraps.

Available on Bracket Assistant Pro for organizers running recurring seasons, club ladders, and weekly competition.

Free + Proorganizerplayer

Smart Pairing

Handle solo signups, partner requests, waitlists, and organizer pairing cleanup without spreadsheet chaos.

Collect teammate intent at registration, auto-match normalized partner requests, and manually fix pairings when the day gets messy.

Game Day Operations

Scoring, court assignments, check-in, and match flow tools that keep the event running cleanly under pressure.

Free + Proorganizerplayer

Flexible Formats

Run round robin, swiss, single elimination, double elimination, pool play, playoff hybrids, and more!

Tournament formats: pool play + single-elimination playoffs, single elimination, pool play + double-elimination playoffs, full round robin, rotating partners round robin, Swiss, and Swiss rotating partners. League formats: round robin, partial round robin, pool play + playoffs, custom schedule, mixed doubles rotating partners, rotating partners round robin, Swiss, and Swiss rotating partners.

Free + Proorganizer

Check-In Status

Track registered, confirmed, paid, unpaid, and checked-in players without jumping across tools.

Keep registration status visible during setup and game day so staff knows exactly who is ready, missing, unpaid, or waiting on changes.

Free + Proorganizerplayer

Court Assignments

Assign courts, keep matches flowing, and keep organizers aligned during busy event windows.

Use court-aware game-day views to move teams efficiently, reduce confusion, and keep the event floor organized.

Proorganizer

Printable Game-Day Forms

Print score cards, brackets, and fallback forms so your event can keep moving even when the internet does not.

Generate print-ready score cards, bracket sheets, and blank fallback forms for manual court assignments or score entry when you want a paper backup on hand for game day.

Communication

Bulk email, alerts, and admin collaboration so organizers can keep players, families, and staff aligned.

Free + Proorganizerplayer

Bulk Emailing

Send reminders, updates, and custom tournament messages without exporting a contact list first.

Use built-in templates and tournament-aware merge details to communicate with an entire division or event quickly.

Pro allows organizers to save email templates and provides more room to communicate across larger events and repeat tournaments.

Free + Proorganizerplayerspectator

Push Alerts

Let players, families, and spectators follow teams or divisions for live result and standings updates.

Offer easy web push subscriptions for match outcomes, final standings, and next-up information without building a custom app.

Free + Proorganizer

Admin Seats

Share the workload with multiple admins, scoped accounts, and organizer-specific access.

Support more than one organizer on the account so tournament operations do not bottleneck through a single login.

Pro lifts the limitations on admin accounts and is the clear path for teams running bigger operations together.

Player Experience

Public pages, live standings, discovery, and follow features that make tournaments easier to follow and share.

Free + Proorganizerplayerspectator

Live Standings

Publish public standings, brackets, and live results so everyone stays on the same page.

Let players and spectators check standings, score progress, and bracket movement in real time without crowding the desk.

Free + Proorganizerplayer

Player Hub Stats

Give players stats, recent activity, nearby tournaments, and profile tools in one player-facing home base.

Player Hub lets players review win rate, streaks, recent form, tournament history, nearby discoverable events, public profile links, and looking-for-teammates status from one screen.

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Discovery Feed

Show Pro tournaments in a public discovery flow so players can find events near them.

Promote eligible tournaments through discoverable listings that help organizers attract players without extra posting work.

Free + Proorganizerplayerspectator

Public Share Pages

Share tournament home pages, live views, and result links that look professional on any screen.

Give players and spectators a clean public destination for event details, standings, and shareable tournament updates.

Free + Proorganizerplayerspectator

Flyers and Page Branding

Create a flyer in one click and add images or logos to event pages without hand-designing promo assets.

Use built-in flyer export plus rich public descriptions with images or logos so your event page and shareable promo material stay aligned without extra design tools.

Billing and Payments

Payment collection, organizer billing controls, and subscription infrastructure that supports growth past the free tier.

Free + Proorganizerplayer

Payment Ready

Collect entry fees with Stripe Connect, Venmo, or in-person tracking from the same workflow.

Support organizer payment collection through connected Stripe checkout, simple fallback methods, and clear registration payment status.

Proorganizer

Connected Payments

Connect Stripe once and run online registration payments through a cleaner organizer-owned payment flow.

Use Stripe Connect to accept online registration payments with organizer-level onboarding, connection health, and payout readiness.

Proorganizer

Billing Controls

Manage subscription, confirmed-player fees, SMS charges, and billing overrides with clarity.

Pro accounts can work from account-level and tournament-level billing controls backed by a real ledger and Stripe billing sync.

Ready to test it

Start free today, then scale into the full organizer toolkit when you need it.

Use Instant Tournaments for the fastest path to a working bracket, or create an organizer account when you are ready for registration, payments, league seasons, and full tournament operations.

Upcoming Tournaments and Leagues

Public events that players can browse right now.