Tournament is a free cross platform tournament management software which you can use in order to manage round-robin tournament selections, and after that in can be used to keep track of eliminations. With the help of this free round-robin tournament management software you can easily setup who’s gonna play with whom during sports events such as football tournaments, tennis matches and so on.
Screenshot above shows us the default interface of Tournament. It’s rather simplistic with just three buttons at the top for switching between various different modules of tournaments, namely Players, Tournaments and Results. Setting up players which are gonna participate in the eliminations is setup in the first tab, the actual tournament in second, while the last tab that’s important for tournament management is the Results tab, where you can keep track of results. Key features of Tournament – free round-robin tournament and eliminations management are:
- Free and simple to use interface – easily setup tournaments
- Offers round-robin selection, eliminations or combination of the two
- Add unlimited number of players, tournament and eliminations
- Keep track of results – add and manage results of individual matches
- Print tournament sheets – quarter finals, semi finals, finals sheets
Round-robin selections and eliminations, for those who aren’t sure what these are, it’s what you see when players or teams are drawn for tournaments. The thing that will probably paint the best picture about what Tournament does is when we mention those quarter-final, semi-final and final trees for players during tennis tournaments. Here’s a few tips on how you can do exactly that with Tournament.
How to setup round-robin tournaments and eliminations with Tournament
Select the Players tab, you can’t have a tournament without players. Click on the plus button to add players to the list. Contact information like email, phone or address can also be entered.
After you’re finished adding players of teams, they don’t have to be players, after you finish adding them to the list, switch over to the tournament tab and there again click on Add.
You’ll have to setup time when the tournament will take place, select participants from the player list that you’ve entered before, and after all that’s done, the newly created tournament will open up in a new tab.
What you see on the image above are eliminations. If you don’t enter the correct number of players, some of the participants will be automatically moved up to the next round. Right clicking on each of the matches will allow you to edit them to your liking, enter results and so on. To better management of results click on the Results tab.
Conclusion
Tournament is perfect for all those who are managing sports events, competitions or any kind of tournaments basically. Printing is also available, click the print button while you have Tournaments tab open to access printout management. It’s cross platform availability is made possible by the fact that this is a Java application, so make sure that you have Java runtime environment installed before running it. Free download.
