Tournaments & Team Play

Three: Pools to Bracket (the default — teams play a round-robin pool, then the top teams advance to a single-elimination bracket), a straight single-elimination Bracket, and a Team event where clubs field a lineup and a set of matches decides one team result. Pick the family that fits your field size and your day.

Yes. Turn on entry fees and players pay through Stripe checkout when they register, or you can set it to pay-at-check-in and collect on the day. Either way the registration list tracks who's paid.

Create divisions. Each division has its own registration, its own bracket or pools, and its own standings, so a 3.0 division and a 4.0 division run side by side under one tournament.

Check players in, then dispatch matches to courts. Pikel can auto-dispatch the next ready match to the next open court, or you can tap a waiting match in the Up Next queue to place it on a specific court yourself.

Yes. Use the pool board editor to move teams between pools and fix the seeding before the first ball is served, so a strong team and a weak team don't land in the same pool by accident.

Two: a Round Robin Season, where players meet across a set of weeks and standings build over the season, and a Ladder / Scramble league, where players move up and down based on results. Pick the mode that matches how your group thinks about winning.

A league carries results across weeks. Each week runs like a normal game night, but the wins, losses, and points roll up into a season standings table — and in a ladder, into movement up or down the rungs — instead of resetting every session.

You pick one game-day format for the whole league: Popcorn, Scramble, or Mixed Madness for rotating partners, or Shuffle for fixed partners. It runs every week — the season structure and standings stay constant while each night plays fast.

Yes. Add players between weeks — Pikel folds them into the schedule and standings from that point forward, the same way it handles a late arrival on a normal game night.

No rating is required to run a league. If your club is linked to DUPR, rated matches can still submit scores, but the league itself runs on wins, points, and standings — not on a required rating tier.

Seeding is arranging teams so the strongest ones don't collide early. In a pools-to-bracket tournament, it means spreading top teams across different pools, and then letting pool results decide who lands where in the championship bracket — so the best matchups happen at the end, not the first round.

Yes. Pikel's pool board editor lets you rearrange teams across pools before the tournament begins — drag a team from one pool to another to balance them out, then save. It's the fix for a lopsided draw.

By results. Teams play their round-robin pool, and their standings determine their seed going into the single-elimination championship bracket. Win your pool and you earn a higher seed and an easier early path.

Yes. The create wizard's default shape is Pools → Bracket, which feeds a single-elimination championship bracket — but you can also add a Double Elimination division from Manage Divisions. It runs a winners bracket plus a losers (consolation) bracket into a grand final, so a single loss doesn't end a team's tournament.

Create a team event and pick the format: Standard mixed (2+2), a same-gender three-line, or a same-gender four-line setup. Build your teams and invite players, then run each tie as a set of line matches — in the four-line formats a dreambreaker settles a 2-2 tie, while the three-line setup is decided by taking two of its three lines. It's Pikel's take on multi-line team play.

On tournament day, the Court dispatch board keeps courts moving without a paper clipboard. Pikel can auto-dispatch the next ready match to the next open court, or you can tap a waiting match in the Up Next queue to place it on a specific court yourself. The Entrants roster lists every registered player by seed and shows their status, so you can see who's ready to play.