Professional event organizers use KeepaScore
If you've hit one of the limits within KeepaScore Brackets, then please afford us the opportunity to explain our mission.
We created KeepaScore specifically for professional tournament organizers who charge for their events. KeepaScore will (and has) successfully been used to run many multi-hundred player events using a single iPad or even a single iPhone!
We also realized the community at large is also interested in running successful events. So we came up with a solution.
We created KeepaScore specifically for professional tournament organizers who charge for their events. KeepaScore will (and has) successfully been used to run many multi-hundred player events using a single iPad or even a single iPhone!
We also realized the community at large is also interested in running successful events. So we came up with a solution.
Community Edition vs. Tournament Edition
Our Community Edition provides most of the features that any simple organization, or rec league might need. You can run any event format up to 3 full courts (12 players + 2 additional players). As soon as you want to go past 14 total players within any event, we simply ask for a weekly price less than the cost of one pickleball.
To make the deal even sweeter, if you decide to use the annual subscription, you're paying less than the cost of one pickleball per month!!!
Choose the annual option of Unlimited participants and you'll enjoy a full year of an unlimited number of players for all of the possible formats KeepaScore offers.
Tournament Edition Pricing
First let's talk about how conventional tournament pricing works. Visit most any of the popular tournament sites and you'll find the average cost for a tournament is between $50 - $70 (and sometimes much higher). Of this $50, anywhere from $2 to $5 (sometimes up to $10 or more) is passed along to the player and is charged by the service provider hosting that web site or service. Yes, their web site and services offer a wide range of features, including registration management as well as actual tournament management.
KeepaScore is different, it doesn't manage collecting funds or handling registrations. You can do these things yourself with a simple Google Form and Venmo if you want the low cost options. If you're running a WordPress site, you can find registration modules.
KeepaScore will manage the tournament experience and it will do it for far less. Comparing a professionally organized tournament provider who runs one event per month and handles 200 players per event at $50 will generate roughly $120,000 annually. When you consider even the highest "crazy" priced KeepaScore subscription, you're looking at $0.50 per player on average.
Yep! .50¢ per player!
And, you get to run as many events as you want and keep your full tournament fee because you've paid once for the whole year and you're not passing the cost along to players. So, what does this mean?
Lower cost tournaments
THIS is our mission! We want to work with individuals and companies who want to offer the premium tournament experience and is able to offer these same types of events for far less than the $50 - $70 currently being charged.
Gather your local community players and charge a simple $20 and offer that to 50 players.
Running just one single such event would cover the annual cost of using KeepaScore and you can then run as many other events for the rest of the year! Your tournament management costs have already been covered - you keep the rest and your community enjoys lower cost events!
Product features
Community Edition
Tournament Edition
The following is a listing of the features included in each of the two variations of KeepaScore Brackets.
Feature comparison | |||
Profiles | |||
Profile limit | 2 | Unlimited | The ability to manage multiple organizations/clubs within the app. |
Players | |||
Player storage limit | Unlimited | Unlimited | Store as many player records as necessary. |
QuickAdd players | β | β | Quickly add new players via a screenshot from other apps or a simple list text entry. |
Player event history | π« | β | See a count of the events played on each player's record. |
Events | |||
Maximum participants | 14* | Unlimited | *Monthly or annual "Unlimited participants" subscription allows for unlimited event participants if you're using the Community Edition. NOTE: All Tournament Edition subscriptions include unlimited participants. |
Events within the same day |
5 | Based on subscription level | |
Standard | = 8 same-day events | ||
Professional | = 16 same-day events | ||
Unlimited | = Unlimited events | ||
Publish Events | β | β | Post updates to semi-public links for sharing results. |
Team transfers | π« | β | Ability to transfer teams from the stats display to other events. |
Import automation | π« | β | Support for automatic creation of events and teams via spreadsheet pasting. |
Player Quick Join | π« | β | Quickly join a selection of players to an event. |
Custom seeding | π« | β | Control for how a bracket is seeded. |
Players waiting | π« | β | See how many and how long players have been waiting since last game played. |
Brackets | |||
Access all bracket formats | β | β | Single & double elimination, compass, ladders and round robin formats. |
Publish Brackets | β | β | Post updates to semi-public links for sharing results. |
Enhanced bracket view | π« | β | See which matches are being played and on which courts (when assigned). |
Scorecards | |||
Print physical QR code scorecards | β | β | |
Create digital QR code scorecards | β | β | |
Event scorecards PDF | β | β | PDF document listing all digital scorecards for an entire event. |
Batch printing | π« | β | |
Enhanced capture | π« | β | Fast capture of physical scorecard data. |
Tournaments | |||
Tournament events | 3 | Unlimited | |
Publish Tournaments | π« | β | Post updates to semi-public links for sharing results. |
Leagues | |||
Leagues allowed | 3 | Unlimited | |
League divisions | 3 | Unlimited | |
Events per division | 4 | Unlimited | |
Publish league stats | β | β | Post updates to semi-public links for sharing results. |
Venues | |||
Venues allowed | 2 | Unlimited | |
Multiple venues | None | Unlimited | |
Court assignments | π« | β | |
Communications | |||
Templates | π« | β | Use default or create custom communication templates. Match ready, Late notice, Forfeit warnings, etc |
Match/Game messaging | π« | β | Send players text messages using any associated templates. |
QR Page PDF | π« | β | Easily create a single page large-format QR code with links to results or whatever you want! |