Create a tournament

The create flow has three steps: Basics, Divisions and Review. It sets only the essentials. You configure everything else afterwards, from the tournament’s own tabs.

Before you start

• You need a facility license. Staff you’ve added in facility settings can create tournaments without a license of their own. Without one, the New Tournament button doesn’t appear.
• Know your court numbers. You need at least one to continue.

Note

When a staff member creates a tournament, it’s hosted under the facility owner (while the owner’s facility subscription is active). The owner and all staff see and manage it, and entry fees go through the owner’s Stripe account. The exception is a staff member who holds their own active facility subscription: their tournaments stay hosted under their own account. See Staff and co-organizers.

Create a tournament

1. Open Tournaments and tap New Tournament.

   

2. On Basics, fill in the fields in the table below, then tap Next: Divisions →.

   

3. On Divisions, tap + Add division and add at least one. Name each one, choose Doubles or Singles, and tap Next: Review →.

   

4. On Review, check the summary. Then tap Publish → to go live now, or Save as draft to finish setup first.

Either button creates the tournament and takes you to its Entrants tab. Tap ← Back on any step to change your answers.

Basics

Field	What it does	Default	Notes
Name	The tournament’s title everywhere it appears.	Empty	Required. You can rename it later in Settings.
Host	Who hosts the tournament.	Empty	Required. The only option is My facility.
Start date	The first day of play.	None	Optional. Players see it on the public page.
End date	The last day of play.	Same as start	Optional. Leave it blank for a one-day event.
Courts available	The courts you can use, separated by commas, such as 1, 2, 3, 4.	Empty	Required. Whatever you type becomes the court label, so A, B, C works too. You can add or remove courts later in Settings.

Next: Divisions → stays disabled until you’ve entered a name, chosen a host and listed at least one court.

Divisions

Each division is its own mini-tournament, with its own entrants, pools and bracket. Common examples are skill levels, age groups, or men’s, women’s and mixed.

Field	What it does	Default	Notes
Division name	What players and the public see.	Empty	Required. Rename it later in Settings.
Format	Doubles is a pair per entry. Singles is one player per entry.	Doubles	The page hints that format can’t be changed once the division is created. To switch, delete the empty division in Settings and add it again with the other format. Divisions you add later in Settings also have a Doubles / Singles choice.

Tap Remove on a division to drop it from the list. Next: Review → stays disabled until you have at least one division and every division has a name.

Note

Pool count, how many advance, scoring formats, the playoff style, entry fees and entry limits aren’t part of this flow. New divisions start with defaults, shown below, and you change them per division after you add entrants. See Set up divisions.

What a new division starts with

Setting	Starts as
Pools	1
Advance from each pool	Top 2
Pool match format	1 game to 11, win by 2
Playoff	Single elimination, with a 3rd-place match
Bracket match format	Best of 3 to 11, win by 2
Entry fee	None (free)
Maximum teams	No limit

Review and publish

The Review step shows your name, host, dates and court count, and the divisions you’ve added. Two buttons finish the flow.

• Publish → creates the tournament and publishes it in one go. The public link starts working immediately, and you land on Entrants. The page reminds you that no one is notified automatically, so share the link.
• Save as draft creates it as a draft. Nothing is visible to players. Publish later from Settings.

Publishing is not the same as opening registration. A published tournament is visible through its link, but players can’t register themselves until you switch on Public signup. See Registration and entry fees.

Tip

Save as a draft if you plan to set up entry fees, entry limits or match formats before anyone can see the tournament.

What a new tournament starts with

These settings start with the values below. Change them in the Settings tab. See Tournament settings for what each does.

Setting	Starts as
Auto-assign courts	On
Text players (court and score updates)	On
Score dispute window	Off
Public signup	Off
List on /events	Off

After you create it

You land on the Entrants tab. From there:

1. Add teams yourself with Add team. Search for a Dink+ user, or type a guest’s name. Teams you add skip the partner-confirm step and go straight to confirmed.
2. Open Settings to adjust courts, signup, fees and formats.
3. Follow Run a tournament, start to finish for the rest of the day.

If you made a mistake in a draft, open the tournament and fix it in Settings. A completed or cancelled tournament can be deleted from Tournaments: tap the ⋮ on its row, then Delete. See Tournament settings.