Running the day with a live bracket
The paper bracket taped to the wall still works. A live one answers the question you get asked all day, "who do we play next and where", on every phone in the room.
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Before the day
- 1Make the bracket on any page and choose Save. It moves into your account and gets its own link.
- 2Put the teams in seed order, or shuffle for a blind draw. Changing the names or the format later clears the scores, so settle these first.
- 3Print a copy. Phones run out of battery and halls lose signal; a printed bracket and a pen do not.
One link for players and parents
Share shows the live bracket link. Anyone who opens it sees the bracket as it is now, and every score appears on their screen as it goes in. They cannot change anything. This part is free.
A separate link for the people keeping score
With a pass, Share also gives a scorers' link. Send it to the helper at each court or table. They open it on their own phone, with no account, type the score, and the winner moves on for everyone.
Two helpers entering different games at the same moment do not overwrite each other. If the link reaches someone it should not, replace it: the old one stops working at once.
A screen at the venue
The big screen view fills a TV or projector with the bracket and nothing else, and updates by itself. Open it on a laptop connected to the screen and leave it. It asks the device not to dim.
What it costs
Making, printing and the live link are free, and a free account keeps 3 brackets. The scorers' link and the big screen need a pass: $4.99 once for one bracket, or $39 for every bracket for 12 months. Pricing has the details.