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| System allows competitors to register for the tournament online
  
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| System provides a toll-free support phone number for competitors experiencing registration problems
  
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| For team events, the system has an approach for keeping track of which competitors are on which teams
  
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| System allows organizer to easily manipulate (copy, past, edit, etc.) and add competitor information manually
  
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| System can print offline registration forms for competitors who don't have Web access
  
| System can print offline registration forms for competitors who don't have Web access
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| System accepts credit cards so competitors can pay for tournament online
  
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| System accepts international credit cards
  
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| System easily handles day-of walk-in registrations
  
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| Registration fees are handled with two transactions (one to the system, one to the organizer)
  
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| System provides financial detail and summaries (total fee revenue so far, payment types, etc.)
  
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| System provides a pre-made default set of division organizations based on weight, age, gender, rank, etc.
  
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| System allows even organizer to create or edit division organizations based on weight, age, gender, rank, etc.
  
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| System automatically shows online registering competitors only the divisions they're eligible to compete in
  
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Revision as of 13:23, 21 July 2016

Tournament Management Software is software that's intended to help tournament organizers set-up, host, and manage tournaments more easily. Some examples of such software systems are listed below.

See also: Tournament Scoring Software

All Tournament Pro

All Tournament Pro is actually a general-purpose product for all types of tournaments (softball, basketball, soccer, etc.) that also supports martial arts tournaments. It's very full-featured. Among its more unique features is the ability to estimate match-times and deconflict competitor schedules to ensure that a single competitor isn't scheduled to compete in two events at the same time. In addition to handling competitor registration, All Tournament Pro is also strong in terms of event-day features, such as ring-side scoring and display of match results.

Cost: $20 up-front fee, plus $4 per competitor ($3 from the competitor, $1 from the tournament organizer).

Kihapp

Kihapp is another full-featured product that handles everything from online registration to bracket making and certificate printing.

MAT Action

MAT Action is a cloud-computing-based software system that's intended to provide real-time management of tournament data (especially using tablet computers such as iPads and Android tablets), so that for example a person can register a walk-in competitor at the front door using an iPad, and have that competitor's data show up in real-time out on the competition floor on iPads being used by scorekeepers. 

While most Tournament Management systems have websites that are mobile-device compatible, MAT Action's strength is that it provides downloadable apps to your tablet or smartphone for tournament management.

MAT Action includes the SmartReg component for competitor registration. SmartReg is an online tournament registration and payment processing system that displays to competitors only the divisions they are eligible to compete based off their criteria.

Cost: MAT charges a fee of $5 directly to competitors at the time of registration.

SnapKick

SnapKick is a tournament registration system. It accepts both cash and credit-card payments. It supports the export of competitor data to Microsoft Excel. It also supports management of divisions, and printing of pre-filled division scoring sheets. 

Strongvon 

Strongvon...description TBD

TaekoPlan

TaekoPlan is an older PC-based system (i.e., not Web-based).

Tomato

Tomato is an older PC-based system (i.e., not Web-based).

Tournament Tiger (beta)

Tournament Tiger is not yet available for general purchase, and it appears that work on the product may have stalled? The website does not appear to have had any updates since 2012. The software looks like it would have been very full-featured however: online participant registration, automated bracketing, ring-side scoring, certificate generation, etc.

Comparison of Products

The table below is a "first draft" for comparing the above products. It provides only the information listed on each product's website. In other words, the table is not based on hands-on experience with the products (yet). As of this writing, blank cells don't mean that the product does not have that feature; blank cells simply means that no information has been provided about that feature. If you have experience with any of these products, please help Taekwondo Wiki by adding additional information.

Smoothcomp All Tournament Pro Kihapp MAT Action SnapKick Strongvon TaekoPlan Tomato
System Type
 Web-based Web-based Web-based Web-base Web-based Web-based PC-based PC-based
For Web-based systems: the event database can be downloaded for offline use Yes
Web-based Systems
System is hosted on an already-provided website Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
System provides a webpage for describing the event details Yes Yes Yes Yes
System promotes the event over social media Yes Yes
System provides a Web widget to promote the tournament on other Web pages On demand Yes Yes
Systems uses downloadable apps (rather than mobile-friendly Web pages) for tablets and smartphones, to manage the tournament Not yet (21/7-2016) Yes
Competitor Registration
System allows competitors to register for the tournament online Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Competitors can easily sign-up using computers  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Competitors can easily sign-up using tablets and smartphones Yes Yes
System provides a toll-free support phone number for competitors experiencing registration problems Yes
System allows competitors to enter their school affiliation Yes
System allows organizer to configure a list of pre-defined school affilations for competitors to pick from Yes
For team events, the system has an approach for keeping track of which competitors are on which teams Yes
System allows organizer to easily manipulate (copy, past, edit, etc.) and add competitor information manually Yes Yes Yes Yes
System can print offline registration forms for competitors who don't have Web access
Competitor Payments
System accepts credit cards so competitors can pay for tournament online Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
System accepts international credit cards Yes Yes
System easily handles day-of walk-in registrations Yes Yes
System easily handles cash payments for day-of walk-ins Yes Yes
System easily handles discount codes for competitors Yes Yes
System provides "upsale" feature for selling tee-shirts and other accessories Yes, basic config possible Yes
Registration fees are handled with two transactions (one to the system, one to the organizer) No Yes
System provides financial detail and summaries (total fee revenue so far, payment types, etc.) Not yet (21/7-2016) Yes
Divisions and Bracketing
System provides a pre-made default set of division organizations based on weight, age, gender, rank, etc. Yes Yes
System allows even organizer to create or edit division organizations based on weight, age, gender, rank, etc. Yes
System automatically shows online registering competitors only the divisions they're eligible to compete in Yes Yes
System automatically generates division lists Yes Yes Yes
System allows manual manipulation of divisions (split, merge, etc.) Yes Yes Yes
System can easily print division details Yes Yes Yes
System automatically generates brackets Yes Yes Yes Yes
System automatically generates match times Yes Yes Yes
For competitors competing in multiple events, system supports schedule deconfliction to make sure one competitor doesn’t have to be in two events at the same time Not yet (21/7-2016) Yes Yes
Bracket options include single elimination, double-elimination, round-robins, and other options Yes Yes Yes
System allows manual editing of brackets Yes Yes Yes
Brackets can be seen online Yes Yes Yes
Brackets are easily printed Yes Yes Yes
Event-Day Features
System easily prints ring-side scoring sheets On demand Yes
System supports ring-side scoring using computers, tablets, or smartphones Yes Yes
Systems integrates with Daedo TrueScore system No Yes
Systems integrated with Adidas Combat system No Yes
System calculates match results for individual events Yes
System calculates match results for team events Yes
System allows easy manual editing of event results Yes Yes
System can display match results on large-format displays Yes Yes Yes
System can display "who's up next" information on large-format displays Yes Yes Yes
System integrates with ASL scoreboard system No Yes
System integrates with Budoscore Netherlands scoreboard system No Yes
System can easily display match results in real-time on tournament website Yes Yes
System can automatically generate tournament result reports for distribution to news media Yes Yes
System can print winners' certificates No Yes
Other Features
System can output competitor information to other formats, such as Excel Yes Yes
System supports easily notifying competitors of event changes (e.g., "email blasts" to competitors) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Email-blasts can easily be sent to just specific subsets of competitors Yes Yes
System keeps track of prior-year competitors, so that prior-year competitors don't have to re-enter all their information when they register this year Yes Yes
System can compare this-year event details to prior-year event details (for example, number of competitors, which competitors are returning, which winning competitors are returning, etc.) Not yet (21/7-2016) Yes Yes
System provides real-time messaging among event officials during the event Not yet (21/7-2016) Yes

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