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
- Website: http://www.alltournamentpro.com, specifically http://www.r2sports.com/cartProducts/taekwondo-tournament-software.asp?cartID=
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
- Website: http://www.kihapp.com
Kihapp is another full-featured product that handles everything from online registration to bracket making and certificate printing.
MAT Action
- Website: http://www.mataction.com
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
- Website: http://www.snapkick.com/
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
- Website: http://main.strongvon.com
Strongvon...description TBD
TaekoPlan
- Website: http://taekoplan.nl
TaekoPlan is an older PC-based system (i.e., not Web-based).
Tomato
- Website: http://tomato.atspace.com/
Tomato is an older PC-based system (i.e., not Web-based).
Tournament Tiger (beta)
- Website: http://www.tournamenttiger.com
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.
| All Tournament Pro | Kihapp | MAT Action | SnapKick | TaekoPlan | Tomato | |
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Web-based | Web-based | Web-base | Web-based | PC-based | PC-based |
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| System is hosted on an already-provided website | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| System provides a webpage for describing event details | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| System promotes event over social media | Yes | |||||
| System provides a Web widget to promote the tournament on other Web pages | Yes | |||||
| Systems uses downloadable apps (rather than Web pages) for tablets and smartphones, to manage the tournament. | Yes | |||||
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| System allows competitors to register for the tournament online | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Competitors can easily sign-up using computers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Competitors can easily sign-up using tablets and smartphones | Yes | |||||
| System provides support phone number for competitors experiencing registration problems | Yes | |||||
| System allows competitors to enter school affiliation | ||||||
| System allows organizer to configure a list of pre-defined school affilations | ||||||
| For team events, system has approach for keeping track of which competitors are on which teams | ||||||
| System allows organizer to easily manipulate and add competitor information manually | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System can print offline registration forms for competitors without Web access | ||||||
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| System accepts credit cards so competitors can pay for tournament online | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| System accepts international credit cards | Yes | |||||
| System easily handles day-of walk-in registrations | Yes | |||||
| System easily handles cash payments for day-of walk-ins | Yes | |||||
| Registration fees are handled with two transactions (one to the system, one to the organizer) | Yes | |||||
| System provides financial detail and summaries (fee revenue, payment types, etc.) | Yes | |||||
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| System provides a default set of 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 | |||||
| System automatically generates division lists | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System allows manual manipulation of divisions (split, merge, etc.) | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System can easily print division details | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System automatically generates brackets | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| System automatically generates match times | 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 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Bracket options include single elimination, double-elimination, round-robins, and other options | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System allows manual editing of brackets | Yes | |||||
| Brackets can be seen online | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Brackets are easily printed | Yes | |||||
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| System easily prints ring-side scoring sheets | Yes | |||||
| System supports ring-side scoring using computers, tablets, or smartphones | Yes | |||||
| Systems integrates with Daedo TrueScore system | Yes | |||||
| Systems integrated with Adidas Combat system | Yes | |||||
| System calculates match results for individual events | ||||||
| System calculates match results for team events | ||||||
| System allows easy manual editing of event results | Yes | |||||
| System can display match results on large-format displays | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System can display "who's up next" information on large-format displays | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System integrates with ASL scoreboard system | Yes | |||||
| System integrates with Budoscore Netherlands scoreboard system | Yes | |||||
| System can easily display match results in real-time on tournament website | Yes | |||||
| System can automatically generate tournament result reports for distribution to news media | Yes | |||||
| System can print winners' certificates | Yes | |||||
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| System can output competitor information to other formats, such as Excel | Yes | |||||
| System supports easily notifying competitors of event changes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System keeps track of prior-year competitors, so that prior-year competitors don't have to re-enter all their information | 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.) | Yes | Yes | ||||
| System provides real-time messaging among event officials during the event | Yes |