Pickleball tournament software for organizers
Your draw builds itself.
Players see their court.
DinkBoard seeds the pools, builds the brackets, and schedules every match across your courts - around players entered in three brackets and the rest between their matches. Then the whole day runs on a live court board, on every phone and the venue TV.
Free in early access · No app for players · Live in about five minutes
Just need brackets on paper? The free bracket generator makes a round robin or bracket with court assignments. No account.
Run tournament day without the 6am whiteboard.
One event, one system, one link on the poster.
Setup
Your event can be live in 5 minutes.
Add your brackets, set games-to and win-by per bracket, and paste or upload the entries. Each bracket freezes its rules into the draw, so a mid-event change can not rewrite a finished pool.
The scheduler
The 6am whiteboard, automated.
Players in three brackets, limited courts, rest between matches: the constraint problem directors solve by hand. DinkBoard schedules the whole event at once, across every bracket, and does not double-book a person or skip their rest.
The schedule is deterministic: a reprint matches the sheet already taped to the wall.
The court board
"You're on Court 7 next."
Players stop asking the desk. Each player's own phone shows their next match and court, the whole board runs live on every phone, and the venue puts the same board fullscreen on a TV from a plain browser URL. No casting box, nothing to install.
It replaces the printed bracket everyone crowds around.
Built for real venues
Bad wifi can't stop the desk.
Score entry saves on the device first and syncs when the connection returns, even through a refresh. Outdoor courts and gym dead zones have the worst wifi, so this is built in, not bolted on.
A status chip on the desk shows exactly what is still waiting to send.
Formats
Built for the formats pickleball actually plays
Doubles, mixed, and singles. Games to 11, win by 2, best of 1 or 3: set per bracket and frozen into the draw.
Why directors switch
The three that set it apart
01
The scheduler Multi-bracket players and rest minimums are first-class constraints. The hardest part of your day, in one click.02
The live court board Every phone, and the venue TV from a plain browser URL. Players see their court without asking the desk.03
Every score, kept A correction is a new entry, not an overwrite. Disputed games get an audit trail instead of an argument.| DinkBoard | The legacy platforms | Paper brackets & a whiteboard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schedules around multi-bracket players | Yes, automatically | Manual fixes | By hand, at 6am |
| Enforces rest between matches | Yes, you set the minimum | Rarely | If you remember |
| Live court board for players | Phone + venue TV | Bracket page | Crowd around the wall |
| Works when the wifi drops | Yes, offline-first | Spotty | Yes (it's paper) |
| Score-desk volunteer role | Day-of access only | Share your login | - |
| What it costs today | $0 in early access | Setup fee + player fees | Free-ish, painful |
Fair is fair: the big platforms have the field. If you need the largest possible registration pool for a sanctioned event, list there. For actually running your day, this is better.
- The scheduler. Multi-bracket players and rest minimums are first-class constraints, not an afterthought.
- The live court board. Fullscreen from a plain browser URL on the venue TV, and the same view on every player's phone.
- The score desk. Keyboard-fast, offline-safe, and every entry audited. Players can self-report with an opponent confirming.
- Ladders. Weekly leagues and recurring open play run as programs with season standings today; ladders ride the same engine next.
- DUPR sync. Your roster CSV can carry a rating column today; direct two-way sync needs their partner program.
- Court booking. Not our lane. We won't compete with your reservation system.
See it in action
Open a live sample event right now
The Blaine Fall Classic is a full sample tournament running on real data. No signup, no account.
All the sample surfaces, with what each one is, are on the demos page. Rather set up your own? Run an event free.
Pricing
Priced by how much you run
$5 per player for a single event, or unlimited events at $20 a month or $120 a year. Every plan includes every feature. During early access billing is not switched on yet, so events run at no charge today.
Run your next tournament without the whiteboard.
Build your brackets, share one link, and let DinkBoard handle the draw and the courts. Everything is included while we're in early access, and the generator needs no account at all.
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