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A Toornament alternative free to start, online and on-court

If your calendar has a Discord qualifier in it and a sports hall booking, you are evaluating against two sets of requirements at once. Below is a neutral checklist covering both, and what Tournamyx does on each point.

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Free for small events · Nothing to install

Price to start: Free up to 8 teams, unlimited events, no card
Online events: Brackets, Swiss and pools with no venue setup needed
On-court events: Court assignment, printed scoresheets, role-based scoring
Current gap: No double elimination yet

The mixed-calendar problem

A lot of organizers do not run one kind of event. A university sports committee runs a Valorant qualifier in March and an inter-faculty futsal cup in April. A community organizer runs an online ladder and then a LAN final in a physical venue with real courts and a real schedule.

Those two have genuinely different requirements. Online events need brackets, check-in, and results reported by participants. Offline events need court assignment, printed scoresheets, a scorer at each venue, and a public schedule that works on a phone with poor signal inside a sports hall. If you run both, you are evaluating for both — and it is worth writing down which of the two your next three events actually are before you start comparing anything.

The checklist below is deliberately neutral — take it to any product you are evaluating, including this one, and answer it for yourself against the events you actually run.

The checklist

What to look for in a Toornament alternative

6 questions to answer against whatever you are evaluating, this product included. We have filled in our own column; the point is that you can check every one of these yourself rather than take anybody’s word for it.

Does it schedule against physical resources — courts, pitches, stations?
Online events do not need this at all. Offline events are almost entirely this. If you run both, you need it available and ignorable.
In Tournamyx
Fixtures are assigned across your real court or station count with no team double-booked; ignore it entirely for online events.
Can results be entered by different people at different locations?
A LAN with four stations or a hall with four courts needs four people scoring at once, none of whom should be able to edit the draw.
In Tournamyx
Per-tournament roles — a scorer enters results for their station without access to the bracket or other events.
Does the public view work for a spectator with no account and bad signal?
Sports halls have poor reception and spectators will not install anything. A heavy page behind a login is a page nobody sees.
In Tournamyx
One public URL, no login, no install — schedule, bracket and live results in any mobile browser.
Does it support Swiss as well as brackets?
Swiss is standard in esports and chess and is the right answer for large fields where you do not want early elimination.
In Tournamyx
Swiss is supported alongside single elimination, round robin, and group stages that chain into a knockout.
What happens when the committee changes?
Student and community organizations turn over annually. Events tied to one personal login are lost at handover.
In Tournamyx
Events belong to an organization, not a person; roles are reassigned without rebuilding anything.
Can you get paper out of it?
Offline events always need something printed — referee scoresheets, a desk copy of the schedule.
In Tournamyx
Schedules and blank scoresheets export as print-ready PDFs per court or station.

What Tournamyx does

Formats that cover both halves of the calendar

Tournamyx runs single elimination, round robin, Swiss, and group stages feeding a knockout, plus attempt-based scoring for judged events. Swiss in particular is what makes a large online field workable: twenty-four entrants in five rounds is sixty games with nobody eliminated early, versus twenty-three matches in a knockout that sends half the field home after one.

The same engine handles a futsal cup the following month, because the format logic and the scheduling logic are separate — you add courts and slot lengths when the event is physical and leave them out when it is not. The esports segment page covers the online side; futsal and university sport cover the offline side.

You can test any of it before creating an account on the free generators — brackets, round robins, and group stages into knockouts all run in the browser and save nothing.

Delegating scoring without delegating control

The single hardest thing about running an event larger than one room is that you cannot be everywhere, and most tools make scoring an all-or-nothing permission. Either someone has your login and can edit anything, or they message you the result and you enter it.

Tournamyx assigns roles per tournament. A volunteer at station three can enter results for station three from their own phone, and cannot edit the draw, change other results, or see your other events. That is what lets a two-person committee run a multi-venue day without either of them standing still.

It is also the thing that survives the event. Because scoring is delegated rather than shared, you are not rotating a password afterwards.

The scale it has actually been run at

The largest event Tournamyx has run is 406 teams across 755 matches at multiple venues — the case study covers what that took. We would rather point at one real event than quote a theoretical participant ceiling.

Small events are free: up to 8 teams, unlimited events, no credit card. Beyond that there are paid plans and a one-off unlock for a single large event, which suits committees with one big competition a year and nothing in between. The pricing page has current tiers.

Questions

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Is there a free alternative to Toornament?

Tournamyx is free for events up to 8 teams with no limit on how many you run, which covers most weeklies and qualifiers outright. Larger events use a paid plan or a one-off unlock for a single event, and the format generators on this site need no account at all.

Are there tournament sites like Toornament that also handle physical venues?

That is the specific thing to check when you run both kinds of event. Tournamyx keeps format logic and venue scheduling separate — add courts and time slots for an on-site event, leave them out for an online one, and the same bracket, Swiss or pool structure works either way.

Does Tournamyx work for online esports events?

Yes. Brackets, Swiss and group stages all run without any physical scheduling, and the public link works as a viewer-facing bracket. Court and slot assignment is there when you need it for an offline event and ignorable when you do not.

Does Tournamyx support Swiss format?

Yes. Swiss is available alongside single elimination, round robin, and group stages that chain into a knockout — it is usually the right choice for large fields where early elimination would defeat the point.

Does it support double elimination?

Not yet. Currently supported formats are single elimination, round robin, Swiss, group stages feeding a knockout, and attempt-based scoring.

Can participants report their own results?

Scoring is role-based per tournament, so you can grant result entry to specific people — a station scorer or a team representative — without giving them the ability to edit the draw or other matches.

Is there an API or integration?

Tournamyx is a hosted web app rather than a developer platform — every event link is a public URL anyone can open, share or embed in a page. If you have a specific integration in mind, message us and we will tell you straight away whether it is doable.

Is Tournamyx free to try?

Events up to 8 teams are free with no limit on how many you run. The format generators on this site need no account at all — they run in your browser and save nothing.

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