For cricket organizers whose format is decided by daylight
A T20 is three and a half hours. Everything organizers assume about tournament formats breaks at that match length — so Tournamyx starts from your ground-days and works backwards to a fixture list that actually finishes.
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If any of these sound familiar
We built Tournamyx for cricket organizers in exactly this situation.
Field guide — cricket organizers
Every other sport picks a format and then checks it fits the day. Cricket cannot, because the match length is the variable. A T20 runs about three hours twenty minutes with the innings break, so a single ground gives you two matches in a day. An eight-over-a-side game is about seventy-five minutes, and the same ground gives you six.
That factor of three changes what is possible more than any bracket decision could. Eight teams playing a straight knockout is seven matches: four days on one ground at T20, or a day and a bit at eight overs a side. The same eight teams in a full round robin is twenty-eight matches — fourteen ground-days at T20, which is a season, and under five at eight overs, which is a long weekend.
So decide the over count first, from your ground availability and your daylight, and only then choose between a knockout and a group stage. Organizers who do it the other way round end up announcing a format in January and quietly cutting it in March.
Match length and what one ground gets through in a day
| Format | Overs a side | Match length | Matches per ground-day |
|---|---|---|---|
| T20 | 20 | ~3h 20m | 2 |
| T10 | 10 | ~1h 45m | 4 |
| Eight-over-a-side | 8 | ~1h 15m | 6 |
| Sixes / tape-ball | 5 | ~45m | 9 |
Cricket teams travel further than almost any other amateur sport, and a knockout asks eleven players plus scorers to give up a Saturday for a single match they might lose by lunch. That is the format’s cost everywhere, and cricket pays it hardest.
Groups fix it at a price you can calculate. Eight teams in two groups of four is twelve group matches plus semi-finals and a final — fifteen in total, against seven for the knockout. At eight overs a side on two grounds that is a day and a half; at T20 it is four ground-days. Every team gets three innings with the bat regardless of results, which is the actual thing people came for.
The other reason to prefer groups is weather. A washed-out knockout match eliminates someone on a coin toss or a bowl-out. A washed-out group match is one result among three, and the table absorbs it. If your season has a rain risk — and it does — the format should fail gently. Group stage + knockout builds the shape.
8 teams at eight overs a side, two grounds
| Format | Matches | Guaranteed innings | Ground-days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straight knockout | 7 | 1 | ~0.6 |
| 2 groups of 4 + semis | 15 | 3 | ~1.3 |
| Round robin | 28 | 7 | ~2.3 |
Two things separate a cricket tournament from every other kind operationally. The first is net run rate, which decides most group tables and which nobody can compute in their head — it needs runs and overs for every completed innings, and it changes the qualification picture with every over bowled. The second is the reserve day, which exists in almost every competition and which almost no fixture list plans for properly.
Tournamyx recomputes standings on every saved result and publishes them on the same public link the clubs already have, so the table is derived rather than maintained. Where a result is affected by weather, the fixture keeps its identity — a match replayed on the reserve day updates the table when it is scored, without anything downstream being rebuilt.
It is worth saying plainly what this is not: Tournamyx records match results and standings, not ball-by-ball scoring. If you need a full scorebook with wagon wheels, that is a different category of product and you should use one alongside it. What Tournamyx removes is the fixture list, the table and the forty messages asking which ground and what time.
Questions
Overs decide it before teams do. A T20 runs about three hours twenty, so a ground gets through two a day; at eight overs a side a ground fits four or five. Tournamyx schedules against the ground count you enter, so cost the event in ground-days rather than in court slots.
Eight teams in a full round robin is 28 matches, which at two matches a ground-day is a fortnight of cricket. Two groups of four into semi-finals is 15, and a straight knockout is 7. Tournamyx generates each and feeds the group standings into the knockout automatically.
Tournamyx ranks group tables on match points and applies tie-break rules automatically as results are saved. Publish the tiebreak order you intend to use before the tournament starts, and record scores consistently, so the table on the public link matches the rule your competition rules state.
Yes. Tournamyx lays the fixtures out a round at a time and those rounds can be spread across as many days as the competition needs, including a reserve day. Scores stay live between days and the public link never changes, so clubs check the same address throughout.
The comparison
Every tournament hits the same five moments. The difference is whether you handle them from a spreadsheet or from one link.
| The moment | The usual way | With Tournamyx |
|---|---|---|
| The schedule | An Excel sheet that lives on one laptop | One link, always current, on every phone |
| Score updates | 47 unread WhatsApp messages on match day | Standings update themselves as scores go in |
| A team drops out | Redraw the bracket by hand, again | Drag, drop — the bracket adjusts on its own |
| “What time is our match?” | Answered forty times, individually | Answered by the link, once |
| After the final | Typos on the printed bracket sponsors saw | A clean recap sponsors actually post |
If the middle column reads like your last event, Tournamyx was built for you.
What it handles
It has to hold up at the moment something goes wrong. Five places where most tournaments fall apart — none of them will be yours.
01/Scheduling
Enter your teams, groups, and courts. Tournamyx lays the whole schedule out across them, round by round — the job that used to eat your Saturday night.
02/Preview
Walk through every fixture, field assignment, and standing before you publish. Spot the imbalance or the awkward matchup while nobody’s watching.
03/Changes
Thirty minutes before kickoff, someone always cancels. Drag the team out, drop a replacement in — the bracket and the public link adjust on their own.
04/Scoring
The scorer picks the match, types the result, hits save. Standings recalculate, the bracket advances, and the public link shows it — before the teams have left the court.
05/Collaboration
Invite co-scorekeepers with the right permissions and divide the venue between you. Every score lands in the same live standings — no “who has the latest sheet?”
Case study — IIUMRC, Jul 2025
In July 2025, Tournamyx ran the IIUM Robotic Competition — the annual international robotics tournament at IIUM Gombak, where school teams from Malaysia and abroad battle in sumo, robot soccer, and time-rush events. 406 teams across three categories, 755 matches scheduled and scored live, every standing on one public link. If it can run an international robotics championship, it can run your Sunday futsal night.
Read how we did it →
Kickoff
Enter the teams, let Tournamyx lay out the draw, and share one link that stays current for the rest of the day.
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