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.
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
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.
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Questions
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Weighing up other tools? Here’s a neutral checklist for comparing them.
Yes. You can build a full tournament at scores.tournamyx.com without signing up — Tournamyx creates a guest session, and an account is only required when you publish the event, add an organization, or upgrade. The free generators on tournamyx.com need no account at all.
Tournamyx lets you drag a team out of a running tournament and drop a replacement in. The bracket, the standings, and the public link everyone is checking all update together — no rebuild, no group-chat announcement, and nothing redrawn by hand.
Yes. Tournamyx supports owner, admin, and member roles plus per-tournament scoring permissions, so you can invite co-scorekeepers and have several people scoring at the same time from different courts. Every score lands in the same standings.
Tournamyx places byes automatically, so an organizer never has to work out the bracket padding by hand. Tournamyx seats them on the top seeds, advances those teams straight to round two, and redraws the bracket if the team count changes before kick-off.
Tournamyx supports both. You can seed teams deliberately so the strongest sides meet late, or use the one-click randomiser for a contested draw, and Tournamyx builds the bracket from whichever order you settle on.
Tournamyx ranks group tables on match points and recalculates them on every save. Tie-breaks are applied automatically, and attempt-based events can rank on custom metrics such as fastest time or highest score instead of points.
Yes. Tournamyx exports the full match schedule and blank scoresheets for every field as print-ready PDFs, for referees, judges, and the registration desk. On the Pro plan those PDFs carry your organization logo.
Yes, on every plan including Free. Tournamyx does not limit how many tournaments you run or how many are active at once — the plan limit is on players per tournament, not on the number of tournaments.
Yes, on Pro. Tournamyx shows unlimited sponsors on the public event page and reports click-throughs and audience analytics afterwards, so you have something concrete to send a sponsor after the final.
Tournamyx is used for futsal, football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, pickleball, chess, esports, robotics and STEM competitions, university sport, school sports days, and corporate events. The formats differ from sport to sport; the scheduling and live-scoring engine underneath is the same.