For university sport committees running inter-faculty events
Tournamyx handles the schedule, the live standings, and the public link your faculty WhatsApp groups can’t stop refreshing — so your committee runs the event instead of chasing it.
Free for up to 8 players · $9 per event beyond that · Nothing to install
If any of these sound familiar
We built Tournamyx for university sport committees in exactly this situation.
Field guide — university sport committees
University sport has a constraint that club sport does not: your players have timetables, and those timetables are not yours to move. Inter-faculty competitions therefore run in one of two shapes — a league spread over a semester in evening slots, or a single weekend where everything happens at once. The format that works for one is wrong for the other.
For eight faculties, a league round robin is 28 matches across 7 rounds. Spread over seven weeks that is four matches a week, which fits comfortably into two evening slots and gives every faculty a home-and-away feel without a double round robin’s 56 matches. Compress the same eight faculties into one weekend and groups into semi-finals is the better shape: 16 matches total, done in a day and a half.
Whichever you choose, publish the whole fixture list at the start. Faculty reps plan around it, and half your committee’s inbox disappears. The tournament schedule maker shows the shape of the output before you commit to a format.
8 faculties, four ways to run it
| Format | Matches | Rounds | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round robin league | 28 | 7 | A semester |
| Double round robin | 56 | 14 | A full year |
| 2 groups of 4 + semis | 16 | 5 | One weekend |
| Straight knockout | 7 | 3 | One afternoon |
The thing that breaks university sport is not the schedule. It is March, when the committee that learned how everything works graduates, and next year’s committee inherits a Google Drive folder with four files named “final”. The system resets to zero every twelve months, and the new secretary rebuilds the same spreadsheet from scratch.
Tournamyx keeps events under an organization rather than a person. Roles are assigned per tournament, so a scorer can enter results for their sport without being able to edit the draw, and last year’s competition stays readable as a record instead of a dead file. Handing over becomes adding the new committee to the organization, not exporting and re-explaining.
It also solves the smaller version of the same problem during the event: you can hand scoring for the badminton hall to whoever is standing in it, without giving them the keys to the entire competition.
Inter-faculty sport is followed far more closely than the entry numbers suggest, because the audience is not the players — it is every faculty group chat arguing about the standings. If the table lives in a spreadsheet only the committee can edit, you become the bottleneck for a question hundreds of people are asking simultaneously.
A public link takes you out of the middle. Results entered courtside appear on the table immediately, and the argument moves from “what is the score” to the score itself, which is where it belongs. Tournamyx was built to this standard at the 406-team IIUM Robotic Competition, where 755 matches were scored live on a single public link.
Questions
Tournamyx generates the schedule a round at a time across the courts or pitches you enter, and rounds can be spread across as many days or evenings as the semester needs. Scores stay live between sessions and the public link never changes, so faculty reps check the same address in week one and week six.
Eight faculties playing a full round robin is 28 matches over 7 rounds, which is a semester-length league rather than a single day. A straight knockout is 7 matches but eliminates half the faculties immediately. Tournamyx generates both, plus a group stage into knockout if you want guaranteed games and a final worth watching.
Tournamyx supports organizations with owner, admin and member roles, so a committee is a set of accounts rather than one person's laptop. Incoming officers get access to the same tournaments, and past events keep their public results pages, so the fixture history does not leave with whoever graduated.
Tournamyx is free for tournaments of up to 8 participants with unlimited tournaments, which covers most single-sport inter-faculty draws. Plus at $19 per month raises the cap to 64 and adds 5 team seats for a committee, and a one-off $9 unlocks a single event for 30 days at 64 participants.
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.
Free for up to 8 players · $9 per event beyond that · Nothing to install
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