I am the owner of Gate City Billiards Club in Greensboro, NC. About a year ago I purchased a copy of IngenPool tournament software and have been nothing but impressed from day one. For starters, it is very inexpensive (priced too low in my opinion). It is also the only tournament software I could find that is designed specifially for pool tournaments. For example:
I don't normally plug a product like this, but I am making an exception here because this is a great product at a great value. If you run a lot of tournaments and are currently doing it manually, I strongly recommend you try this software.
I also take this one step further and I broadcast the tournament bracket to one of our big screen TVs. The players love it.
I have no affiliation with this product, and I am not being compensated in any way by the company that created it. As a matter of fact, they have no idea I am posting this.
- Assigns Tables
- Informs you if either player just came off that table
- Allows you to flag a player to be watched
- Times each match
- Does the draw for you automatically
- Allows you to move players after the draw
- Allows you to redraw if you made a mistake
- Shows you the recommended next match to play
- Calculates payouts based on your perameters and then allows you to adjust at any time
- Keeps a plyer database with handicaps you assign
- Provides the ability to upload your tournaments so that players can view results on-line
- And a lot more
I don't normally plug a product like this, but I am making an exception here because this is a great product at a great value. If you run a lot of tournaments and are currently doing it manually, I strongly recommend you try this software.
I also take this one step further and I broadcast the tournament bracket to one of our big screen TVs. The players love it.
I have no affiliation with this product, and I am not being compensated in any way by the company that created it. As a matter of fact, they have no idea I am posting this.