Using Digital Pool to run pool tournaments

[hlymnstr14]

I have been in lots of pool tournaments that use digital pool and as a player, it's fantastic.

For the first time, I'm going to be running a series of tournaments, a couple of which are chip tourneys, with redraw every round. I have it framed out in digital pool and will add players as they sign up in person. I have it all as auto assign tables and send out text messages.

Has anyone had an experience with running chip tournaments on digital pool? I appreciate any feedback. Thank you.

 

[RakRunr]

I run regular standard tournaments with digital pool and overall I really like the product. We run two chip tournaments a week and have tried to use digital pool a couple times and I did not enjoy the experience - in both cases we ended up finishing on paper. I'm not knocking the software and am perfectly willing to accept that I probably just didn't know how to use it properly for chip tournaments. I eventually wrote my own and we use it exclusively in our pool hall. The only thing it doesn't have that I would want from digital pool is a tie-in to Fargo, but that's a limitation I can live with.

 

[iusedtoberich]

I've run about 25 tournaments, only regular, not chip. The software stinks, imo. But there is nothing else to use instead, imo. I'd suggest you practice with it at home a couple of hours making tournaments, adding players, going through the motions to make the bracket, etc. You don't want your first time to be when people are in line waiting to hand you money.

The biggest hurdle I have is adding players, and making sure it's the correct player. That can take 3-4 min per player, and when you have a line of players waiting to sign up, it takes forever.

 

[RakRunr]

I've run about 25 tournaments, only regular, not chip. The software stinks, imo. But there is nothing else to use instead, imo. I'd suggest you practice with it at home a couple of hours making tournaments, adding players, going through the motions to make the bracket, etc. You don't want your first time to be when people are in line waiting to hand you money.

The biggest hurdle I have is adding players, and making sure it's the correct player. That can take 3-4 min per player, and when you have a line of players waiting to sign up, it takes forever.

We used Challonge (.com) for years before Digital Pool for regular bracket tournaments. It worked pretty well most of the time although the website would get a little glitchy. We switched to Digital Pool mostly so we could report to Fargo and use SMS for player notification. I do think their public sharing is better also. If you don't care about those things, there are alternatives.

 

[Sheldon]

I've used it a little bit as a TD for regular tournaments. I did explore the chip features, and did NOT use them. I've heard from others that it's not great for that.
This works pretty well, but I have heard of it crashing with high numbers of teams. https://goodtourney.com/

 

[dejo]

I have heard that "lightningchip" is a good utility for chip tournaments. I have not ran a tourney with it but have played in one