The Baseline · SetRally blog

How to run a tournament
that runs itself.

Field-tested guides for league admins and tournament directors — formats, scheduling, self-scoring, and the small decisions that keep a hundred players moving between courts without you being the bottleneck.

Running your first 16-team tournament, solo

You booked the courts, you have the players — now what? A step-by-step from draw to trophy, with the format decisions that make the difference between a smooth day and a four-hour bottleneck at the score table.

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Pools, knockout, or Swiss? Pick the right format

Every format is a trade between guaranteed games, total time, and how well it crowns the true winner. Here's how to choose based on your court count, player count, and how long everyone can actually stay.

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Self-scoring: getting players to enter their own results

The habits, the nudges, and the one setup step that gets buy-in on day one.