Court WorkThe app for youth basketball tournament directors
Run a youth basketball tournament from your phone or a computer, from the first entry fee to the final. Your scorers, court managers, refs and door staff use it too.
How it works
Teams enter and pay on your page
Add your gyms from Court Work's shared list, with the courts and the hours you have them. Give each division its places and its entry fee, then publish. The tournament gets its own page at tournaments.courtwork.app.
A club on Court Work enters a team from the app, roster and all. Any other team enters on your page and pays by card. Entry fees go to your bank account a few days after they're paid.
Build the schedule
Split each division into pools, then build a draft that puts each game on a court and a time. The draft keeps your rules. A team gets its rest and is never on two courts at once, a coach with two teams never has both playing at the same time, and a team that asked not to play before 10 AM doesn't.
Move a game and you're told which rule it breaks before it moves. When you publish the schedule, clubs on Court Work see their games in the app and other teams get an email.
Scores from each court, and the brackets
Put a scorer on each court. They score on their phones, and in a gym with no signal the phone keeps each tap until it can send it.
Pool standings change as games finish. When pool play ends, the teams go into the bracket, and families follow the live scores on your page.
Sell admission
Switch admission on and you get a pass for each day and one for the whole tournament. You set the prices. Spectators buy on your page and get a code by email.
You see how many of each pass have sold, and how many people are in today at each door.
Check passes at the door
Your door staff check each code with the phone's camera, or type it in. A pass lets its people in once a day. If someone comes back out and in, the door decides whether to let them in again.
With no signal, the phone checks codes against its own copy. The door can sell a pass for cash too.
Court managers and refs
A court manager checks each team in for its game and pushes the court's games back when it runs late. Families of teams on Court Work hear the new time, and the court manager can email the other teams.
You put up to two refs on each game and see what you owe each one. You pay your refs yourself, and mark them paid when you have.
What it costs
There's no monthly fee for Court Work Tournaments.
When a team pays its entry fee through Court Work, there's a processing fee on the payment: 4.9% + 30¢ on a card or Apple Pay, or 1.5% on a bank payment (at most $25). You choose whether the team pays it or you do.
Spectators pay the same processing fee on the passes they buy: 4.9% + 30¢, so $1.28 on a $20 pass.
Entry fees and admission go to your bank account a few days after they're paid.
That fee pays the cost of processing each payment, and the rest goes to Court Work. Cash at the door and your refs' pay don't go through Court Work.
Questions
Do teams need to be on Court Work?
No. Any team can enter on your page with a coach's name, an email and a card. A club on Court Work enters from the app, and its games go onto that team's schedule when you publish yours.
What happens when a division is full?
Teams can join the waitlist, and they pay nothing while they wait. When a place opens, you offer it to the next team, who has 48 hours to pay.
What if a gym has no signal?
Scoring, checking teams in and checking passes at the door keep working. The phone keeps what was done and sends it when it has signal again.
Who sees a team's roster?
You do, while the team is in your tournament or waiting for a place, and so does the team's own club. A team that isn't on Court Work doesn't have to give you a roster.
Can my club run a tournament?
Yes. A club on Court Work switches hosting on and runs its tournament with the same sign-in. A club can also rent its courts to other clubs and be paid through Court Work.
Tell us about your tournament
Send your dates and how many teams you expect. We reply by email within two days.