Guides, tips, and inspiration for organizing unforgettable tournaments
One link in OBS puts the live score on your YouTube, Twitch or Facebook stream. The referee enters the score once in LiveCup and the stream follows.
Results only mode turns the schedule into a list of score fields. Type a score, press Enter, type the next one. No starting or ending matches.
The new LiveCup Help Center has step-by-step guides with screenshots, a search box that understands plain questions, and small question marks right where you need them.
You draw. LiveCup.app shows each team on the projector, with an animated reveal, and builds the groups behind it.
No points, no keypad. Tap who won the leg and move on to the next board.
Floorball, netball, field hockey, lacrosse, water polo, korfball, ultimate frisbee and dodgeball now have their own scoring, standings and landing pages in LiveCup.
A walk through one Friday blind draw in LiveCup: 26 names become 13 pairs, the bracket gets its byes, games are scored inning by inning on a phone and the stats go up on the bar screen.
Audience analytics for LiveCup Business: a live viewer count, views over time, traffic sources, the most watched matches and a printable report for your sponsors.
Change the order of play in a schedule that is already running. Drag a match, play it next, move it to the end or swap it with another one, and undo any change.
Every multi-category event now has one public page with live scores, tables, overall standings, event-wide top scorers and a match page for every football game.
Teams register once. You accept them. Each accepted team, with its players and logo, lands in every tournament of the event.
The best teams play for the Cup. The next few play for the Plate. Everyone else finishes after the groups. Set it up in one place and LiveCup shows both champions everywhere.
Choose by team count, time and pitches. Match counts for every option, with a schedule you can open in one click.
A practical plan for a fundraising tournament: pick the cause, the format and the income streams, then run match day so the money and the mood both work.
Personal scoring links with QR codes, optional opponent confirmation, and an autopilot that puts the next ready match on the next free court or board.
Switch on the dartboard in the darts rules and the TV draws each dart of the latest visit in the bed it hit, then the visit total. No cameras, no extra hardware.
Season statistics, a points ranking for your league series and a history for every player, from the matches you already score in LiveCup.
Fans follow the match from their phones while it is played. When it ends, the same link becomes the recap with stats, a share card and the best moments.
501 and 301, sets and legs, Cricket, checkout suggestions and live averages. Built for pub leagues and club nights.
Pick the variant, play to any number of points or against the clock, repeat the night automatically and plan every category on the same courts.
Players sign up as a pair or look for a partner. You run every category from one page, and a waitlist refills the draw when someone drops out.
Round 1 is random. After that the leaderboard picks your partner — and the matches get closer every round.
Record who scored, who kicked and who was carded, and let fans follow the whole match from one link or the big screen.
A club cup with U8 to U14, a men's and a women's draw, an A and a B tier. How to run every division on its own terms without running five separate tournaments.
Event control shows every live and upcoming match across all the leagues in your event, and records a goal in one tap without leaving the page.
Every score you enter updates the quarter-finals. You see who is through right now, who is still level on points, and you can set the kick-off times before a single team is confirmed.
Separate leagues mode turns one event into as many independent tournaments as you need — with one public page where fans follow all of them live.
Set a fixed number of sets instead of best-of, count split matches as draws in the standings, and choose how knockout ties are broken.
Add, rename or remove players at any point in the tournament — from the Teams page in settings, or straight from the goal dialog mid-match.
The teams that miss the playoffs now get their own bracket — semifinals, a 5th place final and a 7th place match. Set it up before the draw, and LiveCup plans the slots for you.
Bigger type, stronger contrast, digits that never jump — plus your own colours and typeface on PRO.
Add a referee with just a name and they get an instant personal link and QR code for their assigned matches — no account required, no access to anything else.
Save each manager's name, email and phone next to their team — private to you, still there a year later, and ready to export when it's time to invite everyone back.
How the 16-team Swiss stage works at every Counter-Strike Major — seeding, Buchholz, which records advance, and Bo1 vs Bo3.
Work out the exact number of matches, rounds and games per team in a round-robin tournament — with a ready-made reference table for 3 to 20 teams.
Tournaments rarely go exactly to plan. A rain-delayed group game, a friendly between the finalists, a quick decider for a spare trophy — LiveCup PRO now lets you drop a one-off match into a running tournament and shows it in the right place everywhere.
Your knockout stage no longer has to be 4, 8 or 16 teams. When the number that advances from your groups isn't a power of two, LiveCup balances the bracket with first-round byes — and you decide who gets them.
The creation wizard is down to three quick steps, and the rest of the setup — teams, groups, schedule — now happens right in your operator panel, one clear stage at a time.
Set up your courts, set your match duration and break, and let LiveCup build the whole timetable. Every match gets a court and a real kickoff time, with no team ever double-booked.
Play the group phase, then send the qualifiers into a brand-new linked final stage — a league, more groups, or a knockout cup. One event, one public page, as many stages as you need.
Add a stream URL to any match. Viewers see it embedded right on your public tournament page.
We've launched a dedicated rugby module — real scoring, sin-bin countdowns, and bonus points calculated automatically.
How to organize a sports event your team will love – with a free tournament app and live TV display
A complete guide for any sport – from choosing a format to displaying live results on a big screen
Teams scan a code and register in seconds – no accounts, no paper forms, no registration chaos
Everything you need to organize a successful futsal or indoor football competition – formats, rules, and live results
The fairest tournament format explained: rules, scheduling, tiebreakers, ready-made schedules for 4 to 8 teams and a free round robin generator.
Creative sports day ideas and a step-by-step guide to organizing school tournaments that students will remember
How winners brackets, losers brackets, and grand finals work – plus a free tool to generate your bracket in seconds
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Rotating partners, individual scoring, and maximum fun – the complete guide to the Americano format
Star Point (FIP 2026), Golden Point, Advantage – every padel scoring rule explained simply
From format selection to live TV display – the complete guide for club organizers and padel event planners
Swiss pairings, built-in clocks, Buchholz tiebreakers, and cinematic TV display – everything a tournament director needs
Score on phones at the oche, rank every player by average and legs, and show every board live on the screen above the bar.
Game clock, quarters, fouls, timeouts, shot clock, and professional TV scoreboard – everything for 5v5 and 3x3 basketball tournaments
Add teams, generate match-ups in one click, and fine-tune the draw with a visual editor — before or during the tournament
Tap-to-finish stopwatch for time-based races, plus a dedicated Beach Volleyball mode with points-per-set you can tune to your own rules
Auto seeding, cross-group draw, or manual pick — choose the method that fits your tournament, preview the bracket, and generate with one click
Hero banners, posters, schedules, venue maps and sponsor carousels — upload once, share one link, impress every player.
Click through four fully-populated sample tournaments running right now on livecup.app — padel, FIFA, darts and football, mid-event, with live brackets, standings, media and sponsors.
The complete guide to the most popular tournament format on the planet — how groups work, who advances, how the bracket is seeded, and how to generate the whole thing in minutes.
From an 8-team community night to a 32-team online league — choose the right format, build the bracket and keep every match visible live.