The complete tournament platform
Score in real time, run any draw format, schedule every court, put it all on a broadcast, and give players and fans their own live experience — from a single cloud instance, with nothing to install on site.
One real-time scoreboard the whole event shares. Score on a phone, a tablet, a Stream Deck or the control panel, and the boards, brackets and broadcast move together.
Points to 11 / 15 / 21, win-by-2 or win-by-1, best-of-1/3/5, side-out or rally scoring, server tracking and timeouts — all configurable per event.
The control panel, a phone mobile remote, a court referee tool, an Elgato Stream Deck, or a tablet paired to a single court — all the same live scoreboard.
A mis-tapped point is one tap back, with a grace window before a result is final — so a disputed last point never flashes up on air.
Every live court on one screen for the head scorekeeper — the whole floor at a glance.
Divisions, schedule, configuration, logs and output in one tabbed workspace — with Light / Dark / follow-device themes remembered per device.
A full key-authed HTTP API awards points, forces side-outs, runs timeouts and sends matches to courts — powering the Stream Deck and any controller you wire up.
The classic brackets plus a set of newer social and league formats. Winners advance automatically, placements recompute, and a corrected result cascades through the whole draw.
Single elimination — the classic bracket, seeded so the top two can only meet in the final.
A losers' bracket and a proper Grand Final reset — one bad game doesn't end your day.
Round-robin groups feed a knockout stage, with seeding carried through.
Everyone plays everyone; standings decide the winner.
Round-robin groups feed a championship that places every team, 1st through last.
Two squads over four doubles lines, with an MLP-style rally-scored singles decider to settle a 2–2 tie.
Fixed rounds, paired by record with no rematches — big fields on few courts, nobody eliminated.
An ongoing challenge ranking: beat a higher-ranked player and take their rung. No fixed schedule.
Social doubles scored per individual: partners rotate, rounds re-pair by standings, top player wins.
Four winds — losers drop into East/West/North/South brackets, so entrants keep playing past a loss.
Stacked boxes of four; winners promote and the bottom relegates each session. Perfect for club nights.
Standard 1-vs-N seeding, seed-by-DUPR knockouts and snake draws for balanced groups. Re-seeding is refused once a match is played.
Winners drop into the next round and placements recompute — including 3rd-place playoffs and consolation paths, optional per division.
Run several skill / age groupings concurrently, each with its own courts and settings, added or removed at any time.
A smart scheduler places every match on the earliest free, eligible court and keeps the day moving, with live conflict detection when reality drifts from the plan.
Places every match on the earliest free, eligible court — respecting feeders (a semi waits for its quarters) and format order.
Flags any team idle beyond a set gap (default 20 min) and prioritises the longest-waiting, so nobody sits around.
The streaming court is filled first every wave and reserved for headline matches, so the broadcast never stalls.
A Gantt of the day — drag-to-edit for operators, read-only for everyone else. Pull-forward gap-fill when a match ends early.
Flags collisions and overruns with one-click fixes, plus sticky courts, reservations and match-duration estimates that learn from real play.
QR self check-in, a court-bound pairing tablet, and forfeit / no-show handling with grace periods and a staged countdown.
A full graphics package that reads live from the scoreboard: no manual data entry on the stream. A small Pickle Engine on your OBS machine connects outbound-only and drives OBS locally.
Scorebug, divisions board, on-deck / up-next and a big-screen arena display — themeable to the event, updating the instant the score changes.
A read-only caster screen with auto-generated storylines: tale of the tape, head-to-head, clinch implications and the day's highlights — always a talking point.
A live win-probability bar blends score with DUPR ratings, plus a momentum marker and timeline for who gained on the last point.
A built-in director switches OBS's program scene as each court moves idle → live → final — the broadcast cuts itself, no operator on the switcher.
Theme-coloured animated transitions (including a diagonal Slide Reveal) with an optional logo, pushed straight to OBS as the scene change.
The engine saves replay clips around notable moments and assembles highlight reels with themed title cards — one-tap YouTube upload with your sponsor watermark.
An optional voice calls the score aloud courtside, and stinger / arena audio cues fire with broadcast transitions.
Optional computer-vision tracking on the show court drives a post-match movement heatmap — court coverage, distance and kitchen percentage.
Installs in one step on the OBS machine, pairs to the cloud with a scoped token, and opens no inbound ports — with stream-health monitoring at the desk.
The same cloud instance serves a complete player suite. Reads are public; every edit stays gated to operators — so fans can follow along but never change the event.
Every court, point by point, with live win-probability and momentum graphics — plus live standings, on-deck and division pages on any phone.
Live division standings, a podium & awards screen for the closing ceremony, and an all-time season leaderboard across every event at the venue.
An auto-generated narrative of the day's play, per-player recaps, and a Match Highlights board of the closest, longest and biggest-comeback matches.
Fans predict division winners (anonymous, no login) on a live accuracy leaderboard — a game within the game.
A shareable page per player with rating, form and history — plus optional self-service accounts, passkey sign-in (Face ID / Touch ID) and a cross-event "My History".
Follow a team or player and get a real background push ~2 min before they're up, when they go live, and when they finish — with the actual final score.
Per-player schedule cards (with a QR) of exactly when and where they play, plus calendar sync (.ics) so their matches drop into their own calendar.
A self-contained scoreboard to drop into your own website with an <iframe>, themeable and per-court, plus a printable QR poster pack.
Signed in, a player is recognised everywhere — Recap and Passport open on your card, the leaderboard highlights your row, and pages can default to "just my matches".
Full theming across operator, courtside and player surfaces — and sponsor value you can prove.
Colours, fonts and logos across every operator, courtside and player surface — a per-event theme that carries into clips, recaps and the player app.
Sponsor logos on overlays and public pages, and a sponsor watermark applied to every highlight reel — automatically, on upload.
Track how much on-screen time each sponsor earns across the broadcast — real numbers to take back to your partners.
Named roles with per-pane permissions, a unified people directory, privacy done properly, and a full multi-event workspace — so a big event runs smoothly and safely.
Open mode or named accounts with per-pane permissions — including a "Send match only" level for court-runners — enforced server-side, field by field.
Every person — imported contacts, registered accounts and operators — in one searchable directory that scales to thousands, one row per person.
A DUPR-ID collision never silently links two people — it raises a side-by-side review to approve or reject, so records stay clean.
Personal data is tiered by role and every view of it is audited. Consent is recorded at sign-up, and right-to-erasure de-identifies a person while leaving results intact.
Build next week's draw while this week's event is live and on air. Each keeps its own courts, schedule, branding and theme; go live in one click.
Tournament DNA, competitive-balance and seeding-accuracy reports, plus live push alerts for upsets, deuce battles and nail-biters so the booth never misses a moment.
Operators score over the internet, fans follow from their phones, and OBS is driven locally by an outbound-only engine. It's built to stay up, stay in sync and integrate with your stack.
One authoritative instance per customer serves the operator tools, OBS overlays and public pages from the same origin — no on-site server, no relay to keep in sync.
Drives OBS locally over its WebSocket and produces reels, with no inbound access to your network and no plugin to install — with an update flag when a new version ships.
A full HTTP control API, outbound webhooks on match events (start, points, final), and a self-documenting /api catalogue of every route.
Import an event straight from a booking-system export (with review), append-only results and logs, atomic saves, and a printable rulebook PDF.
A Command Centre with live CPU, memory, storage, GPU and thermal readings for the OBS host, alongside connection status for OBS, the engine and tracking.
HTTPS at the edge, a persistent disk that survives restarts and deploys, and a strict rule: every read is public, every write is authenticated.
A club is just an organisation on PickleBoard, so it inherits branding, roles and the People directory — then adds everything a club needs to operate: members and dues, programming, leagues and a public place to join.
Membership plans and a member roll, with recurring dues collected online through Stripe. Money settles to the club — PickleBoard never holds the funds or card details.
Open play, clinics, coaching and socials — each a branded tile with its own cover image and colour, with weekly repeats, capacity and automatic waitlists. Members sign themselves up; coaches manage the list.
Run ongoing Ladder or Box leagues on the full tournament engine, with a season standings table built from your club's own scored matches.
Post announcements to all members or just active ones — shown on their My Club page and, when email is set up, sent straight to their inbox.
Share one link and prospective members browse your plans and join themselves — paying by card, or requesting to join when you take payments offline.
Built-in Club Admin and Coach roles keep the right people in the right panes, while members get their own My Club page to renew, register and see their payment history.
Prop up a tablet and check players in with a single tap on their tile — a live count, an occurrence picker for weekly sessions and a waitlist at a glance. No app to install.
A tidy console with a dashboard of quick-access tiles and an “Upcoming” list — members, events & leagues, plans, notice board and settings, each its own section, all under your club's name and branding.
A social & discovery layer for players and non-players alike, reached through the same PickleBoard login and unified menu. It's free on every edition, Starter included.
Discover players near you, filtered by level, format and availability — opt-in and privacy-first, showing only a coarse area, never a home address.
Post a game — "doubles tomorrow 7pm, 3.5, two spaces" — and let others join. A fair auto-promoting waitlist and an automatic group chat come built in.
A directory of places to play — indoor/outdoor, facilities and opening times, with 1–5 star member reviews and directions.
A community feed with photos, follow the players and clubs you care about, and join public or invite-only groups with their own scoped feeds.
Direct and group chat, plus an in-app inbox and web-push alerts for replies, follows and game updates.
Joining a club or entering an event automatically grants a private hub — a members-only space for news, photos and chatter, kept separate from your operational data.
Report and block anywhere, with a two-tier moderation model — a platform Trust & Safety team over the global layer and hub admins over their own spaces.
Community is a module of the platform — no separate login, profile, theme or menu. It inherits your PickleBoard identity and wears the same look everywhere.
Coaching is a role within your club rather than a separate product, so it inherits the whole membership, scheduling, payments and check-in layer. It ships with Club, Essentials + Club, Professional and Enterprise.
Each coach gets a profile — headline, bio, qualifications, levels, formats and rates — surfaced in a member-facing directory on the club page.
Coaching runs on the club's own programming, so a private lesson is simply a capacity-of-one session — with sign-up, waitlist, fees and tablet check-in already there.
Members leave a star rating and a review for the coaches they train with — one per member, with the average shown to help others choose.
Prospective clients send an enquiry straight from a coach's card; the coach and club admins are notified, and staff triage the queue from new to replied to closed.
A structured coaching programme built in: 10 progressive modules of 10 lessons (Beginner to Advanced), each with drills, common-mistake fixes, games and a skills assessment, plus clear illustrated diagrams. A coach enrols a member and tracks their progress; the member works through it in the app, marks lessons complete, rates their confidence and asks questions; the coach answers and signs off each module's rubric to unlock the next.
A free, illustrated content library that ships with the platform and appears in the unified menu. Great for onboarding new players and settling the rules debates.
Getting-started walkthroughs and the official rules explained in plain English — the definitive answer to "is that a fault?"
A skill-building library — dinks, resets, serves and returns, positioning and shot selection, plus drills to take to the court.
Paddle and gear buyer advice, injury prevention and warm-ups, and how to prepare for your first tournament.
Clear, theme-aware diagrams — the court and kitchen, the serve, the two-bounce rule and scoring — rendered as safe, crisp graphics, not screenshots.
Find any article fast by category or keyword, with an A–Z glossary of the terms every new player asks about.
Ships with ~18 canonical articles out of the box, and platform editors can publish and update more from within the app.
Run your next event on PickleBoard
Start free with a live scoreboard, and step up to full brackets, broadcast and a player app when you're ready.
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