Pickleball tournament software
A full tournament.
Listed, with brackets,
in minutes.
Serious Pickleball is the tournament platform built by people who run tournaments. Name it, pick your events, and the brackets, the courts and the schedule are one click each. Then run event day from your phone.
$25 per tournament. No subscription. No percentage. Players pay $5 per event, never more than $10.
The speed run
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From opening Guided Setup or Create Tournament to reaching the payment step, with events and brackets in place. Nothing is paid on the clock.
- Name it and pick the dates
- Tap the events you are running
- Brackets and courts, one click each
- Reach the payment step. Clock stops.
Why directors switch
Four things you will not find anywhere else
Build it by chat
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or Gemini to your account and describe the tournament. Events, brackets, courts and directors get created for you.
How the AI connector worksA court queue that thinks
Matches flow onto courts as they free up, with USA Pickleball rest minimums enforced and an ETA for every player waiting.
Event day toolsOn the wrist
iOS, Android and Apple Watch apps. Your next match, your court and a countdown on the wrist, plus one-tap check-in when a player walks in.
For playersYour money, your bank
Entry fees are charged on your club's own Stripe account and paid to your bank. We never hold your funds, and nothing comes off your payout.
PricingFormats
Every draw you run, already built in
Pool play with a crossover playoff is the default. Change it on any bracket.
- Pool play + crossover
- Single elimination
- Double elimination
- Round robin
- King of the hill
- Ladders
- 3v3 and MLP-style team events
- Rating and age divisions
Ratings
DUPR, reported for you
Link the club, and completed matches post to DUPR automatically, with defaults marked so they never count as played.
Roster
Waitlists, partners, substitutes
Players find partners in the app, waitlists fill themselves, and a late scratch becomes an invitation to a substitute who accepts by email.
Languages
Six of them
English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Vietnamese and Chinese, for every player-facing screen and email.
Who it is for
Directors first. Clubs and players, right behind.
Tournament directors
From an empty club page to a listed tournament, then the desk, the queue and live scores on event day.
For directorsClubs
A club page, managers, facilities with court layouts, free round robins, and Stripe Connect in about five minutes.
For clubsPlayers
Register in seconds, find a partner, follow live brackets, and get your court and match time on your watch.
For playersYour next tournament, listed before lunch.
Create a club, name your tournament, pick your events. Brackets and courts are one click each. $25 when you list it, and nothing off your payout.