Tournament software for forensics
Every question at a tournament routes through the director. Tournaly gets the right information to the right person automatically, so the day runs without you standing in the middle of it.
Call it what it is. Duct tape. Every tournament runs on it, and the director is the one holding it together.
When a round slips, the change reaches every coach, judge, and competitor at the same moment. No relay, no rumor.
Reminders, confirmations, and a live count of who has actually checked in. You find out Thursday, not at 8:25.
Room, time, judge, and opponent land in the hands of the person who needs them, before they think to look for you.
A fifteen minute delay stays a fifteen minute delay instead of compounding into an hour by round four.
You've answered the same question forty times before lunch. We built Tournaly so nobody has to ask it.
Seven years in forensics. Four as a competitor, three coaching. Long enough to have stood in a hallway with a dozen kids and no idea which room they were supposed to be in, and to know that somewhere in the building the answer already existed.
Tournaly is being built alongside working tournament directors, not guessed at from the outside. Every decision in the product comes from someone who has run the day and remembers where it went wrong.
Joel Kendall
Founder, Tournaly
Your events, rounds, and ballots are configured before you type anything.
Schools register, judges commit, rooms fill in.
Room assignments, schedule changes, judge confirmations, delays. Sent automatically, to the right person, without you in the middle.
Communication only works when it comes from the system actually running the tournament. Tournaly is the whole thing, not a layer bolted onto it.
Build events from templates or from scratch. Custom ballot schemas per event or per round.
Available nowSquad management, invitations, and per-tournament roles for staff, coaches, and judges.
Available nowBuildings, rooms, flights, and a schedule builder that holds the shape of your day.
Available nowSchool registration with constraint enforcement, fee schedules, and invoicing.
In the pilotPairing generation, live round overview, and ballots submitted from a phone.
In the pilotThe right update to the right person, by text and email, without you sending it.
In the pilotNinety minutes behind by lunch and never caught up. Two events cut for time. A tournament that tabulated perfectly and still felt like a mess, because nothing could be found out without hunting down a person. Coaches remember the confusion, not the bracket.
Round one starts at 8:30. Judges are where the ballot says they are. When round two slips fifteen minutes, everyone finds out at the same moment and it stays fifteen minutes. You go home at six. The only question you get all day is a coach asking whether you're hosting again next year.
Pilot tournaments are run with us, not handed to you. Tell us about yours and we'll be in touch before the season opens.
No spam. We'll email you about the pilot and nothing else.