You're running a 12-team weekend league. Most teams are happy with Saturday matches, but Team Atlas only practises on Wednesday evenings — that's the only night the school hall is free for them. Until now, Score7's auto-scheduler treated every participant as available during the same global time slots, so you'd run the scheduler, then manually drag Team Atlas's matches to Wednesdays one by one.

Per-participant availability fixes that.

If you've run more than a handful of Score7 tournaments, your My Tournaments page can get long. This is a quick orientation guide: how the page is organised, how the "Show all" button works, and what to do if you've run so many tournaments that you can't see all of them at once.

If you've ever scrolled to the bottom of a Score7 page wondering whether we support pool play, how many matches a 10-team round robin actually needs, or whether viewers need an account to follow scores — you'll find the answer there now.

Tourney Maker — the mobile app at tourneymaker.app by EK Innovations (Play Store com.t3rraform.Tourneymaker, distinct from tourney-maker.com by Tim Baumgart) — is a solid fit for small casual brackets you run from a phone. If you need more than 25 participants on free, double elimination without an in-app purchase, or a real venue-and-referee scheduler, Score7 is a natural alternative.

Tourney Maker — the app at tourneymaker.app by EK Innovations (Play Store ID com.t3rraform.Tourneymaker, not to be confused with tourney-maker.com by Tim Baumgart) — is a mobile-first tournament app with 100K+ downloads and a 4.0-star rating on Google Play. It runs on iOS and Android first, with a web version as a secondary surface. Score7 is web-first, subscription-priced, and built around deeper formats and scheduling.

Both tools build brackets. They're tuned for different organizers.

The reason most organisers stay on a spreadsheet isn't that they love spreadsheets. It's that rebuilding a template feels faster than learning a new tool. The next match-day is five days away, and every hour spent switching is an hour not spent organising.

The switch doesn't take an hour. For a typical 8 to 16 participant tournament, moving from a spreadsheet to a live, shareable bracket in Score7 takes about three minutes — less time than it would take to fix the broken VLOOKUP you've been avoiding.

Here's exactly how.

Score7's auto-scheduler has two modes, and the End Date field is the switch between them. Type a date in: the scheduler spreads matches evenly across the window. Leave it empty: it packs matches into the earliest slots and respects your rest-time and gap settings.

The catch used to be that once you typed a date, there was no obvious way back. Now there is — an X icon inside the field clears it in one click.

Challenge.Place is a mobile-first bracket manager with 500K+ Android downloads and solid per-player stat tracking for several sports and esports. If you run physical events with venues and referees, want an ad-free free plan, or prefer a web-first organizing workflow, Score7 is a natural alternative.

A weekly league doesn't feel like it should take long to run. Five matches, one match-day, a handful of standings updates. How bad can it be?

Bad enough that most organisers quietly give up after one or two seasons. The hours don't show up on any single day — they leak out in 15-minute blocks across the week. Updating standings on Monday. Answering "when's my next match?" on Tuesday. Rebuilding a broken formula on Wednesday. Re-sending the schedule on Thursday. By the time the next match-day starts, you've spent three or more hours on admin nobody sees.

This is a weekly time audit for a real scenario, followed by what Score7 replaces on the free tier and what the auto-scheduler adds on Premium.

Challenge.Place is a mobile-first tournament and bracket manager with a 500K+ download Android app (4.4 stars) and a growing global user base. It runs on the web too, but the primary experience is the app. Score7 is a web-first platform built around multi-stage tournaments, constraint-based scheduling, and per-player stats.

Both tools build brackets and track results. They target different organizers.