Joining a club
Joining a club on OpenCourt: find a club, join or ask to join, get first pick of its games, play members-only games and climb the leaderboard.
1. Find a club
- Clubs are crews, ladies' sessions and city communities that run their own games.
- Open Clubs from the tab bar on your phone or the top menu. It opens on the clubs' posts, with Your clubs and Clubs to join beside them.
- Tap See all to search every club by name, court or city. Each club shows its members, its upcoming games and its home court.
- Clubs marked By approval let the admins read each request first.
Find a club by name, court or city. 2. Open the club
- A club has About, Games, Discussion, Members and Leaderboard tabs. Members also get Chat, and the club opens for them on Games with the chat beside it.
- A post on a club's Discussion stays with its members. A Public post on the Clubs page's feed is for everyone, and a club's admins and mods can post there as the club, with Join on it.
- The admins and mods are listed on the side, with the top players this month and the rules.
Every club has games, a discussion, members and a leaderboard. 3. See its games
- Games lists what's coming up, with the day, the court, the price and the spots left.
- A label shows when members get first pick or when a game is for members only.
- Members get a notification each time a new game is posted, and start on its waitlist. Tap Take a spot if you're coming, or Can't go.
The club's upcoming games. 4. Join the club
- Tap Join club, on the club's page or its card in the list, to join an open club straight away.
- For a club that needs approval, tap Ask to join and answer the admins' questions. You get a notification on the bell and your phone when they decide.
- Taking a spot in a club's game joins you to the club too. In a club that needs approval, it asks to join for you.
- An invite link from the club lets you in without waiting.
- Once you're in, open the Chat tab on the club's page, like Messenger: send photos, reply to a message, react, and tag someone with @ and their handle so they get an alert. Admins and mods can tag @everyone to alert the whole club. The tab shows how many messages you haven't read, and the same chat is under Clubs in Messages.
- Hover a message (or press and hold it on a phone) for more. Forward sends a copy to another club chat or to a player. Report tells OpenCourt and the club's admins when something isn't right, and nobody learns it was you.
Some clubs ask a few questions first. 5. Members get first pick
- Many club games open to members first, from 12 hours to 3 days before they open to everyone.
- Not a member yet? Join the waitlist. When the members' window ends, you move in, in the order you joined, if there's room.
Members get first pick. Everyone else joins the waitlist. 6. Members only games
- Some games are for members only. Join the club to take a spot.
- Where the host approves each spot, members take one straight away. Only people outside the club ask.
- Joining and paying work like any open play. See Joining open play.
Some games are for members only. 7. The leaderboard
- The leaderboard ranks members by the club games they played.
- It opens on All time. Switch to the last 7, 30, 60 or 90 days, a year, or your own dates.
Who played the most club games. 8. The rules
- About shows how the club works, its home court and when it started.
- Read the rules before your first game. Admins can remove or ban members who break them.
How the club works and its rules.