Playing in a tournament
Playing in a tournament on OpenCourt: find one, register your team, pay the entry, your partner confirms, and follow the pools, brackets and results.
1. Find a tournament
- Tournaments lists what's ongoing, what's coming up and what's done.
- Each card shows the dates, the court, how many divisions and teams, and the entry price.
- Registration closes on the date shown on the card.
Ongoing, upcoming and past tournaments. 2. Pick a division
- A tournament has one or more divisions, each with its own format, level range, team size and entry price per team.
- The Teams list shows who has registered and which teams have paid.
- Formats include round robin, single elimination, double elimination and pool play into a knockout.
- A division can show its own hours, like 12 NN to 5 PM.
Each division has its own format, level and entry. 3. Register your team
- Tap Register & pay on the division. Give your team a name if you like.
- For doubles, pick your partner by name or @handle. They get a notification to confirm.
- Tick the box to accept the tournament rules and waiver.
- If the division is full, you join the waitlist for free and pay if a spot opens.
- Blind pairing divisions are different: you sign up alone and pay for yourself. Bring friends as +1s by name, in the same payment. Everyone is paired at random before the draw, so your +1 may not be your partner.
- A +1 who has an account taps That's me on their name, and you confirm it's them. Their award then lands on their own profile.
Name your team and pick your partner. 4. Pay the entry
- The entry is the organiser's price per team.
- A service fee of 3.5% and the processing fee are added as their own lines.
- Your credits are used first. Your spot is held for 15 minutes while you pay.
- It opens on a QR Ph code. Scan it with GCash, Maya or any bank app, or tap Pay another way.
- Some organisers collect entries themselves. Their account and QR show on your division card: pay them, add a photo of your receipt, and tap I've paid.
- More in Paying and receipts.
Pay the entry, credits first. 5. Your partner confirms
- Your team shows Awaiting partner until your partner taps Confirm spot.
- Both partners must be registered for a confirmed spot. Unconfirmed spots move to the waitlist.
- A paid entry is final. If you can't play, talk to the organiser. If the organiser removes your team or cancels, you get your entry price back.
- The tournament's Chat tab opens its players' chat: the organiser, both players on every team that entered, and the waitlist. It's also in Messages, under Tournaments.
- In the Chat tab the organiser pins or removes a message and tags @everyone to alert every team at once. Mute in chat, in a team's options on the Teams list, stops a player writing there; they can still read it.
- A partner running it at their own court reads the chat in their partner Messages, and writes there as the court.
- Divisions still have room? From 7 days before the first day, the organiser's desk can tell the players tied to the court once: they hearted it, call it home, or played there lately.
Your team shows Awaiting partner until they confirm. 6. Follow the pools
- After registration closes, the organiser publishes the draw.
- In pool play, each pool's table shows wins, losses and point difference, with every match score below it.
Pool standings update as scores come in. 7. Follow the bracket
- Knockout rounds show as a bracket. Winners move on until the final.
- In double elimination, a team that loses once drops to the losers bracket and can still reach the final. If that team wins the final, one more match decides it.
- Live bracket on the tournament page opens a page to follow on your phone: what's playing now, what's up next and every score, updated on its own. The court can show it on its TV too.
- When the organiser publishes the results, the champions show on the tournament and awards land on the players' profiles.
- Your entries are listed under Games, in the Tournaments tab. A paid one carries its receipt.
Winners move through the bracket to the final.