Tournament Series: How to Run Multiple Tournaments Under One Event

Plenty of “tournaments” aren’t one bracket at all. A church sports day runs Football U16, U21 and U45 side by side. A corporate cup has a men’s draw and a women’s draw. A league season flows from a group stage into playoffs and a grand final. Each of those is a separate competition with its own teams, fixtures and winner — but to everyone watching, it’s one event.

Trying to force that into a single bracket gets messy fast: you can’t mix U16 and U45 teams in one draw, and a group stage and a knockout are different formats. But running them as disconnected tournaments is worse — now there are three links to share, three pages to find, and no sense that they belong together.

A tournament series solves exactly this. It’s an umbrella that groups several tournaments under one banner, with a shared page and a single link — while each tournament inside stays fully independent.

There are two ways tournaments relate to each other, and a series supports both. Choosing the right one takes ten seconds:

Divisions are for a day like “Church Tournament 2026”, where U16, U21 and U45 all play in parallel and each crowns its own champion. Stages are for a season that moves forward — a group phase that feeds a playoff that feeds a final.

From your Dashboard, open the Series tab and hit New Series. You give it a name, pick Divisions or Stages, choose a visibility, and optionally add an icon. That’s the whole setup — under a minute.

Then you fill it with tournaments, two ways:

• •Attach existing tournaments: Already built your U16 and U21 draws? Add them to the series from the manage screen — nothing about them changes.
• •Create new ones pre-attached: Start a brand-new tournament from inside the series and it’s grouped from the first save.

Give each tournament a label (like “U16” or “Finals”) and an order number, and the series page arranges everything cleanly for visitors.

Visibility works on two levels, and they’re independent — which is what makes a series flexible enough for real events.

• •The series itself: Public means it has a shareable page that anyone can view and search engines can find. Private keeps it to you.
• •Each tournament inside: Every tournament keeps its own public/private setting.

A public series page shows only the public tournaments inside it. A private draft you haven’t announced yet stays hidden from visitors, but it’s still right there in your manage view so you can prep it and flip it public when you’re ready. Nothing leaks early, and nothing gets lost.

A series never traps your tournaments. This matters, because the fear with any “grouping” feature is that it makes things fragile. It doesn’t:

• •Remove a tournament any time: Pull a tournament out of a series and it becomes standalone again, keeping every team and fixture untouched.
• •Deleting a series keeps its tournaments: If you delete the series, the tournaments inside are not deleted — they simply un-group and carry on as normal.
• •A tournament belongs to one series at a time: Clean and predictable — no tournament is half in two places.

In short: the series is a label on top of your tournaments, not a box they’re locked inside. You can reorganise freely.

Series pages tie in with bookmarks. If you’re following an event — as a player, a parent, or just a fan — tap the bookmark icon on a series, a tournament, or a pickup match to save it.

Everything you save shows up on one Saved page, newest first, so you never have to dig through chat history for the link again. Your list is private to you, and anything that’s deleted or made private quietly drops off — the list stays clean without you tidying it.

Series are available to everyone. The free plan is enough for most single-day events; unlocking adds room and, crucially, Pro features on the tournaments themselves.

The one-time unlock is best thought of as a discounted 10-pack: it lets a single series hold up to 10 tournaments, and each of those tournaments gets the full Pro feature set — PDF & Excel exports, up to 256 teams, watermark removal, custom banners. Those unlocks are permanent: a tournament that received one keeps its Pro features even if you later move it out of the series.

Need more than 10, or want Pro everywhere without thinking about it? A Pro subscription lifts the per-series limit entirely and applies to every series and tournament you run. Either way, the free tier is a real tier — you can plan a genuine multi-division day without paying a cent.