Konkuri - The Best World Class Free Tournament Application!

What is Konkuri?
Konkuri is the smartest web application for league management and publishing. With Konkuri you can create the tournament site, generate round-robin and brackets, schedule date and time of every match, edit results and standings, write the tournament's blog, have users and visitors comments on posts and matches.

How was Konkuri born?
Konkuri was conceived by Koinema, a flexible and ambitious web agency based in Bologna, Italy. The idea came from a personal need: we wanted to organize a tournament among friends and share the results online. It should have been easy in the web 2.0 era, right? Unfortunately, the experience turned into a big disappointment: in fact, all the existing solutions did not match our needs of simplicity and elegance. At the time, we were looking for a new project to develop, so... fill in the blanks ;-) Konkuri web site was launched on-line in September 2009.
What does the name Konkuri mean?
The name comes from Esperanto and it means "to compete", which seems to us a perfect synthesis of our project. First of all, because competition in sports and games means... tournaments! And it is competition that transforms game into insane passion ;-) Second, because the Esperanto philosophy is to create a flexible and universal language, like our application. Indeed, Konkuri's final goal is manage any kind of tournament, any kind of sport or game, everywhere.

Your tournament literally on a silver plate
Konkuri is a web application for tournament and league management. Imagine a basketball league: how do you create the schedule and share the results with the participants? Konkuri is a very simple tool to do so.

For sport organizations, tennis centers, videogamers...
...or just a group of friends. Konkuri will support a huge number of sports and games and a variety of tournament systems (round-robin, brackets, groups + playoffs).

Communicate and archive results effectively
Paper notes or even pdf files are so hard to organize, share and archive. Forget all that. With Konkuri your competitions results will be communicated in real time and archived permanently.

Create the league site with just one click!
Choose a sport, a tournament system and the number of participants. Done.
Creation form

This will bring you directly to the tournament site. Now you're ready to start and enter your data.

Your schedule is ready to roll! But if you want to, you can customize it as you like.
Konkuri generates a nice random schedule for you, to let you start your tournament.
Example of round-robin tournament

Example of elimination brackets

But, in case you want to try some alternatives, you can generate as many random schedules as you want, until you find the ideal combination of fixtures. Or, you can clear the schedule and seed it manually.
Schedule seeding

Konkuri will help you to avoid common mistakes, like putting the same competitor twice in a round or creating twice the same match.
Assisted manual tournament seeding

And, you can also drag and drop rounds to switch them!
Rounds drag and drop

Dates and time
Add game dates and time, to complete your tournament calendar, so that players and spectators are informed about the upcoming matches.
Dates and time editing

Tournament systems
Round-robin
With the round-robin system each contestant meets every other contestant in turn. Click on the "configure tournament" button to select the round-robin type you want:

• Single round-robin
  
• Double round-robin
  
• Multiple round-robin (repeat multiple rounds).

Round-robin configuration
The number of participants allowed for the round-robin system is up to 20.
Brackets
Konkuri supports single-elimination brackets (double-elimination is on its way). The number of participants allowed for the bracket system is up to 32.
Brackets
In a knockout tournament, Konkuri allows you to set multiple matches per round. You can select single-leg tie, two-legged ties, or best-of-N matches, where the team winning more matches wins the series. Besides, you can select these options in every single round. For example, you could create a schedule with two-legged ties up to the semi-final and a single-leg tie in the final (like in the UEFA Champions League).
Select the legs number per round
Groups/playoffs
The classic two-stage tournament, like FIFA World Cup.

• Group stage: round-robin tournament where the top competitors in each group qualify for the finals;
  
• Final stage: single-elimination brackets.

Accordingly to the number of participants, Konkuri will automatically suggest the optimal group splitting and thenumber of qualifiers for the final phase (i.e. the first 2 from each of 6 heats, plus 4 repechages)..
Group stage configuration
Then you can add or delete groups, customize the participants number for each group, drag and drop participants between groups, and so on.
Moving France to Group D
You can also configure the final stage, designing in advance the brackets seeding. For instance, you can make the winner of group A play against the runner-up of group D, and so on.
Final stage draw
The number of participants allowed for the groups/playoffs system is up to 32.
Manage and share results
Enter the matches results and enjoy the standings update
This is the moment everyone has been waiting for. Click on "add results" and enter the scores. The table or bracket will update automatically.
Edit the results...
...and enjoy!
Results composed of sets
In some sports, like Tennis, the match result will involve sets. Konkuri can handle that very easily. You can choose the number of sets you're more comfortable with. And you can also make the number vary according to the different round. This way, you could create a schedule with one-set matches at the beginning of the tournament and best of three or five-sets ones as you get closer to the final.
Enter sets...
...and the brackets will update
Share the tournament results
Now everybody can see the results updates on the tournament dashboard. You can also publish them on Facebook and Twitter.
Share results on Facebook and Twitter
Tournament info
Publish all the information about your tournament
Go to the Info page, to edit your tournament's information. Like, for instance, your tournament's name, or where the tournament takes place.
Name and city form
Notice that your tournament will have a unique internet address (URL) that you can spread among players, friends and spectators.
Tournament web address
Then, you will have the opportunity to write anything that might be useful to competitors and spectators, like:

• Venue
  
• Start/end dates
  
• Description
  
• Rules
  
• Contacts

Tournament info form
Manage competitors
Enter participants names
When you start a tournament, Konkuri will use empty placeholders to create the schedule. Go to the "Competitors" section and enter the real players or teams names. The whole tournament will update automatically.
Competitors form
Invite participants to join the tournament!
Participants who are connected can follow all tournament updates and get special authorizations to write on the dashboard.
invite them by email...
...or select their profile, if they already are on Konkuri
Communicate and talk
Wall posting and commenting
Konkuri offers you a great environment to communicate and talk. It can be used by the administrator to post official announcements about the tournaments or by players and spectators just to comment on matches and results.
The tournament dashboard
Moderation tools
Trash talk in amateur competitions can be so fun! But, in case your tournament goes beyond a small group of friends, you might want to keep the conversation under control.
That's why Konkuri is equipped with moderation tools that let the administrator:

• delete any content at any time;
  
• pre-moderate comments before publishing;
  
• block users from writing on the dashboard;
  
• set specific discussion permissions to the different types of users

Get a stream of updates
Get updates from tournaments and players
There are two ways you can get updates in Konkuri:

• connect to a tournament as participant;
  
• follow a tournament or a profile;

The follow feature
Your personal home page
Your personal home page will give you a stream of updates with live results, conversations, etc. from all the tournaments and profiles you are following.
Your home page stream
Educational Applications:
Wow! This is a very cool and complete tournament application program. I highly recommend all educators to bookmark and use this program for any of your academic / sport related competitions. I am so impressed with the overall ease of use. For the input fields, you could put your  native language and use the English for template. I did not try to use Google translator on the template fields to see if the fields could be converted into Thai or Chinese. I hope in the future, I will be asked to assist in the next ASEAN University Games so I can recommend this tournament application. This will be a very cool addition to my English camp organization and management! In my opinion, the only way it could be better would be to open it up into Google translator for the description/template fields to make it an international program.  
This is truly an outstanding integrated tournament management program that I recommend and consider it being one of the best tournament applications in the world! The link is here.  http://www.konkuri.com/