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Create your league from the homepage (Create a league). That gives you an admin dashboard at your league address.

Add your regulars under Players and your machines under Machines, then create your first meet from the dashboard. A meet starts in setup, where you draw groups and assign starting machines (auto-assign can pick balanced machines for you), and goes live when you start it.

Nothing about running a night is paywalled. The free tier runs full league nights and tournaments; paid tiers add branding and quality-of-life extras, never formats.

Yes. The importer lives in your admin area under Tournaments. Give it a link to a series you already ran somewhere else and it stages everything first: you see a reconciliation preview that splits players into confident matches and ones that need your confirmation before anything is written.

Imported events keep their standings and become part of your league record. Nothing is committed until you approve the preview.

Every active meet has a live scoring surface (League Night). Anyone at the venue can open it and enter their group’s scores, exactly like writing on the paper sheet, with no account and no sign-in.

If you want it locked down, mark the meet members-only in its settings; then score entry requires a signed-in league member. Every score write is audited and reversible from the cockpit either way.

Open the add-player drawer from the cockpit. You can seat them in any group that still has room and has not started scoring, or create them as a new roster player on the spot.

Removing a player from a group that has not started scoring also frees a seat. Groups that are already scoring are protected: their results stand.

Tap the score in the cockpit’s score table and enter the correction. Every edit is written to the audit trail with what it replaced, and recent edits can be undone from the same surface.

Corrections recompute points for the whole game automatically, so standings are always derived from the current scores, never stale.

Score submissions queue on the scorekeeper’s phone and send automatically when the connection returns. The tray at the bottom of the scoring screen shows what is pending. The queue lives on that phone, in that browser: keep the scoring tab open and do not clear site data until the tray says everything synced.

The cockpit and TV keep polling and tell you plainly when they are degraded rather than showing stale data as fresh.

The default is the IFPA table: 7/5/3/1 in a four-player group, 7/4/1 in a three-player group, 7/1 head-to-head. Ties pool the tied positions’ points and split them evenly.

Your league can pick a different scheme (4/2/1/0, Pinburgh 3/2/1/0, winner-only, or a flatter bonus table) in Settings; each meet freezes the scheme it was created under, so changing it later never rescores a played night. Matchplay tournaments pick their scheme per event.

By default a disqualified player takes last-place points for that game and keeps them (the IFPA convention). Some leagues instead score a DQ as zero and rescore the rest of the group as a smaller game; that variant is a per-league setting.

Players marked out for the night are automatically scored by the same rule for the games they miss.

Season standings rank players by their adjusted total: the sum of their per-meet points, minus their lowest N meets if your league sets a drop count (Settings; the default is no drops). A player never drops their final counted meet, so playing more can only help.

The standings table shows which meets were dropped, and ties on the adjusted total share a rank.

There is an EB toggle on the score entry card. It records that an extra ball was earned so the meet surfaces show it; it does not change the points math. On the rule itself: the unified PAPA/IFPA baseline is simply that extra balls are DISABLED as a machine setting. When a machine cannot disable them, or your league allows them, how a live extra ball is handled - plunge-only, one flip, or play it out - is a house policy, not rule text. A common tournament convention is plunge-only with no flipping. Whichever you run, write it into your league rules and announce it before play, never mid-dispute. Your Rulings assistant carries the full citation.

Single and double elimination are classic brackets with player self-reporting. Group knockout plays 4-player groups where the bottom half takes strikes until elimination. Round robin plays everyone through scheduled groups. Matchplay is a dominant league-tournament shape: Swiss-paired group rounds, then a cut of the top qualifiers into a finals bracket. Flip Frenzy is continuous queue-based match play: win, stay moving; a central line feeds new pairings. High Score is the arcade format: everyone posts their best game per machine, top total wins.

Every format is creatable on every tier. If you are unsure, group match-play qualifying followed by a cut is a common local shape - group finals for the traditional four-player finish, or a head-to-head bracket for a faster one.

No. Every tournament has a shareable player link (with a QR code) that lets players report their own results from the machine, with no accounts. The link is scoped to that one tournament and every report is logged in the event feed with its source, so you can always see who entered what.

You can still enter or correct any result from the run view; your entries are unconditional.

A scheduled tournament’s public page takes zero-account sign-ups while registration is open. You can cap the field; with a waitlist on, overflow sign-ups queue in order and are promoted automatically when a spot frees.

The field is drawn from registrations when you launch, and you always control the final entrant list and seeding.

My Night is each player’s personal live view: their group, their machine, their race, on their own phone. A player picks their name once and the phone remembers; no account is ever required to play, score, or follow a night.

Players who want their record to travel across devices can additionally claim it with an account; you approve claims from your admin area, and approval grants identity only, never any admin access.

Yes, from Settings, by email invite, with two tiers. Admins can do everything. Scorekeepers get the live cockpit and score entry only: no settings, no roster management, no danger zone.

There is no in-place promotion between tiers; remove and re-invite at the other tier instead. The last admin of a league can never be removed.

Running pinball never does. Meets, tournaments, every format, every player surface: free, with no player caps.

Pro adds league branding and appearance extras on top. If a paid subscription ever lapses, your data and your nights keep working; only the extras turn off.