Built for table tennis
Groups, knockout, Swiss, snake seeding, and club-style standings — not a generic multi-sport template you have to fight.
Table Tennis Tube is free table tennis software that runs in the browser. Create brackets, run group stages, and publish live results for club nights, house leagues, and one-day opens. No desktop install, no credit card to start.
Table Tennis Tube is free table tennis tournament software for the work you actually do on match day: entries, a fair draw, scores, and a link players can open.
Groups, knockout, Swiss, snake seeding, and club-style standings — not a generic multi-sport template you have to fight.
Publish a public tournament page. Parents, coaches, and fans follow brackets and scores on a phone — no app install.
Standard, Top-seed, and optional 2-group Club layouts. Preview the draw in the playground before you lock it.
Points, then head-to-head or mini-league games among tied players, then points among them, then overall — the same order used for who advances from groups.
Create tournaments, enter scores, and share results without a credit card. Everything is free right now; paid plans are not decided.
Ontario / GTA club pages, match-day tools, and recaps sit next to the software — useful for local organizers and players.
Everything below is in the app today. Nothing on this list is a roadmap item.
Run round robin groups that feed a knockout, a straight single-elimination draw, a Swiss system, or a ladder. Knockouts can add a consolation bracket for first-round losers and placement matches (3rd/4th, 5th–8th and so on). Each event takes up to 128 players.
Players are snaked into groups by seed or rating, so the strongest players start in different groups. Choose Standard or Top-seed crossover into the knockout, and try both in the playground before you lock the draw.
Group tables order players by match points, then head-to-head for two tied players or a mini-league of games and points for three or more. The same order decides who advances, and it is written out in the group standings guide.
Enter game scores as matches finish. A walkover, a retirement, or a default can be recorded as a special result instead of a fake score, and the bracket moves the winner on.
Open and close registration on the dates you set, cap the field, and keep extra names on a waiting list. If a player withdraws, a waiting-list player can take the spot and the page shows who replaced whom.
Assign matches to tables, add co-organizers with admin, editor, or viewer access, and share one public link with brackets, groups, matches, and winners. Match-day tools add a coin flip, a name raffle, and a scoreboard.
There are no product screenshots on this page yet. To see the real screens, open the bracket playground (no account needed) or any published event in the tournaments list.
Most club events still run on a paper draw sheet or a shared spreadsheet, and both can work. Here is where each one is strong and where it costs the desk time.
| Paper draw sheet | Spreadsheet | Table Tennis Tube | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Printing only. | Free if you already have a spreadsheet app. | Free today, no credit card. |
| Setup | Draw the sheet by hand or print a template. | Build or copy a template; formulas need checking. | Add events and players; groups and brackets are generated. |
| Group tie-breaks | Worked out by hand at the desk. | Only as good as the formulas someone wrote. | Applied automatically in a fixed, published order. |
| Advancing to the knockout | Copy names onto the bracket by hand. | Manual copy or lookup formulas. | Group finishers fill the knockout; winners move on when a score is saved. |
| Players following along | Walk to the wall or the desk. | Only if you share the file, and it can be edited by mistake. | Read-only public page on any phone. |
| Works without internet | Yes. | Yes, for a desktop file. | No. It needs a connection to save scores. |
| After the event | Photograph the sheet. | Send the file. | The same link keeps the results. |
Paper is still the best backup. If the hall Wi-Fi drops, a printed knockout sheet keeps play moving, and you can enter the scores when the connection comes back. A spreadsheet is a good choice when you already have a template you trust and nobody outside the desk needs to see results. Software earns its place when players, parents, and coaches want to follow along without walking to the desk.
The same flow as a club championship: draft privately, publish when ready, then score live.
Create an account and a tournament. Draft stays private until you publish.
Add events and players, then seed groups or knockout. Read table tennis seeding.
Enter results; group tables update automatically. See table tennis group standings.
Players follow brackets and scores on a phone. Use match-day tools at the desk.
Three browser-based tools built specifically for table tennis. This is what each one says about cost and features on its own website. We only list what we could check.
| Table Tennis Tube | TT Arena | TT-Match | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to start | Free. Organizer tools are free today with no credit card. | Free Basic plan for club events up to 16 players. | Free BASIC version for up to 8 players. |
| Paid options | None today. Paid plans are not decided. | Pro features free on your first two tournaments; bigger events pay a share of registration revenue. No subscription. | PRO annual licence €99 (renewal €49, no auto-renewal), or EVENT from €10 per tournament. |
| Install | Nothing to install; runs in the browser. | Web app (tt-arena.web.app). | Nothing to install; runs in the browser. |
| Formats | Groups into knockout, single elimination, Swiss, consolation and placement brackets. | Knockout, round robin, and league + knockout. | Groups + knockout, knockout (8/16/32), Swiss, and double knockout. |
| Player limits | No player cap tied to a paid plan. | Basic up to 16; Open tier 17–64; Large tier 65+. | Free up to 8; PRO and EVENT up to 64, depending on format. |
| Notable extras | Public live results page, A4 knockout print, GTA/Ontario club directory. | Registration links, scheduling by table, player portal with phone login. | Players can enter results by link, printable umpire slips, HTML/PDF/CSV export. |
Checked on October 8, 2026 against ttarena.app and tt-match.net. Prices and limits change, so confirm on each site before you decide. Table Tennis Tube is not affiliated with TT Arena or TT-Match.
The short version: if your events are small and you want everything free with no player cap tied to a plan, start here. If you need double knockout or umpire slips, TT-Match has them. If you run large paid-entry opens with phone logins for players, look at TT Arena. Running something that is not table tennis? Our tournament bracket generator guide covers brackets for any sport.
Many organizers already know Tournament Software / Tournament Planner, Playinga, or a spreadsheet. Here is a factual snapshot so you can pick the right tool for the event you are running.
| Option | Best fit | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Table Tennis Tube | Best when you want a free, browser-based table tennis event with public live results. | Web app for groups, knockout, Swiss, live scores, and shareable pages. Everything is free now; paid plans are not decided. Includes a GTA/Ontario club directory and match-desk tools. |
| Tournament Software / Tournament Planner | Best when a federation or sanctioned calendar already requires that stack. | Widely used for racket-sport events (including table tennis) via Tournament Planner on the desktop and tournamentsoftware.com for published draws and results. Typically licensed for organizers; setup is heavier than a free web form. |
| Playinga | Best when you need multi-sport events, online fee collection, or a conflict-aware schedule. | End-to-end tournament platform covering registrations, payments, brackets, scheduling, and live scoring across many sports, including table tennis. Some extras (for example embedded widgets) are sold as add-ons. |
| Spreadsheets & generic bracket sites | Best for a one-off draw you will not publish live. | Familiar and flexible, but scores, standings, and public links are manual. Generic bracket tools rarely encode table tennis group tie-breaks or club seeding conventions. |
Feature sets and pricing change. Confirm current licenses and add-ons on each vendor’s site. Table Tennis Tube is not affiliated with Tournament Software, Visual Reality, or Playinga.
Need the full stage list (draft → published → live → completed)? Read how to run a table tennis tournament.
The feature list is short on purpose. The work is not. These are planning pictures for organizers who already play in Markham, Mississauga, and Burlington — not a claim that any named club has switched its official calendar to Table Tennis Tube. Fees, booking, and house rules stay on the club’s own site. The directory is there when you need the address.
Entries close at noon because the list has been “about thirty” all week and you need an actual number. It lands on 32, ratings roughly 900 to 1800, a mix of regulars and two juniors who asked to play up. The room is the kind of hall you find on the Markham club pages: lots of tables in the building, eight of them actually yours from 6:30 to 10:30. Coaching keeps the back row. You do not get those.
Four hours is not enough for eight groups of four at best of five to 11, then a round of 16, if every match is allowed to drift. You decide that in the afternoon, not at 7:10 while people are bouncing balls. Option one: groups best of five, knockout best of three until the semifinals, and you start the first wave at 6:50. Option two: straight knockout plus a consolation so the first-round loser still plays. You publish the choice on the event page with the entry list. The player who only reads the group chat at 5:00 can still see it.
Brackets are the part people photograph. Groups are the part that stops a 1700 and a 1100 meeting in round one if you seeded properly. Live scores are the part that matters to the accountant finishing a shift in Richmond Hill: the public page shows whether table 4 is on the second group match or already into the crossover. You are not sending screenshots. Registration is what made the list of 32 true. Without a deadline, the thirty-third player walks in at 6:45 and every group of four becomes a negotiation.
The desk is one laptop. Scores go in when the match ends, before the next pair picks up balls. If you wait until the break, the group table is wrong and someone has already started a “must-win” against the wrong opponent. That is the whole product on a Thursday: one page that is the list, the draw, and the result.
Twelve players, ages about 9 to 14, two coaches, four tables, a 9:00 to 12:30 booking. Nobody needs a 32-draw. A round robin — or two groups of six if the stronger kids should not play the newest ones all morning — gives every child several matches and a table you can explain to a parent. Points, then point difference, then games. You do not invent a tie-break in the parking lot.
Registration here is mostly parents. The page lists the event, the time, and a note that late arrivals miss the first round rather than delaying the room. One coach enters scores from a phone between feeding multiball. The other coach stays on the table. Live scores mean the parent who dropped off and went for coffee can see the group without calling. When you are done, the same link is the result you post in the family chat, and it still works on Monday when someone asks who finished second.
This is also where a free table tennis bracket generator earns its keep the week before. Put 12 players into the playground, try a full round robin against two groups of six with the top two crossing over, and show the other coach. Agree there. On Saturday you only run the version you already liked.
A Saturday open with players from Burlington, Hamilton, and the west end of the GTA. You cap the event at 24 because you have eight tables from 9:00 to 3:00 and you want to be off the floor before the evening booking. Eight groups of three is the clean cut: three matches in each group, top two into a round of 16, no byes to explain. The how to run a table tennis tournament timing band for that shape on eight tables is about three and a half to four and a half hours plus check-in. You start groups at 9:30. You do not wait for the last car.
Registration opens two weeks out and closes Friday at 8:00 p.m. The waiting list is real. If someone cancels Friday night, the first waitlisted player gets the spot and you re-seed before you publish groups. You do not re-seed after the first group match. Seeding is rating where you have it, then the order the club already uses for its own ladder. Standard crossover unless the top two seeds are a full class above the field, in which case you look at Top-seed in the playground on Friday and leave a note on the event: group winners are protected in round one.
Live scores are what the player who is still on the QEW checks at the Burlington exit. Brackets are what you leave on a tablet by the water bottles so the quarterfinalists are not crowding the desk. Groups are what make the drive worth it for the player who will not win the event. Registration is what keeps the field at 24 instead of 31. Table Tennis Tube is the page that holds all four, without a desktop install and without a credit card to start.
Not decoration. The bracket is the order of play once groups are done, including byes and any consolation you turned on so early losers stay. Update a score and the next name fills in. That is the difference from a printed tree you have to redraw after an upset. Players trust it when it matches the groups they just played, which is why you do not hand-edit the crossover to “make a better final.”
A group of four plays six matches. Two players will often finish on the same win count. The table breaks that with head-to-head (two tied) or mini-league games among tied players (three or more), then points among them, then overall games/points — the same order on every event, and the same order described in the standings guide. You can point at the rule instead of re-litigating who “played better.”
The desk stops being a switchboard. Umpires, if you have them, read the table number from the page. Parents stop asking for a photo. A player on another table sees they are next and stops warming up for twenty minutes on a table you needed. The public page is enough. There is no separate app to install in a noisy hall.
A deadline, a cap, and a list you can seed. Open it when the venue and the format are written down. Close it when you said you would. Waiting-list names are not in the snake until you promote them. That is how a house league stays the same size every week, and how a one-day open does not grow by four players while you are taping the nets.
For a small event where only the desk needs results, often yes. A spreadsheet gets harder when three players tie in a group, when the knockout has to be filled from group results, or when players want to check scores on their phones. Table Tennis Tube does those parts for you; a spreadsheet or paper sheet is still a good offline backup.
Yes. You can create a tournament, build groups and brackets, enter live scores, and publish public results without paying. Everything is free right now, and paid plans have not been decided.
No. Table Tennis Tube runs in a modern browser. Use it on a laptop at the control desk or a phone at the table. A free account is only needed to save and publish events.
Tournament Software / Planner is a licensed stack many sanctioned events already use. Playinga is a multi-sport platform with payments and scheduling. Table Tennis Tube is a free, table-tennis-first web app with public live pages, club-style seeding, and an Ontario / GTA club directory.
Yes. The bracket playground is a free table tennis bracket generator with no signup. When you are ready, create a free tournament and use the same methods on a public event.
A bracket is the public answer to who plays whom next. Players stop asking the desk, and a parent in the parking lot can see whether the quarterfinal has been called. In Table Tennis Tube the knockout updates when you enter the score, including byes, consolation, and placement matches, so you are not redrawing a paper sheet after every upset.
Group matches feed a table ordered by points, then head-to-head (two tied) or mini-league games among tied players (three or more), then points among them, then overall games/points/rating. When you enter a score, the order changes immediately and the people who advance are the ones the knockout will use. Live scores matter most when someone is late: they can see if their table is up before they leave work, and you are not texting screenshots.
Open registration only after the venue, format, and deadline are on the page. Close it on the deadline you published — Friday night is a common line for a Saturday open — and keep late requests on a waiting list. The public entry list is what you seed. A group chat list will drift.
No. Sanctioned calendars that require Tournament Planner can stay there. Table Tennis Tube is for the house league, the rating night, and the one-day open where you need a free public page more than a federation licence. Run one event, share the link, and decide after you have seen the desk workflow.
Preview a draw in the playground, or create a live event and share results with your club.