The draw, made for you, on the page your league is already on

Make a tournament, add an event to it — Mens Singles, Ladies Doubles, whatever your club calls them — and put the entries in. Press Make the draw and the draw is there: seeds on their lines, byes where the regulations put them, and a play-by date on every round.

From that point the players run it. They enter their own scores exactly as they do in a box, their opponent confirms, and the winner appears in the next round. Nobody has to write a name on a sheet.

That is every club championship, so it is not a special case anywhere. 11 entries make a draw of 16 with 5 byes. The byes go to the seeds first and then spread evenly through the rest of the draw, which is what the LTA's regulations say and what a committee doing it by hand is trying to do.

A draw holds up to 64 entries and needs at least 3.

Seed 1 at the top, seed 2 at the bottom, and every pair after that split between the halves so the seeds meet as late as the draw allows. A draw of 16 carries up to 4 seeds; the biggest draw carries 16.

The cap is not a preference. Seeding more than that is seeding most of the draw, at which point it is a decision the committee made rather than one it drew, and at a club a fully random draw is the norm anyway.

You do not have to seed at all. Leave the seeds blank and every line is drawn by lot.

No, and this is the part worth knowing about the whole design. Nothing above round one is stored. The bracket is worked out from the scores every time it is read, so correcting a score corrects the draw, and there is no second copy of the bracket to disagree with the results.

The one thing it will not let you do is change a result after the winner has played their next match. It says which match is in the way, and you clear that one first. Otherwise the draw would be sending somebody through who lost.

So that a member who drives across town, loses in an hour and drives home again gets a second match. Lose your first match and you go into the plate, which is its own knockout underneath the championship.

It is first match, not first round: somebody who had a bye plays their first match in round two, and if they lose it they are in the plate too. That is why the plate is drawn on a button rather than automatically. It waits until everybody has had a first match, and until then it tells you whose match it is waiting for.

Yes. Set a format against any round once the draw is made: Fast4 to the quarter-finals, two full sets and a championship tiebreak from the semis. Leave a round alone and it plays the event's own scoring, which is what most events leave every round on.

You can change a round right up until somebody plays it, and not afterwards. The score in it was checked against the old rules, and rewriting them underneath would be rewriting the result.

There is a playoff for third place too, on a tick. The two beaten semi-finalists appear beside the final as soon as both semis are decided.

Pick the matches, in order, and put a time against the ones you have settled. Leave a time blank for "and then". It reads across all your events, which is how a club publishes one, and it goes up on the page for everybody and copies out as a picture for the noticeboard.

There are no courts on it, deliberately. Clubs sort those out on the morning, and a printed guess is wrong by ten o'clock.

You can also have more than one tournament on at once, up to 6: the championships, a junior week and a doubles day in the same fortnight.

Yes. Everybody plays a group first, the group table works exactly like a box table — your points, your tie-breaks — and the top of each group goes through to a knockout.

Who goes through is confirmed by you rather than decided by us. The table on screen is the table, and you press the button that sends the top two of each group into the draw.

Put the entries in, then press Player link. One link covers the whole championships: post it in the club group chat and everybody who has entered taps their own name. Somebody in the singles and the mixed doubles taps once.

It matters most for the people who are not in a box. A junior, a social member, anybody typed straight into the entries: they sign in through that link and enter their own scores like everyone else.

Rotate it and the old one dies instantly. Anybody already signed in stays signed in.

No. There is a tournament manager role for exactly this, because the person who runs the championships is very often not the person who runs the league. They run the draw, the plate, the dates, finals day and every score in it.

They cannot touch your seasons, your boxes, your league settings or the plan. Making somebody an owner to run a tournament hands them the billing as well, and this is the answer to that.

Every box admin can also put entries in, send the player link and record any tournament score, because on the day it is whoever is standing at the board. Tournament managers and box admins share one allowance.

Every round has a play-by date, and anything past it is on one screen with three answers on it. Give them longer, and the date on that match alone moves. Award it to one side as a walkover, and they go through. Or take both out, and the next round gets a walkover.

We never email a player about any of it. Clayside sends nothing to a player, ever — no reminders, no results, no deadline chasing. The organiser sees what is overdue and the club does the chasing in the group chat it already has.

No. A championship is its own thing with its own scoring, and a box season carries on beside it. Nothing a player does in the draw moves them up or down a box.

Both show on a member's record, kept apart: their box seasons, and then how far they got in each championship.

Tournaments are part of Championship: £220 a year, or £22 a month. There is no per-entry charge and no charge per tournament.

Every new league starts on Championship for 14 days with nothing locked off, so you can put a real draw up and see it working before you decide anything.

If you drop to a cheaper plan later, every draw, score and result stays on screen exactly as it was. Only making a new one stops.

Tennis, padel, squash, badminton and pickleball, each scored by its own rules. You pick the format when you make the event, and it is fixed once the draw is made, because every result in the draw was played under it.

Singles or doubles. A pair enters as one entry, the same way a doubles box works, so the draw never has to know that an entry is two people.