Every area's got one
Be the place
everyone
ends up.
Proper tournaments, ratings on the line, and somebody else running them. You've got the room and the tables — that's the hard part already done.
Pubs, padel courts, sports centres, universities — any space where people compete.
The problem
A booking isn't
a regular.
Some of you have pool tables sitting quiet on a Tuesday and a dartboard nobody's touched since March. Some of you are the opposite — courts booked solid, lanes full, and it still isn't building you anything.
Because an hour on a court is a transaction. They book it, they play it, they go home, and next week they'll go wherever's free. Nothing about the place has hold of them, and there's no version of a booking system that fixes that — it's the thing booking systems are for.
What holds people is being part of something. Their name on a board. A rating that goes down if they don't turn up. Someone they beat last month who wants another go. That's a scene, and once a place has one, people stop shopping around.
Competition is how you build one. And you don't have to run it.
What you've already got
One dartboard is
six tournaments.
Tell us what's in the room and we'll show you every competition you could run on it. You almost certainly own more nights than you think you do.
Dart Board
6 tournaments
Darts (501), Darts (Cricket), Darts (301), Darts (Killer), Darts (Shanghai), and Darts (Around the Clock)
Football Pitch
5 tournaments
Football 5-a-side, Football 7-a-side, Football 11-a-side, Flag Football, and Walking Football
Pool Table
3 tournaments
Killer Pool, 8-Ball Pool, and 9-Ball Pool
Basketball Court
2 tournaments
Basketball and 3x3 Basketball
That works for every one of the 26 kinds of kit we handle — tables, boards, courts, lanes, alleys. Pick one and it's set up for that sport before you've finished your first pint.
And what turns up isn't a bracket on a beer mat.
The draw goes up on your screen like a proper draw. Scores land as they happen. Every match gets written up afterwards, awards land at the end, and people screenshot the lot into the group chat. From your side it's a few clicks — from the floor it looks like something you put on.
What happens
One night. Then a fixture.
Then it's got a name.
Week one
A good night, and it paid for itself.
Somebody runs a tournament at your place. They drop a link in the group chat, people sign up, walk in and play, and it's on your screen while it happens. Sixteen people in for the evening — or sixteen people who'd have booked an hour and gone home.
Month two
Now they've got something to lose.
Same night, same slot, and everyone playing has a rating on the line. They're not choosing between venues any more — they're coming to defend a number, and they bring the mate who wants a go at them.
Month six
It's got a name, and you didn't give it one.
There's a board people check, results they argue about, and a couple of rivalries that started in your room. Somebody searching for a game near them lands on your page and finds all of it. You didn't market that — it built itself out of the nights you hosted.
Why they stay
Nobody leaves
between rounds.
It goes up on whatever screen you've already got. The draw, the bracket, the scores as they land. So there's always a reason to still be standing there in ten minutes, and a reason to get another one in.
Which is worth more than it sounds. A round bought while somebody waits for the next frame is a round that wouldn't have happened.
Why now
You've already got
what they build
from scratch.
Competitive socialising is the fastest-growing thing in hospitality. Whole chains have been built on it — people paying at the door for a booking slot, a screen and a scoreboard, in a room that was an empty unit two years ago.
You've got the room, the kit and the regulars already. What those places sell is the bit around it: the competition, the screen, the sense that tonight counted. That's the bit this adds, and you don't have to fit out a building to get it.
Same idea. A fraction of the outlay. And your name on it instead of theirs.
And it isn't a pub thing. Padel centres, bowling alleys, snooker halls, leisure centres, universities, the social club that's run the same league on paper since 1994 — if people compete there, it works there. Nothing to install and no hardware to buy: if you've got a screen it goes on the screen, and if you haven't it works on everyone's phone anyway.
Discovery
Players find you.
Not the other way round.
Tell us what you've actually got — two pool tables, a dartboard, three courts — and that's your page. It sorts itself by what people can play, so somebody hunting a game finds the table, not a phone number.
Then it fills itself in as people play: what's on, who's best there, the records set in the room. Takes two minutes, and it's yours whether anyone's running a night yet or not.
Two minutes to
get on the map.
Two tables and a dartboard is enough. Say what you've got, and you're findable — you can worry about who runs the first night after that.
£49 a month, per venue — 45 days to try it.
Actually the one putting the night on? How it runs a night