Spreadsheet import
Upload the .xlsx or .csv file you already keep. Bowin recognises common columns, shows problem rows to fix before import, spots likely duplicates and lets you save a draft and finish later. An example template is included.
Features
Everything a tournament day needs, in the order you need it.
Bowin follows your event from the first entry to the last medal. Everything below works in the app today, on a laptop at the head table or a phone at the ring.
Before the event
Entries, consent and divisions.
Online registration
Open and close a registration window. A parent or coach registers up to six children in one go, chooses events and agrees to your waiver and privacy notice. You accept or reject each entry, with a waitlist when you are full.
Consent you can show
Every registration keeps what was agreed, when, and the exact wording shown. Optional choices, such as photos or showing a full name, start unticked. Returning families can reuse a saved profile and delete it at any time.
Automatic divisions
Set rules for age bands, weight classes, belt groups and the smallest division you will run, or start from a preset. Bowin suggests divisions grouped by age band and flags the ones that are too small.
Templates and bulk creation
Save your division set as a template for next year, make a similar division in one step, or create many at once.
Multi-day events
Run an event over several days in its own time zone. Ring times are entered and shown in the event's local time.
On the day
Check-in, rings and scoring.
The ring board
See every ring's divisions in running order, what is up first, and how many minutes each ring is behind. Move a division, or the rest of a ring's day, to another ring in one action. Bowin warns when a competitor is booked on two rings at overlapping times and refuses a booking that clashes with another division on the same ring.
Check-in first
Brackets are drawn only from checked-in competitors, so no-shows never become phantom byes.
Single-elimination brackets
Seeding keeps teammates apart in the first round where it can. Byes are handled, winners advance automatically and the semi-final losers meet for third place.
Patterns scoring
Run patterns as a scored final, with scores from 0.00 to 10.00 and shared ranks for ties, or as a head-to-head bracket.
Late changes after the draw
Withdraw a competitor with a reason and a refund note, reinstate them, move them, or place a late entrant into an open bye. Thin divisions can be merged after a check of the age, weight and belt spread, or a lone competitor can be awarded first place.
Printing
Print bracket sheets and each ring's running order from the same data, for the scorer's table or a wall.
Staff and roles
Invite staff by email with one-use links. Owners and organizers run the event; scorekeepers see only names, schools and weights, which is all scoring needs.
After every bout
Results families can follow.
Publish results when you are ready, and withdraw them again if you need to. The public page shows your organization's name, the brackets, placings and ring times. It needs no account and costs families nothing. Children appear by first name and last initial unless their family chose otherwise.
Who uses it
One event, three kinds of people.
Organizers
- Import or collect entries
- Build and check divisions
- Book rings and move divisions on the day
- Publish results
Scorekeepers
- Sign in from a phone or tablet
- See the bout that is up next
- Enter scores; winners advance
- See only what scoring needs
Families and coaches
- Register several children at once
- Choose what is shared publicly
- Follow results for free
- Delete a saved profile at any time
Try it on your next event.
Setting up is free. See current pricing for running an event.