One app for the weekend
Schedule, court, live score and every change, pushed to the phone. Nobody refreshes a PDF.
Exposure Events alternative for tournament and league operators.Switching from Exposure Events,
without losing a season.
You run tournaments or leagues on Exposure and you are looking at an alternative. This is the practical version: what comes out of Exposure, what our tournament management software does with it, how fast the switch happens, and what your teams will notice.
This is not a feature scorecard. It is what the move from Exposure Events to Sketchplay actually involves, written for the operator who has already decided to look.
Statements about Exposure refer to their public features and API pages, re-checked August 15, 2026.
The migration map
What moves from Exposure Events to Sketchplay
Event platforms store history event by event. Plan the export that way and nothing gets left behind.
| What you have on Exposure Events | How it comes out | What we do with it |
|---|---|---|
| Teams, contacts and rosters | Excel export per event from your Exposure admin (their features page lists team, payment and roster exports). | Imported once into one roster. Every team and family becomes reachable from day one; no re-typing. |
| Events, divisions and brackets | Division and bracket structure per event; PDFs for schedules, standings and brackets. | Rebuilt as division templates you reuse event after event. Brackets and pool formats become saved presets. |
| Schedules, standings and results history | Per-event PDFs, or structured data through Exposure's API (participants, events, divisions, games) if you have a technical hand. | History imported as records so returning teams keep their record. Future schedules come out of the AI Scheduler, not a spreadsheet. |
| Registrations and payments | Payment reports per event. Money itself does not migrate from any platform. | New registrations run on your own Stripe account. Payouts land in your bank directly, on Stripe's rolling schedule. |
| Your event site and app | Nothing to export; it is theirs. | A branded site and app space, included. Your domain points at it when you say so, not before. |
| Gate and tickets | Gate fee settings per event. | Online tickets and parking passes, scanned at the gate with any phone; gate revenue paid direct to your Stripe. |
| Messaging lists | Contacts come with the team export above. | Text, email, push and in-app from the same roster. Nothing to rebuild. |
How long it takes
One call to start. Switched by your next event.
1
The call
Thirty minutes, one real event on screen. We tell you exactly which exports to pull and in what order, and you ask Exposure for a bulk export of your history the same day, in writing.
2
We import and build
Teams, contacts and history loaded; divisions and bracket presets set up; your site and app standing with your data on it. Days, not a season. You review it before anyone else sees it.
3
Your next event runs on Sketchplay
Schedule it here while Exposure is still live. When the weekend runs clean, your domain moves and registration opens on your own Stripe. That weekend is the switch.
We do the migration. Not a guide you follow alone: our team runs the import with you and stays on the phone through your first event weekend.
What your next event runs on
Tournament management software
Tournament management software
for the whole weekend, start to finish.
The weekend, in order
- Before
- Teams register and pay on your own site
- Seeding
- Divisions, pools and brackets
- Friday
- The schedule publishes to your site and app
- Saturday
- Gate tickets scan, scores go live
- Sunday
- Finals, then one reconciled set of books
What runs itself
- The schedule stays livenot a PDF somebody printed on Thursday
- Families stay in your appno second app to install
- The gate sells on a phoneno cash box, no card table
- Only affected teams hearnot a blast to all 1,000 families
- One reconciled set of booksregistration and gate land together
- 1
- platform
- 1
- brand — yours
- 0
- spreadsheets
Scripted sample. We will build the schedule for your real event on the call.
After the switch
What your teams and families notice after the switch
Tickets on their phone
Gate and parking bought before they leave the house, scanned in a second at the door.
Scores from the court
The scorer enters it once; standings, seeding and the bracket move on their own.
One place to pay
Team fees, tickets and merch on the same account, receipts that make sense.
Straight talk
What an Exposure Events alternative does not do for you, said plainly.
- We do not run a public event directory. Exposure lists youth events for teams to find; on Sketchplay your event marketing lives on your own site, app and channels.
- We import what you export. There is no live sync from Exposure; history comes across as records from your files or their API, once, and we help you do it.
- If your history is long, ask Exposure about their API early. Clicking through dozens of past events by hand is the slow way, and their support route is email.
Questions
Leaving Exposure Events: the questions we get
Why can we not just export everything at once?
Because an event platform stores your history as separate events rather than one continuous season. Your record is however many tournaments you have run, each holding its own teams, payments, rosters, schedule, and bracket. Plan to work backwards through every event you care about and export each one.
What can we download from an event?
Exposure's features documentation describes downloading or printing reports for an event, with Excel exports for teams, payments, and rosters, and PDFs for schedules, standings, and brackets. Take the Excel version wherever you get the choice, and the PDF only as a visual backup.
Is there a faster way if we have run a lot of events?
Exposure offers an API that can retrieve participants, events, divisions, and games if you have a developer or a technical volunteer. For an operator with a long event history that is far more reliable than clicking through every past event by hand, and it gives you structured data instead of a folder of spreadsheets.
Where do we get help with the export?
Their published support route is email, at support@exposureevents.com. We could not find a public self-serve knowledge base with per-report instructions, so start that conversation early rather than days before your access ends, ask specifically about a bulk export of historical events, and get the answer in writing.
When should an event operator switch?
In your off-season, once the last event has settled financially and before registration opens for the next one. Do not migrate with an event on the books: a tournament weekend takes all of your attention, and the migration is the one that ends up done badly.
More answers in the answer library.
Bring one event. We will show you the switch on a call.
Thirty minutes, your real divisions and courts on screen, and a straight answer about whether Sketchplay is the right Exposure Events alternative for you.