One app for the weekend
Schedule, court, live score and every change, pushed to the phone.
Tourney Machine alternative for tournament and league operators.Switching from Tourney Machine,
before the next rebrand.
Tourney Machine is now SportsEngine Tourney, and SportsEngine now belongs to PlayMetrics. If you run events on it and are looking at an alternative, this is the practical version: what comes out, what our tournament management software does with it, and how fast the switch happens.
This is not a feature scorecard. It is what the move from Tourney Machine to Sketchplay actually involves, written for the operator who has already decided to look.
Statements about Tourney Machine refer to their public site and help center, re-checked August 17, 2026.
The migration map
What moves from Tourney Machine to Sketchplay
Their help center documents the path from SportsEngine HQ into Tourney; the path out is a support conversation. Start it early.
| What you have on Tourney Machine | How it comes out | What we do with it |
|---|---|---|
| Teams, contacts and rosters | If teams registered through SportsEngine HQ: HQ Quick Report, Export to Excel (their documented flow). If they registered in Tourney directly: ask support for the export. | Imported once into one roster. Every team and family reachable from day one. |
| Brackets, schedules and results | No public export article we could find; public results can be embedded on a webpage. Request an export of event history from support, in writing. | History imported as records so returning teams keep their record. Future schedules come out of the AI Scheduler; brackets seed themselves from scores entered at the court. |
| Registration 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. |
| Waivers | Waiver setup is documented; bulk download of signed waivers is not. Save what you can per entry. | Waivers signed inside registration, stored on the roster, downloadable. |
| 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. |
| Gate and tickets | Not part of Tourney's documented feature set as far as we can find. | Online tickets and parking, scanned at the gate with any phone; 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. |
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 what to export from HQ and what to request from Tourney support, and you send that request 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.
3
Your next event runs on Sketchplay
Schedule it here while Tourney is still readable. When the weekend runs clean, your domain moves and registration opens on your own Stripe.
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.
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.
Straight talk
What a Tourney Machine alternative does not do for you, said plainly.
- We import what you export or what their support sends you. There is no live sync from Tourney, and we could not find a public export article for brackets and results, so that request is on you to make, early and in writing.
- We do not run a public event directory. Your event marketing lives on your own site, app and channels.
- If your teams registered through SportsEngine HQ, your cleanest data is in HQ, not Tourney. Export it there while you still have Full Access.
Questions
Leaving Tourney Machine: the questions we get
Is Tourney Machine still Tourney Machine?
The product page now reads SportsEngine Tourney, formerly Tourney Machine. The app still lives at tourneymachine.com and the mobile apps carry the SportsEngine Tourney name, and it was part of the SportsEngine assets PlayMetrics acquired on May 1, 2026. Expect the brand and the login to keep changing; that is a reason to hold your own copy of your history.
Can we export our brackets, schedules and results?
We could not find a public help article for exporting brackets, schedules or results as PDF or CSV in the Tourney help center; what is documented is embedding public results in your own webpage. Ask their support in writing for an export of your event history before you plan a date, and keep the answer.
Where do registrations and rosters come from on Tourney?
Their documented flow is from SportsEngine HQ into Tourney, using HQ's Quick Report and Export to Excel. If your teams registered through HQ, that is where the clean CSV lives; export it there. If they registered directly in Tourney, ask support for the export path.
How do we reach their support?
A support form linked from tourneymachine.com and a chat bubble in the help center. Pricing questions go to pricing@tourneymachine.com. Start early; there is no published phone line or hours.
When should a tournament operator switch?
In the gap after one event settles and before registration for the next opens. Run the next event on Sketchplay while Tourney is still readable, so nothing you need is behind a login you no longer have.
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 Tourney Machine alternative for you.