Bass Stats · Tournament Hosts
Running a club-vs-club tournament
An open event where each bass club brings a squad, and the clubs are scored against each other on combined weight. Here is the whole job, start to finish, and what each step saves you.
- 12
- anglers per club
- 6
- boats per club
- 1
- shared bag per boat
- 5
- fish limit
Set up the event
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01
Create the tournament
Name, date, body of water, ramp, start and weigh-in times, and the fish limit.
Why it helpsEntered once. Registration, scoring and the public page all read from it, so there is no second copy to keep in sync.
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02
Publish it
The tournament appears in the public directory with its own page and link.
Why it helpsYou have something to send out before a single angler has signed up.
Bring the clubs in
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03
Add each club that is entering
Club name, the director’s contact details, and squad size. Each club gets its own private roster link.
Why it helpsNobody creates an account. You send a link, and that is the entire onboarding.
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04
Send each director their link
They build their own squad — typing all twelve in themselves, or letting members sign up.
Why it helpsYou never key in seventy-two names. Email is optional per angler, so a director can enter members who are not online.
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05
Directors assign their own boats
Six boats, two anglers each, done on their own roster page.
Why it helpsPairings are the club’s business, not yours. You stop being the middleman.
Prepare the field
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06
Set your flightsOptional
Name each flight with its launch and weigh-in time, then split the boats across them in one click.
Why it helpsStaggers a large field at the ramp, and every angler sees their own flight and times on their club’s page instead of asking you.
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07
Add your scorekeepersOptional
Anyone helping at the scales gets their own link.
Why it helpsYour weighmaster enters results without your password, access can be revoked instantly, and every result records who entered it. Two people can work the scales together and see each other’s entries.
Run the day
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08
Weigh in by boat
Pick the boat, enter the one shared bag — fish, big fish, total weight.
Why it helpsOne entry per boat instead of two per angler. Half the keystrokes at the busiest moment of the day, and the club totals cannot double-count.
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09
Standings update themselves
Clubs are ranked on combined squad weight, and anyone can open a club to see its six boats.
Why it helpsNobody asks you for a running total. Families, sponsors and anglers still on the water all follow from their phones.
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10
Put it on a screen
TV mode turns any laptop or television into a full-screen scoreboard with the standings, the podium and the event big fish.
Why it helpsA scoreboard people can read across the parking lot, with nothing extra to set up.
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11
Message the field
Email everyone registered, and text those who opted in.
Why it helpsA launch delay or a ramp change reaches every angler at once, instead of a phone tree through six directors.
Close it out
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12
Mark it completed
Results are finalised and every angler is emailed their finish.
Why it helpsThe event closes itself out, and the results page becomes a permanent record you can point at next year.
The short version
Steps three to five are the ones that change the job. Your work as director shrinks to sending a handful of links — rosters, boat pairings and contact details are all done by the clubs themselves.
Everything after that runs on the data they entered, which is why the scoreboard is live before you have finished weighing the first flight.