What FairGame does
FairGame runs sports tournaments end to end: you describe the tournament once — teams, categories, pitches and hours — and it produces a conflict-free schedule, keeps standings and brackets up to date as results come in, and publishes everything to a public results site that parents, players and coaches can follow live.
This documentation is written for the person who has to make the weekend work. It assumes you know how tournaments run, and explains how FairGame expects you to describe yours.
What it takes off your hands
Scheduling. The part that eats an evening in a spreadsheet. You give FairGame the pitches, the hours and the match length; it places every fixture so that no pitch hosts two matches at once, no team is double-booked, and every team gets its rest between games. Hundreds of matches are solved in seconds, and re-solved just as fast when a pitch floods.
Keeping the tournament current. Scores entered from the pitch update group standings, qualification and the knockout bracket immediately. Nobody redraws a bracket by hand between rounds.
Telling everyone. One public site per tournament carries the schedule, results, standings and brackets, in eight languages, on the same domain as the fixtures you already shared. Teams can follow along in the mobile app and get a notification when their next match moves.
What stays your decision
FairGame does not decide the shape of your tournament. Choosing the format, deciding who qualifies, judging whether a group is fair, and settling a protest are all yours. The software's job is to make those decisions cheap to act on — change the format and the fixtures regenerate; move a team and the affected matches are rebuilt — so you can try an option instead of committing to it.
It also does not invent data. A schedule is only as good as the pitch availability and team list you gave it, which is why setup is where the real work is.
How to read these docs
Work through Getting started in order if this is your first tournament — it covers the vocabulary FairGame uses and the guided setup that produces a complete draft in about ten minutes.
After that the sections match the order you actually do things: build the tournament, schedule it, run it on the day. Each page is short and answers one question.
Start with key concepts if the words category, group and pitch mean slightly different things in your sport — FairGame is precise about them and the rest of the documentation assumes those definitions.