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Run the tournament.
Not the spreadsheet.

PERA-seeded draws, live brackets, real-time scoring, and WhatsApp notifications via Wati. Built for badminton, pickleball, tennis, squash — and every racket sport with a community to gather.

2,401
Tournaments run
187
Partner clubs
12.8K
Players rated
8 min
Avg setup time
Why HmBr Open

Built by tournament directors,
not by feature lists.

Every screen exists because someone running a 64-player draw at 7am on a Saturday morning needed it. No bloat. No spreadsheets. No mid-event panic.

The platform

Three things tournamentsoftware.com doesn't do.

01
PERA-seeded draws

Math beats favoritism.

PERA (Player Estimated Rating Algorithm) seeds your bracket automatically — weighted by verified-court matches, not vibes. Drag to override any seed in one click.

1850
Kumar
1820
Lee
1790
Patel
How PERA works →
02
Live brackets

Score on a phone. Bracket updates instantly.

BWF-compliant scoring — singles, doubles, mixed. Match ends, winner advances, next-round players get notified. Spectators watch the bracket update in real time.

Court 3 · QF · 21–18 · serve P1
03
Wati WhatsApp

WhatsApp, not email blasts.

Entry confirmations, match calls, court assignments, result notifications — all delivered via WhatsApp through Wati. No app downloads. No missed alerts.

📱 HmBr Open
Your QF match starts in 10 min — Court 3 vs M. Chen. Good luck! 🏸
PERA · Player Estimated Rating Algorithm

A rating that
actually means something.

PERA evaluates how you actually play — not who you know. Verified matches at booked courts carry more weight than backyard games. Confidence grows the more you play. Inactivity decays the rating fairly.

  • Verified-court matches: 3× weight
  • Confidence interval visible on every profile
  • Format-specific (singles ≠ doubles ≠ mixed)
  • Public leaderboards per category
  • Decay after 90 days inactivity
See PERA-verified champions →
Your PERA
Men's Singles · Last 90 days
+42 this month
1850
Confidence
±18
JanFebMarAprMay
Matches
42
Win rate
68%
Rank
#14 / CA
The flagship event series

HmBr
Mela.

Community-building, non-elimination tournaments that connect players across clubs. A festival format that traditional brackets can't capture.

Read the Mela story on hmbrimpact.org ↗
86
Melas hosted
14K
Players reached
100%
Non-elimination
“A Mela isn't about who loses first. It's about who shows up, plays everyone, and goes home knowing forty new players.”
— HmBr Mela format philosophy
For organizers

What you get on the organizer console.

1

Create

Tournament setup wizard — name, dates, club, format, categories, entry fee, max entries. 5-minute setup.

2

Manage entries

Confirm, waitlist, withdraw, refund. Wallet refunds happen automatically. Partner pairings tracked.

3

Generate draw

PERA-seeded auto-draw. Drag to override. Publish to entries via Wati WhatsApp.

4

Run the day

Live bracket, court assignments, real-time scoring. Spectators watch the bracket update on hmbropen.com.

Formats supported
Single eliminationDouble eliminationRound robinLeagueHmBr Mela (non-elim)Swiss · coming soon
Pricing

Free forever.
Unlimited with a humidifier.

Run small tournaments free, no card required. Subscribe to Humidified Birdie and the entire platform unlocks at zero additional cost — your shuttles last 3–9× longer too.

Community
Free
Forever · no card required
  • Up to 16 entries per tournament
  • All formats including HmBr Mela
  • PERA seeding
  • Live brackets
  • Wati WhatsApp (50 msgs/event)
Most clubsHumidified Birdie subscribers
Free · unlimited
Bundled with any Humidified Birdie plan
  • Unlimited entries per tournament
  • Everything in Community
  • Wati WhatsApp unlimited
  • Custom branding on bracket
  • Wallet checkout for entries
  • Refunds & waitlist auto-managed
  • +Shuttles last 3–9× longer · 67–89% cost savings
Federation
Custom
Multi-club, state, national
  • Everything above
  • Multi-event circuits
  • Federation-level PERA
  • White-label option
  • Dedicated support & SLA
Why this works

The humidifier saves you 67–89% on shuttlecocks. Some of that savings funds free tournament software for you. The math is the same physics — extending the life of one shuttlecock — applied to two parts of your operation.

Read the impact story ↗
Get started

Your next tournament
runs itself.

Sign up in two minutes. Create your first tournament in five. Players get WhatsApp invites the moment you publish.