Features · Tournaments
Your own darts tournament, drawn in a minute
Pick a format, choose the game, enter the players, and your darts tournament is drawn. Sridu shows who plays next and enters every result in the bracket or table until there is a champion. Play it on one board in the club room, or with every player at their own board.
- Knockout, groups, league or double KO
- Up to 64 players, singles or doubles
- Every match mode, from X01 to Blackout
- One board or many, with online sign-up
Four formats
Sudden death, a league or a second chance
You pick the format when you set up the tournament. Each one has a few settings of its own, and the little drawing on its tile shows how it runs.
- KnockoutLose and you are out
- Byes for the top seeds
- Match for 3rd place if you like
- A longer final if you like
- Groups + KOGroup stage, then knockout
- 2, 3, 4 or 8 groups
- 1, 2 or 3 go through per group
- Group winners meet runners-up
- Round robinA league, the table decides
- Everybody plays everybody
- Home and away if you like
- Throwing first alternates
- Double KOOut after two defeats
- Winners’ and losers’ bracket
- Both meet in the grand final
- From 3 players
- KnockoutLose and you are out. If the field is not full, the top seeds get byes into the next round. A match for third place can be added with one switch.
- Groups + KOEverybody plays everybody in 2, 3, 4 or 8 groups. The top 1, 2 or 3 of each group go through to a knockout, where group winners play runners-up from other groups.
- Round robinA league where everybody plays everybody and the table decides. Who throws first alternates from round to round. With Home and away everybody plays everybody twice, throwing first once.
- Double KOOne bad match does not send you home. Lose once and you drop into the losers’ bracket. Lose twice and you are out. The winners of both brackets meet in the grand final.
Set it up
Set up a darts tournament in five steps
Open Tournaments in the app. The whole setup fits on one page and your draft is saved, so you can prepare it the evening before.
- 1Anna
- 2Jonasonline
- 3Mara
- 4Lea
- 5Tom
- 6BenØ55
- 7Saraonline
- Name it, pick the formatGive the tournament a name and tap one of the four formats. Its settings appear below it, such as third place, the number of groups, how many go through, or home and away.
- Choose the gameAny match mode, with the same options as a normal match, like 501 double out, cut-throat Cricket or Around the Clock on the doubles. Then set the legs: a single leg, first to 2, 3 or 5, or any number up to 99. The final can be longer if you like.
- Enter the playersType names, pick them from your player list or add bots with an average of 15 to 110. Shuffle mixes up the list. Switch to Doubles and each pair of players in the list becomes a team.
- Field and drawAuto takes everybody you entered. With a fixed field size the free places are filled: in a knockout with byes or bots, in a league or groups always with bots of the strength you set. Seeded keeps the order of your list, Random draws everything.
- StartThe bar at the bottom sums up your settings and shows what is still missing, for example an even number of players for doubles. Tap Start tournament and the draw is made.
- Seeded like the big events. In a knockout of eight, 1 plays 8, 4 plays 5, 2 plays 7 and 3 plays 6. The top two on your list can only meet in the final, and the top seeds get the byes.
- Snake draw for the groups. With two groups, seed 1 goes into group A, 2 into B, 3 into B again and 4 into A. That spreads the strong players across the groups, so they do not meet early.
- From 2 to 64. A knockout needs two entrants, double KO three, and groups at least two per group. The limit is 64 players, or 32 teams in doubles.
- Teams share a score. In doubles, players 1 and 2 on the list are team 1, players 3 and 4 are team 2, and so on. A player can also team up with a bot. Partners alternate at the board, one visit each.
Match by match
One board is enough
The tournament page lists every match that is ready to play under Up next, earlier rounds first. Tap Play and it opens in the normal game view with cameras, the caller and match statistics.
If several matches are ready, play them in any order. The draw keeps track.
- Results go in automatically. After the last dart, the win screen shows To the tournament. By then the winner is already in the next round and the table is up to date.
- Bot against bot takes a second. These matches show Simulate instead of Play and are over in a moment. The bots throw the same way they do in a normal match.
- Byes are not matches. A player with a bye goes straight through, and byes do not count towards the progress.
- Stop now, play later. A tournament match you call off does not count. It stays open in the draw and can be played again.
- Results can be taken back. Wrong players at the board? The organizer taps the match in the draw and takes the result back, as long as no match after it has been played. Later than that, a result can still be corrected on the dashboard.
- Someone has to go home. The flag on a match withdraws a player. Their results so far stand, and each of their remaining matches goes to the opponent as a walkover, marked w.o.
- Always in view. While the tournament runs, the app’s top bar shows its name and progress, such as Friday Cup · 3/8. Tap it to get back to the draw.
Tables and brackets
Who goes through, and why
A knockout is shown as a bracket, round by round, with each match winner marked in green. Groups and leagues each get a table with their matches listed below it. Played matches show the score, open ones are highlighted.
| P | W | L | Legs | +/− | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5:3 | +2 |
| 2 | Anna | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5:3 | +2 |
| 3 | Kim | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4:5 | -1 |
| 4 | Lea | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2:5 | -3 |
Tom and Anna are level on wins, legs and leg difference. Tom won their match, so he finishes first.
| P | W | L | Legs | +/− | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonas | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5:2 | +3 |
| 2 | Ben | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5:3 | +2 |
| 3 | Mara | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4:4 | 0 |
| 4 | Sara | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1:6 | -5 |
Three players on two wins, so leg difference decides. Mara goes out despite her two wins.
A1 plays B2 and B1 plays A2, so two players from the same group can only meet again in the final.
- The tableP, W and L stand for matches played, won and lost. Legs shows legs won and lost, +/− the difference. Qualifying places are marked in green.
- Level on winsThen leg difference decides, then legs won, then the match between the two. If they are still level, the order of the draw separates them.
- Into the knockoutAs soon as a group is finished, its qualifiers move into the knockout. Winners are placed first, then runners-up, seeded so that two players from the same group meet again as late as possible.
- Double KOThe winners’ bracket, the losers’ bracket and the grand final sit on one page. Losers drop down crosswise, so two players who just met do not meet again straight away.
- Round robinOne table for the whole league with the leader marked, and every round with its matches next to it.
Many boards
Everybody at their own board
Turn on Online sign-up and the tournament gets a code, a link and a QR code. Players open the link on the device at their board and sign up with their name. Each match is then played board to board, like any online match, and the result goes back to the organizer automatically.
Signed up as Sara, waiting for the start
- Switch it onThe switch is in the setup, below the players. The code and QR code appear straight away, and Copy link puts the link on your clipboard for the group chat.
- Players sign upThey open the link, type their name and tap Sign up. They appear in your list with a globe next to their name. Players at your own board and bots can still take part.
- StartEverybody sees the draw on their own device, and results come in live.
- Play your matchWhen two online players meet, the first player’s board opens the match. The other board plays a sound and shows To the match on its tournament page. If one of them plays at the organizer’s board, that board opens it.
- Back to the drawAfter the last dart, the result goes to the organizer and from there to everybody. To the tournament takes each player back to the tournament page.
- If the organizer drops outThe tournament runs on the organizer’s device. If it goes offline, players see Organizer offline · paused and the tournament waits. A board that drops out briefly gets its invitation again when it reconnects.
- Leaving is finalA player who leaves a running tournament cannot rejoin, and their open matches go to their opponents as walkovers. If the organizer ends the tournament, it ends for everybody.
- Online is singles onlyA doubles pair would be split across two boards, so online sign-up is for singles and doubles are played at one board.
- Direct connectionThe boards connect as in any online match, directly and encrypted, with no account needed.
Dashboard
The whole tournament on one screen
Tap Dashboard on the tournament page. It shows the matches under way, what comes next, the latest results, the draw and the figures of the whole tournament. In an online tournament everybody gets it, including players who are already out and anyone who opens the tournament link.
- Anna2×
- Mara1×
- Anna68.40
- Mara64.12
- Tom61.95
- Tournament resumed
- Tournament paused
- Match 2 corrected: Lea – Tom 3:2 → 2:3
- Kim and Sara swapped places
For everybody
- Live nowIn an online tournament every match under way gets a card with the legs, the score left and who is throwing. The darts of the visit appear one by one, and in X01 the card shows the way out.
- Watch a matchTap a live card, or a running match in the draw, and its scoreboard opens: score left, legs, average, darts thrown, the last visit and who is at the oche. You can only watch, nothing can be changed from there.
- Up next and resultsThe next matches that can start, and the latest results with their score. Show all opens the full list.
- Tournament statsMatches, legs and darts so far, and in X01 the 180s, 140+ and 100+ visits. Top fives for most 180s, highest checkout, best average and best leg, plus the longest match. The best average needs at least 30 darts. Matches under way count as far as they got, walkovers do not count.
- Big screenFor the TV in the club room: full screen, bigger type and nothing to tap. Leave big screen or the Esc key takes you back. Streaming one match rather than the whole event? That is what streamer mode is for.
For the organizer
- Correct a resultTap the pencil next to a result, or a finished match in the draw, and enter the legs. The winner follows from the legs. Before you confirm, Sridu lists every match the change affects: later results that would be reset, and matches under way that would be stopped. The corrected result is marked corrected.
- RenameA typo in a name can be fixed at any time. The new name appears in the draw, the tables and the stats.
- Replace or swapUntil a player’s first match. Replace puts someone new in the same place in the draw, playing at your board. Swap places trades the places of two players who have not played yet.
- Withdraw a playerThe flag works as on the tournament page: results so far stand, the remaining matches are walkovers.
- Restart a matchOpen a running match and tap Restart match. The board it is played on stops it, the score so far does not count, and the match is open again from 0:0.
- PauseNo new match can begin, and the ones under way are played to the end. The tournament page shows Paused instead of Play until you tap Resume.
- ActivityEvery change with its time: corrections, withdrawals, new names, swaps, restarts and breaks. Players see the log too, so nobody has to wonder why the draw changed.
After the final
A champion and a podium
After the last match, the champion appears at the top of the tournament page with a trophy, with places 2 to 4 alongside. The bracket stays below with every score.
- Knockout and groups. The final decides first and second, a match for third place decides third and fourth. Without that match, both losing semi-finalists share third place.
- Double KO. The grand final decides first and second. The last player knocked out of the losers’ bracket finishes third.
- Round robin. The final table is the ranking.
- A picture for the group chat. After the final the dashboard turns into a summary: the champion, places 2 to 4 and the best figures of the night. Share as image makes a picture of it, which opens the share menu on a phone and downloads on a computer.
- Every match is kept. Tournament matches are saved like any other and count in the players’ statistics. As usual, bots and doubles are left out. If you end a tournament early, the draw is lost, but matches already played stay in the statistics.
FAQ
Good to know
Which game modes can a tournament use?
The match modes: X01, Cricket, Around the Clock, Missions, Around the World, Shanghai, High Score, Halve-It, Elimination, Rapid Fire, Killer, Bob’s 27, Radar and Blackout. Party games like Tic-Tac-Toe and drills like Checkout King are not available in tournaments. Each tournament uses one mode.
Legs, sets, handicaps?
Tournament matches are played in legs, from first to 1 up to first to 99. The final and the grand final can be longer. There are no sets or handicaps in tournaments, so every match starts level.
Do I need cameras?
No. You can tap each dart on the board on screen. With cameras the players just throw, which keeps a long tournament night moving.
We have three boards in one room. Can we play on all of them?
Yes, with online sign-up. Each board has its own device, and each player signs up from the board they play at. As with any online match, the devices need an internet connection to find each other. Matches then run on all boards at once, and the draw on the organizer’s device updates automatically.
What if I close the app during a tournament?
The tournament is saved in your browser, results included, and is there when you come back. Players in an online tournament are taken back to it too. A match in progress picks up where it stopped, as always in Sridu.
Do the players need an account?
No. A name is enough, typed in at your board or entered through the tournament link.
Can people follow the tournament without playing?
Yes, in an online tournament. Anyone who opens the tournament link sees the draw and the dashboard with the live matches, and players who are already out can keep watching. They cannot change anything.
A result was wrong, and later matches were already played. What now?
The organizer corrects it on the dashboard. Before the change counts, Sridu shows which later matches would be reset. Those are played again, and the activity log notes the correction for everybody.
Can we put the tournament on the TV in the club?
Yes. Open the dashboard on a device connected to the TV and tap Big screen. It shows the live matches, the draw and the figures in large type, with nothing to tap.
Four friends are enough for a darts tournament
Open Tournaments in the app, enter the names and start your darts tournament. Planning the whole evening around it? The darts party games guide has a running order. Playing on more than one board? Turn on online sign-up and send the link. New to online play? Read Play together.