How Ranks Arena works
A complete guide to how arena owners, athletes and referees use the platform day to day, from the first tournament to the final match report.
Ranks Arena connects three profiles on a single track: organizers (arena and training center owners), competitors (athletes) and officials (referees). Each has its own experience, but the underlying data — scores, brackets and rankings — is the same for everyone, updated in real time.
For arena owners and training centers
Ranks Arena was built for anyone who runs tournaments and training sessions regularly and is tired of managing everything in spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups. Here's the full flow:
1. Register your arena
Create a free account, enter your name, the sports you offer, your address and opening hours. Your public arena profile becomes searchable immediately.
2. Create a tournament
Set the sport and the number of teams or pairs, and pick a format: single elimination, double elimination, round robin, groups followed by knockout, swiss, league with playoffs, home-and-away, king of the beach, or ladder.
3. Manage registrations
Approve or decline athlete requests to join your arena, build the teams, and let the platform generate the tournament bracket automatically for the chosen format.
4. Follow and update live
Update scores in real time during matches. Spectators follow the bracket and tournament progress from any device, with no page refresh needed.
5. Automatic rankings
Link tournaments to a season-based or ongoing ranking. Positions are recalculated automatically after every result, based on wins, differential and points.
Supported tournament formats
Single elimination, double elimination, round robin, groups followed by knockout, swiss, league with a playoff stage, home-and-away, king of the beach, and ladder — the platform generates the bracket automatically for any of these, including tie-breaks and third place where applicable.
For athletes
If you play at one or several arenas, Ranks Arena brings your entire sporting history together in one place.
Find arenas and tournaments
Use search to find arenas by sport and location, and see active tournaments and rankings before even creating an account.
Request to join an arena
Create your athlete account and request to join the arenas where you play. Once approved, you can be entered into that arena's tournaments and rankings.
A public profile with your history
Your profile brings together titles, placements in each tournament, your position in each ranking, and win/loss stats — a sports portfolio you can share.
For referees
Referees don't need to create an account on the platform. The arena owner generates a unique digital match-report link for each match or tournament and shares it with the referee in charge.
Link-based access, no sign-up
Opening the received link already shows the referee the teams, the match format and the fields needed to fill in the report — straight from their phone, during the game.
Digital match report
Record the score, sets and notes for the match. Once confirmed, the result automatically updates the tournament bracket and, where applicable, the linked ranking.
Ready to run your first tournament?
Create your free account and see how simple it is to digitize your arena.