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The APPA Tournament System does much more than classify players.
Are you:
- Spending hours doing the schedule for your events?
- Wanting to email all of your players, but don't have an email list?
- Tired of trying to read handwriting on waivers?
- Unable to tell if rosters are legal, and thus unable to respond to player complaints about sandbagging?
- Spending hours answering the phone to process entry fees, or respond to teams who want to know if you got their check?
- Unable to accept online payments, allowing your teams to pay anytime, from anywhere?
- Losing money because you have to accept checks close to the event date that bounce when you deposit them?
- At risk of legal damages because you are unable to tell if all your players have signed waivers?
The APPA Tournament System is the complete, integrated tool that solves these and many more problems for the Tournament Promoter.
What does the APPA Registraion System do for you?
- Classify your players, based on participation in ALL leagues using the APPA system
- Automatically check each player's classification against over 110,000 participation records
- Set your own classification rules for your league
- Let players see the rosters of all teams playing your event online
- Automatically verify that team rosters meet classification rules
- Allow teams to sign up and complete their rosters online
- Accept payment online 24 hours a day, by credit card or eCheck, through PayPal or Authorize.net
- Provides receipts to your customers online
- Automatically notify teams the instant their payment is received
- Schedule your event, flexibly, with no byes, for any number of teams, fields, divisions, or days, in seconds
- Print a schedule of games for each team, and let teams look up their games online as soon as the event is scheduled
- Preprint team waivers with your waiver language and each player's Name, Address, Phone and other information - players just sign
- Preprint numbered scoresheets with each team's name
- Electronically process, verify, and display scores, at your event and on the internet, instantly
- Reclassify or Suspend players, and automatically track and enforce those changes
- Automatically compute, track and publish season standings
- Automatically use season standings to seed teams into events
- Collect, track and process player information like email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses
- Automatically increase entry fees as the event date approaches
- Print event passes including player name, ID number, team name, and any other information
- Accept payment for and track ID cards that you print
- Accept payment for, track, and receive ID cards printed by APPA (extra fee)
- Protect your player information - only you can see private information (email, phone, etc) for your players.
From player signup to scheduling to automated series point tracking, the APPA system automates all of the mundane tasks facing the tournament promoter, saving you massive amounts of time and preventing potentially devastating human errors in the sheduling and scoring process.
The Best System for PAINTBALL
There are plenty of other registration systems out there, for camping, or youth soccer, or conventions, but the APPA system is the only paintball tournament registration system designed from the ground-up as a paintball tournament system! A youth soccer league system can't tell the difference between a Rookie or a Pro paintball player, and it doesn't have over 50,000 player histories to draw from. Don't let someone tell you you need a youth soccer program when you're running a paintball tournament!
Get Access to Paintball Tournament Promotion Experience
APPA staff have years of tournament promotions experience, from 6-team local events to the largest paintball tournament on the planet, World Cup. Whether your event has 5 teams or 250, you know that APPA has been there and done that, and we're happy to share our experience with you! Want help updating your classification rules? Not sure how many fields you need for the number of teams you have? APPA has answers to those questions and more!
What does it cost?
The power of the APPA Tournament System is available to your league for a low fee, based on team size.
- 3-man: $9 per team per event
- 5-man: $15 per team per event
- 7-man: $21 per team per event
Fees include all of the APPA Tournament System features. There are extra charges if you would like APPA to print ID cards for you, but using the APPA system's tools to print cards yourself is free. You currently need Microsoft Excel to print waivers and scoresheets, and you will need some form of an internet connection at the event location to do computerized scoring. A phone line is sufficient.
How does it work?
- Link your website to your league's signup page on APPA. Example Page for Paintball Sports Promotions
- Players sign up for ID numbers - Your league is given a link for players to sign up for an ID number. This link is unique to your league, and marks all players that sign up through it as affiliated with your league. The system makes sure players only have one ID number, through a set of automated checks plus frequent manual audits.
- A player signs up for your event - You receive a link that links directly to the signup page for your tournaments. Clicking on this link brings players to a list of your future events. They select an event and log in their team (or create a team if they do not have one.) Once logged in, they select the division they want to play, and can complete their rosters. Once they submit this form, the team is added to the team list for the event, where their payment status and roster are visible.
- Teams update their rosters - At anytime before the registration close date, teams may log into their roster and change it.
- Teams pay online - By going to the team list, teams can check their payment status, and if not paid, click on the payment button to pay online with a credit card or eCheck through PayPal (easy setup for anyone) or Authorize.net (slightly lower fees).
- Schedule Your Event - You use the league interface menu to do your event schedule, print waivers and scoresheets, and enter completed scoresheets online!
What do I need to do?
To get started with the APPA system, we'll need your Name, League Name, address, phone number and email address, league website address, league's classification rules (you can also use the same rules as any other league using the system), and information on how you would like to process online payments (either your paypal email address, or your Authorize.net information).
If you wish to use Paypal to process online payments, you will need to log into your paypal account, enter your account profile, and change the "Instant Payment Notification Settings" to enabled, with a URL of http://www.paintball-players.org/cgi-bin/IPN.cgi
Although we often list new leagues in under 24 hours, please allow up to two weeks for your league to be listed, especially if you would like different classification rules for your league. Once your league is listed, however, you can add new events to your calendar at any time, instantly, through the league interface menu!
