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Player DeDuplication

One of the things that tends to happen for a variety of different reasons is that player data gets duplicated. Some of these are system generated and usually related to drafted online team registrations. Some of them however are not, and we talk about those later in the article. We have produced a tool which […]

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July 2023 Newsletter

Hi there! Summer is in full swing, and if like me you have small kids of school age, the next 6 weeks are about to become challenging as you try and keep them occupied during the day without maiming themselves or each other. It’s the summer holidays that make me thankful for them going to […]

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Timer

One of the things that most leagues need is quick and easy access to a decent shot clock and match timer. We’ve now made one that will run as a standalone, but also, as a remote timer for use with the in-venue technology. But more on that later. It supports the following: To access it, […]

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Custom Menu Items

We were recently asked to be able to extend the content management side of things so that you can add your own menu items in, which is very useful if you want to highlight something and make it easier for your users to reach. You can reach it in Content Management> Custom Menu Items You […]

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Newsletter June 2023

Well, summer is finally here, and anyone thats tried to play in some of the sweatbox venues that are about will probably be cursing it as mush as I am. But to paraphrase Chris Melling on Ultimate Pool Commentary this month, I’d still rather lose than wear a glove. We’ve been really busy this month and are […]

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Online Entry for Competitions and Competition Series

One of the most difficult parts of administering and running a competition is keeping track of entries, and most importantly, keeping track of monies taken. RackEmApp allows you now to automate and systemise those manual lists by allowing your players to enter competitions themselves and also pay for those entries. Each Competition or Competition Series […]

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Competition Series

Have you ever wanted to run a Tour of competitions, which automatically scored and ranked the competitors automatically? In RackEmApp, now you can! Accessible via the Competitions menu, you can now create unlimited Series/Tours, with unlimited Events/Competitions and unlimited Competitors. Competitors can enter for the whole tour, or for single competitions within the tour, and […]

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Newsletter May 2023

May has been an interesting month at RackEmApp. It seems more often than not that what I plan to do ends up taking a few twists and turns along the way… but all for the right reasons! Following a massive push in in-venue technology throughout May, we started talking to 6 leagues about implementing RackEmApp […]

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The RackEmApp API

Modern cloud systems rely on them, and now we have one. Sort of. The foundations of one anyway! There are multiple reasons why in the future you might want to extract data from RackEmApp into a 3rd party system. APIs allow this to happen. The RackEmApp API is in Beta and whilst every care has been taken […]

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Sets Matches

Another growing match format that is gaining popularity is matches that are based upon “Sets” – as in, 3 x race to 5s, with the winner being the person that wins the most sets. Which means theoretically the person winning the most frames may not be the match winner! In RackEmApp, we now support this […]