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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 […]

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Shared Venues

Given that RackEmApp is a global platform designed for multiple uses, it seems sensible to allow Venues to be shared or owned by organizations themselves. Take a pool club for example. The pool club could be fully equiped with stream kit, tablet scoring and arena screens. But the venue themselves may not run their league. […]

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Team and Player Data Import

In order to make the transition to RackEmApp easier, we have created a data import tool that will import your teams, players and venues as part of the Season Wizard (and only via the Season Wizard) When you reach the Teams section of the wizard there is a button for Import Data which will open […]

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Reducing Shot Clock

There are certain types of matches nowadays which make use of reduced shot clock when a match clock reaches a certain point. Ultimate Pool use this format and was preceded by the Taom Shootout. For Competitions and Challenges Matches, we can now support this type of match, and can also be displayed on the Arena […]

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Tournament Director

We’ve added a new role permission for leagues to implement if they choose to called “Tournament Director”. This mode allows you to assign a Tournament Director that does not have administrative rights over the rest of the league or other peoples competitions. So Director A could look after the Singles tournament, and Director B could […]