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Mini Knockout Rounds

There are many ways that leagues operate competitions. Some places allow a time period for players to arrange their own matches. Some have everyone in the same venue all at the same time. But some places arrange for a bunch of mini knockouts to take places at various tables and venues on what would be […]

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App Shortcuts

One of the pieces of feedback we get regularly is that they find it cumbersome to find the address they need to go to in order to login. In fact, we have enabled technology within RackEmApp for people to add the shortcut to their home screens so it behaves as if it were a native […]

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Referee Mode

There are times during the running of your season that you may wish to use official referees sanctioned by the league. This could be a high profile tournament match, a league match…. any type of match you need a league admin/committee member to indendently referee a match. It is also incredibly useful whn running competitions […]

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Streaming

RackEmApp has some functionality built in which allows streamers to add an “overlay” to their streams. These overlays can be used in many types of stream software that support a web page/URL overlay, but we have tested and proven it working in in StreamLabs and OBS. Additionally, we also support the use of StreamDeck via […]

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Sponsors

Having sponsors for your league is a great way to either fund the use of RackEmApp, your trophies or anything else that you can think of. At RackEmApp we will never implement our own Ad schemes, so Sponsors are a good way of you selling advertising space where you retain all the revenue. Sponsorship is […]

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The Pool League Platform

RackEmApp is the new web platform that will automate the running of your pool league and competitions, saving you hundreds of hours of time each year whilst offering a premium experience with live scores and real time data. Our mobile friendly web application allows you to fully operate your pool league from the palm of […]

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Pages

Every league needs to run some form of basic content which Teams and Players need to be able to access. This could be your league rules, your league constitution, bylaws, about your committee, an FAQ page… Any number of different reasons. RackEmApp provides a basic content management system to allow you to operate pages like […]

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Online Payments with Stripe

One of the more administratively difficult parts of running a pool league is handling cash. Whether its team registrations or competition entries, having to handle that cash, issue a receipt and bank and account for it makes being a treasurer a chore. Not to mention that society is moving more and more towards being cashless […]

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Player IDs

When we set out to build RackEmApp, it was with the view that a player could own their own profile, and reuse that profile in any other league that also uses RackEmApp. One of the challenges with this approach is how do you identify a player? How many John Smiths are there in pool leagues […]

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Competitions

Running a pool league isn’t easy. In fact, its quite difficult! In most cases committees are volunteer led, by a few dedicated people putting in a lot of effort just to make pool night happen. And a lot goes into that which many captain’s and players sometimes don’t appreciate. One of those areas is the […]