Bracket vs Tourney Bot

Bracket is a free, open-source tournament system for creating events, scheduling matches, tracking scores, and publishing rankings. It supports single-elimination, round-robin, and Swiss formats, with multiple stages and groups or brackets in a tournament. Organizers can move matches between courts or change their start times; Swiss tournaments can schedule matches dynamically based on earlier results. Teams and players can be added or updated individually or uploaded from CSV files. Users can create multiple clubs, each with multiple tournaments. Public dashboard pages show schedules and rankings and can be customized with a logo. Bracket also offers live scoreboards and a REST API, with public specifications in ReDoc and Swagger UI. It runs on web, Linux, and self-hosted setups, and can be deployed using Docker Compose. The project says it collects no analytics data. Its configuration documentation says production registration is currently disabled while the project remains in beta.

Tourney Bot lets communities run and manage tournaments inside a Discord server, keeping tournament activity there rather than relying on external hosting sites. Admins configure an event, publish an entry portal, register participants, start play, and score matches in match threads. Players can use the portal to register, spectate, or leave. Supported formats include single and double elimination, round robin, Swiss, group stages, FFA, and Race. Team tournaments let captains register teams and provide team names and rosters. Admins can create, import, update, and delete tournament templates, and servers can link tournaments to leaderboards to track players competing for first place. A free plan allows three tournaments per month and up to eight participants. Paid plans start at $1.99 per month, with participant limits that vary by tier and reach 512 on White. Documentation points users to email support and a Discord community, while paid tiers list priority support. The terms require users to be at least 13, with minors supervised by a parent or adult.