Tournament director, running
Run a world-class
ultimate tournament.
Most college tournaments are run by a sophomore who has never done it before, learning by getting it wrong in public. 175g is a tournament director that already knows. Start talking — it does the work with you, from the first field email to the archive you hand the next TD.
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How it works
You talk. It builds.
Say what you want to run
A school and a rough month is enough. The agent asks for the next thing that unblocks the next thing — one decision at a time, never a questionnaire.
It does the work
Records the facts, builds the plan and the budget, drafts the field email and the bid announcement, generates a USAU-compliant schedule. Nothing sends without your approval.
Your whole team is in
Co-organisers run it with you. Staff enter scores from the field. Alumni advisors see everything, change nothing, and leave notes. Next year starts from a template of this year.
Coverage
The whole tournament.
Dates and fields
Finds the weekend that survives the season window, competing bids, and finals. Then finds the person at campus rec or the parks department who actually controls the fields — by name.
Sanctioning and insurance
USA Ultimate sanctioning if you want it, certificates of insurance for the university, waivers, rosters, the medical plan, the weather plan. The paperwork that gates everything else.
Budget and bid fee
A real budget from the TD Manual's own categories, break-even at every attendance level, and a fee priced so two teams dropping doesn't come out of your pocket.
Teams
Target lists three times the size of your field, bid announcements, applications, a waitlist weighted toward local teams, and the payment chase you'd rather not do.
Sponsors and swag
Local sponsors for cash or product — 300 hungry athletes is the pitch. Discs, jerseys, Nalgenes, stickers, ordered before the lead time bites.
Format and schedule
USAU-compliant pools, published seeding tables, brackets, and the nine-rule tiebreak procedure. Regenerated in seconds when a team drops on Thursday.
Gameday
Score reporting from the field by Telegram, live standings, weather calls with a pre-decided degradation order, and the hour-by-hour runbook.
Memory
Every contact, vendor, cost, and mistake written down and handed to next year's TD. Save the whole thing as a template and the next program starts from your work.
Grounding
It isn't improvising.
Built on the USA Ultimate Tournament Director Manual and the UPA Manual of Championship Series Tournament Formats. Pools are seeded from the published tables rather than naive snaking, so bracket matchups don't repeat pool play. Nobody plays more than nine games in two days. Ties break by the nine-rule procedure, verified against the manual's own worked examples.
It also isn't theoretical. In 2001 the UPA — now USA Ultimate — brought its author out to headquarters to teach their staff the frameworks for organising tournaments at the professional level. He also founded Don't Give Up the Disc, now in its 26th year and one of the best beach tournaments in the world.
Open source
Fork it. Improve it. Run your own.
175g is AGPL-3.0. Read the code, self-host it for your league, or send a pull request — the format engine and the tiebreak procedure especially deserve more eyes. If you run a modified version as a service, the licence asks that you share those changes back.