So, if you’re organizing a knockout competition and want to assign also the bronze medal, you can do it so easily with Konkuri! From now onwards all bracket tournaments will have by default the third place game. You don’t even need to set it up.

The losing semi-finalists will be placed automatically in the third place match and you will just have to enter the game result.

Just in case you want not to have the match, go to the Draw/results page, click on the “setup tournament” button and choose the option “no” third place, as you can see in the image…

But, would you really take away an occasion for the losing semi-finalists to salvage some pride? ;-)

Have fun!

However, we noticed that some users used to create many tournaments with the very same name and a different sport in order to find out the right scoring system they needed. Now, this is no more necessary.

Indeed, from now onwards the tournament manager can customize the points for win/draw/loss as he likes, regardless of the sport or game he has chosen.

Tournament Setup
In your tournament site, the setup box will automatically show the league table “Points for” win/draw/loss, as you can see in the image. In this way everyone will be able to see the points assigned before entering any result.

How to change the default settings
In round robin leagues, go to the Tables page and click on the “configure tables” button. Then you will be able to enter the win/draw/loss points you prefer, as showed in the image.

In the groups + playoff leagues you will find this feature by clicking the “Setup group stage” button. Then, you can enter the new W/D/L values for all the groups.

We are sure this feature will help you manage your league or tournament more effectively!

This means that we will move from free-only to both free and paid services. The goal is to sustain the project and to deliver you the best service we can!

A brand new way of creating tournaments

From now onwards, a tournament will have 2 status:

	When you create a tournament it will be considered as “building”. A building tournament is meant to let you setup the schedule and the participants before the tournament starts. You can create unlimited building tournaments for free.

	FREE		PAY
	1 tournament at a time up to 8 participants. Same features of paid tournaments.		The price of a tournament is expressed in credits and depends on the number of participants. Take a look at our prices

We’ve introduced some new features too:

• Ad-free tournaments

  We’ve removed advertising from all tournaments. Soon we will give you the opportunity to publish your own sponsors.

• Organization profiles

  If you’re member of an organization (like a Sport association or a Tennis center) you can create a dedicated profile to publish and archive all your tournaments.

• 64 participants

  We’ve raised the limit of participants up to 64, to let you create bigger tournaments (for knockout and groups+playoff systems).

This isn’t just a big milestone for us, it’s also an important one for all of you, our users, who’ve helped us with word-of-mouth making Konkuri more and more popular.

We’re also rapidly growing our network globally. Konkuri is currently used in over 100 countries around the world, with Brazil leading the way.

Best of all, we’re just getting started! We’re working very hard on some great new features, starting from the ones you’ve suggested through our forum. Stay tuned for future updates!

The continuos increase of traffic on Konkuri has requested a more powerful server. That’s why recently we moved Konkuri to Amazon’s cloud computing platform.

The new server will allow us to scale the performance in real time according to the traffic. This means no more time-outs and a stable and secure service for you all.

Now in a couple of weeks, the MtB Selection Committee will choose the 7 startups (out of 15) that will go to the Silicon Valley Mtb Gym! Please, vote for Konkuri and help us win the competition!

It would be a great opportunity for us to learn from the best ones and to transfer this knowledge into Konkuri.

We’re very proud to announce that Konkuri has been selected as one of the 15 startups for the Mind the Bridge Venture Camp event!

This is so great! We’ll have another coaching session in October (in Pavia) and the opportunity to pitch at the Venture Camp event in November (Milan @ Corriere della Sera).

We’re really excited and look forward to these events!

If you are a tournament administrator, you can invite your players to connect to the competition. Just start typing his/her name in the text field. If he/she is already on Konkuri, just select the profile.

Otherwise, you can invite him/her by email.

The participants who accept the connection will:

• follow all tournament updates;
• have results on their profiles;
• get special authorizations to write on the dashboard.

The tournament will then become a little network where the communication between administrator and participants will become much easier and smarter.

At the moment, the feature is available for individual participants, but we’re developing it also for teams and it will be available by october.

Matteo did very well and we received warm greetings from the audience: lots of compliments and enthusiastic tweets. We’re now having interviews with some venture capitals that have shown interest in the project. Besides, we had the chance to meet other great startups guys and to share the same passion and pain.

Here you are the video of Konkuri presentation:

And the video of the following interview: