Create your account
Allow three minutes, including one round trip by email.
On the home page, click “Join Poolscore”, then the “Sign up” tab. You'll need an email address, a password and the anti-bot checkbox. A confirmation email follows: the account only becomes active once you click the link. Check your spam folder if it doesn't arrive.
The first time you log in, a profile screen appears. Only the nickname is required — the photo, town, club and playing style can wait.
Before you start
Password reset isn't available yet. Write your password down in your password manager or your notebook: right now, a lost password means a lost account.
Link your club
Your club is probably already listed: the directory covers 1,264 French clubs.
In the “Clubs” tab, search for yours and open its page. If nobody manages it yet, a panel saying “This club has no manager yet” offers to let you claim it. State your role in the club and send the request: it is reviewed by hand, within 48 working hours.
Your club isn't in the list? Use “Create a club” from the same tab. The page is created and you become its manager once the request is approved.
Don't get stuck here
You don't need to manage a club to run a tournament. Creating a “standalone event” is open to everyone, right away. Linking to a club is what powers the public club page, the table schedule and the championships — not play itself.
Import your Cuescore tournaments
A finished tournament comes across by pasting its address.
On your club page: “Manage” tab → “Integrations” → “Import from Cuescore”. Open the tournament on cuescore.com, copy the address from the browser bar, paste it in, then start the import.
The bracket, the scores and the groups are recreated exactly as they were, and the tournament shows up with an “Imported from Cuescore” badge.
| Item | Imported | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Bracket and scores | Yes | Full bracket, groups included |
| Name, discipline, date | Yes | Race to and elimination type included |
| Player accounts | No | Players appear by name only, with no account attached |
| Elo rating, statistics | No | Follows from the point above |
| Several tournaments at once | No | One at a time, and finished tournaments only |
What this means in practice
An imported tournament is a faithful archive: ideal for keeping a record of a season and filling out the club's public page. What it does not do is feed your players' statistics, since their Poolscore accounts don't exist yet. Your rankings therefore start from the tournaments you play here.
Gather your players
This is the step to plan ahead — the only one that depends on the others.
To enter someone in a tournament, they need a Poolscore account. Tell your members before the day itself rather than in the room: creating an account requires an email confirmation, which doesn't lend itself to improvising at 8pm around a table.
The easiest route: from the club page, “Invite members” generates a link to send to your WhatsApp or Messenger group. Each person creates an account, joins the club, and you then find them in the player search.
Current limitation
You can't yet add a guest player (with no account) to a tournament — that only works in a friendly match. For a tournament, count on one account per entrant.
Create the tournament
Five settings are enough to get an evening under way.
“Tournaments” tab → “Create a tournament”. Fill in the name, the discipline (8-ball, 9-ball, snooker, carom, blackball, heyball and so on), the format — single elimination, double elimination, round robin or Swiss system — the race to and the date.
Add the entrants using the player search, then hit “Generate the bracket”. If the number of players isn't a power of two, byes are spread out automatically: with 5, 6 or 12 players, the bracket fills itself in.
Useful but optional settings
- Open entries: players sign themselves up from the tournament page.
- Age category: restricts the tournament to an age band (juniors, seniors). Players need to have entered their year of birth in their profile.
- Rule set: official variant (WPA, winner breaks and so on) applied to the scoring of every match.
- Handicap: the club's handicap lists, to even out mixed standards.
Score on the night
Three ways to enter scores, depending on your kit.
- From your phone — open the match in the bracket and enter the frames. The simplest way to start.
- One tablet per table — pair the tablet with a table once and for all: it automatically loads the match assigned to it, then the next one. Several tables run in parallel without treading on each other.
- A screen for the room — TV mode shows the matches in progress in large format, on rotation.
Is the venue's wifi poor?
Install Poolscore as an app (the “Install” banner in the app, or “Share → Add to Home Screen” on iPhone). A friendly match can be scored entirely offline: scores queue up and sync as soon as the network is back.
Share the results
The bracket is public: nobody needs an account to follow it.
From the tournament page, “Share” gives you a link to the live bracket — paste it on your Facebook page or in the club group. Spectators watch the scores update. “Print” produces a clean PDF to put up in the room.
When the tournament closes, the podium is published automatically in the club news, and every player's Elo rating is recalculated.
For clubs that stream
An overlay for OBS or Twitch is available: scores and bracket superimposed on the picture, updated live. The settings are on the tournament page, in the streaming section.
What comes next
What brings players back between tournaments.
- Club championship — several legs across the season, a cumulative table, configurable points.
- Table schedule — your members book an hour-long slot; you see the whole week at a glance.
- Club news — results publish themselves there; you can add your own announcements.
- Weekly digest — a “your club this week” email goes out on Friday, only if something actually happened.
- Inter-club challenges — a team from your club against another, with an aggregated team score.