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5 Tips to Get Better at Chess

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:52:57 +0530

No one wants to be stuck at one particular thing. Life not just becomes boring but the absence of improvement also leads to a monotonous livelihood that no one desires.

When it comes to sports, self-improvement is the #1 requirement. You cannot just keep on being a novice or a beginner. You will have to enhance your skills and evolve with each step you learn.

This post focuses on tips and quint essentials for a Chess enthusiast. Techniques keep changing; and as a beginner if you don’t keep yourself updated, you are bound to lag behind in the game.

Here are some of the best tips to help you get better at Chess.

Before choosing an app or management software, you must double check if the software meets the requirements of a sports event.

The software must have an easy and automated registration system.
Payment must be as easy as a click of a button
The scheduling tools offered must be robust as well as very effective
Must be able to schedule and update event dates. The same must be sent out to players via email or other means of communication.
Must offer easy integration with excel ore similar systems to take down team player names effectively.

Once you have shortlisted the sport registration software of your choice, look for other important features (besides easy registration) like the ones listed below;

1) Security

The payment gateway must be totally safe. And also, the player data must never be disclosed.

2) Performance Tracker

The software must be able to track and update a player’s performance and compare him against various factors to determine his efficacy and diligence.

3) Easy Delegation

The software must allow easy delegation of roles and responsibilities within a team. This feature helps keep a team coordinated and well organized.

4) 24/7 Customer Support

Make sure that the software you choose must be willing to offer a strong customer support, either via chat or mail. Primary support is essential to learn the software basics and navigational features.

PLAYINGA is a free tournament management software that has all the above-mentioned functionalities incorporated within its system.

Sign up with a sport management software only if you are satisfied with all the features offered. Finally, towards the end of the day, it is you who is going to organize a game. So, make a wise choice!

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What is the Best Tournament Registration Software?

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:05:52 +0530

Organizing and managing a tournament is not a kid’s play. It requires a lot of admin work and let alone the paperwork involved in it. To make things easy, there are numerous tournament registration software that help organize and track a sports event without having to worry about traditional paperwork and administration.

What to look for in a Tournament Registration Software?

Before choosing an app or management software, you must double check if the software meets the requirements of a sports event.

The software must have an easy and automated registration system.
Payment must be as easy as a click of a button
The scheduling tools offered must be robust as well as very effective
Must be able to schedule and update event dates. The same must be sent out to players via email or other means of communication.
Must offer easy integration with excel ore similar systems to take down team player names effectively.

Once you have shortlisted the sport registration software of your choice, look for other important features (besides easy registration) like the ones listed below;

1) Security

The payment gateway must be totally safe. And also, the player data must never be disclosed.

2) Performance Tracker

The software must be able to track and update a player’s performance and compare him against various factors to determine his efficacy and diligence.

3) Easy Delegation

The software must allow easy delegation of roles and responsibilities within a team. This feature helps keep a team coordinated and well organized.

4) 24/7 Customer Support

PLAYINGA is a free tournament management software that has all the above-mentioned functionalities incorporated within its system.

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What is the best badminton tournament software?

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:44:23 +0530

Gone are the days when you had to spend months arranging meetings, planning out the sports venue, recording the team registrations and preparing for a complete tournament. Organizing a badminton tournament or any other sports event is as simple as a click of a keyboard button.

Features to Look for in a Badminton Tournament Software:

There are many softwares out there in the market that offer great sports management services. But what sets a usual management software apart from the best badminton tournament software is its ability to have all the managerial features integrated into one system. The following features would give you an idea as to what you must expect while looking for the best badminton Tournament software.

1)Prepare Game Schedules

Preparing schedules for courts, groups or divisions is made easier with a management software. You will have time to focus on more important things while the software gets all the game schedules prepared in a few seconds.

2)Creating Teams and Divisions

You can now skip the tiresome task of managing huge record notes of teams and players. Instead of having to manually note down names and preparing team divisions, the badminton tournament software will help you record names of teams and players easily.

3)Track Scores Online

A great tournament software allows you to automatically keep scores and publish score updates frequently. Some of the best badminton tournament softwares in India offer live scoreboards too.

4) Player Data and Performance Chart

If the app allows you to update and view player data and also tracks & records the performance of a player over a period of time, then the software is definitely worth your money and time spent.

5) 24/7 Customer Support

PLAYINGA is a free tournament management software that has all the above-mentioned functionalities incorporated within its system. It offers an end-to-end solution to create and manage tournaments; from registrations and revenue collection to scheduling, scoring and analyzing performance.

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What is the best tournament software in the market?

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:38:10 +0530

Sports is one such thing that is loved by all irrespective of age and gender. You wouldn’t find even one person mumbling about his dislike for sports /games (but yes, exceptions do exist!). While some like playing it, others like watching it and there’s a unique section of people who love organizing games or tournaments. Whatsoever the entertainment industry may have changed with its varied range of programs, playing and watching sports continues to remain everyone’s #1 favorite.

With so many local tournaments, individual sport leagues and matches being conducted every month, managing it has not just become tedious but has also become nearly impossible to follow up. Given the huge process involved in organizing and managing a league or tournament, it is obvious that you may have to rely upon an automated system or software to take a major part of the burden off your shoulders.

The Key Features That Define The Best Tournament Software:

While choosing a tournament management software, you should look for the following functionalities:

Hassle – Free Registrations; preferably remote or online registrations.
Quick an easy to update software. The interface must be easy to use.
Financial and statistical reports on matches, players and teams.
Easy Communication system within the team.
Automated Reminder setting functions like sending out match dates, recurring dues etc.…
Highly Secure in all aspects.

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What is the best tennis tournament software?

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:20:17 +0530

Every game has a rule and so does tennis. From recording stance and shots to maintaining scores and registrations, the game involves a range of record-keeping like all other international sports. With the increasing number of tennis tournaments being organized, traditional management of sports has not only become difficult but nearly impossible to follow and maintain.

Especially when you are an individual player wanting to exhibit your caliber in the sport and track your personal performance in correlation with strict sports rules, then relying on a tennis tournament management software is the best option.

Playinga is a perfect tennis tournament software that removes the tedious backend work associated with organizing and managing a tennis match. Be it playing an individual match or organizing an informal friendly match, this free software allows you to register players, maintain scores, and publish results all in one place. Playinga offers a lucid design and an easy interface that makes organizing multiple matches seem quite simple.

Tennis Tournament Features offered by PLAYINGA

Playinga offers everything you need to organize your tennis tournament and this section explains the various features offered by the software.

1. Easy Registration

You can add players and new players can register online without having to queue up. Since there is no paperwork involved, the information is very accurate and the players can enjoy the benefit of registering from the comfort of their homes.

2. Score Keeping

You can update and publish scores right from the field. The Playinga Software has a built-in scoring engine that enforces sport-specific scoring rules, thus preventing errors while keeping scores. You can totally forget about using traditional paper scorecards hereafter!

3. Multi Venue Scheduling

Playinga allows you to schedule matches across multiple venues and your match gets allotted based on the availability of slots on those venues.

4. Track Performance

The software has an excellent performance tracking ability. It correlates several factors involved in a sport and puts together a comparison report that helps organizers analyze a match and allows individual team players to track their personal sporting growth.

5. Delegating Roles

Giving out orders and delegating roles to your organizing team becomes very effective with Playinga.

The other key features include Updating teams and players about match reschedules through email, Maintaining Activity Feed from players, teams and fans, Easy payment methods, Easy interface to Communicate & Coordinate and much more.

It is better to try and believe rather than theoretically learning about the software. PLAYINGA is absolutely free of cost so create an account and see for yourself.

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Benefits of Using a Sports Management Software

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:07:52 +0530

Gone are the days when sports and team match had to be documented in hard-covered huge books. Technology has not just spared us the horror of maintaining traditional paperwork but it has also allowed us to manage a range of documentations, relevant to sports, in one place.

Organizing and managing a sports event is not that easy these days. You have a whole lot of chores to manage all-at-once. If you are to use traditional management methods, then you are bound to face coordination issues, delay in tracking performance, and may sometimes even miss out important registrations.

Why is it important to choose a sports league software?

Using the right sports management software will help avoid a lot of unnecessary stress and confusions. All you got to so is to research for a tournament management software that handles registration, payment records, performance tracking, etc… without much hassle.

You started organizing sports for the love of it; don’t make it be the reason to start disliking your work altogether. Start using an effective online sports club management system right away! If you still have problem considering this option, then take a look at some of the major benefits of using a sports Management Software;

1) Save Time

The key to saving time, when it comes to sports, is to stay organized. It will take ages to find a lost coin in a cluttered room. Similarly, managing a sports event and tracking performance would become chaotic and time consuming if not organized properly. A good online tournament management software will help you avoid wasting time by allowing to keep your event well organized.

2) Hassle-Free Registrations

Registration of teams and participants can be carried out within a fraction of seconds. No long queues and no heavy paperwork required. The information is more accurate and participants enjoy the advantage of registering from the comfort of their homes.

3) Payment & Revenue Management

Even if you are organizing sports events out of passion, improper payment or lack of incentives will make you feel demotivated in the long run. League management software gets you paid earlier through online payments. So, you do not have to fear about remaining unpaid for an event.

4) Easy Access to Information

Both organizers and teams have access to all data and reports in one place. Using a software allows everyone to communicate and coordinate better.

Apart from these key advantages, an effective sports management software like Playinga offers a range of benefits including efficient scheduling of Leagues, easy facility management like field allocation and parking details, data security with controlled access, and much more.

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5 Essential features a tournament software should have

Sat, 11 May 2019 13:51:21 +0530

When you conduct tournaments in a medium to large scale, it’s always better to have a tournament software which will manage your tournament end to end. We have conducted several tournaments in the past and have also interacted with few tournament organisers. A tournament is just not an interaction between players, it’s a complex interaction between tournament organisers, venue managers, event managers, referees, scorers, commentators, spectators and ultimately players. When you have all these people from various fields, it becomes important to manage the entire process seamlessly and efficiently. Hence choosing a right tournament software becomes crucial.

Any event within a tournament can be classified as a “Process” and an “Interaction”. Scoring a game is a process while playing on the field is an interaction. An ideal tournament software should reduce the stress imposed on an organiser by “Process” and should be able to automate it. Here is our take on 5 essential features a tournament software should have.

1. A Dedicated Tournament Page

Every tournament deserves a special recognition as it’s a culmination of players and professionals. A dedicated tournament page on the tournament software makes your tournament more search friendly and should also help organisers manage the information in one place.

The dedicated tournament page should contain all the details of the tournament such as tournament name, description, sport, divisions, enrollment date, start and end dates etc.

2: Manage Online & On-Spot Registrations

Managing registrations for a tournament is a tough task. There can be registrations via phone, personal visits to the club, online and finally on-the-spot registrations. Having to use pen-paper and manage all registrations and payments is a hassle.

Your online tournament software should be capable enough to manage all these registrations.

3: Generate fixtures automatically for various formats

Generally, in a tournament, there are 3 major formats – Round Robin, Knock Outs and Group PlayOffs. In a round robin format, each player faces every other opponent. There could be one or multiple rounds. The player or team with maximum winning points is the tournament winner. In a knock out format, a player faces an opponent and only the winner proceeds to the next level. In a group playoff format, players are split into groups and a round robin is conducted within the group. The top N players are chosen from each group and the winner complete with each other in a knockout match. A tournament software should generate fixtures online automatically and keep track of the winners.

4: Score matches online and publish tournament results

Scores and Statistics is what makes a tournament more exciting. While amateur and youth sports may not need extensive scoring needs, professional sport does. If your tournament software has in built sport specific scoring like PLAYINGA a lot of effort in showing data about participants can be done automatically. This will help other players to analyze the best players in the tournament and plan better for their next games. This feature could be a game changer as an organizer to show off the professionalism in running your tournament. The stats can also be a great take away for participants.

5: Share photos and track player statistics

Ultimately, tournaments are fun, whether you are an organiser or a player – it’s the same feeling for both. The tournament software should celebrate the success of it and give players and organisers a platform to share some of the amazing moments with all fans and players.

How to organize a football tournament

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:15:41 +0530

Organising a football tournament is no more a hassle. In the 21st century, with the mobile in your hand a network in the air, everything is possible. Its possible to organize a perfect tournament with less paperwork and stress-free. In this blog, we shall discover how we can make your football tournament easier with playinga.

In a typical tournament, there are just 4 basic questions we need to answer – What, When, Where, How and How Much.

The What

In this section, the organiser answers certain questions like what tournament to conduct. The organiser has to choose the sport and the type of the tournament. In a soccer tournament, the organiser selects the sport and the format such as knock out, round robin and group+playoffs. This decides the type of the tournament forms the basis for all the underlying questions. The format of the tournament decides how long the tournament will go on and how many teams does the organiser need to accommodate to make the tournament a successful one. In PLAYINGA, it easy to schedule a tournament as it supports all these three formats.

KEY TAKEAWAY

Choose the format – knockout, round robin, group playoffs.
Decide on the number of teams you can accommodate.

The When

If you are a tournament organiser, the date of the match is crucial. This is also dependent on the number of teams expected to participate in the tournament. The number of teams and formats of the tournament decides the number of days required and the slot of each match. This will help the team to plan better for the tournament. An ideal tournament takes place on leisure days such as Saturdays or Sundays. This is encouraged often because you could have players who have day jobs, you could have kid tournaments and you want their parents to be there cheering for their kids. Once the day is finalised, you draw fixtures and let the team know about their match schedule. Generate fixtures automatically with an online tool and let the team be notified of their upcoming matches.

KEY TAKEAWAY

Choose a day when you can attract maximum participation from players and fans.
Set up an online tool to enable online registration. This will give you an exact count with the list of teams and players.
Use automated tools to generate your fixtures and notify teams beforehand so that they plan better.

The Where

Deciding on a location can be a crucial and laborious task sometimes. The place should be decided based on the number of teams you are willing to accommodate. The place should not be far for everyone to travel and at the same ensure you have enough parking spaces for your players, fans and friends. Having an online page to track registration helps you keep a track of influx to your tournament. With the social media revolution, choose a ground which looks good and convenient to all. The picture you post about the tournament tells a lot about how it is being organised. The size of the ground or stadium is decided based on the age group of teams, number of fan following, and friends of each of the players.

KEY TAKEAWAY

Have an online registration tool to keep track of your influx. This will help you decide how you can manage the venue better.
Select a ground which is convenient to all – in terms of distance from residential areas.
With active social media everywhere, choose a ground which could be managed easily without hassle. Pictures taken at the tournament venue conveysa lot about how well the event is managed.

The How

In this section, we need to address how each and every match will be conducted and managed efficiently. In a tournament, we will have many matches being played one after another and the success of a tournament depends on how well its managed. Managing a football tournament end-to-end consists of registration, fixture generations, match scheduling scoring and publishing results. Tracking all these aspects on a paper can become tough. It’s not just games but also involves logistics, refreshments and managing the crowd. Such activities can be classified into two – the ones which require personal attention and the ones which can be outsourced to a technology to handle it. Managing refreshments and fans require personal care. However, generation of fixtures, scoring matches on a paper can be automated with a tool which could be used to capture the scores and publish results.

KEY TAKEAWAY

Managing a tournament can be split into two tasks – ones which require personal care such as refreshments, fans, security, cleanliness and player’s need, and others which can be automated.
Focus on personal care activities and see if you can automate certain tasks such as recording scores, generating fixtures to an automated system.

The How Much

Every event has its own expenditure. As an organiser, you need to manage it wisely. Generally, tournaments are conducted using funds from club membership fee, donations, selling tickets etc. However certain open tournaments are conducted for non-members too where the public can reach out, register and play in a tournament. Such tournaments incur a registration fee. Manage your costing efficiently so that you don’t spend more than the budgeted amount.

KEY TAKEAWAY

Budget correctly. Have little buffer
Don’t exceed your budget.
Manage fee collections, registration fee, ticketing all on one platform which directly transfers the amount to your account.

Important Tips to Strengthen Your Bones

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 03:30:30 +0530

Sports involving weight-bearing activities improve the quality of bones. High impact sports such as volleyball or odd-impact sports such as soccer, badminton are associated with higher Bone Mineral Density. Optimise your kid’s bone health by encouraging them to play a variety of high impact and odd-impact sports to maintain overall bone health. Here are some important tips to strengthen your bones.

Bones is a living mineralised matrix of calcium, phosphate and other biological elements. Calcium and phosphates in bones confer strength to its structure. Studies have shown that the Bone Mineral Content or BMC increases 40 fold from birth till adulthood, peaking when the person is in their 20’s. Approximately 40% to 60% of the bone mass is accumulated during the adolescent years.

Bone mass accrued during the early years determines the overall bone health in our lifetime and can also prevent diseases such as Osteoporosis.

So how do we optimise bone health in children? Well, there are broadly 2 main factors affecting bone mass.

Non-modifiable factors such as gender, genetics and ethnicity.
Modifiable factors such as diet, exercise, body weight and hormonal status.

This gives us room to just work with the modifiable factors.

Maintaining a right balanced healthy diet improves the bone health. Diet for bone health is a combination of Calcium, Vitamin D, Sodium, Protein and Soda.

Calcium

Milk and milk products are a primary source of calcium. Apart from calcium, milk provides protein, vitamin D, magnesium and phosphorus which are vital ingredients for a healthy bone. Its recommended consulting a paediatrician for lactose intolerant children.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is a hormone required for calcium absorption and utilization. Studies have shown that absence of Vitamin D can result in only 10% to 15% of calcium absorption. Sunlight is a major source for Vitamin D. Research have shown us that exposure to UV B radiation in the range of 290 to 315 nm from sunlight is the major source of vitamin D. Food supplements for Vitamin D include cod liver oil, fatty fish (eg, salmon, sardines, tuna), and fortified foods such as milk, orange juice, yogurts and cheese.

Sodium, Proteins and Soda

The right amount of Sodium, proteins and soda can boost the overall health of your bones. Low sodium will predispose subjects to low calcium retention and high sodium promotes increased urinary calcium excretion and hence should be avoided. It’s recommended to consult a dietician to find out your right amount of sodium, protein and soda intake.

Exercise

Exercise such as playing sports boosts bone health. Studies have shown that mechanical forces applied to the skeleton increase the overall bone formation. Weight-bearing exercises or games such as running, skipping increases the Bone Mineral Density (BMD). High impact sports such as volleyball Orr odd-impact sports such as soccer, badminton are associated with higher BMD. However, excessive high impact exercises can also lead to fracture. Hence a balance should be maintained between high impact and low impact exercises.

Body Weight

Body weight plays an important role in the quality of bones. Maintaining healthy body weight during childhood is recommended to optimise bone health.

Hormonal Status

Hormones such as Estrogen and Testosterones play an important in maintaining healthy bones.

Key Takeaways

Promote weight-bearing activities to your kids. Encourage them to go out and play.
Consume adequate calcium and proteins and avoid excessive sodium.
Consume adequate Vitamin D by encouraging your kids to play more outdoor games.

References

“Optimizing Bone Health in Children and Adolescents” by Neville H. Golden, Steven A. Abrams, COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION. Pediatrics, Oct 2014, Vol 134/ Issue 4