I was looking to buy Swiss Sys for an assistant at an upcoming tournament, and noticed that the company was bought out recently. I’ve never heard of https://www.chessroster.com/, and so was curious to here a review from someone who has used it. Supposedly the two services are now in some way connected?
I would love to know how that functions, and how the site feels for online registrations in general. I was unable to find what their fee/payment structure is, so knowledge on that would also be helpful.
I’m always looking around for other online registration software and would love to hear testimonials.
I haven’t heard of Chess Roster. It doesn’t look like there is any pairing engine integrated online. The only functionality in place at the moment (outside of the SwissSys windows download that already existed) is a more modern looking event display directory. Swiss sys gave people the ability to upload tournament results to their website afterward to display results and some other event info and it looks like that is the only part integrated
Chess Nut handles tournament registration, pairing, and a bunch of other club management stuff. You can try it free here
I have used the mid grade version of ChessNut by the month. That way I don’t need to pay during months I don’t use it. I used it for a Swiss tournament with over 50 players in 5 sections. It paired automatically but allowed me to pair manually on one or two match ups when I wanted. If you want to use 1 email for a group of up to 8 players who joins your tournament, it is possible. Otherwise, if someone joins your club online they have to sign in with a unique email address. ChessNut doesn’t take a lot of presets to use it for a specific tournament. Unless I am wrong, the free version which you can learn a lot from doesn’t let you upload the 3 data files to the USCF, so use the pay version.