How many ends does a club curling game play?
Club bonspiels standardly play 8 ends, for a game of roughly 2 to 2.5 hours. That length is what bounds how many draws fit in a day; Rally uses it to space out a team’s games across your sheets of ice.
Registrations · Scores · Brackets
Run a curling tournament: registration, brackets and live scores
Weekend bonspiel or club tournament: curling runs a round robin across several sheets of ice before the playoffs. Rally generates the pool, keeps end-by-end standings and places your draws on your sheets while you keep an eye on the ice.
What a curling tournament looks like
- Typical format
- Round robin pool play across every sheet, then a single or double elimination bracket for the qualifiers; a small weekend bonspiel sometimes stays pure round robin, with no playoff stage.
- Field size
- 8 to 16 rinks of four players on 4 to 8 sheets of ice, one game per sheet per draw; budget 2 to 2.5 hours for an 8-end game when building the schedule.
- Scoring
- Each end awards points to one team based on whose stones sit closest to the button; the total after 8 ends (or an extra end to break a tie) decides the winner.
Scheduling · Rescheduling
Something goes sideways at your curling tournament?
Move one match: nothing else shifts. Pick a court and a time, and Rally checks the move before writing it, telling you exactly what blocks it. Finished matches, matches in progress and the ones you locked never move.
Once the tournament is launched, request schedule generation: Rally places games on your sheets of ice and your draws, with game length and the minimum rest between two draws for the same team.
- Four to eight sheets of ice at once: the grid tells every team which sheet to report to for each draw.
- A game that goes to an extra end overruns one sheet: push the next draw one slot, and the other sheets keep their times.
- Ice maintenance between two evening draws: sheets marked unavailable over a window get no games.
FAQ
Running a curling tournament
How do sheets of ice and draws map to Rally’s scheduling?
Sheets of ice are your courts in Rally, and draws are your time slots: set up as many as your club has, then request schedule generation once the tournament is launched. This step is optional; you can then move a game without shifting the others.
Which format works best for a bonspiel?
Round robin pool play followed by a single or double elimination bracket for the qualifiers is most common. A small weekend bonspiel can run round robin alone, with no playoff stage. Rally builds the pool, standings and bracket without a spreadsheet.
How do standings work during a bonspiel?
Every round robin win, loss or tie updates standings automatically, and qualifiers for the playoff round are decided by your tiebreaker rules. In Rally the scorekeeper enters end-by-end scoring and standings follow with no manual math.
Who enters scores between sheets of ice?
One volunteer per sheet using the scorekeeper link: they enter scores with no account and no access to organizer settings. Every other team immediately knows when and on which sheet they play their next draw.
Your turn
Your next curling tournament starts here.
Create the tournament, open registration and let scores, standings and the bracket keep themselves up to date.
Create a tournament for free
Three steps, zero spreadsheets
Configure the format
Round robin, single or double elimination, team size and capacity: the wizard sets up the tournament in a few clicks.
Share the links
Online registration, spectator link and scorekeeper link: nobody needs an account, and you keep final approval.
Follow it live
Every score updates standings and the bracket, all the way to the champion. Everyone follows along on their phone.