For organizers ·
Six characters, not a paragraph of link
Make a tournament and you get its code straight away: six characters you can say across a room. Players type it at castlegambit.com/play, or scan the QR code, and it's the same code on the night.
The short version
- New tournament ends on its code, big: “Go to castlegambit.com/play and enter MNK 76T”
- Before the night, the code takes players to the tournament, where they enter
- On the night, the same code checks them in at the door
- Copy link, Share and the printed flyer all carry the code, never a long link
Until now, a new tournament handed you a QR code and a link long enough to need its own opening theory. Nobody reads one of those out across a club room, and nobody types one into a phone.
Now the tournament gets its six-character code the moment you make it. Ready to share leads with it, big, in two threes, the way the room’s code looks on the TV. Say it out loud, write it on the whiteboard, or put it in the group chat: players go to castlegambit.com/play, type it in, sign in and enter. The QR code beside it does the same for anyone with a camera handy.
One code for the whole night
When you open the night, the room opens on that same code. Whoever entered earlier uses it again at the door to check in, and whoever didn’t can still find the tournament from the room. If your club doesn’t check people in, the code at the door is their entry, as it was before. One code on the flyer, one code on the TV, one code in the chat.
What the code shows
Before the night, the code shows the tournament: its name, when and where, and how many have entered. Never anyone’s name. A members-only tournament still opens only for the club’s members. And if a code gets out where it shouldn’t once the night is on, New code on Tonight swaps it, and the old one stops working everywhere.