Event formats
Five formats. One platform. Every sport.
Most platforms handle one format and force the rest into a spreadsheet. Egen Games ships all five as first-class citizens, so a single event can mix formats across divisions.
A school sports day can hold time trials in athletics, round-robin tables in basketball, and knockout brackets in tennis, all under the same event ID, with one registration flow and one results page.
Pick a format per division, not per event. Switch later if your plan changes. Brackets become tables, tables become brackets, no data lost.
KNOCKOUT
Win or go home, with seeding that holds up.
Knockout is the format for tournament drama. Single elimination, byes for top seeds, clean re-renders when an upset lands. The bracket is the source of truth, the result page is the share card, and the next match auto-populates the moment a referee confirms.
Under the hood, each match has its own audit log, judges or umpires can be assigned per round, and disputes pause downstream matches without freezing the bracket UI. Works for everything from a five-judo-club open to a national tennis championship.
Best for
- Football tournaments
- Judo and combat sports
- Tennis singles draws
Quarter finals · 8 athletes · 7 matches
ROUND ROBIN
Every team plays every team. The table tells the story.
Round robin produces a standings table that updates after each match. Points, head-to-head, goal difference, set ratios. We carry all the tiebreakers leagues actually use, configured per division at event setup. No re-import to a spreadsheet at the end of round 3.
Group stages chain naturally into knockout playoffs. A school sports day can run group play in the morning, lock the top four, then publish a knockout bracket for the afternoon, all under the same event with one registration flow.
Best for
- Basketball leagues
- Chess opens
- School cup group stages
Group stage standings · Boys 16 division
| # | Team | W | D | L | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eko Lions | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | Surulere SC | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 3 | Lekki Marlins | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Apapa Tigers | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Ikoyi Swim | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Top 2 progress to the knockout playoff
TIME TRIAL
Heats, lanes, finish times to the millisecond.
Time trial is built for racing sports. Seeded heats by lane, finish times captured by the scorer phone or piped in from timing hardware, and a live standings view that re-orders the moment a faster swim posts. PBs flag automatically against an athlete history.
Records, qualifying cuts, and relay legs are first class. The scorer flow is mobile-first because the deck does not have desks. Athletes get their share card with their time as the headline number, parents get the WhatsApp message before they leave the venue.
Best for
- Swimming meets
- Track and field sprints
- Cycling time trials
50m freestyle · Heat 3 finish
- L1B. Akinwale29.31s
- L2A. Bello28.34s
- L3A. Okafor28.61s
- L4F. Adebayo29.03s
- L5Y. Okonkwo29.49s
JUDGED
Multi-judge panels, drop high and low, weighted criteria.
Judged events live or die on the audit trail. Five judge scores per athlete, drop high and drop low, weighted criteria for execution, difficulty, and presentation. Every score is timestamped, signed by judge, and never overwritten. Corrections create new rows.
The publisher sees the calculation tree, the athlete sees the headline number, and a judge can flag a tie-break review without disrupting the run order. Works for gymnastics, dance, kata, and any creative or technical event that scores on a panel.
Best for
- Gymnastics
- Dance competitions
- Kata and forms judging
Floor exercise · 5-judge panel
Drop high, drop low, average the rest.
MASS PARTICIPATION
Hundreds or thousands of finishers, each one tracked.
Mass participation flips the volume dial. A 10k road race, a school sports day relay, a community swimathon. Bib numbers, finisher ranks, pace bands, age category leaders, the whole field finishing in the same event with no spreadsheet.
Every finisher gets a share-ready card with their rank, time, and category. The viral loop runs itself: a parent shares on WhatsApp, another parent sees it, registers their child for next year. That is how community sport grows in Nigeria.
Best for
- Road races
- Charity runs
- School sports day relays
Lekki Fun Run · Open category
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
Every finisher gets a share card. Ranks 1 to 8 shown here.
One event, all formats
A sports day is many tournaments. We make it one event.
A school sports day can hold time trials in athletics, round-robin tables in basketball, and knockout brackets in tennis, all under the same event ID, with one registration flow and one results page.
One event
St. Andrews Sports Day 2026
One registration flow. One results page. Four divisions, four formats.
- Time trial
Division
Boys 16 · Athletics
- Round robin
Division
Senior boys · Basketball
- Knockout
Division
Open · Tennis singles
- Mass participation
Division
All-school relay
Ready when you are
Pick a format. Publish in 30 minutes.
Free to set up. Naira payments through Paystack. Share-ready results on every finish.