Beach Point Club Digitizes Its Way Forward
Beach Point Club director of tennis Vuk Tapuskovic jumped on the opportunity this season to run its Club’s internal competitive programs in a brand new way, having the players themselves self-schedule their matches, when mutually convenient at the club, and then self-report the match scores.
Vuk shared his interesting story with us, about leveraging iPlayMe2’s app-centric solution. His “light-bulb moment”:
“Everyone these days has a smartphone in their palm, and is working remotely increasingly. Schedules are more flexible, but also less predictable. So, when iPlayMe2 came knocking on our door, with this self-scheduling tournament software, app-centric from the player perspective, we couldn’t resist hearing them out”. 
He continued:
“We usually ran our internal ladders, round-robins, Club Championships, etc. the traditional way; setting up specific days and weekend times when we’d insist our members get those matches in. But we flipped the problem on its head. Instead of our club mandating play time, blocking out courts, and cramping members’ schedules, I offered the members to use iPlayMe2’s app to self-schedule those matches, and then, without any input from my staff’s side, enter their match score on their own.”
iPlayMe2’s club admin portal cranked out league and ladder “pole-start” positions, seeded elimination brackets, round-robin “boxes”, with players then seeing on their app, the specific draws, and receiving e-mails, and/or texts, about whom their first round opponent is, and were suggested to use the iPlayMe2 player app to propose days / time-slots throughout the week, for that match. Invited players can even “counter-propose” other time-slots, directly through the app, allowing for quick syncing between players when they can play, and find an available court.
Some players stayed ‘old-school’, messaging each other to coordinate when to play, while others embraced this innovative app, by efficiently accepting or countering each other’s propositions on when to play at our club, all through the iPlayMe2 player app. By round two, or the 2nd half-month, our member-players were jumping on the app, and making short work of the scheduling headache of offering convenient play times that suited their personal schedules. iPlayMe2 built this app to be as easy as ordering up an Uber… tap, swipe and a click.
Members loved entering their own scores, particularly when they won. As club staff, we saved incredible amounts of time; iPlayMe2’s tournament brackets were always fully up-to-date, and visible to all of our members through our club’s private page within iPlayMe2’s eco-system.
For Vuk, iPlayMe2 not only digitized, and made easy, the entire process of setting up and running the club’s competitive play, but the members took more ownership of their matches, and were eager to schedule them when convenient to both sides of the net.
iPlayMe2 also handles flex leagues, round-robins, traditional club championships, as well as can generate player rankings/ratings across the entire club. It even handles Compass Draw type tournaments, double-elimination formats, and simple “back-draw” formats, for those first-round losing players. iPlayMe2 has integrated all other racquet sports as well, including of course Pickleball, and Padel, to name just a couple here.
Vuk summed it up: “iPlayMe2 is very simple to use; it takes only minutes to set up a ladder, elimination draw, etc.; the tech platform does everything else, and elegantly. Some of our members now think I’m a genius! They’re only half-right… Thanks iPlayMe2!
