Run a rated tournament, not a spreadsheet.
Swiss pairings, live standings and tie-breaks, one-click USCF rating reports, and online registration — wired into the same club that already has your members.
The problem
Running a rated event is a second job.
You collect entries in one place, re-type them into pairing software, run the rounds, copy standings into an email, then assemble a rating report by hand for the USCF. Every round is a context switch, and the roster you already maintain for your club may as well not exist.
Rook Ready runs the tournament on top of your existing club. The players are your members, registration flows into the entry list, the pairing engine does the rounds, and the rating report comes out the other end — no re-keying, no second source of truth.
What's in it
From first entry to rating report.
Swiss pairings
Generate each round with a pairing engine built to the USCF rules — color allocation, score groups, and look-ahead handled for you. Review before you post.
Live standings & tie-breaks
Results roll into standings as you enter them, with the common tie-break systems computed automatically. Players and parents see the current crosstable in real time.
USCF rating report
Export the rating submission when the event closes — the file the USCF expects, generated from the results you already entered. No hand assembly.
Online registration
Players sign up through a form that captures USCF ID, section, and entry details — and existing members are pre-filled, so the entry list builds itself. See the guide →
Built for USCF play
The details a generic bracket tool gets wrong.
Rules-true pairings
Score groups, color balance, and due-color logic follow the USCF Swiss rules — not an approximation that a director has to second-guess.
Tournament Director roles
Hand a director the keys to run rounds without making them a club admin. Scoped access for the people at the board.
One source of truth
The event is part of the club, so members, contacts, and history are all already there — the tournament isn't a separate island of data.
At the venue
Pairings in every pocket — even when the wifi isn't there.
Players and parents check pairings and standings from their phones, and the director's tools are built to keep running through the kind of spotty venue connection every tournament has seen.
Pricing
Part of the same club you already run.
Tournaments live inside your Rook Ready club. The full tournament module is part of the Rook tier — and every club gets a 14-day free trial, enough to run your first rated event before paying anything.
See pricing →Comparing tools? See how Rook Ready stacks up against SwissSys and ChessNut.
Try it
Run your next rated event on Rook Ready.
Start free in under a minute. No credit card.