Open play, dealt right

Never wonder who's up next.

Add your courts, sign players in, and Dink Deck rotates everyone through fairly — with skill-based matching when you want the games closer. Players get a rank that follows them from club to club, and a recap of every night they play.

  • Free to use
  • No install to try it
  • Desktop & mobile
  • No account to watch a board

Tonight's queue

The actual demo board — not a mockup

12 waiting
Court 1 · Up next
Tom Beaumont & Chloe Nguyen v Felix Andersen & Sam Whitfield
2.45 v 2.35
Court 2 · Up next
Jordan Reyes & Maria Santos v Priya Nair & Diego Herrera
3.45 v 3.45
Court 3 · Up next
Aisha Rahman & Lena Kowalski v Marcus Bell & Amara Okafor
3.80 v 3.75
Court 4 still open 4 more players fill it
4 courtsplanned at once, one board
12 playerspreloaded in the live demo
7 ranksmapped to DUPR/UTPR bands
0 installsruns in the browser

See it running

Try it before you host anything.

This is the actual console, already loaded with twelve players across four courts — no account, no setup, nothing to configure.

  1. 1Open the demo — it runs in your browser, nothing to install
  2. 2Take the walkthrough — it offers itself and shows you the desk
  3. 3Run the night — start games, rearrange the rotation, try the challenger court
Open the live demo
play.dinkdeck.net/host?demo=1
The live demo board: four courts, twelve players queued and ready to run

Built for the whole night

Pick your side of the net.

Fair rotation, planned — not guessed.

Whole-queue planning across every court at once, winners-stay-on, auto-start, and a board that lays out the whole night's rotation in fours — so nobody's guessing who's up next, including you.

  • One-tap start — courts fill themselves from the plan
  • Rearrange by hand — reshape the rotation yourself, and it sticks
  • Served in order — fewest games first, and nobody drives home having played nothing
  • Payment tracking — who paid, who owes, one nudge
The host console running three courts of live games with a queue of waiting players

Where you stand

Every game earns you a medal.

Every player carries a medal. It's the rank they're on, and how far through it they've climbed.

  • Seven ranks, five pips each — the same ladder shown throughout the app
  • Top 100 everywhere — the national board
  • Top 100 in your province and your town — read straight off where you said you play
The rank medal chart, showing the seven-rank ladder and Pro+ tiers up to Top 10

King of the court

One court plays for the crown.

Flag any court as tonight's challenger court. Pairs join its line together — from the desk or their own phone — winners stay on to defend, and the regular rotation plans the other courts around it.

  • Pairs, never split — you enter together, and a loss sends you to the back of the line, not out of the running
  • Short by design — first to 9 points takes it, and 9–8 is a legal final
  • Two roads to the crown — a straight run, or wins counted all night; the host picks

Challenger court

Court 4 · Crown at 7 wins

3 pairs in line
On court · Defending
Maria Santos & Jordan Reyes
5 win streak
Challenging next
Aisha Rahman & Marcus Bell
Then
Priya Nair & Diego Herrera
Two more wins take the crown Games to 9

Everything a real night needs.

Whole-queue planning

Every court planned together, not one game at a time — the board lays out the whole rotation in fours, and you can rearrange it by hand.

Skill-range control

Four settings, tight to any mix, decide how wide a game may be. When the board stretches the range to keep someone playing, it says so.

Offline-first sync

The host device owns the queue. Results land exactly once when the connection comes back.

Court fee tracking

Save your club's payment details once and reuse them every night. Mark who paid, nudge the stragglers — unpaid places free themselves up.

Find open play nearby

Browse clubs, courts, and events. Join in a tap, or land on the waitlist.

Ratings that update themselves

Ranks and pips move when the night closes — no spreadsheets, no arguing.

A board anyone can watch

Tonight's board is live on the event page — your place in line, your games so far, and no account needed to look.

Night recaps

Close the night and it becomes a page worth sharing — the games, the standings, and what the night did to each rating.

Walk-ups welcome

A guest is added at the desk in seconds, and requests to join land right at the top — even a name typed wrong is fixed without losing their place.

How it works

Three steps, one night.

01

Post a session

A club or venue posts open play in minutes — courts, times, and who it's for.

02

Players join from their phone

Browse, join, or land on the waitlist. No account needed to watch the board.

03

The host runs the queue

Everyone rotates fairly, ratings update on their own, and the night closes into a recap worth sharing.

Watch it first

See a whole night, in fifty seconds.

Signing up, finding open play, starting a club and posting a session — the real app, recorded in one take. Three more clips carry it through running the night from the desk and reading the recap the morning after.

  • 4chapters
  • 49steps
  • 4recordings

Straight answers

Questions hosts ask first.

Still unsure? Ask directly — a human replies.

No. Anyone with the link can watch tonight's board live. An account only matters if you want your record, ratings, and queue position to follow you.

Contact

Ask us anything.

Something the FAQ didn't cover, a problem you hit, or an idea for what Dink Deck should do next.

We reply by email.

Ready to run open play the fair way?

Free. Set up tonight's session in about two minutes.