Tag players are about to see some big changes for 2025!
After 13 years, we are retiring our purpose-built league management system. It has hosted 21,700 teams and over 250,000 players in that time, and hundreds of thousands of fixtures. By all means, we have been well served - but it's time for a change.
You interact with this system every time you check fixtures, give referee feedback, register a team, sign up as an individual, pay a registration fee or accept terms & conditions. For most of our 15,000+ tag players, you're on it weekly!
ITRA has agreed an exciting partnership with Spawtz, a popular league management platform in use all over the world. It's used by our friends in Try Tag Rugby in the UK to great success. We also used it to run the 2023 ITF Tag World Cup and the Dublin Tag Fest in the same year, so some of you may be familiar with it.
Starting in 2025, you'll start to access everything via Spawtz, including:
Registrations for your team
Team members
Fixtures
Player recruitment
Payments & invoices
This is one of the biggest changes we've made in years and it will greatly improve the experience of our tag players. The new platform is feature-rich, and will make your job easier no matter what your role in the team.
We're still using the old system for the rest of 2024, and to finish out any leagues that started in 2024. The full roll-out will be gradual, and we won't be using the new platform for all leagues until Spring 2025. But that should be no barrier to getting excited about its new features! We're going to announce them in detail in the coming weeks as we invite you to register on it.
The most exciting headlines include:
Auto registration for the next league - meaning no more missing out because your captain was busy
Fixture management including email reminders for the whole team, a single page for all the fixtures you're playing that week, and the ability to link directly to a venue's fixtures
Find players, either for the whole league if you're short a few, or for the night. Players can register as being available to play at the venue on a casual basis, and you can contact them all with one click if you're stuck.
Easier registration with a process that takes under 60 seconds
New formats, helping us solve the difficult ones which occasionally need to be done offline
.... and so much more!
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