Turnale
Run recreational racket-sport tournaments from chat.
This repository holds the client integration manifests for Turnale — the Claude Codeplugin, the Gemini CLI extension, and the organiser skill. The server itself is a hostedservice at https://mcp.turnale.app and is not open source.
What Turnale does
Turnale lets an organiser run an entire recreational tournament by talking to their AIassistant. Tell it who's playing and you get a fair draw, a schedule, and a shareable webpage with live standings that players follow from their phones.
Tennis, padel, pickleball, badminton, squash and table tennis.
Formats clubs actually play
Americano and mexicano (rotating-partner doubles), round robin, groups + playoff, andknockout with an optional 3rd-place match — as singles or fixed pairs, with random orlevel-balanced pairing. The assistant explains the options with the round and time mathsalready done by the engine.
Last-minute chaos is one sentence
Dropouts, substitutions, partner swaps, late arrivals, court changes, and ending early withthe standings frozen as the final result. Every change can be previewed before it lands andundone afterwards.
Honest scores
Walkovers and retirements are recorded as exactly that, and the games actually played stillcount towards the standings.
One link for players
The shareable page carries the order of play, live scores, standings and self-signup, withan optional cap and waitlist. Printable order-of-play and results PDFs cover the clubhousenoticeboard.
Connecting
Point your assistant at https://mcp.turnale.app and start straight away.
{
"mcpServers": {
"turnale": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.turnale.app"
}
}
}
Creating a tournament returns an unguessable organiser key plus the shareable page link.The key is the only credential and is relayed in chat with a cannot-be-recovered warning;the page link on its own is view-only.
Per-platform connect steps for Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat, Perplexity, Grok and the GeminiCLI are at turnale.app/docs.
Install as a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add turnale-app/turnale
/plugin install turnale
Install as a Gemini CLI extension
gemini extensions install https://github.com/turnale-app/turnale
Example prompts
- Run a padel americano for 12 players on 3 courts, 2 hours.
- Set up Thursday's tennis night — no player list yet, let people sign up via a link.
- Jonas can't come, replace him with Emil from round 3.
- Court 1: 9–7, Court 2: 11–5. Who plays whom next?
- We have to stop early — freeze the standings and give me the final results.
