I've heard all kinds of descriptions you know old antiquated some backroom
government you know something built back in the eighties
yeah so pickleball tournaments.com has been around ten to 15 years and so now we've entered an age
where that software has to be updated and upgraded and we are in the process
of doing that now we have a redesign underway but this game has exploded in
such a way that you know the years that I first got involved was about building
brand and reputation and and learning if you will and so it were really passed
the time so the demand is so high I mentioned that we have will hit some 700
tournaments on the system so having more and more people interacting with the
system you have to make a system that is more mobile-friendly and easier for
people to use that it's just required
the interaction with this particular website will have a more mobile-friendly look and feel so it'll be app'ish
I guess I can say
yeah so as pickleball tournaments calm has grown and the
number of tournaments have grown the only search capabilities really what's
built into your browser in our new redesign that we have those filtering
and search capabilities are gonna be right in a part of the website
redesign so I can say let's say I've logged into pickleball tournaments.com
and I want to search for a tournament that has singles I can just search for
that if I want to search for a tournament with prize money if I want to
search it as a sanctioned tournament what kind of ball does this tournament
have is it indoor as an outdoor I can now specifically go in and set my search
filters and look for tournaments that fit my fit my need
yes so the pain points that we see with registrations are primarily in the areas
this is Arizona this is Utah this is your national events US Open Nationals
where there's a flood of registrations all coming in at one time and basically
I talk about it like it being a highway there's this you know ten lane highway
that now trying to take twenty lanes of traffic onto it and people get
bottlenecked and not able to get on to the onto the onto the highway and so
that causes a lot of pain and frustration and anxiety and panic which
is a feeling none of us want to have and so part of this redesign will be
designed to take some of that that panic and that experience when they're
interacting with the website out of the equation we're moving to a Amazon Web
hosted service type capability to then handle the server piece of that having a
one-page I mentioned a one-page registration process to where people can
just see it right on one page click select for this event select for that
event you know register for this event you
know if there's a lot of parameters that a tournament director can put inside
their tournament that people can sign up for and a one-pager clearly identified
for a player that they can see everything step by step on that one page
is going to make it a lot easier for players to interact with the system
I'm super excited about the entire redesign the fact that we're gonna look
like a website that is in the new 2019 the year of 2019 and not the year of
1980 I'm super super excited about that and how much easier it's going to be for
people to find tournaments that they want to register for it just it's not
going to get better than that for a tournament player