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TourneyForge
A tournament director in your pocket — run round-robin and knockout events over any game, on any device, with no accounts and no server. It pairs, scores and keeps the wall-chart; everything stays on your device.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning.
Mentored by Roundel
#b5791b Characters who teach
Meet the cast
TourneyForge's characters run a fair tournament together. Director Roundel starts each round and keeps play fair, Pairwell gives everyone a new opponent each round, Chartwell keeps the standings and breaks ties by the rule, and Brackett sets up the knockout rounds so matchups are fair.
Roundel
Fair play — the tournament director who starts each round and keeps every game fair
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Pairwell
Pairing — matches players so everyone gets a fair, fresh opponent each round
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Chartwell
Standings — keeps the wall-chart and breaks ties by the fair rule, so the ranking is honest
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Brackett
The bracket — seeds the knockout for the fairest matchups and settles a dispute by the rule
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What's inside
Learning goal
A tournament director in your pocket — run round-robin and knockout events over any game, on any device, with no accounts and no server. It pairs, scores and keeps the wall-chart; everything stays on your device.
Mentored by Roundel — no data leaves the device.
How TourneyForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages