Help

1. First-time setup

Register at dubsdeck.com, verify your email, and create your group when prompted. Build your roster on the Players page. A name and a tier is all a player needs. To add a co-organizer, open Members and invite them by email.

2. Start a night

On the Dashboard, tap Start a Night, or tap Copy on a past night to reuse its course and layout. The Night Setup panel opens: set the course, layout, and notes. The ace pot field pre-fills with the carried-over balance. Coming to DubsDeck with an ace pot already going? Enter that existing balance here. Starting fresh? Leave it at $0 and check-in builds the pot as players pay in. Turn on Tiered Play here if you already know you're running pools. Save, and check-in begins.

3. Check players in

Tap a player's name to check them in. Three chips appear: $ (paid dubs), Ace (paid ace pot), and Wild (willing to be wildman), all pre-set to the usual defaults; tap any chip to flip it. Tap Done to collapse the row; tap the checkmark to reopen it. While a row is open, tapping the player's name again checks them out.

A walk-up who isn't on the roster yet? Tap + Add New Player at the bottom of the list, enter a name and tier, tap Add, and they're on the roster and checked in. (Players can also be added anytime from the Players page in the menu.)

If you have 4+ A players and 4+ B/C players checked in, DubsDeck suggests Tiered Play; one tap enables it. Tiered nights run two separate competitions with separate dubs pots and separate payouts, an A pool and a B/C pool, while the ace pot stays shared across the whole night.

4. Make teams

Make Teams enables at 4 checked-in players. If anyone hasn't paid dubs, you'll be asked to exclude them or proceed anyway.

Pairing rules, automatically applied: C players pair with A or B partners (C+C only when unavoidable), B+C pairs and the wildman get the extra throw. Jr players pair only with B players, and B+Jr teams get the extra throw. On tiered nights the A pool pairs A+A while the B/C pool pairs separately. Odd count? A willing player becomes wildman. Teams with A players are spread across cards rather than stacked on one.

Made teams too early? Remove Teams (below View Cards) unlocks check-in. A latecomer after the draw? Use Add Late Comer on the Cards page — see Late Comer. Re-roll Teams on the Cards page redraws everything.

5. Cards

The Cards page shows who plays with whom and which card they're on. Wildman and extra-throw badges appear on the teams that have them. Play golf.

Late Comer

After teams are made, the red Add Late Comer button on the Cards page brings people in without tearing teams down. Remove Teams is still there if you need to unlock check-in before anyone is locked in.

Add one player or several at once. The roster is the only cap.

Rules the wizard applies: a player who messaged before the draw joins free with no penalty. Arriving after the draw costs a $2 late fee and the team carries +2 penalty strokes. Once anyone has thrown, the door is closed — no additions.

Penalty caps at 2 per team. Sequential arrivals don't stack.

A late player merged onto an on-time wildman takes no strokes; the fee still applies. A late solo wildman keeps the extra throw.

Late fees go to the ace pot. You can override fees and strokes in the preview before you confirm.

Scores show as raw (+penalty) = effective on every board.

6. Live scoring (optional)

On the Cards page, the Live Scoring section holds two QR codes. Show the SCOREKEEPER code to one player per card, they scan it, pick their card, and get a simple score keeper: one running total per team, tap plus or minus as the round goes. No login, no app. The LIVE LEADERBOARD code is for everyone else, a read-only board showing all teams, refreshed with a tap. Scorekeepers can also show the board code from their own phone.

When a card's round is done, the scorekeeper taps Finish Card, which locks their numbers. Tapped it early? Resume scoring unlocks it.

Nothing the scorekeepers enter is final. When you open Enter Scores, their numbers are waiting with a 'live' tag, check them, fix anything, and Save as always. The moment you save, all scoring links close permanently and the board shows final results. Skip live scoring entirely and Enter Scores works exactly as it always has.

7. Enter scores

After the round, Enter Scores & Finish the Night: one score per team for the whole round, relative to par (−3, E, +2). If live scoring was used, the steppers arrive pre-filled with the scorekeepers' numbers, marked 'live' — verify and adjust before saving. Save sends you to Finish Night.

8. Finish Night

After saving scores, Finish Night asks only what's unanswered, in order: the ace question, tie resolution if teams are tied at a paying place, then the payout.

Ace pot: Select the player(s) who hit an ace and confirm the award, or tap No Ace Hit to carry the pot to next week. Every carry and award is recorded on the Ace Pot ledger page.

Ties: Tied at a paying place? Two ways to resolve: Split Pot divides the tied places' money evenly (odd dollar to the better position), or Break Tie lets you order the teams yourself (throw-off, card-back, your call).

Payout: DubsDeck suggests how many places pay from the checked-in count:

• 1–10 players → 1 place
• 11–16 → 2 places
• 17–27 → 3 places
• 28–40 → 4 places
• 41–62 → 5 places
• 63+ → 6 places

Amounts use a half-drop split (each place about half the one above). Every place floors to an even dollar so teams of two split clean. The last paying place is at least 2× the dubs buy-in (a team's combined entry); if flooring left it short, the difference comes from 1st. Leftover dollars after that redistribution go to the ace pot as rounding — shown as ＋$N to ace pot (rounding) before you confirm, and credited to the ace pot ledger when you confirm.

Adjust paying places if you want, override amounts when you need to (1st may be odd; places below 1st stay even), then Confirm Payout. Underpaying the pot sends the difference to the ace pot.

Confirming the payout finishes the night: it locks automatically and lands on Results.

Starting a new night while an old one was left unfinished? The old night's Finish Night questions come up first — same forms, same order, nothing new.

9. Results

Results is a recap: the leaderboard with payout amounts, ace outcome, and confirmed timestamps. Nothing to fill in. Same view as any past night.

Fixing a mistake after the night is locked: Group Nights → Unseal → Edit Scores → save. Finish Night reasks only what the change affected. A changed score clears the payout; the ace answer stands. Confirming again re-locks the night.

10. After the night

The night moves to Past Rounds on the Dashboard. Group Nights lists every night with delete if you need to remove one. Next week, tap Copy and do it again.