Frequently Asked Questions

MeetPlayNow is a platform that runs amateur racket-sport leagues and tournaments city by city. You sign up in your own city, the system pairs you with opponents at your level, and you play real matches on local courts at times you arrange yourself. One account plays in every city on the network.

MeetPlayNow is organised by country and then by city, and it runs in Thailand today, where Bangkok is the open city. Every country on the network has its own page listing the cities that are open now and the ones that are announced. If yours is missing, you can request it.

A MeetPlayNow tournament runs over several rounds instead of a single knock-out weekend. Each round the system pairs you with an opponent of similar strength and opens a chat between you; the two of you agree a court and a time, play the match, and enter the score. The standings update after every result.

No. You sign up alone and MeetPlayNow finds your opponent for you: every round the system pairs you with another player at your level and opens a chat so you can arrange the match. Most players arrive knowing nobody on the platform.

No. MeetPlayNow has no club membership and no annual subscription. You pay for each tournament you enter, the organizer sets that tournament's entry fee, and the exact amount is shown on its registration page before you commit. Court hire is paid at the venue and shared between the two players.

MeetPlayNow sorts players by ability instead of turning anyone away. You state your own standard when you take up a sport, and MeetPlayNow uses it to choose the opponents in your first matches and to set the rating you start from; after that your results, not your description of yourself, decide who you are paired with. There is no trial and no approval to pass, but a competition can set a rating window and refuse an entry whose rating falls outside it — in doubles that applies to both partners. Competitions without a window are open to anyone.

A MeetPlayNow season is a run of rounds, and each round gives you one opponent and a window of days to play them in. You and that opponent agree the court, the day and the hour between yourselves inside that window, so a season asks for one match at a time rather than a fixed slot you have to keep free; some seasons end with playoffs between the players at the top of the standings. How many rounds a season runs, and how long that takes, is decided by the organizer of each tournament and shown on that tournament's page before you enter.

You stay in the tournament. MeetPlayNow uses Swiss pairing, so a defeat never eliminates you: you play every remaining round and are simply paired with someone closer to your own results next time. Losing early usually means better-matched, more enjoyable games for the rest of the season.

A new city opens when enough players ask for it. You submit your city on the City Requests page, and once a city passes the threshold of interest MeetPlayNow looks for a local organizer and partner venues before opening registration. Everyone who requested that city is emailed the day it opens.