KickerPlay — Online foosball manager

An online manager for table football (kicker)

Online manager for table football (kicker). KickerPlay let you create a free account, start or join competitions, invite colleagues by email and play in teams. Track games in real time, keep score and player ratings, form groups and run playoffs automatically. Designed for office, bar or home — so you spend less time organizing and more time playing.

The product is no longer available.

→ Article (XB Software blog)

Screenshots

Screenshots source: XB Software — KickerPlay article.

Features

  • Free account — Quick sign-up with email, Facebook or Google+.
  • Rooms and competitions — Create a room or join an existing one; invite at least 6 people to run a competition; list of started, pending and finished games in one place.
  • Teams — Form fixed or ad-hoc teams; add team names and images; automatic split into groups and playoff brackets.
  • Live score — Record goals and own goals in one click; set match duration; follow the score in real time.
  • Stats and ratings — Per-player stats (games played, wins, goals, own goals); per-team stats including championship wins; tournament table generated automatically.
  • Multi-device — Use on desktop, tablet and smartphone; cross-browser.

Registration and game flow were kept simple so teams could focus on playing instead of organizing.

Tech stack

  • Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone.
  • Real-time: Socket.io.

For whom

For anyone who plays table football and wants to run tournaments and team games with colleagues at the office or friends at a bar or at home. Minimum 6 participants to create a competition.

KickerPlay is no longer available. The description above is based on the XB Software blog post (March 2015).