What Sqoura does
Sqoura runs the paperwork around a wushu competition: collecting entries, deciding on them, taking the money, and publishing the results.
There are five things to understand, and everything else follows from them.
1. An organisation
Section titled “1. An organisation”Your federation or club. It owns everything else — your forms, your tournaments, your athletes, your colleagues and your plan.
Athletes do not have accounts. Only your staff sign in.
2. A registration form
Section titled “2. A registration form”The page an athlete fills in. You build it once, choose what to ask for, and publish it. Publishing gives you a link.
A form is versioned: when you change and republish it, older links keep working and quietly forward to the current version. Nobody’s bookmark breaks.
3. A tournament
Section titled “3. A tournament”The event itself — its dates, its venue, and crucially its structure: which disciplines it runs, which age groups, which events within each, weight categories for Sanda, and how many people it can take.
That structure is what makes a form intelligent. Because the tournament knows its own age groups, the form can work out an athlete’s age group from their date of birth, show only the events they are actually eligible for, and refuse the ones they are not — before anybody has to check it by hand.
A form is attached to a tournament. That is the join.
4. An entry
Section titled “4. An entry”What comes back when somebody submits. Your staff review each one and either approve it, reject it, or reject it while offering the applicant a chance to fix and resubmit.
An entry has two grains, and both views are useful:
- the submission — one form, filled in once, by one person
- the athlete — one competitor
A club secretary entering twelve children makes one submission containing twelve athletes. You approve the submission; you schedule the athletes.
5. Results
Section titled “5. Results”Once the competition has run, you record scores, finalise each event, and Sqoura builds the medal table and the club standings from them.
How athletes reach any of this
Section titled “How athletes reach any of this”Every applicant-facing page is reached by a link, never by browsing and never by signing in. The organiser sends the link, or the system emails it.
The sensitive links — an entry document, a qualifying place — ask for the athlete’s date of birth before they open. This is what stops a link forwarded into a family group chat, or left open on a shared computer, from showing somebody’s registration to whoever finds it.
The shape of a season
Section titled “The shape of a season”Where a competition is not a single event but a pathway — regionals feeding a national championship — a season groups the tournaments into stages, tracks who has qualified from each, and gives you a public page showing the road so far.
Places at the next stage are offered to athletes individually, and each athlete confirms or declines on their own page.
What Sqoura does not do
Section titled “What Sqoura does not do”Worth knowing early, so you plan around it:
- There is no public API and no API keys. Nothing integrates with Sqoura programmatically today.
- The only export that works is CSV. Buttons offering Excel or PDF export are not finished.
- There is no “we received your entry” email. An applicant’s record at the moment of submitting is the success screen and the reference number on it. Tell people to save it.