Competition, Organization, Venue & Athlete Management
Every tournament.Better organized.
COVA is tournament software for taekwondo organizers. Parents register through your event link, coaches confirm their chapter’s athletes and settle one bill, and COVA works out your divisions, draws your fight diagrams and keeps a live medal tally.
Every discipline you run
Kyorugi
Weight classes, weight checks, fight diagrams and exhibition bouts
Recognized Poomsae
Individuals, teams and mixed pairs, in groups of four or as a championship
Freestyle Poomsae
Individuals, mixed pairs and mixed teams, in groups of four or as a championship
Speed Kicking
In groups of four or as a championship, with small age groups and genders merged
Upcoming tournaments
Each event has its own page on its organizer’s site, with the link to register and, once they’re published, its fight diagrams and medal tally.
No tournaments announced yet
Events run on COVA are listed here once their organizers announce them.
From the first registration to the last medal
One system for the organizer, every chapter’s coach and the parents, in place of forms, spreadsheets and hand-drawn diagrams.
The screens are COVA’s own, shown with sample athletes, chapters and amounts.
Step 1: While registration is open
Parents register. Coaches confirm.
Share one event link. Parents fill it in on their phones, with no account to make, and each chapter’s coach confirms what comes in or adds athletes directly.
- Each athlete’s division shown as the form is filled in
- Likely duplicates flagged before they’re confirmed
- Coaches reminded before the deadline
- A name or birth date corrected later, with a record of the change
[Event name] · TONDORegistrationsPairs and teamsFight diagramsMedalsPending 3To check 12 selectedConfirm 2Ana Dela CruzKyorugi · Recognized PoomsaePendingMiguel BautistaKyorugi · Cadet Male Novice - FlyPendingSofia RamosCheck: same athlete as an earlier registration?PendingCarlo MendozaSpeed Kicking · Freestyle PoomsaeConfirmedStep 2: As entries are confirmed
One bill per chapter, counted for you.
Each chapter’s bill is counted from its confirmed entries. Coaches upload their proof of payment and you verify it; cash handed over on the day is recorded too.
- Your event fee is never shown to parents: each chapter sets its own price
- Paid by GCash, bank transfer or cash, as you do now
[Event name] · QCTA₱6,000 balance due Partly paidKyorugi · 12 entries₱12,000Recognized Poomsae · 6 entries₱6,000Amount due₱18,000Proof of payment · GCash₱12,000VerifiedProof of payment · Bank transfer₱6,000Awaiting checkUpload proof of paymentStep 3: After the deadline
Divisions worked out. Diagrams drawn.
Set your age groups, belt groups and Kyorugi classes once. COVA puts every entry in its division, so nobody types one, then draws them all at once, keeping athletes of one chapter apart in the first round wherever it can.
- Merge neighbouring classes or age groups when one is too small
- Move a lone athlete to another class or belt group, or give them an exhibition bout
- Poomsae and Speed Kicking in groups of four, so more athletes medal, or run as a championship
- Swap two athletes in a diagram before its first bout
Fight diagrams6 divisions · 4 drawnPrintDraw 2 divisions2 Kyorugi entries have no weightKyorugi 4Recognized Poomsae 2F-CAD-ADV-37Cadet Female Advance - Bantam 33-37kg7FinishedM-CAD-NOV-37Cadet Male Novice - Fly 33-37kg86 of 7 boutsF-CAD-ADV-55Cadet Female Advance 1 - Light Middle - Middle 47-55kg5Not startedM-CAD-FUN-37Cadet Male Fun - Fly 33-37kg3Not drawn
Step 4: On the day
Results as they happen. A medal tally everyone can follow.
- Enter each bout’s winner or each Poomsae score from a phone, and mark what has started
- Fight diagrams and the tally update on every screen as each result is saved
- Medals follow on their own, then overall awards, best players and the year’s rankings
- Publish the tally to the event page and a screen at the venue
- Results posted by chapter to COVA’s Facebook Page, never naming an athlete
- 1Tondo TaekwondoTONDO6 gold4 silver3 bronze13 in all
- 2QC Taekwondo AcademyQCTA5 gold5 silver2 bronze12 in all
- 3Pasig Taekwondo ClubPASIG3 gold2 silver6 bronze11 in all
- 4Makati TaekwondoMAKATI2 gold3 silver4 bronze9 in all
Top 4 of 18 chapters · updates as each result is saved
The details that make a tournament run
Your event, your site
Your own name, logo and web address, on every email too. Staff and coaches add COVA to their phones like an app, under your name and logo.
Admins and event-day staff
Admins set up events, chapters and fees. Staff get the event-day work: registrations, divisions, draws and results. Rehearse together on a test event, then delete it.
Ready on the day
A scale desk for weight checks. Printed A4 fight diagram sheets and Poomsae score sheets. The entry list as a spreadsheet, any time.
Inter-school meets
Each registration names its school. The draw keeps a school’s athletes apart, and the medal tally ranks schools, with the chapter that keeps each trophy.
A record of every change
Who changed what, and when, with what it was before. Admins see all of it, and each coach sees their own chapter’s.
Careful with children’s data
Special divisions’ athletes are never named in public. Each organizer’s records sit in a database of its own, and a bot check guards the event link.
Easier for everyone at the tournament
- Organizers
- Registrations arrive checked and already in their divisions. Draw, print and publish every fight diagram from one page, and see who still owes.
- Coaches and chapters
- Share your own copy of the event link, confirm what parents send and pay one bill per event. You set what parents pay, and your chapter’s logo shows on the medal tally.
- Athletes and parents
- Register on your phone, with no account to make, and get a link to check the registration. Then find your athlete on the fight diagrams and follow the medal tally from the stands, as it changes.
Organizers on COVA
Each runs COVA on its own site, under its own name.
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Pay for the athletes who take part
One price for each confirmed athlete, per event. It comes out of platform credit you top up ahead, so there’s nothing to settle with us on the day.
₱25per confirmed athlete, per event
- Your first two events are free, whatever their size
- Test events are never charged
- Each athlete counts once, however many disciplines they enter
- Your chapters still set what their parents pay
What an event costs
| Confirmed athletes | Platform fee |
|---|---|
| 100 | ₱2,500 |
| 200 | ₱5,000 |
| 400 to 1,000 | ₱10,000 |
| 1,100 | ₱12,500 |
| 1,200 or more | ₱15,000 |
The fee stops at ₱10,000 from 400 athletes up to 1,000. Past 1,000 it rises again, and never goes above ₱15,000. Athletes are counted from the confirmed registrations when the event day ends.
- Setup
- ₱30,000, and all of it becomes credit for your events.
- Top-ups
- Any amount, by GCash or bank transfer. ₱30,000 gives you ₱33,000 of credit, ₱60,000 gives ₱69,000, and ₱100,000 gives ₱120,000.
- Minimum credit
- Keep at least ₱5,000 of credit to set up a new event. COVA tells your admins when it runs low.
Running a tournament this season?
Tell us about your events: how many chapters take part, which disciplines you run and when registration opens. We’ll get back to you and show you COVA.
Software for organizers, built by IEMTech
COVA stands for Competition, Organization, Venue & Athlete Management. It’s made by IEMTech, a software company in Cebu, Philippines, and started with taekwondo and the organizers who run city and regional tournaments for many chapters at once.
COVA is software, not a federation, association or governing body. Organizers run their own events and set their own rules, and each organizer’s records are kept in a database of their own, never shared with another.
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