For Ethics Bowl tournament directors

Run a flawless Ethics Bowl.Skip the spreadsheets.

Purpose-built tournament software for collegiate and high-school Ethics Bowls. Build the bracket, score ballots, watch standings update live — in one place, on any device.

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Built by Harvard Undergraduate Ethics SocietyFree for every Ethics Bowl programMade for APPE-IEB scoring

01Setup

Create the tournament

Name, location, dates. Create a tournament with a few clicks.

ethicsbowlmanager.org/tournaments/new

New tournament

Tournament name

Location

Start date

Registration deadline

02Bracket

Auto-schedule the whole bracket

One click generates balanced pairings with no rematches, assigns judges from your roster, and respects every conflict rule.

ethicsbowlmanager.org/tournaments/42/schedule

Auto-schedule Full Tournament

Rounds

3

Judges per matchup

3

03Live scoring

Standings that stay in sync

Ballots come in and rankings reorder in real time. Coaches, judges, and teams all see the same numbers, compatible with mobile.

ethicsbowlmanager.org/tournaments/42/standings

#	Team	W	L	Diff
1	Harvard A	2	0	+8
2	MIT A	2	0	+5
3	Yale A	1	1	+2
4	Brown A	1	1	-1
5	Tufts A	0	2	-6
6	BU A	0	2	-8

Tiebreak: total point differential across all rounds.

04Wrap-up

Take everything home

No need to remake our data into your own spreadsheets - standings, ballot data, and schedules already in pdf and Excel format.

ethicsbowlmanager.org/tournaments/42/schedule

Export tournament data

Schedule · standings · ballots — ready for archives.

05Data

See the shape of the tournament

Ballot distributions, quartiles, outliers — all live. Toggle aggregate vs. differential, histogram vs. boxplot.

ethicsbowlmanager.org/tournaments/42?tab=data

Chart

HistogramBoxplot

Mode

AggregateDifferential

n = 168mean = 44.6median = 44.5

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Harvard Undergraduate Ethics Society ↗

A student organization at Harvard College dedicated to applied ethics, philosophical discourse, and the Ethics Bowl community.

Ethics Bowl Manager — an overview

Run a flawless Ethics Bowl.Skip the spreadsheets.