HouseDraft has been up and running for a few years now, and I’ve kept thinking “after <X> I’ll advertise it on Reddit,” but the time never seemed right. So now you fine folks are the first to hear the official announcement, I guess. But yeah, my friends and I have been using this site to run drafts at our houses (hence the name) for years now, and it works fine.
It’s free to use, you don’t need to make an account, it doesn’t show ads or mine your data or anything. There’s no catch. Unless you count the fact that I’m coding it as a hobby in my spare time, so the update schedule is pretty slow.
At present, Swiss is the only supported tournament format. I’d like to at least add support for single-elimination brackets so you can cut to a Top 8, but see above about my update schedule.
In the likely event that you don’t immediately understand how to use the site, refer to the “instructions” and “about” links at the top-right of the page.
Feedback is welcome!
When I generated the pairings for round 2, the timer from round 1 started counting down (continuing from the time when it stopped). It should have reset to 50 minutes and waited for me to start it manually, no?