Backyard Comp Backyard CompBackyard Comp keeps score, runs the bracket, settles the disputes and cuts the highlight reel — so you can actually play.
Free to use · Works on any phone · Backyard weekends, Thanksgiving, Christmas and family get-togethers
Three ways in
Same competition engine behind all three — the difference is how much of the weekend you want to spend organising instead of competing.
Do it yourself
Everything you need to run a proper competition in your own back yard. Open it, share the link, start playing.
Done for you
We turn up with the kit, set the whole thing up, referee every round and keep it moving. You host; we handle the competition.
Come to us
We run competition nights at bars for people who take winning unreasonably seriously. Turn up alone or bring a team.
Made for the whole family
Pick the occasion when you create your comp and it arrives set up — themed teams, starter games with proper rules, ready for you to hand out the codes.
Turkey bowling down the hallway, cranberry toss, a pie-eating contest, the family survey and the Turkey Bowl on the lawn before dinner. Teams like The Drumsticks and The Gravy Boats.
Ugly sweater runway, wrapping a present in oven mitts, the jingle bell shake, Name That Carol, a gingerbread build-off and a candy cane hunt.
All ages, all at once — egg-and-spoon, sack and three-legged races, cookie face, water balloon toss, Spoons and trivia about the family itself.
Long jump, sprints, throws and jump rope, run for each grade separately and rolling up to a school medal table. Volunteers at each station enter marks from their own phone, and parents watch the medals land live.
Fourteen 60-second games built from things already in the cupboard — stack 36 cups, move cotton balls with your nose, knock down bottles with a ball in a pair of tights. Every game lists exactly what to have ready.
The original: cornhole, kan jam, giant Jenga, ladder golf and trivia night, with beer pong and flip cup on the shelf for when the kids have gone to bed.
Inside the app
One link. Everyone opens it, picks their team, and it stays in sync all weekend.
Points go in as they happen and the table reorders itself. No spreadsheet, no whiteboard, no arguments about who is actually winning.
Brackets, rounds and round robins, drawn properly. Pick a format and the app works out who plays who, and when.
Everyone posts from their phone as it happens. Reactions, callouts and the running commentary that makes it worth remembering.
The weekend cut together at the end — scores, photos and the best moments, exportable as a video to send round the group chat.
Five ways to end an argument or decide who goes first — a coin, a weighted wheel, a reaction duel, Odds Are and hidden rock-paper-scissors. Every result is sealed before anyone plays, and any phone can check the seal.
69 games to start — cornhole and kan jam, turkey bowling and pie-eating, ugly sweaters and Name That Carol, sack races and 60-second challenges. Each has real rules, a list of exactly what supplies you need, and the right format already set. Add your own; it tracks who has won what, year after year.
How people get in
You create an organizer account and your comp. Nobody else signs up, makes a password or installs anything — you send the link, they type their team code and they're in.
Get in touch
Tell us roughly when, roughly how many people, and where — we will come back with what it would take.
Backyard parties, work away-days, stag weekends, bar competition nights.
backyardcomp@gmail.com · (562) 646-8226