Turn your ping pong table into a company league
Ping pong, foosball, pool, chess and 15 more — each with its own ranking and tournaments. Colleagues join in two minutes, results confirm themselves, and nobody has to organise anything.
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Free for your colleagues, on iPhone and Android. One home screen, every sport your office plays.
Buying the table was the easy part
Most offices already have the equipment. What they do not have is a reason to use it on a Tuesday, or a way for someone new to find an opponent without asking a stranger for a game.
Asking a colleague you barely know for a game takes more nerve than it should. A league does the asking for you — you are simply next to each other in a table.
The colleague with the spreadsheet keeps the tournament alive until they go on holiday. Scores, confirmations and rankings should not depend on one person's goodwill.
Three days a week in the office means fewer chance encounters. People who joined in the last two years often know only their own team.
Three taps, then just play
Taking part is always the employee's choice. Nobody is entered into anything on their behalf.
A link from HR, a QR code by the table, or a company email address. The app installs in under a minute and there is no password to invent — not on the first try, not ever.
Three quick questions place you mid-table rather than at the bottom, so a beginner's first opponent is another beginner and not the office champion.
Either player enters the result; the other confirms with one tap, or it confirms itself in a day. Rankings update on their own. Nobody keeps a spreadsheet.
A leaderboard can quietly humiliate people, and then they stop playing. So we show you the handful of colleagues around your level rather than a list of 200, tell you how close the next place is, and never advertise last position. Everyone can also see who they have never played — which is where most first conversations come from.
Every sport gets its own league
Separate rankings, separate tournaments, separate rules. Being unbeatable at foosball says nothing about your chess, so the tables never mix — and somebody who is last at one sport is often first at another.
Best of 5 to 11
The one that gets played at lunch. Usually the busiest league in any office by a wide margin.
First to 10 goals
Quick games, so people play three in a row. Good for a league that needs momentum fast.
Race to 2 · 8-ball
Nine-ball and snooker are separate variants with their own rankings, if your table sees both.
One game · draws count
Played online, so it works for remote colleagues and for people who are never in on the same day.
One game
The quiet favourite. Smaller than chess everywhere we have seen it, and fiercely loyal.
Already configured and waiting for the first office that asks. Nothing to build.
Twenty sports, four kinds of place
Switch any of them on for a location and the league exists. A sport is five settings — how it is scored, whether draws happen, the default format, which team sizes are allowed and where it is played — so adding one is configuration rather than a release.
Doubles padel, a five-a-side football match, two-on-two foosball. Ratings stay individual — teams are whoever you happened to play with that day, so nobody needs to build a squad first.
Variants count as their own league: 8-ball, 9-ball, snooker and English pool keep separate rankings, as do 301, 501 and Cricket at darts. Playing something we have missed? Ask — it is usually a row, not a release.
Ask for a sportWe are onboarding our first ten companies by hand. Half price for the first year, and the founder's phone number instead of a support queue. Six places left.
Claim a placeTwo sides have to want this
You are the one who signs for it. Your colleagues are the ones who decide whether it lives. Here is the honest case for each.
What you get to report
A new colleague has a reason to talk to eleven people in their first fortnight, none of them their manager. That is the part of onboarding no document covers.
Chess and backgammon run company-wide and are played online, so Bucharest plays Cluj. The app counts every pair who played each other for the first time, and that is the number worth watching.
A Friday tournament in the calendar fills the office better than a policy does, and nobody has to be told to attend.
Participation, how many played this week, matches per week, and how many colleagues met someone new — the four numbers you need when somebody asks what the budget bought.
Most offices have the table. What they do not have is a reason for two people who have never met to walk over to it.
Opt-in, EU-hosted, nothing for IT to deploy, no directory to connect, a signed agreement on request, and data you can export or delete whenever you like.
Why they open it twice
The app names two or three colleagues within a few points of you. Not the office champion, and not somebody you would beat 11-2.
No group chat, no sign-up sheet, no volunteer keeping score on a whiteboard. You play, one of you types the result, the other confirms.
A rating that moves because you got better, and a position you can see closing on the person above you. Never a score against a company target.
Fifteen minutes with someone from finance you would otherwise only see in a meeting invite. This is where the friendships come from.
Losses move your rating, not your reputation. Play badly for a fortnight and you quietly stop appearing on the public table until you play again.
Joining a league is your decision, not your manager's. Leave one, hide behind a nickname, or delete your account — all without asking anyone.
The two lists only work together. An engagement tool nobody enjoys produces numbers you cannot show anybody — which is why taking part is always the colleague's own choice, and why we never rank people against a target.
See the HR stepsYou set it up once, then it runs itself
The worst outcome for an engagement tool is becoming somebody's second job. Everything below exists so that it does not become yours.
Upload any spreadsheet from your HR system — we work out the columns and show you the result before importing. Then five steps and a launch playbook.
Each league gets a colleague who already cares. They settle the rare disagreement and run tournaments, so disputes never reach your inbox.
Participation, matches per week, and how many colleagues met someone new. A weekly email brings them to you with three sentences you can paste anywhere.
No notifications outside working hours, no chasing people who are not interested, and nobody's inbox filling up because a colleague won a game.
Nobody is measured, ranked or reported on
This is the objection that sinks engagement tools inside companies, so it is worth being exact about it.
Whether someone plays is visible. How good they are is not exported, not reported and never part of a review. Ratings exist to find you a fair opponent, nothing else.
Read the privacy notice →Nobody can be entered into a competition on their behalf — not by HR, not by a colleague. Leave a league or delete your account whenever you like, and play under a nickname if you prefer.
Export everything at any time, including after you leave. Nobody at StaffCup can open your dashboard without a logged support session that you can see while it is open and afterwards.
Before you ask
Anything else, write to us — a person answers, usually the same day.
Thirty days, your whole company, no card
Every feature is on during the trial. If you cancel, your leagues pause rather than vanish — the tables and history stay readable, and your colleagues are never told anything about billing.
Everything you have to do, start to finish
Five steps to set it up, four things to do in the first two weeks, and then about ten minutes a month. This page is the whole commitment, written down before you sign anything.
Five steps, in one sitting
Nothing is sent to anybody until the last step, so you can stop and come back.
Your company
Name, email domain and time zone. You verified your email with the code that came in the same message as your sign-in link, so there is no inbox detour here.
There is no password to create, here or ever. Everyone signs in with a link, which is also why there is nothing for IT to install.
Four things decide whether it sticks
The failure mode is not a bad product, it is a league with six players. These four moves are what prevent it, and we remind you about each at the right time.
An invitation nobody was warned about looks like spam. Post in Slack first — we write the text, you change the jokes.
A date does more for sign-ups than any reminder. Beginners enter tournaments they would never enter a league for.
The colleague who already cares. It is a small favour and a real compliment, and it is what keeps disputes off your desk.
An engraved mug is enough. It is the handing-over at the all-hands that people remember, not the value.
That is roughly where a league becomes self-sustaining — enough people that somebody is always up for a game. Below it, one nudge from you keeps it alive; your dashboard tracks the number per league so you know which one needs the nudge.
Ten minutes a month, honestly
Once commissioners are in place, most weeks you do nothing. Here is the whole list of what can land on you, and what happens if you ignore it.
Scores confirm themselves after a day. Challenges expire after two. A dispute nobody touches cancels itself after a week with no effect on anyone's rating. Forgetting always has a safe outcome — that is a design rule, not a happy accident.
Answers for the conversations around you
Legal, IT and the sceptical colleague in the kitchen. In our experience these three come up every time.
Name, work email, office and the matches somebody played. That is all. Stored in the EU, exportable at any time, deletable on request, with a signed data processing agreement ready for them.
Read the agreement →No. There is nothing for IT to deploy and no directory to connect — colleagues install the free app themselves and sign in with a link, no passwords anywhere. If your IT team requires single sign-on, that is available on Enterprise.
Whether someone plays is visible to you. How good they are is not exported, not reported, and never part of a review. And nobody can be entered into anything without choosing to join.
Start with one office and one sport
You do not have to launch everything at once. One table, one league, thirty days — that is enough to know whether your office wants this.
You pay for people who could play
Not for people who did. That is deliberate: nobody in your team should ever be tempted to talk a colleague out of joining to save money. Colleagues who leave stop counting.
All prices exclude VAT. Per-colleague price calculated at full capacity.
Starter and Growth are the same product — every sport, every feature, no restrictions. The only difference is how many colleagues can join. Pick the one that fits your headcount. Enterprise adds SSO and a signed agreement for organisations that need them.
Competitions pause, tables and history stay readable, and your account is held for ninety days with the export available the whole time. We write to you, never to your colleagues.
Universities, clubs and charities get a discount — the product is the same, the vocabulary changes to students and campuses. Write to us and we will sort it out.