About
Youth sports operations software, built by a club owner.
One platform for the tryout, the season and the facility. Game Mode is operated by Adalou LLC.
Why this exists
Built for the club, not the building.
The strongest platforms in this space are facility software — memberships, point of sale, court booking — with team features bolted on. That works if you own a building. If you run a club, the things you need most are the things they treat as a line item: the tryout, the evaluations, and the two to four weeks of selling that fill your rosters. Game Mode is built the other way around. Your season and your tryout come first, and the facility fits around them.
Who built this
Game Mode was built by an actual club owner, not a software company.
Justin Klipp played professionally, then spent ten years building and running a 200+ player organization in Texas — the tryouts, the rosters, the payment plans, the parent emails at eleven at night. He was paying for three separate platforms that each did one part of the job and none of them talked to each other. Evaluations in one, registrations and facility in another, training in a third, with team communication and recruiting held together by a separate group chat and spreadsheets.
He looked hard at switching to a single platform and couldn’t find one that fit a club instead of a building. So he built the exact thing he wanted.
Every part of Game Mode exists because it solved a real problem in a real season — not because it looked good on a feature list. Tryout season used to mean three weeks of twelve-hour days — three main tryouts, eight make-ups, and every roster decision tracked by hand. The first year he ran it on Game Mode, that came down to a fraction of the time and almost none of the stress.
That club still runs on it, and it made his whole staff’s job easier.
See it on your own tryout.
A 30-minute walkthrough with our team. Bring your rosters, your fee structure, and whatever your current setup can’t do.