Comparison
3 Strikes vs CueScore
Established cue-sports tournament and live-scoring platform.
What CueScore is
Widely used by European clubs and federations for brackets and live scoring, with public results pages and player match histories.
Pricing: Not published. Recorded as unknown.
What they do that we do not
This is the section most comparison pages leave out, which is why most comparison pages are useless. If any of the following matters to you, they are the better choice and you should stop reading here.
Depth and track record. For a sanctioned tournament with a bracket, rankings and public results, CueScore is built for exactly that and we are not. Two independent industry round-ups name it as the strongest bracket tool in cue sports.
- Single and double elimination and round robin
- Live public scoring that spectators can follow
- Player profiles and match history
- Multi-discipline support across cue sports
- Years of federation-level use
What we do that they do not
- The three-strikes format
- Who has paid, the pot and the payout
- A display built for a bar TV
- Published pricing
Which to pick
Pick 3 Strikes if you run an informal bar night rather than a sanctioned tournament.
Stay with CueScore if you run brackets or need federation-grade results pages.
How we checked
Every claim on this page comes from CueScore's own public material, read on 2026-10-20 and linked here. Where their material does not say something, we have recorded it as unknown rather than assuming it is absent. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it — we would rather be correct than flattering.