For sports leagues and team travel

Room blocks for a full season,
minus the grind

A full season means dozens of away games, the same hotel negotiations repeated, roster changes mid-season, and deadline tracking that never stops. Blocks clones events, remembers your rate history, and handles the hotel coordination so your travel team can focus on the season.

Every season is the same grind

42 games. Same hotels. Same negotiations. But roster changes, schedule shifts, and new contracts make it feel like starting over every year.

"We negotiate with the same 20 hotels every year but start from scratch on the spreadsheets each season."

Blocks remembers your rate history, contract terms, and hotel contacts. Clone last season's events and carry everything forward.

"A trade happens mid-season and suddenly we need to add rooms at 6 hotels for the rest of the year."

Update roster assignments once. Blocks propagates changes across all upcoming events and recalculates room needs.

"Tracking cutoff dates across 42 away games is a full-time job nobody signed up for."

Blocks watches every deadline across your entire season and alerts your team before any cutoff slips.

"Our travel coordinator spends more time on hotel admin than actual travel planning."

Blocks handles the hotel back-and-forth — contract review, tracked hotel follow-ups, rooming list collection — so your coordinator can focus on the operation.

Built for season-long travel operations

Repeatable workflows, institutional memory, and AI that handles the coordination — so your second season takes a fraction of the effort.

Event cloning

Clone last season's events with one click. Hotels, contacts, block templates, and smart defaults carry forward automatically.

Rate history

See what you paid at every property last season. Blocks uses your contract history to flag rate changes and suggest negotiation leverage.

Season-wide tracking

Track pickup, deadlines, and attrition risk across your entire season. Series views let you compare hotel performance game by game.

Illustrative example

Every host hotel on one board

Team blocks, officials, and family rooms across your host hotels — every cutoff tracked and slow pickup flagged before the penalty window.

Cascade Cup 2026

5 contracted hotels · Jul 17–20

Pickup57%1,410 / 2,480 nights
Attrition exposure$164kAcross 5 hotels
Daily occupancy

Peak night is Jul 19 at 82% capacity

ContractedPickup

Sports travel questions

How Blocks runs room blocks across a full season, stay-to-play, and team sub-blocks.

How does Blocks manage room blocks across a full season?
Blocks treats the season as one connected operation: every away game is an event, and its host hotels, blocks, and cutoffs sit on one board, grouped as a series. Clone last season to carry forward hotels, contacts, block templates, and smart defaults, so setting up 42 games does not mean rebuilding 42 spreadsheets. Your rate history follows every property, so you walk into each renewal knowing what you paid and where the leverage is. Pickup, deadlines, and attrition risk track across the whole season, and series views let you compare hotel performance game by game.
What is stay-to-play, and how does Blocks help with it?
Stay-to-play is a tournament rule requiring teams to book their lodging through the event's designated room block or housing partner in order to be eligible to compete. It exists so organizers hit the room-night commitments they guaranteed to host hotels — which is why capturing every team's rooms as pickup matters so much. Blocks gives each team its own sub-block, tracks picked-up room nights per team per night, and flags shortfalls before a cutoff, so you can see which teams still owe rooms while there is time to act. Blocks' glossary entry for stay-to-play and the full stay-to-play guide break the rule and its contract mechanics down further.
Can I give each team its own sub-block?
Yes. A host hotel's block can be split into per-team sub-blocks — plus separate ones for officials, staff, and families — each tracked on its own while rolling up to the hotel's total. Blocks tracks blocked, assigned, picked-up, and pending room nights per night for every sub-block, so you see exactly which team is under-committed on a given night. Each team's manager can work in their own request portal — a private link, no login — to submit their roster and rooming details, and those names feed the hotel-ready list for the property.
How do we make sure family bookings count toward our pickup?
Give families a booking path inside the block and track it, because bookings made around the block are exactly where pickup credit leaks. Industry-wide, a large share of registrants book around the official room block rather than inside it, which quietly erodes the pickup you are judged on and inflates attrition exposure. Blocks gives families a branded page to book and pay for their own rooms — or lets each team route them through a request portal — so those rooms land in the block, tracks picked-up nights per team, and, when the hotel returns its list, matches every booking by confirmation number so nothing is double-counted or missed.
How does Blocks work with a tournament housing bureau?
Blocks sits on your side of the housing bureau as your own system of record. When the bureau sends back its rooming list — as a spreadsheet, CSV, or PDF — Blocks lays it against your reservations and matches every row by confirmation number first, then groups the differences: a name mismatch, a date or room-type change, a guest on your list missing from theirs, or an extra on theirs. You accept the corrections you want, and Blocks drafts a changes-only email back to the bureau listing just what needs fixing. Nothing changes on your reservations until you say so, so you keep agency-grade control without depending on the bureau to be your source of truth.

Have more questions? Check our glossary of terms or get in touch.

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