Premium
The full picture of anyone you might play, Team Up, and your place on the circuit.
£20a year, all in
Sign in to go Premium
Premium attaches to your My Pila account. Sign in (or create one, it's free) to continue to checkout.
≈ £1.67 a month, billed once a year
Secure payment by Stripe. Cancel any time, and the year you paid for runs out normally. Cancel within 14 days of paying for a full refund — see our terms.
One annual charge, no tiers above it, and no per-feature pricing.
Free or Premium, side by side
Free account
£0
Your rating, its trend, full names in every draw, and everyone else's basics.
Find a tournament and enter it
- Browse all tournaments
- Filter by region, county or town, or by distance from you
- See level caps and entry numbers
Play, and hold a rating
- Full names on every draw and result
- Your own rating, and the trend behind it
- A verified badge once your rating settles
Look up another player
- Other players' basic profile: name, band, verified badge
Everything on the Free side stays free at every tier.
Premium
£20a year
The full picture of anyone you might play, Team Up, and your place on the circuit.
Everything free, plus
- See the full profile of any player with an account: exact rating, rating trend, latest resultTheir exact rating, the trend of their latest 20 rating changes and their latest result, so you know who you are agreeing to play before you agree to it. In the player directory this is the difference between seeing their exact rating and only their band.
- Find a partner with Team UpSay when you play, where, and the level you are looking for. Interest goes both ways, and neither of you sees the other’s contact details until you have both said yes.
- Claim a qualifying circuit spotFinish in the qualifying places and the spot is offered to you; claiming it is the Premium half. Earning it is not: circuit points come from finishing positions, and entering earns nothing.
- Higher waitlist priorityWhen an event fills, Premium sits higher on the waitlist, and the event page says so, on the page, before you enter. It is the one advantage Premium carries over another player, and it is never a hidden one.
The boundary around it
What Premium does not do
It never moves your rating.
A rating is a replay of countersigned results and nothing else. There is no premium arithmetic, no boost, and no setting.
It never buys you into a draw.
Who is in an event is the organiser’s decision and the band cap’s. Disclosed waitlist priority is the only ordering Premium touches, and the event page shows it before you enter.
It never sits between you and a tournament.
Entering, playing, being scored and holding a rating are free at every tier. Your entry fee goes to the organiser directly. It never passes through My Pila at all.
Questions
Do I have to pay to enter tournaments?
No, never. Your free account already includes full names on every draw and result, your own rating, and the trend behind it, and other players' basic profile: name, band, verified badge. Entering a tournament and paying the organiser happens entirely outside My Pila. There is no toll on participation at any tier, and there never will be. Premium only adds depth on top: other players’ full profiles (including their exact rating in the player directory, which stays open to everyone at a band), Team Up, and the circuit.
What happens if I cancel?
Nothing right away. Access runs to the end of the year you already paid for. After that, the Premium surfaces close, but nothing is deleted: your stats and history resume exactly where they left off if you resubscribe. If you cancel within 14 days of paying, you get a full refund under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013; after that, cancelling stops the next renewal. The details are in our terms.
Does an organiser need Premium to run events?
No. Premium attaches to your player account. Running events costs nothing.
Do I need Premium to be on the circuit?
No. Circuit points come from finishing positions in ordinary tournaments, and every player earns them at every tier. You are on the leaderboard whether or not you pay. Premium is needed for one thing only: taking up a qualifying spot when the cycle ends. If you qualify without Premium, the spot is still offered to you first, and if you do not take it, it rolls down to the next player.
What happens to Premium if I change my email or sign in with Google?
Nothing. Premium is attached to your My Pila account, not to an email address or a way of signing in. Change your email, or switch between the email code and Google, and your subscription, its renewal date and everything it unlocks carry on exactly as before. If you ever find yourself with two accounts, sign in with the one you paid from: Premium follows that account.