We use phone registration to simplify things and make sure you are a real person.
You should receive a confirmation text message. Call the number and select tech support if you do not get the message.
We use text messages for invites, scores and assignments. Be sure to adjust your invite lists.
Your Full Legal Name, Preferred Name and Birthday are most important.
Why Full Legal Name?
Lots of people have the same first and last name. Adding the other components helps identify you.
Your legal name is most stable. People often go by many different names.
Your settings ask for full legal name, full legal birth name and preferred name. Other users will only see your preferred first name and last initial.
Payments use legal names.
Why Birthday?
Lots of people have the same name. We need another identifier.
Very few people are born the same month, day and year.
It is the only thing that doesn't change. People change emails, phones and even names.
It is easier to understand a date than the spelling of someone's name.
Age/Birthday is important in some of our activities.
Birthdays are not a security feature. You can easily look up almost every celebrity, athlete, politician or neighbor's birthday online. It doesn't give you access to anything.