Questions

A phone, tablet or laptop with a web browser for the scoring table. Nothing to install. A tablet or laptop gives a big, easy-to-read board; a phone works fine too.

No. Share the event's 4-digit code or link and anyone can watch every game live in their browser, for free.

Yes. Score a demo game yourself (nothing is saved), or browse a demo season with standings, schedules and stats.

There's an Android app for the scoring table (download). It keeps the horn and countdown sounds going when the screen locks or you switch apps. On iPhone, install it as a web app: open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. It then opens full-screen from its own icon like any other app. Keep the screen on while scoring.

Scoring carries on. The clock, buzzers and scores all run on the device, and everything syncs when the signal comes back. Spectators see the latest update they received until then.

Yes: game length, break time between points, timeouts (how many, how long, and a lock near the end of the break), mercy rule, points per win/tie/loss, tie-breakers, one buzzer per team or a single referee buzzer, start-countdown buttons, and whether teams swap ends after a point. You can also name your ends after your field, like River and Carpark.

Yes: a horn, countdown beeps, and optional spoken cues like "thirty seconds" or "one minute remaining", plus announcements of the next game.

After each result it can offer to shift the rest of the schedule when you're running ahead or behind. You can also add a lunch break and set the time between games, and it can start the next game's countdown automatically.

On one field, one game at a time. A split deck lets two games share the field: the decks take turns, each playing its point while the other has its break, all run from one phone.

Yes, if you want them. They're optional: the buzzers on the screen always work. Any wireless button set that works as a keyboard to your phone or tablet (USB or Bluetooth) will do. It needs a button at each end of the field and a receiver that types the key F13 for one end and F14 for the other. Turn them on in Settings & sound → Buzzer buttons and set which end is which. Need a hand? Email [email protected].

Yes. Log in on as many phones, tablets or laptops as you like. Each game is run by the device that opens it; the others watch it live and can take over with one tap, handy if a phone goes flat.

Round robin (everyone plays everyone once) or double round robin, with or without finals. Add your teams and it builds the draw and the schedule with game times. For anything else, such as pools, cup and plate, or a straight knockout, build it yourself round by round, start from a template, or describe it in words and let it build the draw. Save a format to reuse it next time.

Group tournaments into a season and teams earn season points by finishing position. You can add guest teams that play in an event without counting for the season, and manually override points when you need to.

Records like quickest point, longest game, highest scoring game and most points played, plus team leaders, for each event and across the season. See what the stats mean.

Yes, if you turn it on. You get a private link to send teams. Captains enter their team and players, and each player signs your waiver on their own phone (under-18s with a parent or guardian). Teams go straight onto your team list. In a season, teams register once and players sign once for every event. Contact details and signatures are only seen by your hosts.

Yes. Paint sign-out records cases per team with a signature, and can show a "Trigger Happy" stat. Sign-out details stay with your hosts; only per-team totals are shown publicly.

Yes. They tick their team on the event page and get a phone notification when its game is coming up or starting. On iPhone this works once the page is added to the Home Screen.

Yes: copy-paste embeds for any website, or the WordPress plugin. They update by themselves. See embeds.

Live events are listed on the home page for anyone to watch, unless you mark an event "code required"; then only people with its 4-digit code can find it. You choose what goes on the public results page, and only your logged-in hosts can change scores.

It’s free forever for the first few event hosts. See pricing. Spectators always watch free.

You do. We store them so the app and your spectators can see them. See our privacy policy and terms.