Scoreboard & broadcast

Your tournament has a scoreboard for every court: a full-screen display for a TV at the venue, a control page the referee scores on, and a compact overlay you can drop into a stream.

It is a separate site from the organizer app, on the same subdomain as your public page:

https://your-tournament.scored-board.com

It opens on your courts. Each card names the court, the match on it now, and shows a small live preview, so you can tell at a glance which screen belongs where.

Part of the Small plan

The scoreboard and the broadcast overlay come with the Small plan and up. On Free, the scoreboard tells you it is not part of the tournament’s plan - see Plans & billing.

A screen at the venue

1. Open the scoreboard address on the device driving the screen.

   A smart TV browser, a laptop, a tablet - anything that can hold a page open.

2. Tap the court that screen is for.

   The court fills the screen: both teams with their logos or country flags, the score, and the clock or set tally for the sport being played.

3. Put the browser in full screen and leave it.

   Nothing to sign into and nothing to keep tapping. Between matches the screen reads No active match, and the next match appears when the referee starts it.

A scoreboard needs landscape. A device held in portrait shows Please rotate your device instead of the score.

If the teams are on the wrong side for the room, the swap button in the corner of the display flips them. It only changes that screen.

Handing a court to its referee

Every court has a controller code, which is what lets a device score that court. You set it - or let Scored assign one - when you add the court under Setup > Courts, and the courts list shows it. Schedule covers adding courts.

The referee opens the court’s control page, enters the code, and clicks Take Control. Referees working from the referee app get a Scoreboard button that opens the right court for them, and the code on their match, so most of the time you have nothing to hand out.

The code is the key

Anyone with a court’s code can score that court, and there is no sign-in behind it. Give a court its own code, put it in front of officials rather than on a public sign, and change it under Setup > Courts if it gets out.

The overlay for your stream

Each court has an overlay built for streaming software: a compact panel with both teams, the score, and the clock or sets, and nothing else on the page.

1. Get the court’s display open and use the camera button in its corner.

   That is the overlay for the same court. Copy the address from your browser - it is the court’s address with /tv on the end.

2. In OBS, add a Browser source and paste the address.

3. Size and crop the source so the panel sits where you want it in your layout.

   The panel keeps its own size rather than stretching to fill the source, so crop to it instead of scaling the whole page.

It follows the match live, the same as the venue screen: the referee scores, and your stream updates with them. Nothing to export and nothing to retype.

Adding ?mirror to the overlay address swaps which team is on which side, for when your camera angle disagrees with the scoreboard.

What the overlay does not carry

Lineups, standings and brackets are not on the overlay, and its styling is not yet something you can change. If you need those on screen today, build them into your own layout.