Competitions
Ladders, boxes, round robins, knockouts and events, scoring and the boards.
What this part of Sports Club OS does ↗
Overview
How to
- Choose the club's scoring rulesThe Scoring tab of Settings: which sports are offered, each sport's built-in rules, the older rules the club can offer, and the default for a new competition.
- Create a competition and take entriesSet up a ladder, box league, round robin or knockout, add players or let members enter, approve requests, then close entries and make the draw.
- Enter a match resultType in a match's score after it is played. It counts straight away, and either player or the convener can correct it later.
- Prepare and print scoring codesMake a scoring code for every match ready to play, or for one day's order of play, and print them as cards to put at the courts.
- Score a badminton match on a phoneScore a badminton match rally by rally, with the service court, doubles positions, lets, faults, cards, the interval and the change of ends.
- Score a match point by point on a phoneScore a match at the court on a phone, one press a rally, with the warm-up clock and the toss. The court's TV and the wallboards follow every press.
- Score a pickleball match on a phoneScore a pickleball match rally by rally, with the three-number call, first and second server, side outs, time-outs, faults and the change of ends.
- Score a quick match on your phoneAnyone can score a squash, tennis, padel, pickleball or badminton match on their own phone at sportsclubos.net/score, and let others watch with a code.
- Score a tennis or padel match on a phoneScore a tennis or padel match point by point, with the serving half, faults and lets, deuce, no-ad and Star Point, tie-breaks, changeovers and doubles order.
- Score or watch a match with its codeAnyone with a match's scoring code (GPHC-7K3M) or its QR code can score it on their phone, signed in or not. The first phone scores; the rest watch.
- Set match times in the order of playGive matches a day, time and court: let Sports Club OS fill a day, then drag matches to move or swap them, or set one match's time from the match itself.
- Wallboards and putting a board on a TVPreview any competition board live, as a TV shows it, then put it on one of the club's TVs in light or dark, or manage the TVs from TV screens.
- Your matches and rankings (members)See everything you are playing in, answer a ladder challenge, enter a competition, share your contact details with opponents, and see the club rankings.
How it works
- Club ratingsHow the club rating for each sport starts, moves with every result and seeds draws, and the results file a convener can download for rating services.
- Events with several grades and sportsAn event is one tournament made of several competitions, a grade or a sport each, sharing one page, one wallboard and one order of play per sport.
- Ladders, boxes, round robins and knockoutsThe four kinds of competition, how each is made and moves, its rules and their defaults, and the scoring each sport can use.