Tournaments
Brackets, mats and a bout board.
Seed the bracket, queue every mat from one screen, weigh the field in once, and print what the tables need. The gym watches the bout board; you watch the tournament.
Tournaments run from a team or league workspace.
Formats
Three formats, and the limits are real.
Pick the format per weight class. ScoreOps builds the bracket, places the byes and works out who meets whom.
Single elimination
2 to 64 entrants
The field rounds up to the next power of two and the top seeds take the byes.
Pool
Up to 8 entrants
Everyone wrestles everyone, paired round by round.
Pools, then a bracket
2 to 8 pools
Pools of two to six, one or two out of each. Seeds snake into the pools, and a runner-up never opens against their own pool winner.
Wrestlebacks
To 4th, 6th or 8th
Or a single third-place bout, or repechage for two bronzes. Add a true second, and best 2 of 3 when a weight has two.
Seeding
Seed it by hand. Re-seed until it starts.
Seeding is a list you put in order: drag the handle, or move a wrestler with the arrow buttons if you are working on a laptop. Row one is the one seed.
- Re-seed after a late scratch or an extra entry: the bracket keeps its bouts, their numbers and their mats, and only the names move.
- Re-seeding locks once the first bout in that bracket has started, so nobody rewrites a bracket mid-round.
- Empty seeds become byes, and they go to the wrestlers seeded highest.
The board
Run the board, not the gym floor.
One screen holds every mat's queue. Move a bout where it needs to be and the operator board, the gym TV and the app all follow.
- Drag a bout up or down its mat's queue, or across to another mat.
- Rebalance a slow mat in one action instead of moving bouts one at a time.
- On the mat, on deck and in the hole — the same three words on the board, on the TV and on a family's phone.
- Record a result with the clock, or without it: winner, result type, and the score or the fall time.
- A table link can be limited to a single mat, so a volunteer can only touch their own.
- The gym TV shows four mats at a time and turns to the next four every twelve seconds, with nobody running it.
Weigh-ins
One weigh-in, the whole day.
Every team weighs in once for the tournament, and the weights stay behind the desk \u2014 they are never published.
- Weights typed to a tenth of a pound as each wrestler steps off the scale.
- Anyone above their declared class is flagged by how much, with the season's allowance already counted in.
- A weight two pounds or more from that wrestler's last one has to be confirmed before it saves.
- Print one page per team for the head table.
Printouts
Print it. Then put it on the wall.
Four printouts, each without a scrap of app chrome, for the day the wifi is worse than the coffee.
Brackets
One bracket per page, or every weight at once, ready to post.
Bout sheets
Every bout still to wrestle, mat by mat. A bracket bout waiting on a result prints as “winner of”.
Mat sheets
One sheet per mat with room to write the winner and score by hand, for when a tablet dies.
Weigh-in sheets
One page per team, from the weights at the desk.
How it works
From entries to a team score.
- 01
Add the mats
Name as many as the gym has, and put them in the order the board should read. - 02
Enter the field
Add entrants by weight class, from your roster or by name for visiting teams. - 03
Seed and build
Put each weight in seed order, pick the format and the consolation depth, and build the bracket. - 04
Queue the mats
Bouts land in mat queues. Drag them where they belong and start the day. - 05
Score, or record
Run the clock on the control board, or record the winner and result straight from the board when the bout was scored on paper. - 06
Team scores follow
Advancement, bonus and placement points add up as bouts finish — 16, 12, 9, 7, 4 and 3 for first through sixth.
Your next tournament, on one board.
Start a trial, build a practice bracket on a spare laptop and run it before the real thing.