Court scoreboards

A court scoreboard is a big score for one court, for a tablet or TV beside the boards that the players and the crowd can read from a distance. It follows every game on that court by itself, the same game the court's scoring tablet is on, and moves to the next game on its own.

It's separate from wall displays: each court's scoreboard has its own link, so you can turn one off without touching the others or any wall display.

Setting one up

1. Open your club's Manage page and choose Court scoreboards.
2. Under Add courts, enter how many courts you have and tap Add. For a court with its own name, like Center Court, type it under Or a court with its own name.
3. Tap Show link on a court and open the link once in the web browser of the screen beside that court (scan the QR code, or tap Copy link).

A screen that can't scan, like a Fire TV stick? Under the QR code, tap Get a setup code, then on the screen open skoryd.com/connect in its web browser and type the 6-digit code. A code works once, for 10 minutes.

That's it. The screen keeps showing that court's games until you revoke it.

A scoreboard finds its court by name, the same way scoring tablets do: an event that never named its courts calls them Court 1, Court 2 and so on.

What it shows

• The Skoryd logo, your club, the court, the event, and the round.
• Each side's name and score on a big panel in their bag color, bright in light and dark mode alike. When the game uses No bag colors, both panels are one neutral color instead: slate grey in light mode, a dark slate in dark mode, so they don't look like grey bags. A side that reaches the target turns green (yellow for a side throwing green bags).
• The same bright green outline, score and Throws first tag as the scorers, on the side that throws first next round (yellow for a side throwing green bags), so it can be read from the far board.
• The green "Round N being scored…" banner while someone enters a round, and the full-screen round result as soon as it's saved.
• When a game ends, the final score and Winner stay up for a minute, then the next game on that court takes over.
• With nothing to show, it says why: nothing on the court, the event hasn't started, or the next game is starting soon.

The scoreboard can't be used to score, so it never gets in the way of whoever is. Its only buttons are in the top corner: light or dark mode, refresh, and full screen.

Keeping the screen running

The scoreboard goes full screen on the first tap (or the first press of a TV remote's button) and keeps the screen on while it's open. If it drops out of full screen, the next tap puts it back; if you leave full screen with the full-screen button, it stays out until you tap that button again. Some screens don't let a web page keep them on (an iPad on an older iPadOS is one), so also set the device to stay on in its own settings: on an iPad, Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never; on a Fire or Android tablet, the longest Screen timeout.

On an iPad or an Android tablet, add the scoreboard to the home screen (Safari's Share → Add to Home Screen, or Chrome's ⋮ → Install app or Add to Home screen). The icon is named for the court, like Court 3 Scoreboard, and opens its scoreboard full screen. On an Amazon Fire tablet, use Add to Home Screen in the Silk browser's menu; the icon opens the scoreboard in Silk.

If a scoreboard's link is changed or revoked, delete its old icon from the home screen (it will never work again), then open the new link and add that instead.

Keeping track of scoreboards

Each scoreboard shows when it was last seen, so a forgotten one stands out.

• New link gives that court's scoreboard a fresh link and stops the old one. Open the new link on the screen.
• Revoke stops that court's scoreboard. Its screen says the link has stopped working.
• Revoke all scoreboards stops every court scoreboard at your club at once.