Kiosk scoring

Kiosk scoring turns a tablet into the scorer for one court. Nobody has to log in: the tablet shows whatever match is on its court next, and players score it right there.

There are two ways to set a tablet up:

• Club scoring tablets: set each tablet up once as one of your club's courts, and it scores every event your club runs on that court. Best when your tablets stay on the same courts week after week.
• One event's kiosk links: a set of links for a single event. Handy for a one-off event, or tablets you bring along for the day.

Club scoring tablets (set up once)

1. Open your club's Manage page and choose Scoring tablets. Only the club's organizers can open it.
2. Add your courts. Enter how many courts you have and tap Add 8 courts (the button shows your number), which makes Court 1 to Court 8. Or type a court with its own name, like Center Court, and tap Add.
3. On a court, tap Show code and scan the QR code with that court's tablet (or tap Copy link and open the link on the tablet).

A tablet that can't scan? Most Amazon Fire tablets have no QR scanner. Under the QR code, tap Get a setup code. On the tablet, open skoryd.com/connect in its web browser and type the 6-digit code. A code works once, for 10 minutes; tap Get a new code if it runs out. Too many wrong tries and the page asks you to wait a while; the QR code and Copy link still work.

That tablet is now that court for every event your club runs. Whenever an event is using the court, the tablet scores its games, and when one event finishes and the next one starts on the same court, the tablet moves over on its own. When nothing is on the court, it shows Nothing on Court 7 right now and waits.

A tablet finds its event by the court's name. An event that never named its courts calls them Court 1, Court 2 and so on, so they match without any setup. If two events run at the same time on different courts, name the second event's courts after the courts they're really on (for example Court 7 to Court 12) in that event's settings, so each tablet finds the right game.

A court tablet can only score games on its own court. Each court on the Scoring tablets page shows when its tablet was last seen, or Not set up on a tablet yet if no tablet has scanned it.

TVs can be set up the same way: see Wall displays and Court scoreboards.

One event's kiosk links

1. Open the event and find the Scoring kiosk card. It's on the event page and on the Screens tab of the Control Center. Only organizers see it, and only for a cornhole event whose registration is closed or that has started. (Crew Cup events can't be scored on a kiosk.)
2. Tap Generate scoring links. The card shows a QR code for each court, with a Copy link button under each one.
3. On each tablet, scan its court's QR code (or open its link). The tablet is now that court for this event.

The tablet remembers its link for 30 days, so it stays a kiosk across matches and after the screen sleeps. You set it up once at the start of the event.

How it scores

• The kiosk shows the current match for its court and lets anyone score it on the tablet, with no account needed.
• Nothing can be scored until the event starts. Until you press Start on the event, the tablet says the event hasn't started yet; it picks up the first match on its own once you do.
• If a player in the next match is still playing on another court, the tablet says the court is up next and starts the match by itself once they're free.
• The event's name sits under the Skoryd logo, so players can tell which event the court is running. That's handy when divisions take turns on the same courts.
• When you tap a team's score to enter a round, the input card offers two styles: Grid (one tap per side on the exact outcome) or In/On (tap 0–4 for each side's bags in the hole and on the board). It starts on Grid; switch at the top of the card and the tablet remembers your choice. The two styles are just different ways to enter the same round: the result and the stats saved are the same either way.
• At an event set to simple score-only, the tablet shows the same scoreboard, but tapping a team asks for that team's points for the round (+1 to +12, or 0 for a wash) instead of bags. The score cards show no bag stats, and tapping a round in the middle column corrects it.
• One device scores each round. If a player starts entering a round on their phone, the tablet shows a green "Round 4 being scored…" banner in the middle of the screen with the score as it goes in, and won't take taps until that round is saved or cancelled. The tablet's entry card never pops open on its own. If the phone goes quiet for 20 seconds, the tablet offers Take over scoring; after a minute the round frees up by itself. It works the same the other way round. See one scorer at a time.
• After each round is saved, the tablet flashes both sides' points for that round full-screen for about three seconds, with the round's winner on green.
• Want a big, read-only score beside the court as well? A court scoreboard follows the same game this tablet is on, and nothing on it can be tapped.
• Bag colors only need picking once. If a player picks them on their phone first, the tablet's color picker closes by itself.
• When a game ends, tap Submit for approval on the tablet. The players still confirm on their own phones: the kiosk can't finalize a match that includes a real player, unless the event records scores without confirmation (below).
• Submitting sends a push to the (real, non-guest) players who still need to confirm, reminding them to open the app and approve the score. Players who've turned on notifications get the push; everyone sees the "needs your confirmation" banner in the app either way.
• After a match is confirmed, the kiosk moves on to the next match on that court by itself, with no reload, so it stays full-screen all event. A waiting screen shows between matches.

All-guest matches

If every player in a match is a guest (no accounts, so no phones to confirm on), the kiosk shows a Finish match button. One tap finalizes it right there. Otherwise a match with even one real player can't be finalized from the kiosk.

Events that record scores without confirmation

If the organizer ticked Record scores without player confirmation for a cornhole event, the tablet shows Finish match for every match when the game ends, and one tap records the result. Nobody confirms on a phone and no confirmation push goes out. The tablet only records a finished game whose score matches the rounds entered on it. See Confirming & disputing scores.

Putting a tablet on its home screen

Once a tablet is on its court's page (or its board's page, for an event kiosk link), add that page to the tablet's home screen. The icon is named for the court or board, like Court 3 Tablet, so a tablet can hold more than one, and each opens straight to its own.

• iPad: in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen, then Add. The icon opens the court full screen, without Safari's bars.
• Android tablet: in Chrome, tap the ⋮ menu, then Install app or Add to Home screen. The icon opens the court full screen.
• Amazon Fire tablet: in the Silk browser, open the menu and choose Add to Home Screen. On a Fire tablet the icon opens the court's page in Silk, so keep using Silk on that tablet and don't clear its browsing data. Each time the tablet is used, its court link is renewed, so it keeps working for as long as the court isn't revoked.

If the icon ever opens to a "link invalid or revoked" screen, the court's link was changed or revoked. Delete that icon from the home screen first (it will never work again), then scan the court's new code and add the new page to the home screen.

Full screen and keeping the screen on

The first tap anywhere on a kiosk page takes it full screen, hiding the browser's bars. If the screen drops out of full screen (after a reload, or a swipe that leaves the browser), the next tap puts it back. To leave full screen on purpose, use the full-screen button in the kiosk header; the page then stays out of full screen until you tap that button again. An icon on an iPad or Android home screen opens full screen already.

While the page is open, the tablet keeps its screen on where it can. Some tablets don't let a web page do this (an iPad on an older iPadOS is one, and an icon on an iPad's home screen needs iPadOS 18.4 or later), so also set the screen to stay on in the tablet's own settings:

• iPad: Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never.
• Fire tablet: Settings → Display → Screen Timeout, the longest choice.
• Android tablet: Settings → Display → Screen timeout, the longest choice.

On a tablet that stays at the court, also turn off its lock screen passcode.

In dark mode the page around the scores goes dark, which is easier on the tablet's battery, while the two score cards keep their bright colours so they read as easily across the court. A match set to no bag colors keeps dark score cards instead, since there's no team colour to pick out.

Something look stuck? The refresh button beside the full-screen button (a circular arrow) reloads the page. Everything already saved stays, and the next tap puts the page back in full screen.

Flipping the sides to match the court

The tablet shows the first team on the left. If the tablet faces the court from the other end, the screen can be the wrong way round for the players. Open the ⋮ menu and tap Flip sides on this screen: each team's name, score and stats, the round list and the round-entry card all swap sides (held upright, top and bottom swap). Nothing about the match changes, and nobody else's screen is affected, so with a tablet at each board you can flip just the one at the far end.

The tablet remembers it and stays flipped for every match after this one. Tap Flip sides back in the same menu to undo it.

Safety: turning tablets off

Anyone who has a tablet's link can score with it, so treat the links like keys, and the tablets that hold them too: someone with the tablet in their hands can copy its link off it. A link can only score games: it can't open your club's pages, change settings, or see anything else. A club scoring tablet link can score any of your club's games on its own court; an event kiosk link can score that one event's courts.

Club scoring tablets never expire on their own, so it's worth keeping track of them. On your club's Manage → Scoring tablets page:

• Revoke on a court cuts off that court's tablet and removes the court from the list. Add the court again to get it a new code.
• New link gives a court a fresh code and cuts off the old one. Use it for a lost or stolen tablet, then scan the new code on the replacement.
• Revoke all tablets cuts off every court at once and clears the list. Add your courts again and scan each tablet to start over.

Event kiosk links: tap Revoke links on the event's Scoring kiosk card (on the event page or the Control Center's Screens tab). Every tablet using that event's links is cut off. Tap Generate scoring links to make fresh ones. Even without revoking, the tablets can't score anything once the event is completed, and a tablet forgets its event link after 30 days.

Calling for help

A scorer at a kiosk can tap Need help? to call an organizer without leaving the game. See Requesting assistance.

Running the event

Club scoring tablets need nothing per event: they pick up each event on their own. For an event's own kiosk links, the QR codes are on the Screens tab of the Control Center, which is also where you watch every court while the games are being played.