Sharing live scores
Anyone can follow an event's Live View — the big scoreboard of every game in progress — even if they don't have a Skoryd account. Great for sending to friends and family who want to watch from home.
Get a share link
Open the event page and tap Share — it sits beside the Live View button, and both appear once the organizer opens check-in or starts the event. Your device's share sheet opens (or the link is copied to your clipboard) with a link like:
skoryd.com/live/9f3c…
Send that link to anyone. Opening it shows the live scoreboard — scores update in real time as games are played, with no login required. The link is a private, unguessable address: only people you send it to can open it.
Organizers will also find Share on the Screens tab of the Control Center, beside the kiosk codes.
Choosing what you see
Whoever opens a Live View link can change what it shows: the button in the top-right names the current view, and tapping it moves to the next one — Live (everything) → Courts → Progress → Up Next → Standings → back to Live. Nothing to type and nothing to know in advance, so it's worth mentioning when you send the link to someone watching from home.
The link in the address bar updates as you go, so you can copy whatever view you're on and send that instead.
Putting it on more than one screen
At a bigger event one screen has to fit everything at once, and something has to
give — with a dozen courts in play there is no room left to show the round coming
up next. If you have more than one TV, you can give each one a job by adding
?view= to the end of the Live View link:
| Add this | The screen shows |
|---|---|
| nothing | Everything on one screen — the default, and unchanged |
?view=courts | Just the courts, using the whole screen |
?view=progress | Everything except the courts |
?view=up_next | Just what is coming up next |
?view=standings | Just the standings table |
So a link ending …/live/9f3c?view=courts shows only the court line-up, at full
size. Setting the link up this way is worth doing for a screen you mount on a
wall and leave alone — it comes back to the right view after a power cut or a
reload, which tapping the button does not. The button and the link do the same
thing otherwise.
With two screens, use ?view=courts on one and ?view=progress on the
other. Progress shows whatever the event's second half is: the round coming up
and the standings on a round robin, the waiting list and the standings on queued
play, or the bracket and the games ready to start on a bracket event.
With three, split progress into ?view=up_next and ?view=standings.
Same TVs at the same venue every week? Set each one up once as a wall display instead, and it moves from one event to the next on its own. For one court's score in big numbers beside that court, see court scoreboards.
If a standings list is too long for its screen it turns the page every few seconds rather than hiding anyone.
Note
Check-in and final results take over every screen, whatever job you gave it — those are moments the whole room is looking for, and a courts screen has nothing to say during check-in.
Each screen needs its own device (a TV, a laptop, a tablet) pointed at its own
link. They all update together, and any link without ?view= keeps showing the
combined view exactly as before.
Keeping a screen running
On a tablet, TV or computer, a Live View link goes full screen on the first tap (or the first press of a TV remote's button). On a phone it doesn't, since people watching from home open it on their own phones; use the full-screen button in the top-right if you want it there. Either way the screen stays on while the page is open. If you leave full screen with that button, it stays out until you tap it again.
On an iPad or an Android tablet you can also add the link 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 event, like Fall Open Live View, and opens this event's Live View full screen, on the view that was showing when you added it. If an organizer resets the link, that icon stops working: delete it from the home screen and add the new link.
Resetting the link (organizers)
If you're an organizer and want to cut off access to a link you shared earlier, tap Reset link on the Screens tab of the Control Center, then Confirm reset. That generates a brand-new link — the old one stops working immediately. Anyone still watching on the old link, on any screen, will need the new one.
Note
Anyone who can see the event can get its share link: a player at a public event doesn't need to be a member of the host club. The link works for private clubs too — the link itself is the key. Reset it any time you want to retire it. If a club is archived, its share links stop working; they work again if the club is reopened.