Paper score sheets and a scorer shouting totals across the hall are slow and easy to get wrong. With live scoring, each corner judge scores on their own phone, the chief judge runs the ring from a laptop or tablet, and every screen, from the venue TV to a parent's phone, shows the same score within a moment. This guide explains how it works on Routte.
Who uses what
- Corner judges use their own phones. They open the ring by scanning its QR code. If the organiser requires sign-in, only approved referees get a scoring pad, under their own name; a PIN on their phone saves signing in every time.
- The chief judge runs the ring console on a laptop or iPad at the ring table: the clock, warnings and minus points, the result, and the next bout. The console is opened through the ring's own link, which only an approved referee who has signed in can use.
- The venue screen is any TV or projector with a browser, showing the scoreboard: names with competitor numbers, the score, the clock, the judges' scores and who is up next.
- Spectators open the same scoreboard on their phones from the event's public page.
How the winner is decided
The chief judge chooses the method for the category, and the judges' screens change to match it. Only the methods that fit the event are offered.
- Sparring, judges' majority (the ITF standard): each judge taps points for red or blue; after penalties, each judge's score counts as one vote, and the side with more votes wins.
- Sparring, highest total: all judges' points are added up; the higher total wins.
- Objective points: judges score with +1, +2 and +3 buttons for the technique.
- Pattern: ITF pattern scoring, or a flag decision (each judge raises red or blue), criteria scores that become each judge's flag, or a scorecard that drops the highest and lowest marks.
For flags, criteria and scorecards, the judges' choices stay hidden until every judge has sent theirs, so nobody follows anyone else.
A fair clock
In sparring, the clock runs on the server, to the millisecond, and every screen keeps time from it. A judge's tap only counts if it was made while the clock was running. Once the chief judge stops the clock, the judges are locked: a late tap is refused by the server, not just hidden on the screen.
If the bout is level at the end, the chief judge can run extension rounds, then a golden point. In a golden point the clock stops by itself the moment the first point is confirmed by enough judges.
When the internet drops
Live scoring runs over the internet, so judges do not need to share one Wi-Fi network. If a judge's phone loses connection for a moment, its taps are kept and sent again as soon as it is back. Each tap has its own id, so nothing is counted twice.
Results go straight into the bracket
When the chief judge confirms the result, with the win method (points, knock-out, referee stops contest, disqualification, walkover and so on), the bracket moves on by itself, the next bout is called, and the venue screen shows the result. If the chief judge's decision differs from the judges' scores, it has to be confirmed as a referee decision, and it is recorded as such.
When a category finishes, the screen shows its podium, the medal tables update, and the medallists get their place in the standings.
On the livestream
The same live score can go on your stream: the Routte overlay works in OBS and any streaming tool that takes a browser source. See the livestream overlay.
What you need per ring
- A laptop or tablet for the chief judge.
- A TV or projector with a browser, facing the audience.
- A phone for each corner judge.
- An internet connection (mobile data is enough for judges' phones).
See the scoreboard or ask us for a demo.