How to run it, stream it and score it
Practical walkthroughs for the jobs around a game: getting a scoreboard onto a stream, running a tournament without a whiteboard, rotating twenty people through four courts, and putting a live score on a TV without dragging a cable across the floor.
How to add a live scoreboard overlay to OBS
A scoreboard on your stream that updates itself, using nothing but a browser source and a phone. No plugin, no local server, no cost.
6 min read →The same scoreboard in Streamlabs, YoloBox and vMix
OBS is not the only way to stream a game. Here is the same overlay in the three other tools small productions actually use.
5 min read →How to run a ping pong tournament
Field size, format, tables, and the two questions everyone will ask you all night: who am I playing, and which table.
8 min read →Pickleball open play rotation, without the paddle rack argument
How to get twenty people through four courts fairly, when half of them arrive late and a third leave early.
7 min read →Free alternatives to a hardware gym scoreboard
A wall scoreboard and its console costs thousands and breaks. A TV you already own, plus a phone, does most of the job for nothing.
6 min read →What every pickleball house rule actually means
Rally scoring, the freeze, the anchor rule, skinnies. The things your club plays that are not in the rulebook, and what they do.
7 min read →Table tennis 11 vs 21 point scoring: which should your club use?
The 2001 rule change made matches shorter and more volatile. Whether that is an improvement depends on what your club is for.
6 min read →Running a large weekend tournament on one phone
What actually breaks at scale is not the bracket. It is knowing which court is free and telling sixty-four teams where to be.
9 min read →How to put a live score on a smart TV without a cable
A six-digit code, a TV browser, and a phone. No HDMI run across the gym floor, no casting that drops out.
5 min read →Skunk, mercy and point caps: the house rules nobody agrees on
The unofficial rules that end games early, and how to agree on them before the argument rather than during it.
7 min read →How to keep score at a card game night on your phone
Spades, hearts, euchre, rummy and the rest: a score sheet on your phone that does the adding, knows whose deal it is, puts the standings on the TV and keeps working with no signal.
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