Entering your score

Your organizer sends you a personal link. Open it on your phone — no account, nothing to install. What you see depends on where the session is when you arrive.

If the organizer hasn't mixed yet — the waiting screen

When you open the link before the organizer has started, you land on a waiting screen. It polls the server every 5 seconds. The moment the organizer publishes a round, your browser navigates straight to your court card — no refresh, no action needed on your end.

A timestamp on the screen ("Checking every 5 seconds — last check 3:14:27 PM") confirms the page is working even when nothing is happening. Network hiccups retry silently. The polling pauses if your phone locks or you switch apps, and picks right back up when you return.

Your court card

The card shows your court only — the two teams, each player's name, and the target score if your organizer set one.

If you're sitting out this round, the card says so. No score form appears.

Entering the score

Each team has a − and + button. Tap them to step the score up or down. The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 99. When both scores look right, tap Submit Score.

If you accidentally tap Submit with both scores at 0, a confirmation dialog asks if you really mean it — a 0–0 result can happen (timed out, no games played), so it's allowed, but the extra step prevents stray taps.

After you submit, a note says "Your score was sent. You can update it if needed." The button changes to Update Score so corrections are still possible.

What happens after you submit

Your score shows as pending until the other team confirms it. You'll see:

Badge	What it means
⏳ Waiting for Other Team to Confirm...	You submitted; waiting on the other team.
⏳ Waiting for You to Confirm	The other team submitted first; your turn.
✅ Score Confirmed	Both teams agreed. The score is locked.
⚠️ Score Disputed — Please Correct the Score	The two teams submitted different scores.

When confirmed, the steppers are disabled and the submit button is replaced with a "Score Finalized" message. The score is final.

If there's a dispute, re-enter the agreed score and submit again. If both sides re-submit the same number, it confirms on its own. The organizer can also step in and set it.

For the full story on how confirmations work, see Confirmations.

"Your score wasn't used"

If the organizer locked the score from a big screen at the venue and it differs from what you submitted, you'll see a notice:

Your score wasn't used You submitted X–Y, but the court was recorded at A–B. Please see the organizer if you disagree.

This is not an error — it means the organizer (or the venue kiosk) entered the final score directly. The score shown is the one that counts. Talk to your organizer if you think it's wrong.

The session status bar

A bar at the top shows the session name, current round, and a status pill:

Status	What it means
Active	Session is running normally.
Paused	Organizer stepped away. Keep the link open — it'll update when they resume.
Auto-rotating	The server is running rounds automatically (headless mode).
Ended	Session is over. Polling stops.

No manual refresh is needed for any of these transitions. The page updates itself.

View full round

Below your court card, tap View full round to expand a panel with every court in the current round — pairings, submitted scores, and each court's status. Courts carried forward from an earlier incomplete round are labelled "Round N carry-over."

At the bottom of the panel, a link goes to your group's public standings so you can check ratings mid-session. Tapping it drops a Back to Score Entry shortcut on the standings page for a one-tap return.

The panel remembers whether it was open — if you submit and the card re-renders, the panel reopens in the same state.

Push notifications

A bell button in the footer — Enable Notifications — lets you subscribe to web push so a new-round alert reaches you without the tab staying open. The button only appears if your device and browser support web push.

Share live standings

If your group has a public standings page, a bar at the bottom of the page offers a Share live standings button. Tapping it opens your phone's share sheet with a pre-filled message and the standings link, so you can show a friend the live results mid-session.

Stale-tab message

If the organizer moves to the next round while your tab is still on the previous round, you'll see a message when you try to submit:

• "Score session has refreshed — pulling the latest round..." — The page fetches the current round automatically. Wait a moment, then submit.
• "Score session has advanced — please refresh and try again." — Your tab's round is no longer current. Refresh the page; the current round loads and you can submit normally.

Either way, nothing is lost and no score lands on the wrong round.

What's next

• How the organizer sends links and watches submissions arrive live: The player score link.
• The full confirmation flow — disputes, overrides, and how scores get locked in: Confirmations.