The player score link

The player score link puts each court's result in the hands of the players on it. Each player gets a link to their own court, enters the result from their phone, and it lands on your screen live.

Players don't need an account or the app — just the link.

Turn it on and share

Open the score-entry panel in the Mixer and switch on remote score entry. Once a round is published, each player on a court gets their own private link.

Two ways to hand links out: show a QR code so a player can point their phone camera and tap to open, or email the link to players who have an address on file. If you launched from a scheduled event, players already received the link in the invite.

Each link is tied to one player, so people only ever see — and report — their own court.

What a player sees

The player's link skips the mixer entirely — they land on a focused, phone-friendly card for just their court: the two teams and partnerships, the target score drawn from your settings (e.g. "🎯 Game to 11"), and steppers to tap in each team's points.

If a player is sitting out that round, the card says so — no score form. A paused session hides the submit button until you resume.

Entering and syncing

The player taps each team's score and submits. The result appears on your screen live — no refresh, the court flips from "waiting" to submitted on its own.

	Organizer entry	Player score link
Who types	You, at the screen	Each player, on their phone
Account needed	Yours	None for players
Best for	Small sessions, one screen	Busy nights, many courts

Because each link is per-player, more than one person on the same court can submit. The latest entry wins, and matching scores from both teams confirm the court automatically — no organizer click needed.

What happens after submit

A submitted score isn't locked until it's confirmed. The other team can confirm or dispute it, and you can always override or correct from your own screen.

Before the session starts — the waiting screen

A player can tap their link before the first round is mixed. The page polls every 5 seconds, and when you publish a round their browser navigates to the court card automatically — no refresh needed.

A timestamp shows when the page last checked, so a player can tell it's working even when it looks quiet. Network hiccups are retried silently. Polling pauses while the tab is hidden (phone locked, browser backgrounded) and resumes on the next interval when they return.

Emailing links from the score panel

The score-entry panel has an Email score entry link section. Click Email link to expand it and see the per-player checklist:

• Players with an email on file appear with a checkbox you can select.
• Players without an email appear dimmed with a "(no email on file)" note.
• Players who have unsubscribed appear with an "unsubscribed" label instead.
• A counter at the top shows how many of your players are reachable.

Use Select all / Clear to check or uncheck all reachable players at once, or tick individuals. A search field filters long rosters by name. When you click Email link to selected, the system queues the link to each chosen player.

If you launched from a scheduled event, a note reminds you that players already received the link in the invite. You can still resend to anyone who lost theirs — make explicit checkbox selections before sending.

After a send, a brief feedback line shows how many were queued, how many were skipped because you already sent recently, and how many have no address or opted out. The "sent recently" skip is a per-player throttle: if a link was already sent to a player within the last 10 minutes for the same session, the system skips them rather than sending a duplicate. The count appears in the feedback line so you can tell exactly who got queued vs. held back.

View full round

Below the court card, players can tap View full round to expand a panel showing every court in the current round — pairings, submitted scores, and each court's status. Carry-over courts from a Split Session are labelled with their original round number.

A link at the bottom goes to the group's public standings so a player can check ratings mid-session. Tapping it drops a "Back to Score Entry" shortcut on the ratings page for a one-tap return. The panel stays open across re-renders — after submitting, it reopens automatically in the same state.

Session status on the player's screen

The session bar at the top reflects what the organizer is doing:

Status badge	What it means
Active	Session is running normally.
Paused	Organizer stepped away; may resume. Keep the link open — the page will update.
Auto-rotating	Headless mode; the server is mixing rounds automatically.
Ended	Session is over. Polling stops.

No manual refresh is ever needed — every status transition arrives via polling and the court card re-renders to match.

Push notifications

A bell button in the footer — Subscribe to Push Notifications — lets players subscribe to web push so a new-round alert reaches them without the tab needing to stay in focus. The button only appears on devices and browsers that support web push.

What's next

• How a submitted score gets locked — and what a dispute does — is covered in Confirmations.
• To type results yourself instead, see Organizer entry.
• For hands-free mixing where the server runs rounds automatically, see Headless mode.