YOUR QUICK GUIDE
HOW IT WORKS
ARENA is a universal tournament platform — any sport, any format, any size. Whether you're running the show or playing in it, here's what each role does, step by step.
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ONE LINK, ONE CODE
The admin shares a link and gives you an access code (or a printed QR card). Open the link, enter your code — that's it. No sign-up, no app download, no account.
PICK YOUR SPORT
ARENA carries a deep-dive guide for each sport — only the rules, events, and scoring quirks that apply to the one you pick. No need to scroll past sports you don't care about. Sports tagged REBUILD are being re-certified on the new scoring engine and are temporarily hidden from tournament setup — they return one by one.
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ADMIN
- 1Announce before you configure — hit NEW TOURNAMENT with nothing but a name and you land on the EVENT PAGE, not a format form. Fill in only what you actually know yet: upload your poster, set the date and start time (the public page then counts down in ticking DAYS / HOURS / MINS / SECS tiles that size themselves to whatever screen it's opened on — leave the time off and it counts down in whole days instead), name the venue (the map link builds itself), add every other cut-off your event has — registration closing, entry fee due, squad lists in — and each one shows publicly with the days left beside it, paste your registration form and WhatsApp group links, list prizes and entry fees in your own words, link a rulebook PDF or Drive folder, and add contact details plus a UPI ID that generates its own payment QR. One button reads the dominant colours out of your poster and turns them into the tournament's public theme — and every swatch stays hand-editable right there (or later under Settings → Tournament Theme, same palette either way) — plus you pick a headline font to match. Share the link that day — it's the same URL that becomes the live leaderboard when you eventually pick a format, so the QR printed on your poster never goes stale
- 2Create a tournament — pick the sport (EA FC and Badminton are certified today; the rest return one by one as they pass on the rebuilt engine — REBUILD-tagged guides below preview them), say where it's played (Digital — PS5, Xbox, PC, Online — or Physical — court, field, table — with a Custom option for anything else), set roster size and side size (e.g. roster of 4, playing 2v2), pick a format (Swiss, Round Robin, Groups+KO, Conferences+Playoffs, Tiered Groups where every finishing position gets its own parallel knockout, or the Open Bracket where nobody is eliminated and every place is decided), and configure points, tiebreakers, and stations. Each sport has its own deep-dive guide — click any sport card on the picker to see exactly how scoring, positions, and rules work for that sport
- 3Set the conduct rules in the sport's own language — the setup section renames itself around the sport you picked. Badminton asks for a WALKOVER score in sets (seeded 2–0, the BWF convention) and a no-show grace clock in minutes; football asks for a FORFEIT score in goals plus pause-per-half limits. Knobs that don't apply — cards where there are no cards, pauses where the sport uses fixed intervals — simply aren't shown
- 4Register teams — add them manually, download a CSV template to fill in offline, bulk import via CSV/JSON, or let teams self-register with access codes
- 5Add referees and assign them to stations — each gets a unique login code
- 6Generate QR cards for teams and referees — print or share digitally for instant login. The same page prints per-court display posters: tape one at each court and anyone who scans it lands on that court's live scoreboard
- 7Print the day on paper before it starts — the SCHEDULE tab prints the wall schedule, and MANUAL SCORESHEETS prints a pad of umpire sheets for every match of the day, two to an A4. Matchups nobody can know yet print their lineage instead ("Winner of CUP QF1"), so the whole knockout is on paper before the draw. Each sheet has write-in lines for the players actually on court, a strike-off grid of numbers where the umpire crosses one off per rally — no adding up, and the last number struck is the score — and a notes box for the official. If the app, the wifi or the venue power goes down, the day still runs
- 8Go live — the system generates Round 1 pairings automatically. While the round is staged (frozen), matchups stay SECRET from all screens — teams, TV, referees, and spectators see a pre-match warmup animation instead. Drag matches to reorder, swap any two team slots by clicking chips to fine-tune pairings, or hit RE-SHUFFLE for a fresh random draw. When you hit GO LIVE for Round 1, every screen erupts with an epic 10-9-8… countdown complete with drum beats and a stadium-style 'LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!' before revealing matchups one by one. Subsequent rounds skip the countdown and jump straight to the matchup reveal
- 9Close a round with a moment, not silence — once every match in the round is in, a ROUND COMPLETE — PLAY RESULTS button appears next to GO LIVE. Press it and the projector and every court screen play the same sequence at once: winners advancing and losers going out in a knockout, or the results dissolving into the standings re-sorting for Swiss and round-robin, where nobody is eliminated. Nothing fires on its own, so the screens are never hijacked mid-announcement, and you can replay it if a score gets corrected. Settings → TV lets you pick which of the three choreographies is your event's house style
- 10See and edit your groups from the GROUPS tab — every group as a card with its teams, a name you pick instead of a bare letter, and a dropdown that moves a team across. In Tiered Groups each position also names the tier it feeds, so you can read off exactly where finishing 3rd in a group leads. RESEED SNAKE spreads seeds evenly across the groups; RESEED RANDOM redraws them. Regrouping after fixtures exist asks first, because it makes those fixtures meaningless
- 11Already know your groups? Paste them into the GROUPS tab as a list — "A: Team One, Team Two, Team Three" one line per group, or a heading with the teams beneath it, or tab-separated rows straight from a spreadsheet. Or paste the whole day plan instead and the app reads the groups back out of the pairings, since two teams meet in the group stage only if they share a group. Knockout, buffer and prize rows are ignored; a team name it cannot place on the roster is reported rather than guessed at; a team listed in two groups is caught before anything is written. It imports group membership only, then generates the day from it and diffs its own schedule against yours so you know whether the sheet on the wall is still the truth
- 12Print the schedule before the tournament starts. A Tiered Groups day is planned entirely from configuration — which wave, which court, what time — so the moment the groups are set the whole group stage is on the SCHEDULE tab with real team names, and the knockout rows carry the position that fills them (A-1st, W-T1-QF1) exactly as a printed draw sheet does. Courts and times are fixed by the plan and will not move
- 13Got a free court and two teams keen to play? Create an ad-hoc match mid-tournament and choose whether it counts — full standings weight, or a FRIENDLY that's refereed and recorded like any match but never touches the standings or blocks the next round
- 14Run the day at its real pace — displayed match times shift automatically when the day runs late or early (anchored on actual completions, with a 'RUNNING +18m' chip on the TV), and in Tiered Groups you can OPEN THE NEXT WAVE EARLY so free courts start their next match instead of idling behind one slow game
- 15Monitor everything in real-time — standings, match scores, and broadcasts. Use the BROADCAST tool to push a message with tickboxes that pick which screens it shows on: team phones, the public live page, the TV display, or referee consoles. Narrow further to specific teams or specific referees (e.g. a single team's phone, or one ref) — or leave the target picker on 'ALL' to fan out. Tick '🔔 Buzz phones' to also vibrate the targets in case the phone is in their pocket. Apply point adjustments or manual overrides if needed
- 16Run the day from the COMMAND CENTER — a time × court timeline of everything still on the clock. Drag a match to another court or slot (dropped matches are pinned, so the automatic reflow leaves them where you put them), or hit NOW when a court frees up early and you want the next match on immediately. Conflicts flag themselves. The same screen carries every paired TV in the room: open the TV page on a display, it shows a 4-character pairing code, you name it once ("Main TV", "Court 2 wall") and from then on you pin a section to it, point it at a court, black it out for a ceremony, or fire the closing ceremony at it — each tier’s knockout map, then the podium — without walking over
- 17Append a CASCADE STAGE at any point — after your groups, after a Swiss, or as the whole tournament. Everyone who loses drops to the branch of teams with the identical W-L sequence, so 2-1 always plays 2-1 and nobody is stuck in a mismatch. You decide how long the losing branches keep playing (every round, two more, one more, or winners-only from here), and you can stop or restart any individual branch live from the Command Center as the day runs. Pick who enters, seed them by current standings, shuffle them, or hand-order them — then swap any pair in the opening draw before you commit it
- 18Stay on top of everything that needs your attention from the INBOX — a red count badge sits next to Tools and Settings, showing how many items are waiting. Open it to see referee dispute flags (with the reason and a Mark Resolved button) alongside team photos awaiting your approval. When a new flag fires mid-match, a dismissible banner pops at the top of the live page so you never miss it — and flagged matches get a red FLAGGED badge + border on the match card, plus a 'Flagged (N)' filter pill in the round selector to jump straight to them
- 19Run many tournaments without losing track — the dashboard has instant search (press / and type a name, join code, or organizer), lifecycle tabs (ALL · LIVE · IN PREP · COMPLETE) with live counts, organizer chips on every row, and activity-first sorting under TODAY / THIS WEEK / THIS MONTH shelves. Tournaments idle for 14+ days sweep into a collapsed DORMANT shelf so your working list stays clean. Superusers opening another organizer's tournament choose Overlook (read-only — every write is blocked) or Edit (full control, logged) so overseeing everything never disturbs a running event. Superusers can also flip the list into select mode to bulk-delete tournaments or transfer their ownership to another organizer in one action
- 20Adjust mid-tournament from Settings — change the station count (blocked only if a match is still assigned to a station you'd remove), change Swiss rounds (blocked only from going below rounds already played), change decisive final rounds, change match duration and break-between-rounds on the fly (applies to newly-generated rounds; in-flight matches keep their running timers), replace the tournament logo (it shows next to the name on the TV display, live leaderboard, and team dashboards), and add or remove teams one at a time (adding is locked once live; removing is blocked if the team is already in a match)
- 21Choose who can find your tournament — Settings → VISIBILITY toggles between Private (link-only, the default) and Public (listed on arena.mohibx.com so anyone can watch). Flip to Public for community tournaments you want shareable; keep it Private for office leagues or invite-only events
- 22Add sponsors with logos, media galleries, social links, and a catalogue/brochure PDF — they appear on the live leaderboard and TV display
- 23Set up tournament gallery — paste an upload folder link (Google Drive) and a view folder. Everyone gets 'Upload Photos' and 'View Gallery' buttons. The gallery displays photos inline with a full-screen lightbox, streamed from Google Drive
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TEAM
- 1Your admin gives you an access code or a QR card
- 2Open the link → enter your code → you're in
- 3Upload your team photo — it shows across standings, TV, and match screens (admin approves it)
- 4See your next match, live scores, and full standings on your phone — during the warmup phase before GO LIVE, matchups are hidden and you see a hype animation building anticipation. For Round 1, the admin's GO LIVE triggers a 10-second countdown with drum beats on your phone (it vibrates on each tick!) before revealing your opponent with a dramatic animation
- 5Get a buzz + popup when the previous match finishes and your station is ready — no more missing your slot
- 6Get notified when a new round starts
- 7See organizer broadcasts as a banner at the top of your dashboard — water break, take your seats, round starting in 5, etc. Banners auto-dismiss after ~20s (they queue one at a time so nothing piles up), or tap ✕ to close early. If the admin flags a broadcast as '🔔 Buzz', your phone vibrates on arrival so you notice even with the phone in your pocket
- 8View tournament rules and rulebooks shared by the admin (if published to teams)
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REFEREE
- 1Log in with your access code → pick which station you manage. That page also carries the umpire's guide for the sport being played: the handful of steps that run a match on this app, in the order they happen at the court. It stays reachable from the match panel, because the moment you need step 5 is halfway through a game
- 2Upload your profile photo — visible on your station dashboard
- 3Run the coin toss to set home/away — a coin spins on screen and names the winner, so both pairs standing over the phone see the result rather than a name quietly appearing — then start the match timer. The timer, the extra stat buttons and the incident forms all sit in closed sections under the score, so the panel opens on the match rather than on a countdown nobody started
- 4On sets sports, pick the set format before starting — play to 21/15/11 with the win-by-2 cap — from the sport's presets. Your choice shows on your console and the court display so players always know the protocol, and it's fixable mid-match if the wrong chip was tapped
- 5Score by tapping the team's own half of the scoreboard — the two halves ARE the buttons, one tap for the side that just won the point, and one UNDO takes back the last one. On sets sports that tap is the RALLY point; when a side reaches the target the app asks you to confirm the set score itself, so you never go looking for a ‘set won’ button. On goal sports the player picker opens so you can attribute the scorer in one tap — hit SKIP and backfill later before finalizing
- 6Log every event the same way — yellow/red cards, warnings, assists, MVP, and any sport-specific event (basketball 3pt, Valorant ace, Rocket League epic save) all get +/-1 buttons per team. The −1 next to each event removes the most recent matching event so a wrong tap is one-tap reversible
- 7Sport-modular scoring — Football, Basketball, FIFA/EAFC, eFootball, Rocket League, Valorant, or a custom event set you define. Score deltas, event types, positions, the match clock (halves vs sets vs overs), and player picker all adapt automatically to the picked sport
- 8Backfill attribution before finalize — every event chip in the events list is editable. A counter ("3 to attribute") reminds you what's still pending so the player tally for top scorers/cards is accurate. Only events the sport actually credits to a player are counted: badminton records who served and who received, never a scorer, so a logged set is never waiting on a name
- 9The panel names the game you are in — GAME 3 · TO 21 — above the two halves, with a chip for each game already played. It moves on by itself when a game is confirmed, but at 20-all somebody always asks which game this is. Tap a chip to reopen that game's score and correct it
- 10On badminton, tap who served the opening rally and who received it — once per set — and the console keeps the serve for you. When a set ends the picker already names the side that won it, because BWF gives them the first serve of the next one; both sides stay tappable so the umpire has the last word. It names the player who should be serving and whether they serve from the RIGHT court (even score) or the LEFT (odd), names the receiver diagonally opposite, and reminds you to change ends halfway through a decider. It follows the rally log, so just keep tapping the side that wins each rally and it can't drift; tap CHANGE if you entered the wrong opening pair. Singles works the same way — one player covers both service courts. The same card carries the two breaks the rules require — 60 seconds the first time a side reaches the interval score, 2 minutes between sets — as a START button that runs the clock and opens it where you can see it
- 11Track pauses per team per half, report incidents (disconnects, crashes, conduct), and flag disputes
- 12Record a walkover/forfeit with one tap — pick the reason (no-show, not on court in time, retired, disqualified) and the sport's own awarded score is applied automatically (badminton 2–0 in sets, football 3–0 in goals). A retirement keeps the score as it stood; the win still goes to the opponent
- 13Finalize the match when it's done — standings update instantly with card accumulation and point deductions
- 14Between rounds, the admin stages and reorders the next round — your station shows a warmup animation while matchups are being set up, and unlocks with a reveal when they hit GO LIVE. With Progressive Rounds enabled, the next round auto-generates and activates the instant all matches finish — zero downtime
- 15Access tournament rules, quick-reference settings, and match-day documents shared by the admin
- 16If the app is unreachable, fall back to the printed scoresheet for your match — cross off a number per rally, tick the game you won, sign it off with both captains, and hand it in. The organizer keys it in when the app is back
- 17Toggle between Ref Mode and View Mode — tap VIEW in the header to follow the full tournament live (standings, all matches, results) when you're on break, then tap REF to switch back to your console controls
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SPECTATOR
- 1No login needed — just open the link the admin shares, or browse the public directory at arena.mohibx.com to discover live tournaments any organizer has flipped to public (live action surfaces at the top)
- 2Open the link before the tournament starts and you get the event page — the poster, a countdown ticking down to the second in tiles that scale from a phone to a projector, the date and venue with a map link, every deadline with its days-left counter, REGISTER NOW and JOIN WHATSAPP GROUP buttons (which stay pinned to the bottom of your phone screen as you scroll), prizes and entry fees, the rulebook, and the organizer's contact — tap to call or email — plus the UPI payment QR. Once matches begin the same link becomes the live leaderboard, with all of that still available further down the page
- 3Sign in with Google to follow a tournament — hit the ☆ pill in the corner of any /live page. Followed tournaments collect under /profile → Watching so you can come back to them. Your /profile also tracks every tournament you organize, co-admin, referee, and play in — one identity wears every hat
- 4Watch live scores, standings, and match progress
- 5Read the whole tournament, not just the table — the live page carries tabs across the top for the group standings, every fixture of the day with its court and time, a board for each court showing what is on it right now and what follows it, and the tier walls or knockout bracket as they fill in. Each tab is its own link, so the schedule can be shared as the schedule. A tournament only shows the tabs its format actually has, and the full day is readable from the planned schedule before the first match is even generated
- 6See who went through between rounds — when a round finishes, every screen in the room plays the same moment at once. In a knockout the winners flare green and travel into their next slot while the beaten teams grey out where they stand, so the bracket keeps its history and you can read the whole path to the final. In Swiss or round-robin nobody is eliminated, so instead the results fan out and then dissolve into the table re-sorting itself, with arrows showing who climbed and who slipped. The screen on each court leads with that court's own result before showing you the rest
- 7Catch up on the bracket any time — knockout tournaments rotate a full bracket panel onto the TV alongside the standings, so you can see who plays who next without asking anyone
- 8Tap any team to see their full record — match history, sport-specific stats (goals, cards, etc.), forfeits, and referee-reported incidents
- 9Works on any device — phone, tablet, or big-screen TV
- 10At the venue, scan the WATCH LIVE QR in the TV display's corner — your phone jumps straight to this tournament's live page (operators can toggle the QR on/off per screen)
- 11Scores update in real-time, no refreshing required
- 12Tap 'Explore All Sponsors' to browse sponsor profiles — logos, galleries, social links, and messages from the owners
- 13Browse the tournament photo gallery inline — thumbnails, full-screen lightbox, swipe through. Or tap 'Upload Photos' to add your own shots to the shared folder
QUICK ANSWERS
No. It's a website — open the link in any browser.
The app tells you your next match, console number, and opponent. You'll see it the moment the round is generated. Match times also reflow automatically — when a match runs long or short, every later match (across all consoles) shifts to absorb the delta, rounded to the nearest 5 min so players always have a small buffer.
Yes — live standings are visible to everyone, updating in real-time as matches finish.
Open the public link — no code needed. The TV display works great on a big screen too.
Yes — tap 'Explore All Sponsors' on the live leaderboard. Each sponsor has a full profile page with their logo, about section, media gallery, owner's message, social media links, and a catalogue/brochure link if they've shared one.
If the admin has published rules, you'll see a 'Rules' tab in your team or referee dashboard with PDFs, documents, or inline text.
Open the THEME menu in any header — under the colour presets there's a TEXT SIZE row: S, M, L, XL. It scales every page at once, labels, buttons, inputs and spacing together, and remembers your pick on that device. L is the default. The TV display ignores it; that one already sizes itself to the room.
FEATURE TIMELINE
Everything we’ve shipped, newest first.
AUGUST 2026
- The knockout map is the ceremonyNEWThe closing ceremony plays each tier's whole knockout — who played who, who went through, the champion's route traced through it — climbing to the Cup, then the podium and sponsors, on a loop.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINSPECTATORTEAM
- Tier triggers for the micNEWTap a tier in the live panel as you read its winners out and every screen crowns them, plays their map, and rejoins the loop before the next name — with a speed dial that starts slow and tightens each replay.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMIN
- Full names on every screenNEWTV, court and wall displays show a team's full name instead of its abbreviation, sized to wrap rather than clip — a parent thirty feet back can find their pair.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATORTEAM
- Two bronzes when the bracket says soNEWA knockout with no third-place match ends with two beaten semi-finalists, and the podium now shows both — the way badminton has always awarded them.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINSPECTATORTEAM
- Live rally points on every boardNEWThe set in progress shows its own score — big digits on the TVs and court screens, a live term on the bracket and fixture lines — instead of every board sitting on the set count.LIVE CONTROLSPECTATORADMINTEAM
- Play the deuce outNEWThe point cap can be lifted before or during a match — tap it at 29-all and the rest of the match runs until a side leads by two, however long that takes.LIVE CONTROLADMINREFEREE
- The scoreboard is the scoring buttonNEWAn official's match panel now opens on the three things they actually need: who serves to whom and from which court, the two team halves — which ARE the buttons, one tap for the side that won the rally — and one UNDO. The timer, the stat buttons, the walkover forms and the events list moved into closed sections underneath. On a badminton court the big button used to add a GAME rather than a point, so adding a point asked the umpire to close out the game; it now adds the rally point, and the app asks about the game itself once the target is reached. Each sport also carries a written umpire's guide, shown when an official picks their court and reachable again from the match panel.EXPERIENCE & POLISHREFEREEADMIN
- Which set you are in, and correcting one you have loggedNEWThe umpire's panel names the set in progress above the two halves — SET 3 · TO 21 — with a pill for each set already played, carrying its score at a size you can read at arm's length. The pills are buttons: tap one to reopen its score and fix the 21-19 that went in for the wrong side. Badminton also stopped asking who scored: the sport records who served and who received, never a scorer, so a logged set no longer counts as an event missing a player and the finalize nudge stays quiet. The tally itself is set in a face whose zero is a zero — the display font drew it as a filled block at scoreboard size — and the side trailing 0-20 is no longer told it has set point.LIVE CONTROLREFEREEADMIN
- The umpire's panel fits the phone it's held inNEWText size zoom divides the screen, so at the shipped setting a 390px handset was laying itself out in 304px and the four-button event rows ran off the right edge. Narrow screens now step the scale back so the layout fits first, the panel sizes itself from the viewport rather than fixed pixels, and a team name gets the full width instead of breaking into "Shut tle Warr iors". The header no longer drags the page sideways either: the court and tournament truncate to fit, and switching court, editing your profile and logging out moved into a ⋮ menu with log out on its own behind a divider. The coin toss also spins a coin now and names the winner on screen, rather than a name quietly appearing next to HOME.EXPERIENCE & POLISHREFEREEADMIN
- The whole tournament on the spectator's phoneNEWThe shared live link stopped being a standings table. It now carries tabs for the group tables, every fixture of the day with its court and time, a board per court showing what is on it right now and what follows, and the tier walls or knockout bracket as they fill in — with each tab on its own URL so "here's the schedule" opens the schedule. The tabs a tournament gets come from its own format, so nothing opens onto an empty panel, and the whole day is readable from the planned schedule before a single match is generated.LIVE CONTROLSPECTATORTEAMADMIN
- Text size control — the whole app, four stepsNEWThe interface ships a notch larger than it used to, and the theme menu now has a TEXT SIZE row: S, M, L, XL. It scales every page together — labels, buttons, inputs, spacing and all — so a Command Center read from across an ops table is as legible as one read from a chair, and the choice sticks on that device. TV screens are left alone; they already size themselves to the room.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Serve tracker — who serves next, and from whereNEWBadminton umpires answer one question per set — who served the opening rally and who received it — and the console keeps the serve from there: the rally winner serves next, an even score serves from the right court and an odd score from the left, and a pair swaps courts only after winning its own serve. The strip names the player, so nobody has to hold it in their head between rallies, and it flags the decider's change of ends.LIVE CONTROLREFEREEADMIN
- Manual scoresheets — the paper backupNEWPrint a pad of umpire sheets for the entire day before it starts: one match per A4 or A5 page, matchups filled in where they are knowable and their lineage ("Winner of CUP QF1") where they are not. Tick which rounds and tiers to print and set the sets, points and cap for that run, so the group pad and the Cup pad come off the same page at their own numbers. Each game is a ruled-off block with its own opening-serve boxes and a strike-off number grid that counts points without any arithmetic, plus write-in lines for player names and a notes box for the official.ADMIN TOOLSADMINREFEREE
- Groups tab — see and edit the partitionNEWEvery group laid out as a card with its teams, a name you choose instead of a bare letter, a dropdown that moves a team to another group, and one-click snake or random reseeding — group membership was written once when the tournament started and shown nowhere until now.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Import a schedule you already plannedNEWPaste a group list ("A: Team One, Team Two") or the whole day plan out of Excel — from a schedule it reads the groups back out of the pairings, since two teams meet in the group stage only if they share a group. It writes membership only, then generates the tournament from your partition and shows exactly where its schedule differs from your printed one.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- A rest is no longer a matchNEWTeams sitting a round out no longer appear as fixtures marked DONE on the wall schedule, the match list, TV or a team's own page — the round is simply not theirs, and the word "bye" is gone from the product.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- Group standings that name the tier each position feedsNEWTiered events finally render their group tables on the live cockpit, every position labelled with the tier it leads to — the panel used to hold nothing at all because it only knew two of the group formats.LIVE CONTROLADMIN
- Print the whole day before it startsNEWTiered Groups plans every wave, court and time from configuration alone, so once the groups are set the entire group stage is printable with real team names and the knockout rows carry the position labels that fill them — no need to start the tournament to put the schedule on the wall.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- The breaks the rules require, on the card you're already readingNEWBadminton has two breaks an umpire has to remember — 60 seconds the first time a side reaches the interval score, and 2 minutes between sets. Both now appear as a START button on the serve card at the moment they fall due, start the clock for real, and open the timer so you can see it run; the interval cue stays up until it is taken rather than flashing past on one rally.LIVE CONTROLREFEREE
- The scoreboard stops saying SET POINT once the set is wonNEWAt 11–0 in a set to 11 the card still read SET POINT, because one more rally would also win it — so the label an umpire stares at while deciding whether to keep tapping never changed. It reads ✓ SET WON the moment the score already decides it, and the winning number in each finished-set pill is the only one set bright and underscored, so who took the set survives any colour a team picked.LIVE CONTROLREFEREE
- A zero that reads as a zero, on the wall as well as in the handNEWThe display face draws its zero as a slashed block, so a 0–0 on the TV board and the court screen read as Ø–Ø from across a sports hall. Every big number in the app — umpire panel, court board, TV board — now uses the face with an open zero, at the weight the scoreboard needs.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATORREFEREEADMIN
- Picking a sport actually sets that sport upNEWChoosing Badminton now seeds its points system (2 for a win, 0 for a loss), its BWF tiebreaker cascade, its 2–0 walkover score and a court venue — instead of leaving football's 3-1-0, football's tiebreakers and a PS5/Xbox picker on a shuttle tournament. The check that decided whether you'd customised a setting was comparing JSON key order, which the database does not preserve, so it always answered 'leave it alone'.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- A set is called a set, everywhereNEWBadminton and table tennis now say SET on every screen and on the printed scoresheet — SET 3, 2 SETS WON, SET POINT — instead of mixing “game” with the S1/S2/S3 period bar underneath it, so nobody has to work out whether “which game are we in” means the set or the match.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINREFEREETEAMSPECTATOR
- The next set already knows who servesNEWWhen a set ends, the umpire's panel names the side that won it and says so — BWF gives them the first serve of the next set — with that side pre-highlighted in the picker and the other side still one tap away, so the rule of thumb never overrules the official who watched the rally.LIVE CONTROLREFEREE
- Per-set scores on every screen that shows a resultNEWA 2–1 says who won; 21–18, 19–21, 21–15 says what happened — so the set breakdown now sits under the score on the umpire's panel, the fixture list, both brackets, the public schedule and courts tabs, recent results, and both team pages, mirrored to whichever side you are reading from.LIVE CONTROLADMINREFEREETEAMSPECTATOR
- Badminton scores in games, with the rally points kept underneathNEWThe referee console counts GAMES, so a 2–1 win is recorded as a 2–1 win — not as the rally total, which can read 27–29 to the pair that actually won. Each game's rally score is captured as the game is logged and totalled onto the match, so points-difference tiebreakers and the court display both have real numbers behind them.LIVE CONTROLREFEREEADMINTEAM
- A tier bracket you can print before the drawNEWTiered Groups can pair each group with its mirror inside its own rest block — A v D, B v C, E v H, F v G — so both sides of every opening knockout match finished their group in the same wave, a group's two qualifiers land in opposite halves, and the full bracket sheet can be published to teams before a single shuttle is hit.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- Tiebreakers that follow the published rulebookNEWStandings can separate level teams the way a racket-sport rulebook actually reads: head-to-head only when exactly two are level (three or more skip it, because the results can cycle), then games difference, fewest games lost, rally-point difference and fewest rally points lost.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- One nav bar across every tournament pageNEWEvery tournament sub-page now carries a persistent tab bar (Live · Command · Setup · Teams · Officials · Event · Sponsors · Schedule · Settings) — the printable Schedule page is finally reachable, Command works before go-live, and Live Control gets first-class BROADCAST and FRIENDLY buttons, a TIERS tab showing the same tier wall as the TV, and a running-late chip.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Official friendlies on free courtsNEWCreate a one-off match between any two teams mid-tournament and choose whether it counts: full standings weight, or FRIENDLY — refereed, scored and recorded like any match but with zero effect on standings, tiers, brackets, player stat leaderboards or points charts, and it never blocks advancing the round.LIVE CONTROLADMINREFEREETEAM
- Referee picks the game format at match startNEWOn sets sports the referee chooses per match what the game is played to and the win-by-2 ceiling (badminton: 21/cap 30, 15/cap 21, 11/cap 15) — shown on the referee console and the court display so players always know the protocol.LIVE CONTROLREFEREETEAMSPECTATOR
- Match times that track the real dayNEWWhen the day runs late (or early), the times on the TV up-next board, referee queue and team dashboards shift with it — anchored on actual match completions, with a 'RUNNING +18m' chip so nobody trusts a stale printout.LIVE CONTROLTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Open the next wave earlyNEWIn Tiered Groups the next wave's matches don't depend on the one still running, so organizers can open them early and free courts fill immediately instead of idling behind one slow game — blocked only where the tier draw genuinely needs every group table final.LIVE CONTROLADMINREFEREETEAM
- Any court count runs the dayNEWSetup states the minimum courts for a one-sitting timeline and no longer refuses fewer — group waves split into sittings, the printed schedule stretches honestly, and the picker shows exactly what the trade-off costs.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- TV shows groups as groupsNEWDuring a tiered group stage the TV standings rotation shows eight small group tables with each position coloured by the tier it feeds — never one flat table that compares teams across groups the format itself refuses to compare.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATORTEAM
- Tier wall + tier-by-tier cutscenes on TVNEWTiered events get their own broadcast layer: every tier's bracket stacked on one screen with the overall places it owns, a drill-in that zooms whichever tier is live, wave results that play as one act per tier ending in that tier's crowning, and a single-match takeover for the showcase final.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATORADMINTEAM
- Per-screen rotation paceNEWEach paired TV can rotate at its own speed — Brisk for a busy hall, Slow for reading at distance — set from the Command Center, while cutscenes and announcements still fire simultaneously on every screen so the room never disagrees with itself.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINSPECTATOR
- Tiered Groups — every position gets its own knockoutNEWNew format where the group stage sorts rather than eliminates: all group winners meet in the top tier, all runners-up in the next, down to last place, with the tiers running in parallel on the same courts and a hard no-back-to-back rule that guarantees every team a full slot of rest between matches.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- ARENA visual redesign + Contrast Mix themeNEWEvery surface sharpened on shared theme-aware shells — new welcome hero, broadcast-style spectator headers, framed login screens, glowing TV shells — plus a new Contrast Mix preset, a smarter custom-theme studio with live WCAG contrast checks, and app-wide keyboard-focus and reduced-motion support.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Confirmations in ARENA styleNEWAll destructive and high-stakes actions (undo round, delete event, replace teams…) now confirm through a branded in-app dialog — red for destructive, ESC to cancel, Enter to confirm — instead of the browser's grey popup.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINREFEREE
- Court display QR postersNEWThe printable QR cards page now includes one poster per court — tape it courtside and anyone who scans it lands on that court's live scoreboard with game-by-game scores and what's up next.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINSPECTATORTEAM
- Live countdown tiles, screen-aware layout, hand-picked coloursNEWThe announcement page now counts down in ticking day/hour/minute/second tiles that scale with the screen they're on — phone in a hand, laptop, or a hall projector — laying its detail cards out in two columns on anything laptop-sized, and every theme colour is hand-editable right there on the event page instead of only being guessable from the poster.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINSPECTATOR
- Deadlines beyond the start dateNEWRegistration closing, entry fee due, squad lists in, jersey numbers — add as many dated cut-offs as your event has, and the public page lists each with the days left beside it, turning amber inside three days and greying out once it's passed.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- Contact the organizer, not a footer lineNEWThe organizer block on the public page is now a named person with tap-to-call and tap-to-email rows and social chips that all clear the 44px touch minimum, instead of a name, a number and a link crammed into one line of 12px text.EXPERIENCE & POLISHSPECTATOR
- Event page — announce before you configureNEWCreate a tournament with just a name and publish a landing page the same day: poster, dates, venue and map, a registration link, a WhatsApp group link, prizes and entry fees, rulebook and Drive links, contact details and a UPI payment QR — and the poster's colours become your public theme in one click. The link is the same one that turns into the live leaderboard on match day.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINSPECTATOR
- Round transition animationNEWWhen a round closes the admin presses Play results and every screen plays the moment at once — winners flare and advance through the bracket while beaten teams grey out, and in Swiss or round-robin the results wall dissolves into the standings re-sorting itself.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATORADMIN
- Bracket on the TV rotationNEWKnockout tournaments now rotate a full bracket panel onto the projector between standings and top scorers, at projector type sizes, so spectators can see the whole path to the final without asking anyone.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATOR
- Walkovers, retirements & sport-aware conduct rulesNEWThe conduct section now speaks the sport's language — badminton gets a walkover score in games (2–0) and a no-show grace clock instead of forfeit goals and pauses-per-half — and both consoles offer no-show / not-on-court / retired / disqualified reasons, where a retirement keeps the score as it stood.ADMIN TOOLSADMINREFEREE
- Platform picker: digital or physicalNEWSetup no longer lists six platforms side by side. Pick Digital or Physical first, then choose from that world's list — PS5, Xbox, PC, Online for digital; court, field, table for physical — with a Custom option that opens a name box only when you need one.PLATFORMADMIN
- Cascade stages — losers keep playing their equalsAppend a loser-cascade to any running tournament: everyone who loses drops to the branch of teams with the identical W-L sequence, you choose how many rounds each losing branch keeps playing (or stop any branch live), and the opening draw is hand-swappable before you commit it.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- Command CenterOne ops screen for running the day: a time × court timeline you drag matches around (with START NOW when a court frees up early), live branch control for cascade stages, and every paired TV in the room — pin a section, point it at a court, black it out, or fire an overlay.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- TV screen pairingOpen the TV page on any display and it shows a 4-character pairing code — name it once in the Command Center and you control what that specific screen shows for the rest of the event.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINSPECTATOR
JULY 2026
- Open Bracket (Monrad) — nobody goes home earlyNew format where losers drop into placement pools instead of out: identical records meet every round (W-W-L plays W-W-L) until every place from 1st to last is decided — with a live placement-bracket panel showing every pool.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- Per-court TV displaysEvery court gets its own fullscreen scoreboard at /tv/<tournament>/court/<n> — big live score, game-by-game breakdown for sets sports, up-next on that court, and a toggleable strip of all other courts.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATORTEAMREFEREE
- Badminton is liveFull badminton support: singles or doubles with a hard 2-player roster cap, classic 3×21 or the new BWF 3×15 scoring (official from Jan 2027) via rule knobs, badminton points (2/0, bye 2) and BWF-style tiebreakers — the first sport certified on the rebuilt engine.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINREFEREETEAM
- Bracket formats are back — with bracket-true championsGroups + Knockout and Conferences + Playoffs return to setup, now ranked by the bracket itself: the final winner is #1 and the podium follows the knockout, not accumulated points.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- Certified-only formats & sportsTournament setup offers only options certified end-to-end on the rebuilt format engines — all four formats now qualify; EA FC remains the certified sport while the others are re-certified one by one.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Bulk select on the dashboardSuperusers can flip the dashboard into select mode — tick any set of tournaments (or select all matching the current search/filter) and delete them or transfer their ownership to another organizer in one action.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Arena Command — the admin surfaces get a broadcast-HUD lookLogin, the tournament dashboard, and the setup form are redesigned in an angular esports-HUD style: a split-screen login gate, a command deck with telemetry and phase-colored live rails, and a mission-briefing setup with a progress rail — same flows, same themes, new skin.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMIN
- Dashboard search, tabs & dormant sweepThe tournament dashboard now has instant search (press /), lifecycle tabs with counts, organizer chips and filtering, activity-first sorting with time shelves, and a collapsed dormant shelf for tournaments idle 14+ days.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Overlooker mode for superusersOpening another organizer's tournament now asks superusers to choose Overlook (read-only, writes blocked server-side) or Edit (full control, logged) — so overseeing everything can't accidentally disturb a running event.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
MAY 2026
- Setup form gets smarter — Swiss is no longer the defaultNew tournaments now force a deliberate format pick before the rest of the setup unlocks. The form hides bye-mode for non-Swiss formats, auto-collapses subs for 1v1 or full-roster squads, and folds eFootball into the EA FC preset so the sport picker stops asking the same question twice.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Co-admin invite linksTournament owners can generate shareable invite links for collaborators. Recipients sign in with Google and accept in one click — they appear instantly on the owner's /profile Co-admin tab with the correct role.PLATFORMADMIN
- Tournament ownership transferOwners can hand off a tournament to any existing co-admin. Both roles swap atomically — the former owner becomes Co-Admin and the new owner takes full control.PLATFORMADMIN
- Quick Setup WizardPick a sport, choose team count, and select a format — Arena recommends which formats actually work and pre-fills smart defaults. Done in under 2 minutes, then jump straight to team registration.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Round Robin formatNew tournament format: every team plays every other team. Full fixture is pre-generated at start and visible to admin immediately. Admin advances rounds one by one.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Public landing is now the front doorarena.mohibx.com loads the video-backed public landing + live tournament directory by default. The old role-picker hub moved to /portal; /welcome 308-redirects here for stale links.PLATFORMADMINSPECTATORTEAMREFEREE
- Unified /profile dashboardYour account now has a cross-tournament home at /profile with five tabs — Organizing, Co-admin, Refereeing, Watching, Player — plus a lifetime tally strip. One identity wears every hat, with editable display name and avatar URL.PLATFORMADMINSPECTATORREFEREETEAM
- Follow a tournament from /liveSigned-in spectators see a Follow pill in the corner of any /live page. Followed tournaments collect under /profile → Watching so you can come back to them. Not signed in yet? The pill links straight to Google sign-in.EXPERIENCE & POLISHSPECTATOR
- Sets-aware scoreboardVolleyball, paddle, and table tennis matches now show a per-set score breakdown (e.g. 3–1 with 25-18, 22-25, 25-20, 25-23) on the referee console, TV broadcast, and spectator leaderboard.LIVE CONTROLADMINREFEREESPECTATOR
- Public landing page & tournament directoryarena.mohibx.com gets a video-backed landing with a top-bar Google sign-in and a live directory of every tournament organizers have flipped to public — live action surfaces at the top.PLATFORMADMINSPECTATOR
- Public / Private visibility toggleOwners can flip a tournament between Private (link-only) and Public (listed on the public landing directory) from the settings page. Default stays private — no existing tournament becomes public until the owner explicitly opts in.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Paddle sport supportRun Padel tournaments with game-by-game scoring, set tracking (best of 3), ace/winner/smash/error events, and per-court umpire assignment.PLATFORMADMINREFEREE
- Volleyball sport supportRally-scored volleyball with sets to 25 (15 in deciding set), 6 positions including libero, ace/kill/block scoring events, and timeout tracking.PLATFORMADMINREFEREE
- Table Tennis sport supportBest-of-N games (3/5/7/9) to 11 points each, singles or doubles, ace/winner/edge-ball events, expedite-rule toggle, and per-table umpire assignment.PLATFORMADMINREFEREE
- Cricket sport supportFull cricket scoring with runs (1-6), boundaries (4/6), extras (wides/no-balls/byes), wicket types (bowled/caught/LBW/run-out/stumped), overs/innings clock, and T10/T20/ODI/Test/Gully format presets.PLATFORMADMINREFEREE
- Golf sport supportStroke-by-stroke golf scoring with hole results (eagle/birdie/par/bogey), hole-in-one tracking, 9 or 18 holes, and stroke/match/scramble/skins/Stableford format presets — plus handicap and mulligan toggles.PLATFORMADMINREFEREE
- Sport-aware UI terminologyEvery label adapts to the active sport — 'Console' becomes 'Pitch' for Football, 'Station' for Valorant; 'Referee' becomes 'Match Admin' where applicable.PLATFORMADMINREFEREESPECTATOR
- Per-sport feature visibilityPanels and controls that don't apply to a sport (card accumulation pyramid, pause tracker) are automatically hidden, keeping the UI clean for every sport.PLATFORMADMINREFEREE
- Double-tap duplicate preventionScore and event buttons are guarded against rapid double-presses — the same operation can't fire twice while it's still in flight.LIVE CONTROLREFEREE
- Between-round break timerAdmin starts a countdown (1–20 min) between rounds; TV shows a fullscreen countdown overlay so everyone in the venue knows when play resumes.LIVE CONTROLADMINSPECTATOR
- Live emoji reactionsTeams tap emoji buttons on their phone (🔥💪⚡👏🎯😤🏆❤️) and the emojis float up live on the TV display — instant crowd energy.EXPERIENCE & POLISHTEAMSPECTATOR
- Period tracking on referee consoleFootball referees can stamp each logged event with its period (1H, HT, 2H, ET1, ET2, PEN). The period bar only appears for sports with a halves-based clock; EAFC and other point-based sports are unaffected. Period chips appear in the event log.LIVE CONTROLREFEREEADMIN
- Officials roster & match assignmentAdmin can designate head referee, assistant referee, VAR, and fourth-official roles per tournament, and assign assistant referees to specific matches. The TV view shows 'Officiated by [Name]' on each live match card.ADMIN TOOLSADMINSPECTATOR
- Demo sport switcherProspects can now switch between EAFC, Football, Basketball, and Rocket League in the interactive demo — each sport shows its own event types, period bar, and score label without touching match state.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINSPECTATOR
- Football (real, physical sport)Real-world football joins the sport registry alongside EAFC/FIFA. Positions (GK/DEF/MID/FWD), real events (corner, free kick, penalty shootout, sub, offside), card-accumulation defaults, and full halves+extra-time+stoppage match-clock model. Variants live as config knobs (5v5 / 7v7 / 11v11 / futsal).EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINREFEREE
- Universal rule toggles (everything is a knob)Every behavior — wall clock, card accumulation, halves, suspensions, sub limits, even whether the player picker is mandatory — is a toggle in Setup → Rules with a sensible default per sport. Beginners ship on defaults; power users tune.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Per-sport How-It-Works guidesLanding-page How-It-Works stays generic. Each sport gets its own deep-dive at /how-it-works/[sport] showing only that sport's events, positions, clock, and rule knobs. Cricket organizers don't have to scroll past football's card system.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINREFEREESPECTATOR
- Request a sportDon't see your sport? Tell us. One-click feedback dialog on /how-it-works and from each sport guide; submissions land in Supabase for the team to triage.PLATFORMADMINSPECTATOR
- Auction-app integration provisionsSchema seeds for the companion auction app (auction.mohibx.com): cross-app player IDs, auction metadata on players, team auction wallets, tournament→auction link. Bidding stays in the auction app; ARENA is a clean integration target.PLATFORMADMIN
- Player positions on rostersSport-aware position field on every player (GK/DEF/MID/FWD for football). Position chip renders next to the player name in pickers and leaderboards; sports without positions hide the dropdown automatically.LIVE CONTROLADMINREFEREE
- Welcome dashboard for new signupsFirst-time admins land on a guided welcome screen with a 'Create your first tournament' CTA, a roadmap of coming-soon features, and quick links to How It Works, the Live Demo, and the Planner.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMIN
APRIL 2026
- Sign in with Google — public signupAnyone with a Google account can now create their own tournament workspace. New signups land as tenant-scoped admins who only see what they create or are invited to. Existing username/password admins keep working in parallel.PLATFORMADMIN
- Multi-tenant tournament ownershipTournaments now have an owner, and the dashboard only shows tournaments you own or were invited to. Superusers still see everything; the legacy single-admin behavior is preserved by giving the original admin global scope.PLATFORMADMIN
- Tournament Type setup stepSetup now starts with sport, default platform (PS5/Xbox/PC/online/court/table or custom text), roster size, side size (1v1, 2v2, NvN), and max subs — every dimension is independent and stored alongside the tournament config.PLATFORMADMIN
- Sport-modular scoring engineEvery tournament picks its sport — FIFA/EAFC, eFootball, Rocket League, Valorant, basketball, or custom — and the referee console adapts: event types, score deltas, and player picker all change with the sport.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINREFEREE
- Dropped Man-of-Match eventMOTM was a football-only event that cluttered the referee console without driving meaningful behavior. It's gone from the FIFA preset and every UI surface; sports that have an MVP-style event keep theirs (Rocket League, Valorant, basketball).EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINREFEREE
- Fast +/− event logger with player pickerScore in one tap: +N opens a roster picker so the scorer is attributed instantly, or hit SKIP to backfill later. Every event type gets the same +/− T1/T2 grid; remove a wrong tap with one click.LIVE CONTROLREFEREEADMIN
- Backfill scorers after the whistleRefs can log goals and cards without picking a player during a fast-paced match; pending events highlight in the events list and a counter nudges them to attribute before finalizing. Every chip is editable.LIVE CONTROLREFEREEADMIN
- Multi-tenant scopingMultiple organizers share the platform — each one only sees their own tournaments, teams, and referees.PLATFORMADMIN
- ARENA brand + arena.mohibx.comThe platform is now ARENA — a universal tournament platform for any sport, any format — live at arena.mohibx.com.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- REDO ROUNDOne-click delete + regenerate the current round when pairings come out wrong (only when no matches have started).ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- UNDO ROUNDDelete a freshly-generated round entirely if it shouldn't have been created — all matches must still be pending.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Delete match eventsAdmins can remove a wrongly-logged goal, card, or assist from a match event log without rewriting the score.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Hidden matchups before GO LIVERound pairings stay secret on every screen — teams, TV, referees, public — until the admin presses GO LIVE.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Smarter Swiss pairingsBacktracking pairing engine eliminates rematches across rounds even when point clusters are tight.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Undo GO LIVE + Tournament ResetSuperusers can roll a tournament back to setup or wipe all live data — for safe testing and rehearsal runs.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Copy TournamentDeep-clone an existing tournament — settings, teams, sponsors, referees, rules — to spin up the next event in seconds.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Round 1 countdown ceremonyPressing GO LIVE for Round 1 fires a 10-9-8… countdown with drum beats and a stadium 'LET THE GAMES BEGIN!' across every screen.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Round 1 pairing editorWhile Round 1 is staged, drag matches to reorder, click team chips to swap, or RE-SHUFFLE for a fresh draw.LIVE CONTROLADMIN
- Podium ceremony overlayAdmin-triggered podium with trophies, confetti rain, fireworks, cheers and stadium SFX — broadcasts to TV, Follow Live, and referees.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Tournament logo across screensUpload a tournament logo and it appears next to the name on TV, Follow Live, and team dashboards.SPONSORS, MEDIA & THEMEADMINTEAMSPECTATOR
- Ref Mode / View Mode toggleReferees can flip to View Mode on break to follow the whole tournament, then flip back to control their console.EXPERIENCE & POLISHREFEREE
- EA FC 26 cycle copyEarlier copy pass — kept for historical reference; superseded by the universal ARENA rebrand.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- 'Follow Live' for spectatorsThe public spectator entry point is now called Follow Live (less ambiguous than Watch Live).EXPERIENCE & POLISHSPECTATOR
- TV corner WATCH LIVE QRTV display shows a QR badge in the corner — phones scan it to jump straight to the tournament's live page. Toggle on/off per screen.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATORADMIN
- Admin InboxSingle hub for referee dispute flags and team photo approvals — red badge counter sits next to Tools and Settings.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Broadcast banners (FIFO queue + buzz)Push messages to teams, refs, TV, or specific targets. Auto-dismiss after ~20s, queue one at a time, optionally buzz phones.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Dynamic schedule reflowWhen a match runs long or short, every later match across all consoles shifts to absorb the delta, rounded for a player buffer.LIVE CONTROLADMINTEAMREFEREE
- Mid-tournament settings editsChange Swiss rounds, decisive rounds, match duration, break time, console count, logo, and team list while live (with safe guards).ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Reopen completed matchesAdmin can unfinalize a match if a score needs correction after the referee marked it complete.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Inline photo gallery (Drive-backed)Paste an upload + view folder; everyone gets one-tap upload and an inline lightbox streamed from Google Drive.SPONSORS, MEDIA & THEMEADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- TV: live + upcoming splitTV display separates currently-running matches from upcoming ones with weighted auto-scroll.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATOR
- Sponsor catalogue / brochureEach sponsor profile can host a catalogue or brochure PDF link visible to spectators.SPONSORS, MEDIA & THEMEADMINSPECTATOR
- CSV template + importDownload a fillable CSV, paste it back, and bulk-register teams (case-insensitive, with confirm dialog).ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
- Console-occupied warningSoft guard warns a referee before they pick a console another ref is already running.EXPERIENCE & POLISHREFEREE
- Admin user accounts + superuser portalPer-user admin login with roles. Superusers manage other admins from /admin/users.PLATFORMADMIN
- Spectator team record pagesTap any team on Follow Live to see their full match history — goals, cards, forfeits, incidents.EXPERIENCE & POLISHSPECTATOR
- Manual bye selectionPick which team gets the bye each round instead of leaving it to the engine.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Bye make-up matchProvisional byes can be replaced with a real make-up match later in the tournament.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Rulebook compliance engine12 capabilities enforce tournament rules during pairing and standings — no manual policing.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Sponsor profile pagesEach sponsor has a dedicated explore page with logo, gallery, owner message, and social links.SPONSORS, MEDIA & THEMEADMINSPECTATOR
- Team & referee photosAvatars across standings, TV, and match cards — with an admin approval workflow.SPONSORS, MEDIA & THEMEADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Match reorder UXDrag-and-drop matches, jump-to-position, auto-assign consoles, and a referee match picker.LIVE CONTROLADMINREFEREE
- TV animations & soundsConfetti, shockwaves, fireworks, crowd roars, and air horns fire on goals, kickoff, and full-time. Pick your mix or upload custom clips.BROADCAST & DISPLAYADMINSPECTATOR
- Sponsor tier hierarchyTitle / Gold / Silver / Bronze tiers with proportional sizing on every screen.SPONSORS, MEDIA & THEMEADMINSPECTATOR
- Sponsor-matched themeAuto-generate a tournament palette from the title sponsor's logo colors.SPONSORS, MEDIA & THEMEADMIN
- Tournament theme lock + custom paletteTV/Follow Live enforce the org's chosen theme. Build a fully custom palette with the color picker.SPONSORS, MEDIA & THEMEADMINSPECTATOR
- Theme system (5 presets + switcher)Dark neon, light, calm, warm, vibrant — each user picks their vibe; preference saves locally.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMREFEREE
- Short share-friendly codesTournaments get a short code (e.g. TRN-7X9K) you can read out at the venue, alongside the full UUID.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINSPECTATOR
- Referee phase guide + match timerConfigurable setup/selection/halftime/changes phases with countdown presets and stopwatch fallback.LIVE CONTROLADMINREFEREE
- Ad-hoc matches + parallel stagesRun side stages or one-off matches alongside the main bracket without rebuilding the tournament.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Page system (double-elimination)Full Page system bracket engine — losers' bracket included — selectable in the format picker.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Cross-group seeding for KOKnockout pairings can pull seeds across groups (1A vs 2B, etc.) instead of just within-group.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Multi-format supportPick your format at setup: Swiss, Groups + KO, Round Robin, or Conferences + Playoffs — each running its own format engine; custom to follow.TOURNAMENT FORMATSADMIN
- Floating feedback buttonEvery page has a floating button so anyone can send feedback, bugs, or ideas — live-syncs to a Google Sheet.PLATFORMADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Interactive /demoClick through every role's view of a fully-mocked tournament — the easiest way to evaluate the platform.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINSPECTATOR
- How It Works walkthrough17-slide interactive walkthrough covering setup → registration → live → ceremonies.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- Tournament PlannerEstimate consoles needed, total time, and round count before committing to a setup.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMIN
- Realtime sync everywhereScore, standings, and broadcasts update across every screen in under a second — no polling.PLATFORMADMINTEAMREFEREESPECTATOR
- TV / projector displayFullscreen spectator view with auto-rotating matches, standings, and top-scorer panels.BROADCAST & DISPLAYSPECTATOR
- Team portalPhone-first dashboard: my matches, all matches, standings, and live scores — no login needed beyond the access code.EXPERIENCE & POLISHTEAM
- Referee consoleCoin toss, timer, score taps, cards, pause tracking, incident reports, and forfeit logging — all in one panel.EXPERIENCE & POLISHREFEREE
- QR login cardsPrint-optimized QR cards for teams and referees — scan to log in, zero typing.EXPERIENCE & POLISHADMINTEAMREFEREE
- Next-round preview panelSee confirmed / tentative / undecided pairings before generating the next round, with swap and reorder.LIVE CONTROLADMIN
- Teams editable during liveAdd or remove a team mid-tournament with admin approval — no need to rebuild from scratch.ADMIN TOOLSADMIN
That's it — you're ready for match day.
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