Badminton tournament software and live scoring

A badminton championship is rarely one competition. It is up to five events, men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, multiplied across age categories such as U11, U13, U15, U17, U19, seniors and masters. A state ranking tournament can easily hold forty separate draws, all sharing the same courts, officials and players.

Zeetius Tournaments treats each event and category as its own draw with its own entries, eligibility and schedule, while keeping the player record shared. A junior entered in U15 and U17 singles and U17 doubles appears once in the system, so clashes between her matches are visible before the schedule is published rather than discovered on the day.

Entries open on a listing page built for the event. Players enrol and pay online, date of birth is checked against the age category as they register, and doubles pairs are entered together so the draw never contains half a team.

• Singles and doubles events. MS, WS, MD, WD and XD, each configured with its own entry fee, limits and draw size.
• Age categories. Junior, senior and masters groups defined by your association's eligibility rules and cut-off dates.
• Team championships. Inter-district or inter-club ties made up of several individual matches, scored match by match.

Badminton uses rally scoring: every rally wins a point, whoever served. A game is played to 21 points, a side must lead by two to win it from 20-all, and the first side to 30 wins if the game reaches 29-all. A match is the best of three games. Ends change after each game and at 11 points in a deciding game.

Arena by Zeetius captures this on the Umpire Assist tablet app. The umpire records the winner of each rally, and the app keeps track of the server, the service court, intervals and the end of each game, so the umpire's attention stays on the court. Scoring formats can be configured for events that use a different points target, such as short-format junior competitions.

Every point reaches the public live score page at the moment it is recorded. Fans and coaches following on /live/livescore see each court's current game score, earlier games and match status, and finished matches move to /live/results while the draw on /live/draws updates with the winner.

• 21-point rally scoring. A point on every rally, games to 21, with the two-point lead and the cap at 30 handled automatically.
• Best of three games. Game scores, intervals and change of ends tracked through to the deciding game.
• Point-by-point record. Every rally is stored in sequence, which is what makes the score progression and match analysis possible.

Badminton associations in India run on Zeetius, including KBSA in Kerala (kbsa.co.in), the Orissa State Badminton Association (osbaodisha.org) and the Chhattisgarh Badminton Association (cgba.co.in). The Saudi Badminton Federation has also worked with the Zeetius team on its development efforts.

Zeetius Federation keeps one record for every player, club and technical official. Players register once and renew each season, district associations work on their own members, and the state association sees the whole picture. Umpires, service judges and referees are accredited and nominated to tournaments from the same record.

Results from sanctioned tournaments feed the association's ranking lists directly, so nobody retypes a scoreline into a spreadsheet. Certificates are generated for every participant from the results, and the association's public website can show its calendar, draws and rankings under its own name.