Kabaddi tournament software and live scoring

Kabaddi is played between two teams of seven players on court, with substitutes waiting outside. Teams take turns to send a raider into the opposing half, where the raider tries to touch one or more defenders and return to their own half within the time allowed for a raid, usually 30 seconds, while the defenders try to stop them.

Points come in several ways. A raider earns a point for each defender touched who is put out, and can earn a bonus point by crossing the bonus line under the conditions the rules set. The defending side earns a tackle point when it stops the raider from getting back. When one team puts out every player on the other side, it earns extra points for an all-out and the whole opposing team is revived.

A match is normally played in two halves with a short interval, but the length of each half, the size of the court and some of the finer rules vary between federations, age groups and leagues. Zeetius treats these as settings of each competition, so the format is configured to match the rules your event follows.

• Raid points. Earned by the raider for each defender touched and put out.
• Bonus points. Earned by the raider for crossing the bonus line, where the rules allow it.
• Tackle points. Earned by the defending side for stopping the raider.
• All-out. Extra points for putting out the whole opposing team.

A kabaddi entry is a team of seven on court with a squad of substitutes behind it. Each club, school, district or state team registers against the tournament listing, names its squad and pays the entry fee online. Age limits and, where they apply, weight limits are checked as players register, so an ineligible player is caught at entry rather than at the weigh-in or after a protest.

For a federation or association, the squad is drawn from players who are already members. Zeetius Federation keeps one record for every player, club and official across seasons, with renewals and transfers kept current. At multi-day championships, Zeetius Connect accredits players, coaches and team staff before arrival and handles entry, meals and accommodation with QR validation.

A kabaddi match is controlled by a team of officials, including the referee, umpires and scorers. Technical official management nominates and allocates officials to every match, so each game has its full panel and nobody is booked for two matches at once.

A kabaddi championship is limited by the number of courts, usually mats laid indoors or prepared surfaces outdoors, and by the number of matches each team can play in a day. Teams in several categories often share the same courts, and players need rest between matches. Zeetius Tournaments generates the fixtures and the schedule automatically and lets the organiser move a match to another court or session as the day unfolds.

Knockout fixtures cannot carry team names until the pools finish, so the schedule holds slots such as winner of Pool A against runner-up of Pool B, which fill in as results come in. Running every court from one schedule shows the organiser when a match has run long and what that means for the matches after it.

Each fixture records the two teams, the court, the start time and the officials, so team managers, officials and spectators all work from the same published schedule rather than a list read out at the venue. When a court is changed or a session runs late, every team sees the change at the same time instead of hearing it second-hand.