Shooting competition software and live scoring

Shooting sport is organised into three disciplines. Rifle and pistol events are shot at fixed targets on ranges at 10, 25 and 50 metres, from the 10 metre air rifle and air pistol events that most shooters start with to the 50 metre rifle three positions and the 25 metre pistol events. Shotgun events, such as trap and skeet, are shot at clay targets thrown from traps.

A national championship can hold a long list of events, each split by gender and by age group, and many shooters enter more than one. Calendars also include mixed team events, team events built from individual scores and para shooting classes, and national bodies often add events and categories of their own alongside the international programme.

On Zeetius, the organiser sets each event's discipline, distance, number of shots, age band and team rules, so the platform follows your rule book rather than a fixed template. A shooter can enter several events in one registration, and each event keeps its own start list, results and medals.

• Rifle. Air rifle and smallbore events, including prone and three positions, configured by distance and shot count.
• Pistol. Air pistol, 25 metre and 50 metre events, each with its own course of fire.
• Shotgun. Trap, skeet and other clay events, shot in squads across a series of rounds.

A range has a fixed number of firing points, and a large event is shot in relays, sometimes called details, each one filling the line for its allotted time. The organiser has to fit every event and category into the available relays across the days of the championship, keep shooters who have entered several events from being called to two relays at once and leave time for the finals.

Shotgun events are scheduled differently. Shooters are grouped into squads, usually of up to six, and each squad moves through the stations of a layout for each round, with rounds spread across the days of the competition. Squad lists and layout allocations have to be published before the first round so every shooter knows where and when to report.

Schedules on Zeetius are configurable, so relays, firing point allocations, squads and finals are arranged the way your range and your rules require. If your championship needs a particular arrangement, such as separate relays by category or squads that keep clubs apart, talk to us and we will discuss how it can be set up for your calendar.

• Relay plans. Events and categories fitted into the relays available across each day of the championship.
• Firing point allocation. Each shooter's relay and firing point published before the competition starts.
• Squads. Shotgun squads and their layouts, round by round, with no clashes for shooters in several events.

Shooting on Zeetius is scored live on the Zeetius multi-sport scoresheet, set up for each event's series, rounds and finals. Results officials at the range enter scores as each stage is completed, and shooters' families, clubs and coaches follow the championship at zeetius.com/live/livescore, filtered by sport. Once the jury confirms them, the same scores become the official results by event and category, with certificates generated in bulk for every participant.

Across a season, results become rankings. Zeetius Federation prepares rank lists from real results by event, age group and gender, which is how a shooting federation selects national squads, sets qualifying standards or recognises consistent performers. Each ranking position can be traced to the competitions that produced it, and national records set at sanctioned events can be kept in the same history.

Technical officials are part of the same record. Range officers, jury members and results officials are accredited, nominated and allocated to championships from Zeetius Federation and Zeetius Tournaments, so the organiser can see which officials hold the right qualification for each event before appointments are confirmed.