Table tennis tournament software and live scoring

A table tennis championship combines individual and team competition. Individual events are men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles, run across age groups such as U11, U13, U15, U17, U19, seniors and veterans. Team events, where clubs or districts meet in ties of several singles and doubles matches, often run alongside them in the same hall.

Zeetius Tournaments gives each event and age group its own entries, eligibility and draw, while each player keeps a single record. A cadet entered in her own age group and the age group above appears once, so the scheduler can see both sets of matches when it builds the day.

Players enrol and pay online against a listing page for the championship. Age eligibility is checked at registration, doubles pairs enter together, and team captains can enter their squad for a team event in one submission.

• Individual events. Singles, doubles and mixed doubles, configured per age group with their own limits and fees.
• Team events. Ties made up of several individual matches, with the order of play and the tie format set by the organiser.
• Age groups. Junior, senior and veteran categories defined by your association's cut-off dates.

A table tennis game is played to 11 points and must be won by two, so at 10-10 play continues until one side leads by two, with no cap. Matches are usually the best of five or the best of seven games. The serve passes every two points, and from 10-10 it alternates after every point. In doubles, the order of service and receiving rotates in a set sequence through the game.

Arena by Zeetius records this on the Umpire Assist tablet app. The umpire records who won each point, and the app works out the server from the sequence of points rather than asking for it, including the doubles rotation and the alternate serves at deuce. The match length, three, five or seven games, is configured per event.

Each point reaches the public live score page immediately. On /live/livescore each table shows the current game, earlier games and the match status, finished matches move to /live/results, and group and knockout brackets on /live/draws update with each result.

• 11-point games. Won by two clear points, with deuce at 10-10 played out to the end.
• Configurable match length. Best of three, five or seven games, set for each event and round.
• Service rotation. Two serves each, single alternate serves from 10-10, and the doubles order derived automatically.

The Table Tennis Association of Kerala (TTAK) moved its event registration, scheduling, player data and official appointments from manual processes onto Zeetius. Its case study describes the change, from online registration and real-time updates to quicker coordination with technical officials.

Zeetius Federation holds one record for each player, club and technical official. Players register once and renew each season, district associations manage their own members, and the state association sees every member and every sanctioned event. Umpires and referees are accredited and nominated to championships from the same record.

Results from sanctioned events feed the association's ranking lists automatically, and those rankings seed the next championship's draws. Certificates are generated for every participant from the results, and the association's website can publish its calendar, draws and rankings under its own name.