Throwball tournament software and live scoring

Throwball is a net game played by two teams on a rectangular court divided by a raised net. Instead of hitting the ball, players catch it and throw it back over the net, aiming to land it in the opponents' court or force them into a fault. A team usually has nine players on court, with substitutes named on the team sheet.

A point is lost when the ball lands in a team's own court, is thrown out of bounds, is dropped, or when the thrower commits a fault such as an illegal throw or holding the ball too long. Because the ball must be caught cleanly and released quickly, the game rewards safe hands, accurate throwing and good court coverage.

Throwball is usually played in sets, often best of three, with a points target and a margin to win each set. Rules on the number of sets, the points target, rotation and substitutions vary between associations and age groups, so these are configured by the organiser for each event rather than fixed by the software.

• Catch and throw. The ball is caught and thrown over the net, never hit, which makes clean catching the core skill.
• Nine players a side. Usually nine on court, with substitutes named on the roster.
• Configurable sets. The number of sets, the points target and the winning margin are set for each event.

Large throwball meets usually start with pools and finish with knockouts. Zeetius Tournaments generates pools and round-robin fixtures from the entries, seeds teams from rankings or previous results, and carries the pool qualifiers into a bracket through to the final. Smaller events can be played as a straight knockout or a single round robin.

Pool standings are decided by matches won, then by tie-break rules such as set ratio or point ratio. The order of these rules differs between associations, so it is configured for each event to match the rules the organiser publishes. Zet AI can suggest balanced seeds and keep teams from the same district or institution apart in the early rounds.

League formats suit district and club competitions played over several weekends. Fixtures are published in advance and the table is updated after each round, so teams know where they stand and what they need from their remaining matches. Results from a league season can also be used to seed the following year's tournaments.

• Pools, then knockouts. Group fixtures generated automatically, with qualifiers drawn into a bracket.
• Seeding. Teams placed from rankings or past results so the strongest do not meet early.
• Tie-breaks. Matches won, set ratio and point ratio applied in the order your rules set.

Throwball on Zeetius is scored live. The scorer at the table beside the court enters each point on the Zeetius multi-sport scoresheet, which is set up for the sets and points target your event uses. Team managers, students, parents and teachers who cannot be at every court follow the match on the public live score page at zeetius.com/live/livescore, filtered to throwball.

Zeetius Federation prepares rank lists from real results by age group and category, which an association can use to seed the next season's events, pick district and state teams or recognise the strongest schools and colleges. Every ranking can be traced back to the matches that produced it.

When a match ends, the score entered at the court is confirmed by the officials and published as the official result, set by set. Pool tables update, qualifiers move into the knockout and teams see where they play next, and certificates for every participant are generated in bulk from the results instead of being written by hand after the meet.