Wrestling tournament software and live scoring

A wrestling championship is a set of separate competitions, one for each combination of style, age group and weight category. A state championship may hold freestyle, Greco-Roman and women's wrestling across cadet, junior and senior age groups, which quickly produces dozens of categories, each with its own draw, its own medallists and its own place on the mat schedule.

In Zeetius Tournaments the organiser builds this structure before entries open. Each style is added with its age groups and the weight limits that apply to them, so the categories match the rule book the event is held under. Where a federation uses its own age bands or weight limits, those are configured rather than forced into a fixed template.

Entries are then taken against those categories. An athlete registers once, chooses the style and weight category, and the platform checks eligibility against the date of birth and the category rules as the entry is made, so ineligible entries are caught before the draw rather than at the weigh-in table.

• Styles. Freestyle, Greco-Roman and women's wrestling, run as separate draws within one event.
• Age groups. Cadet, junior, under-23, senior or the federation's own bands, set by date of birth.
• Weight categories. The limits for each style and age group, entered once and reused across the season.
• Team events. Team scores built from individual placings where the event awards a team title.

Most wrestling categories are run as a knockout with repechage. Wrestlers who lost to either of the two finalists return to a repechage bracket, and the repechage winners meet the beaten semi-finalists for the two bronze medals. This means the repechage cannot be drawn until the finalists are known, and it has to be added to the mat schedule while the session is already under way.

Zeetius Tournaments generates the main bracket from the athletes who made weight, with byes placed automatically when the number of wrestlers is not a power of two. Seeding is applied where the event uses it, and the repechage bracket is filled from the results of the main draw as bouts finish, so officials do not have to work out who qualifies by hand.

Small categories are often better served by a round robin, where every wrestler meets every other and the ranking is decided by wins and classification points. The organiser chooses the format per category, so a crowded senior weight and a three-athlete junior weight can be run correctly in the same event.

A wrestling event is a schedule problem across several mats. Organisers divide the day into sessions, assign categories to mats and order the bouts so that no wrestler is called to two mats at once and every athlete has rest between bouts. When one mat falls behind, bouts can be moved to another mat and the change is visible to everyone working from the schedule.

Every bout also needs a refereeing team. Zeetius Tournaments and Zeetius Federation keep a register of technical officials with their grades, so referees, judges and mat chairmen can be nominated to the event and allocated to mats and sessions. Federations can see which officials worked which events across the season.

• Sessions. Qualification rounds, repechage and finals placed in the sessions the event plans.
• Mat schedule. Bouts ordered per mat, with changes made in real time when a mat runs late.
• Officials. Referees, judges and mat chairmen nominated and allocated by mat and session.