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Schedule board

Used in: 4. Register and build the site · 6. Print · 8. Run the day

A wall display meant for a screen at the venue, not a phone: courts as columns, time slots as rows, one card per match, colour-coded by category. Live matches get a highlighted ring; finished ones dim and show their score. It updates on its own, with no refreshing.

The board is unlisted. Nothing on Tournament Hub links to it. An operator launches it with Open schedule in Control Center's Mission Control and puts it on the venue's screen.

Reading a card

Each card shows the two sides facing each other, the score in the middle, the match number, and a small pill for the stage: RR for pool play, and a solid pill for a playoff round (R16, QF, SF, BRONZE, FINAL). A card is in one of three states:

  • Upcoming shows VS between the sides.
  • Live has a green ring and a COURT n pill. A match is live when its number is in the workbook's Court Control tab.
  • Completed is dimmed and shows its score.

If two matches land in the same court and time slot, or a match has no usable court, the board never drops one: the time cell shows a +n badge, and hovering it lists the match numbers that did not fit.

Venue picker and court split

When a day is played at more than one venue, a Venue row at the top (All and one button per venue) narrows the board to that venue's matches and courts. Each venue's screen then shows only its own. With one venue the row is hidden.

A row of court buttons splits the board by court, so a venue with two screens can show courts 1–5 on one and 6–9 on the other. Court numbers run on across a day's venues (Main 1–4, Annex 5–9), and a venue's view offers only its own courts.

Both choices live in the page address (?venue= and ?courts=), so bookmark each screen's page once and it comes back the same after a restart, with nobody touching the machine.

Collapsing the header

A chevron at the top collapses the header to the essentials, for a screen that needs every pixel. It hides the venue and court filters and the PDF button and keeps the colour legend, since a viewer needs that to read the board. The choice is carried in the address too (?compact=1).

PDF and paper

The PDF button lays the board out one sheet per group of courts and opens the browser's print dialog. Save as PDF gives a file; Print gives paper for the desk, the noticeboard and each court. The category colours print. Finished matches print at full strength rather than dimmed.

Team events

At a team event each card names both teams above their players and carries the pair label (MD, WD, XD). A side whose lineup is not in yet reads Lineup TBD. Cards are coloured by bracket, not by category, with every playoff match in its own colour. When the teams have colours, each card instead shades from one team's colour to the other's, and each team name has a mark in front of it: the team's colour on a shape of its own, so the teams can be told apart without telling the colours apart. The card's left edge and chip still give the bracket.

What it needs

The board shows exactly one day. The event's page is set to that day, and the colour key for the categories is set by hand from the scoring workbook's own colour coding. Both are part of Usage step 4. If the workbook is recoloured, the board's colours are re-set by hand: nothing detects the change.

Features: Tournament Hub · Control Center Technical: schedule board