The tournament lived in chats
Entries arrived as photos in a chat, pairs were counted in a notebook, schedule changes got lost between parents and coaches. At a competition of nearly two hundred boxers this turned into endless calls to the organiser.
Readable on the move in the gym
Dark theme, large lines, everything essential on the first screen of a tournament. A spectator finds his boxer in a second, a coach finds his entries, an organiser finds the seeding button.
We removed the manual typing
The bottleneck was not software but the keyboard: hundreds of rows from paper entries. We added photo recognition by a neural network — a list becomes a table in five seconds and the organiser only verifies it. Sign-in went through a Telegram bot: SMS gateways in Kazakhstan are expensive and unreliable, while the bot logs users in automatically and for free.
The organiser runs it, the gym watches
More than thirty tournaments and over three thousand entries have gone through the system. Seeding, weigh-in, schedule and results live in one place, and spectators open the bracket by QR without installing anything.