Tournament display for a projector
Open one link on a laptop, put it full screen on the projector, and walk away. It shows what is live, the tables, the bracket and what is on next, rotating on a timer, and it updates itself as results go in.
Free, and there is no account to make first. About a minute to the QR code.
Unattended is the whole design
Nobody stands at the laptop. The screen cycles its panels on a timer and the bar along the top fills over each one's dwell so the room can see it is about to change. If the organiser wants a particular panel up — "put the pool B table back" — the segments in that bar are buttons, and clicking one jumps to it and restarts the dwell. Rotation carries on afterwards, so a screen nobody touches again goes back to being unattended.
Panels with nothing in them are dropped rather than shown blank. A hall with no live match should not stare at an empty "Now playing" for fifteen seconds.
Light, not dark, and that is deliberate
A projector has no black — an unlit pixel is whatever the lamp leaks onto the wall — so under sports-hall lighting a dark scoreboard washes out to grey and takes its text with it, while a light one simply gets brighter. Light is therefore the default and dark is the one you have to ask for, which is the opposite of how this choice usually runs.
Dark is the right answer for a room that has been dimmed for the finals. It is offered, with the reason attached, because the decision is made on a phone indoors where dark always looks better in the hand than it will on the wall.
Set up from the phone in your pocket
Which panels appear and in what order is one list on the organiser's screen, and every change saves as you make it. The wall is the preview: the server nudges it the moment the write lands, so somebody standing in front of the projector with a phone sees what a setting does rather than guessing and walking over.
A rotation of one panel is a pinned screen. There is no separate mode to learn.
It survives the venue wifi
The screen is told when to re-read rather than polling for changes, so a point tapped at the side of a court is on the wall about a fifth of a second later. But a stream through a venue's wifi is not a thing to bet a tournament on, and its failure is the quiet one — the socket looks open and stops delivering — so there is a 60-second poll underneath it as well.
On a failed request the last good screen stays up and is marked stale. A blank projector in a sports hall is worse than a slightly old one.
Common questions
What do I need to run it?
Any laptop or smart TV with a browser, and the link. No account, no install, no extension.
Does somebody have to operate it?
No. It rotates on its own and updates itself. The organiser can jump to a panel from their phone if they want to.
Can I put my club's colours on it?
Yes — an accent colour and a logo. The accent is capped for contrast when it is used as text, so a pale club colour stays readable rather than disappearing into the background.
Can I put sponsor logos on it?
Yes, on the closing panel of the rotation. That is the one paid feature; everything else is free.