How to Display Your Tournament on a Venue TV
Running an in-person tournament and want spectators to follow brackets and results on a big screen? TV Mode turns any monitor into a live tournament display — full-screen, auto-updating, distraction-free. Set it up once and forget about it for the rest of the event.
What TV Mode shows
TV Mode generates slides based on your tournament format and current state:
- Round-robin or Swiss tournaments — standings tables
- Knockout tournaments — bracket views
- Completed tournaments — final results
For multi-stage tournaments (like a group phase into a knockout), each stage gets its own slides. The display cycles through them automatically — 15 seconds per slide by default.
Your tournament name and logo appear at the top. Progress dots at the bottom show which slide is currently on screen.
Setting it up
- Open your tournament on Score7
- Click the TV Mode button at the bottom of the sidebar (below the admin menu)
- A dialog opens with your TV URL, a QR code, and a copy button
- Open the URL in the browser on your venue TV
That's it. The display starts cycling through slides immediately.
The TV URL is public — no login needed on the venue device. Just open the link and go. You can also scan the QR code from a phone or tablet for quick setup.
Live updates — no babysitting required
TV Mode checks for changes every 30 seconds. When someone enters a score or updates a result, the display refreshes automatically on the next cycle. No manual intervention, no page refreshes. Leave it running and it stays current throughout your event.
Customizing the display
Cycle speed
Add ?interval=N to the TV URL to set how long each slide stays on screen, where N is the number of seconds. The range is 5 to 120 seconds. For a fast-paced event, try ?interval=8. For a slower league night, ?interval=30 might feel better.
Your brand
If your tournament has a custom brand color, TV Mode uses it for all accent elements — progress bars, highlights, and headings. Combined with your logo in the header, the display feels like it belongs to your club, not a generic tool.
Dark or light theme
The display starts in your current theme (dark or light). Toggle it anytime by pressing T on the keyboard or clicking the theme button on screen.
Keyboard shortcuts
If you have a keyboard connected to the venue TV (or are controlling it remotely):
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Left / Right arrows | Jump to the previous or next slide |
| Space | Pause or resume auto-cycling |
| R | Refresh data immediately |
| F | Toggle fullscreen |
| T | Toggle dark / light theme |
It just keeps running
Two things you don't have to worry about:
- Screen sleep — Score7 keeps the display awake automatically. No screensaver interruptions, even hours into an event.
- Slide errors — if something goes wrong with one slide, TV Mode skips to the next one and retries the broken slide on the next rotation. If the data has been fixed by then, the slide recovers automatically.
Good to know
- TV Mode is a Premium feature. The tournament owner needs a Premium subscription.
- Both tournament owners and admins can access the TV Mode button. Editors and viewers cannot.
- The TV URL is public — anyone with the link can view it. Premium is checked on the tournament owner, not the viewer.
- Works in any modern browser. Available in 9 languages.
- The slide interval, theme toggle, and keyboard controls all work immediately — no setup needed.
Running a local league night, a school championship, or an esports LAN? Put the TV URL on the big screen and let your spectators follow every result as it happens.
Create your tournament and try TV Mode at your next event.