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
- Upcoming — the now-and-next matches per court, so the room can see who's playing where and who's on next
- Recent results — the latest finished matches
- Stats — when player statistics are enabled for a stats sport
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. When the tournament wraps up, the display keeps cycling through final standings, the completed bracket, and recent results — your spectators see the outcome the moment they walk past the screen.
Your tournament name and logo appear at the top. Progress dots at the bottom show which slide is currently on screen.
Before the first match — structure with a QR
Once you've run the draw, TV Mode shows the real tournament structure straightaway: standings tables (with all-zero rows so spectators can see who's in which group) and bracket shells with seeded matchups. A small QR in the bottom-right corner lets anyone in the room scan and follow the same tournament on their phone. That corner QR stays put throughout the event — it doesn't disappear once scores start coming in, so latecomers can always scan in. (You can turn it off in the Presentation settings if you'd rather keep the screen clean.)
If you open TV Mode before the draw is done, you still see the full-screen "Starting Soon" card — same as before.
Setting it up
- Open your tournament on Score7
- Go to the TV tab in the tournament's admin menu — everything lives in one place here
- Under Open on your TV, you'll find your TV link with an Open button, a copy button, and a QR code to scan from a phone
- Open the link in the browser on your venue TV or projector
That's it. The display starts cycling through slides immediately.
The TV link 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.
Dial it in with Presentation settings
The same TV tab has a Presentation settings panel where you tune the display — each setting saves on its own, and any TV that's already open updates automatically, so there's no need to reopen or regenerate the link:
- Views shown in the cycle — turn each view on or off (Standings, Full bracket, Upcoming, Results, Stats). Only the views that make sense for your tournament show up, and at least one stays on.
- Seconds per screen — how long each slide holds (3 to 120, default 15).
- Show tournament logo — show or hide your logo in the header.
- Text size — Normal, Large, or Extra, so it stays readable from across the room.
- Show QR code — show or hide the spectator "scan to follow" QR.
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
Set Seconds per screen in the Presentation settings to control how long each slide stays up — anywhere from 3 to 120 seconds (15 by default). For a fast-paced event, dial it down to 8; for a slower league night, 30 might feel better. Change it mid-event and any open TV picks up the new pace on its own.
Text size
Set a default Text size — Normal, Large, or Extra — in the Presentation settings so the display reads well from the back of the room. You can also nudge it live on the venue screen: hover to reveal the control bar and tap the − / + buttons (or press the − / + keys) to shrink or grow the text on the spot.
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 |
| + / − | Increase or decrease the text size |
| 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 open the TV tab and change its settings. 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.