What Taekwondo Competition Manager doesn't do — an honest list.
Most software pages tell you everything the product does. This one tells you what it doesn't. If you're choosing a competition manager for your club or federation, the "not built" list matters as much as the feature grid — so here it is, plainly.
Why publish this? Because we'd rather lose a sale to honesty than win one and have a frustrated customer two events later. If your event needs the things on this list, we'll tell you to look elsewhere — usually Daedo PSS for top-tier WT, or your federation's own platform for sanctioned national events.
1. No ITF-specific rule preset.
There is no "run this event under ITF rules" toggle in the system. We don't ship a built-in interpretation of ITF Sparring 4-corner-judge consensus, ITF Patterns flag-judging head-to-head, ITF Special Technique height-and-distance scoring, or ITF Power Breaking attempt-counting.
What we do is provide a generic scoring engine that's flexible enough to be operated under ITF rules — corner judges tap their score on phones, the operator confirms the round winner, brackets advance — but the rule interpretation itself sits with your head referee, not with the software.
2. No WT-specific rule preset (and no PSS hardware integration).
This is the big one. WT (World Taekwondo) sparring at senior level uses electronic Protector and Scoring Systems — Daedo PSS or KP&P — that detect impact thresholds in the body and head guards and award points automatically. We do not integrate with any of those systems. There is no API hook, no UDP listener for the hogu transponders, no kyong-go (warning) auto-counting, no automatic gam-jeom application after three kyong-gos. None of that is in our codebase.
If your event is on the WT competition pathway and the rules require electronic hogu — most senior national championships and all WT-sanctioned international events do — you need PSS, and that means Daedo or KP&P, not us. We have a comparison page that says exactly this.
Where we DO fit WT events: WT-style events at club, regional or association level that don't require electronic hogu — interclubs, training-camp competitions, WT-rules opens where the budget for £15k–£25k of PSS hardware doesn't exist. The brackets, the running order, the audience scoreboard, the registration — all of that works the same. You just score by referee/judge consensus instead of by impact sensor.
3. No TAGB rule preset.
TAGB (Tae Kwon-Do Association of Great Britain) runs a specific format: semi-contact sparring with TAGB-specific category rules, patterns judging conventions and pre-arranged sparring. There is no "TAGB Mode" in our software. We have not encoded the TAGB Black Belt Patterns syllabus or the TAGB Junior categories table.
What you get instead: a flexible category builder, flexible scoring inputs and a flexible bracket engine. Our customers who run TAGB events configure the categories themselves and operate the platform under their own house rules. No software shortcut — but no software constraint either.
4. No FEKO rule preset.
Same story. We have not built dedicated FEKO (Federation of European Karate & Kickboxing-style Organisations and adjacent groupings) rule logic. If your federation has a published handbook with specific kup-grade-to-category mappings, weight ranges, round timings or scoring conventions, that's the head referee's brief on the day, not a configuration we ship in code.
5. No "select your federation" toggle anywhere.
You won't find a dropdown labelled "Federation: ITF / WT / TAGB / FEKO / Independent" anywhere in the platform. We chose not to build that, and we'd push back if you asked us to. Reasons:
- Each federation revises its rulebook every season. Hard-coding 2024 rules into the software just means the software is wrong by 2025. We'd rather you have a flexible engine and an up-to-date head referee than a rigid engine and a rule mismatch.
- The federations themselves disagree internally. ITF rules vary by ITF (there are several). WT senior rules differ from WT junior. TAGB area events run subtly different to TAGB nationals. There is no canonical "ITF rules" we could ship.
- Most events run hybrid rules anyway. A typical UK independent open lifts ITF-style sparring rules, WT-style category structures and TAGB-style patterns judging. Locking the software to one federation would break this most-common case.
What we DO instead.
We built a style-agnostic engine. The brackets generate themselves. The scoring screens take whatever input the rules of your day need — corner judge consensus, referee point-stop, time-based rounds, attempt counts for breaking — and feed the result into the bracket. The audience scoreboard and the running order on the venue's TV update in real time as the operator confirms each result.
What that means in practice:
- You can run an ITF-rules sparring event today, a TAGB-rules event next month and a hybrid open in between — same software, same workflow, different rule interpretation.
- Your head referee carries the rulebook. The software doesn't argue with them.
- When your federation publishes a 2026 rule revision, you don't wait for us to ship a software update. You just operate the engine the new way.
Where this WON'T work for you.
Be realistic with yourself before signing up:
- Your event is on the WT pathway and requires Daedo / KP&P PSS. Use Daedo's or KP&P's own platform.
- You want the software to enforce kyong-go limits automatically. Our software won't do that. Your referee will.
- You want a one-click "ITF Mode" that hides every WT-leaning concept and auto-validates ITF-specific category rules. Doesn't exist here. May exist in a federation-supplied tool.
- You need an integration with your federation's national ranking database. We don't have that. We export results as CSV; your ranking platform can ingest from there.
Worth keeping in mind. The hardest thing about running a competition isn't enforcing the rules. It's the registration mess, the bracket regenerating mid-event, the scoreboard you can't see from the stands and the fighters not knowing when they're up. We're built for those problems. The rules-of-the-day are a head-referee problem and that's how we like it.
What we might build (no promises).
The roadmap is shaped by what customers ask for. Things on the "maybe" pile right now:
- An optional kyong-go counter for sparring screens — a simple +/- per fighter that auto-flags after three. Not a rules engine; just a counter the operator can turn on if they find it useful.
- Category templates — saveable category presets per federation, so a TAGB organiser can clone last year's category list in one click rather than configure them again. This would help operators without claiming we ship federation rules.
- Result export to federation ranking platforms — partnership-led, on a per-federation basis, only when there's enough volume to justify it.
None of that is committed. If something on this list would meaningfully change whether you'd use the platform, tell us — we'd genuinely like to know.
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