Use case · For the clubs the big systems priced out

Run a proper interclub for £39 and a Saturday afternoon.

Most clubs think competitions are expensive and complicated. Big venues, multiple rings, hundreds of fighters, professional referees. That's one type of event. A small club competition for 10–50 people is a different beast — and it's entirely within reach for any club with internet and a browser. No scoring boxes, no kit hire, no entry fees, no per-competitor charges.

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The honest pitch

Built for the club running its own thing on a Saturday.

Big federation tools want £20,000 of hardware, sanctioned referees, four-figure setup fees and a dedicated venue. They're built for events that come round once a year on the national circuit. They are not built for the club instructor running an interclub on the second Saturday of every month, on the dojo's own mat space, with two visiting clubs and the parents in folding chairs round the edges.

That's the event we're built for. The 20-fighter sparring afternoon. The 50-fighter club championship. The grading-day mock comp where the brown belts try out a real event before stepping up to a proper open. The first interclub a new club has ever run, where nobody on the team has done one before.

All you need is internet and a browser. The operator's laptop and a couple of volunteer phones become a coordinated scoring platform. The dojo's TV becomes the audience scoreboard. Twenty minutes of setup and you're scoring live, with brackets, fixtures and certificates included.

Three real scenarios

What "small" actually looks like.

Three event shapes most UK clubs run several times a year, with the package that fits each.

Quick Match · £39

Saturday training competition

8–16 fighters

Club members, single ring, 90 minutes, no formal categories. The "let's actually do something competitive tonight" event.

  • Operator on a laptop, audience scoreboard on the dojo TV
  • No bracket needed — instant head-to-head matchups
  • Live scoring with corner judge phones if you want
  • Certificates printed at home for everyone who fought
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Starter · £149

Club championship

20–50 fighters

Annual club event. Categories by belt and weight. Sparring plus patterns. Single ring, full afternoon, parents and grandparents watching.

  • Free online registration through the club website
  • Brackets generated for every category in seconds
  • Live running order on the warm-up TV
  • Audience scoreboard live the whole afternoon
  • Medals, certificates, podium photo
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Standard · £349

Multi-club interclub open

50–200 fighters

Two or three local clubs combine. Up to 4 rings simultaneously. Sparring, patterns, padwork, breaking. A proper Saturday tournament.

  • Paid online registration with entry fees collected up front
  • Up to 4 rings running at once with a shared running order
  • Live scoring on every ring, every device synced
  • Multiple audience screens around the venue
  • Medal tally, statistics, full results export
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A typical Saturday

The two-hour interclub timeline.

A real timeline for a 30-fighter club championship in your own dojo, with three categories and a single ring. From walk-in to medals.

14:00

Setup & registration check-in

Operator opens the laptop, plugs into the dojo's TV via HDMI, casts the running order to a second screen if you have one. Volunteers arrive, scan the QR codes on their phones to join as corner judges. Check-in happens at the door — fighters' names tick green in the system as they arrive.

14:15

Safety brief & warm-up

Instructor briefs the room — rules of the day, scoring system, behaviour expectations. Fighters warm up. The audience scoreboard cycles through the first round of fixtures so everyone can see who's up first.

14:30

Beginners' category

Eight fighters. Three matches across about 25 minutes. Operator pushes each match live; corner judges score from their phones; the audience TV shows live scores and rounds. Winners advance, certificates noted.

15:00

Intermediate category

Twelve fighters. Five matches across about 35 minutes. Same flow. Fighters in the warm-up area watch the running order on the second TV — they know exactly when they're walking onto the mat. Less pacing, less anxiety, less "did you call my name?"

15:40

Advanced category

Ten fighters, the best of the room. Quarter-final, semi, final. Twenty-five minutes of high-quality sparring with the audience scoreboard reading every point in real time. The whole event has the production of something far bigger than it actually is.

16:05

Awards, photos, wrap

Medal tally on screen. Podium photos. Print-ready certificates batch-printed at home in the days after, or from the venue printer if there is one. Done by quarter past four.

The honest framing: two hours, thirty fighters, one operator and three volunteer phones — and the event has a live scoreboard, a running order, brackets, certificates and medals. Five years ago this required a federation budget. Today it requires £39 and a Saturday afternoon.
What it actually costs

A realistic small-club budget.

Two side-by-side budgets — a 20-fighter Quick Match night, and a 50-fighter club championship. Both run from your own venue, no entry fees needed.

Saturday Quick Match — 20 fighters

Venue (own dojo)£0
Quick Match software plan£39
Medals (10 from a local supplier)£20
Certificates (printed at home)£5
Refreshments (squash, biscuits)£20
Total cost£84

No entry fees needed if it's a club activity. This is what running a 'real' competition costs in 2026.

Club championship — 50 fighters

Venue (own dojo)£0
Starter software plan£149
Medals (15 sets, 3 categories)£60
Certificates (50, home printer + decent paper)£20
Refreshments & small admin£40
Total cost£269

Optionally charge £5 entry per fighter to fully cover costs and put a small surplus into next year's medals.

The shift

What changes when small clubs can run real events.

Most fighters in the UK never compete. The reasons aren't motivation — they're access. The big national opens are intimidating, expensive to enter, and far away. The smaller circuits exist but have always been gatekept by what the host club can afford to put on. So most fighters spar in the dojo for years and never test what they can do under pressure with a clock running and someone scoring.

When the cost of running a proper competition drops from "club budget for the year" to "£39 for an afternoon," that maths changes. Clubs can run sparring nights every month. Brown belts can have their first competition before they ever travel to a national. Beginners can get the experience of bowing on, hearing their name called, and walking onto a real mat in a real category — without anyone needing to spend £20,000 on hardware first.

That's what we mean by "for the clubs the big systems priced out." It isn't just a marketing line. It's the actual job of the software.

Common questions

For the clubs about to try their first event.

What's the smallest event this is worth using for? +
A Quick Match night with 8 to 16 fighters. The Quick Match plan at £39 covers exactly that — no brackets needed, just instant head-to-head scoring on the operator's laptop with the audience scoreboard on the venue's TV. Most clubs use it once as a "just to try the format" run-through before stepping up to a proper interclub.
Can I run a competition on a Saturday afternoon for £39? +
Yes. The Quick Match plan is a one-off £39 per event. Add a few medals from a local supplier (£20–50), some printed certificates from your home printer, and refreshments — total event cost can come in under £150 for a club of 20–30 fighters using your own dojo or church hall. No entry fees needed if it's a club activity.
What if my volunteers aren't trained referees? +
That's the norm at small club events. Senior trained members, parents who've watched a hundred matches, or even other instructors visiting from a partner club can all run rings competently for an internal event. The software is designed so the scoring controls are intuitive — anyone who's watched taekwondo for a year can operate the console with about five minutes of guidance.
Do I need expensive equipment? +
No. All you need is internet and a browser. The operator's laptop, a couple of phones for corner judges, and the venue's TV for the audience scoreboard — that's the entire setup. No scoring boxes, no electronic hogu, no dedicated hardware. The system runs on whatever devices walked through the door.
Which package fits a small club? +
For most clubs running 1–3 events a year: Quick Match (£39, 1 ring, up to 16 fighters) for sparring nights and grading-day mock comps; Starter (£149, 1 ring, up to 50 fighters) for a club championship; Standard (£349, 4 rings, up to 200 fighters) once you scale up to a multi-club open. You can always upgrade between events — there's no annual contract.
Will my fighters take it seriously if it's small? +
Yes — when the production is right. A live scoreboard on the TV, a real running order so fighters know when they're up, judges scoring on actual devices instead of clipboards, certificates handed out at the end. That production lifts a 20-fighter interclub into something that feels like a real competition. The software is what bridges the gap between "club training night" and "proper event" on a shoestring budget.
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