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Case study · Invert Sports Centre · 2 Aug 2026

A club in-house, scored live to every parent’s phone.

Invert Sports Centre ran its 2026 in-house competition on ChalkScore instead of the paid competition program it had used before. It was ChalkScore’s first real competition: the club where it was built, scoring its own gymnasts.

The ChalkScore projector board for Level 5 all-around: places with medal badges, scores on vault, bars, beam and floor, and the all-around ribbon ranges along the bottom.
The projector board. Shown with ChalkScore’s demo competition and made-up gymnasts.
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gymnasts across four sessions: Bronze (Level 2), Silver (Level 3), Gold (Level 4) and Platinum (Level 5).

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scores entered at the judges’ table on an iPad, straight to the projector and to parents’ phones.

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scores missing at the end. One gymnast scratched, and the field re-ranked itself.

What changed for the club

No program fees. Results the moment the last routine was scored.

$0

Competition program fees

ChalkScore replaced the paid competition program entirely. That was the club’s biggest saving.

Instant

Results

Ready the moment the last routine was scored. No tallying, no waiting before the ceremony.

45→10

Minutes to set up

Setting up the competition went from about 45 minutes to about 10, from the club’s enrolment list.

What parents said

They loved following along, and finally understood the ribbons.

  • Parents scanned a QR code on the wall and followed their own gymnast’s scores live on their phones, with no app to install.
  • The part they mentioned most was the explanation of the ribbon colours: for the first time they could see what score earns a green, orange or red ribbon on each apparatus, and where their gymnast sat.
  • Tap a gymnast to see their total, where their group is in the running order, and each score as it’s posted.
A gymnast's page on a phone: the all-around total, the group's running order with each apparatus ticked off, and the score posted on each apparatus.
The ribbon colours

“What do the ribbon colours mean?”

  • One tap on the parents’ page shows the score ranges for every apparatus and the all-around, in plain words.
  • It explains the 2026 vault change too: both vaults are now added together, and earlier results were converted to the same scale.
The ribbon colours explained: green, orange and red score ranges for vault, bars, beam, floor and the all-around.
At the judges’ table

“Easy to use, no complaints.”

  • The club ran a full dress rehearsal with its coaches and judges the week before. That was a scorer’s verdict.
  • Scorers entered each routine on an iPad: the compulsory total, both vaults (added together, as the 2026 rules say) and shine.
  • The leaderboard read well on the projector, with a warm-up countdown between rotations.
The ChalkScore scorer on an iPad: the queue of gymnasts in the rotation group, showing which are scored and which are still to come.
What the day taught us

A real competition finds what a rehearsal doesn’t.

Everything the day showed went into ChalkScore within days. A correction from anyone at the table now replaces the score instead of sitting beside it. A vault with only one attempt entered waits for the second rather than counting as zero. Score boxes are big enough to read on a phone, and the projector screen stays awake.

Straight after the competition came achievement certificates for every gymnast, an on-deck board for the announcer, and the club’s own judging sheets printed from ChalkScore. Since then ChalkScore has added club entries for visiting clubs with entry fees by card or invoice, floor music uploaded with the entry and played offline on the day, and a separate space for every club. It has been load-tested at Futures League size: 600 gymnasts and 600 parents’ phones, with every score reaching every phone in about a third of a second.

Run your next competition on it

A$290 a year, or A$199 for one competition.

GCA member clubs pay A$190 and A$129. GST included. ChalkScore runs Futures League competitions and scores the POWER division today.