How to control courts from the dashboard

Follow every court's game, score and clock on the Scoreboard Dashboard, and take over a court's tablet to load another game, fix the clock or start play.

Open Dodgeball Hub Updated November 14, 2026

Each court with a paired tablet has a card on the Scoreboard Dashboard. The card follows the tablet live: the teams, the score, the clock and where the game is at. When a court needs a hand, you can take over its tablet from the card and run the game from your own screen.

Before you start

  • You need to manage the event or its scoreboards.
  • The court has a paired tablet, and the tablet is on. The card’s controls act through the tablet, so a tablet that’s off or offline doesn’t respond. See how to set up scoreboards and pair tablets.

Steps

  1. In your event’s planner, click Scoreboard Dashboard in the sidebar, under Event day. The dashboard opens in a new tab.

  2. Find the court’s card. It shows the two teams with their scores, the clock, the stage of the game, such as 1st half, and its status: Ready, Live, Paused or Timeout.

  3. Click Take Control. The card opens its controls, and the tablet shows Controlled by Organizer until you hand it back.

  4. Under Game Controls, pick a game in the list beside Reset Game, such as the court’s next game. The tablet loads it with its teams, and the clock starts over.

  5. Under Main clock time, click a button to take time off the clock or put it back, by the minute, 15 seconds or the second.

  6. Click Start to start the clock. While it runs, the button reads Pause.

When you’re done, click Release Control to hand the court back to its tablet.

The other controls

While you have control, the card also offers:

  • +1 and -1 beside each team’s score. A change is saved to the game, just like a point scored on the tablet.
  • Reset Game to start the game over: the clock goes back to the start and the scoreboard to 0–0. A score already saved to the game stays; correct it on the Scores page if you need to. See how to enter scores.
  • Swap Sides to switch the side each team is shown on.
  • Penalties: +1 adds a penalty to a team and -1 removes one. A running penalty counts down next to the team’s name.
  • Game timeline: the stages of the game, such as the halves and No block. Click one to move the game to it.
  • With a set timer or the cloth ruleset, the set clock’s buttons, such as New Set, and Set timer time to adjust it. See how to set scoreboard timer rules.

Start every court at the same time

  1. Click Sync: OFF at the top of the dashboard, so it reads Sync: ON. Instead of starting their own clock, the tablets now show Organizer will start and a Mark Ready button.
  2. As each court’s tablet is marked ready, its card shows Ready to Start, and the count on Sync Start Ready Courts goes up.
  3. Click Sync Start Ready Courts and confirm. Every court marked ready starts at once.

When a court asks for help

The scorekeeper can flag a court from the tablet. Its card then shows Help, or which team is missing. Once you’ve dealt with it, click the badge to clear it.

Reset a stuck court

Reset Socket Data clears the court’s live game and starts its tablet over, with no game loaded. Use it only when the card and the tablet stop agreeing. It asks you to confirm first.