Publishing a live scoreboard

A scored match can be made public at bluebridge.tennis/live — what goes on it, what never does, and what you are taking on by publishing it.

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Scoring is private by default. What an official enters is visible to them, to the event's assignor, and to Bluebridge administrators, and to nobody else. A match becomes public only when someone deliberately publishes it.

Who can publish

The assignor of the event, or the referee running that match. It is a per-match choice and it is off until someone turns it on, from the scoring page for that match.

What a published board shows

  • The two teams, the line number, and whether the line is singles or doubles.
  • The names of the players on court, as the official entered them.
  • The live score, completed sets, who won, how long it took, and whether play was suspended.
  • Summary statistics — points won, first-serve percentage, and the like.

What it never shows

No officials, no contact details, no pay, no travel, nothing else from the event's internal record. A spectator sees a scoreboard, not your roster.

It is genuinely public

A published match can be read by anyone at bluebridge.tennis/live with no Bluebridge account and no link needed. It may be indexed by search engines and copied by anyone who sees it. Turning publication off removes it from the page going forward, but nothing can recall a copy someone already made.

It is not an official record

Scores are typed by people during a live match. They can be wrong, late, incomplete, or abandoned mid-match. Nothing published through Bluebridge is a certified result, and it does not replace the scorecard or result report of any governing body, conference, or tournament. Do not rely on it for eligibility, seeding, rankings, or anything else that needs an authoritative result.