During the running of a tournament using electronic scoring (app-based scoring), tournament officials should monitor the activity of judges to know when judges are ready to start scoring and also to identify problems.

The Cue Board screen is a quick, highly-visible way to see the status of judges. It shows the previous heat, current heat and next heat, and the status of each judge in each station that heat.

Monitoring and Managing Judging, Heats and Trining Tracks/Music

When controlling the start of timing tracks and/or entry music, it's important to know when the judges are finished scoring the prior heat and ready to start the next one. In electronic scoring, this is done with the Cue Board screen. When the judges are still preparing to score an entry (writing down the prior entry score, checking the information on the next entry), their status on the next heat will be empty. On Cue Board, this is a black empty square for that judge. When a judge opens the scoresheet for the entry, the Cue Board displays a blue "R" for Ready for that judge. Once a panel shows a full set of "R"s and now black squares, that means that every judge has the scoresheet open so is likely ready to start the entry.

Another thing to watch for when monitoring judges is them opening the wrong entry. If a blue "R" appears on the one heat ahead of the next one, that means that judge skipped an extra entry and is ready to score on the wrong entry. The solution is to stop and go help that judge get on the right entry (by triple-tapping Cancel on the scoring screen, hitting Back on the athlete screen, then checking the entry information before opening the Scoring screen). Monitoring this closely ensures that all the judges are in the right place.

Once a judge is finished scoring an entry and triple-taps "Done" their score box will turn green with an "S" for Scored. This is how tournament officials know scores are successfully being submitted for the judges. Once all judges in a heat (all judges in all stations) go from Ready to Scored, the scoring system will automatically advance the heat number to he next heat. If for some reason not all the judges submitted a score but the competition is continuing to the next heat, the announcer or other official should manually advance the current heat number to keep the Cue Board and other screens up to date.

If some or all entires are not turning from blue "R"s to green "S"s at the end of entries, something is wrong and tournament staff should investigate immediately by opening that entry in Scoring/Tabulator to see what, if anything, was submitted from the judging app. There could be a problem with how the tablets are set up or the tournament is set up in scoring.