8 new team sports, one tournament app

Your school wants a floorball day, the office league voted for dodgeball, and the club pool is free on Saturday. Until now you would have picked a generic sport and fixed the points by hand. LiveCup now has eight more team sports with the right points, match length and wording built in, so you can go from a list of teams to groups, a knockout and a live results page in a few minutes.

Stick and goal sports: floorball, field hockey and lacrosse

Floorball is built for school gyms and company nights. Matches default to 30 minutes, a win is 3 points, a draw is 1, and a win in overtime is worth 2 with 1 for the overtime loss. That is a common scoring system in floorball leagues, and the table follows it.

Field hockey defaults to 60 minutes with 3, 1 and 0 points. Lacrosse defaults to 48 minutes with 2 points for a win and none for a draw or a loss. Once rosters are on, the match page also keeps each sport's discipline record; see the section on sport-specific match events below.

Add rosters and you can credit goals to players, which also fills the top scorers list. Rosters are part of a paid or premium tournament; the groups, knockout and live results are not.

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Netball and korfball: court sports without cards

Netball defaults to 40 minutes and korfball to 50, both with 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. Neither sport uses cards in LiveCup, so the match page stays clean: score, status and start time.

Both are often played in mixed or school groups, which is exactly where a live table helps. Parents and players can open the link, find their team and see the next match without asking the organizer.

If your sports hall has several courts, assigning matches to courts is part of the PRO plan.

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Dodgeball: score by games won

Dodgeball works a little differently. The score of a match is the number of games each team won, for example 2:1. A match defaults to 20 minutes with 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw.

Dodgeball does not get a separate match page, scorers or cards. You enter the result from the match list, and the schedule, standings and bracket update from there. For a lunch-break league that is all you need.

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Sport-specific match events

When you log a goal in floorball, field hockey, lacrosse, water polo, ultimate or ice hockey, you can pick the player who assisted. The top-assists table shows each player's goals, assists and points (goals plus assists), sorted by points. The top-scorers table stays as it was. Assists, like scorers, need rosters, which come with a paid plan or a premium tournament.

Discipline follows the sport. Field hockey has green cards (2 minutes), yellow cards (5 minutes) and red cards. Floorball and ice hockey use timed suspensions of 2, 5 or 10 minutes and red cards instead of yellow cards. Water polo has 20-second exclusions plus yellow and red cards, and lacrosse has 1 and 2 minute suspensions plus yellow and red cards. Green cards and suspensions get their own marker on the match page and a column in the cards table.

There is no live countdown for suspensions. LiveCup does not run a shared match clock, so a timer on the screen could show the wrong time whenever play stops. The match page shows the length of each suspension, and the minute it started if the scorer entered one.

Ultimate frisbee adds Spirit of the Game. After a match, the organiser enters the Spirit score (0 to 20) each team received from its opponent. The standings and results pages show a Spirit ranking with the average score each team received and the number of matches rated. It never changes the standings, it also shows for knockout and double-elimination events, and it is free on every plan.

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