Multi-device web.
Tablet at the chip mat. TV at the finish line. Phone in every coach’s hand. Same URL, three different floor plans. Nothing to install.
← 1891 Arena · Cross Country
The board updates the moment a runner crosses.
Top-5 places sum. Lower wins.
Nobody else’s bracket tool models cross-country scoring right. Top-5 places sum, lower wins, 6th and 7th break ties — that’s the formula every coach in Frederick County uses, and it’s why every other “sports platform” sends the XC coach back to a spreadsheet. We don’t. Chip-time finish ticker on the spectator phone, live team-score cards updating with every cross, course records tracked per distance (3.1mi HS, 6K college), every dual / tri-meet / conference / invitational on the same surface.
Cross-country on 1891 Arena, by who you are.
The fan view · what every parent in the building sees
The cross-country bracket is alive. On every phone in the parking lot.
A player wins a quarterfinal at 7:42 PM. By 7:43, their parent in the parking lot sees the semi-final slot fill in — on their phone, on the same URL the organizer texted out before the event. No app. No login. No spinner. Just the live page.
- Sub-second updates
- One link · every phone
- Caption-default · screen-reader-clean
- Works on a 4-year-old phone
Live · interactive · cross the line, watch the team score change
Run the demo meet yourself.
Each row is a runner with a chip time. Tap Finish on a row to give that runner the next place. Top-5 places sum to the team score — lower wins. The 6th and 7th runners’ places break ties. Same scoreboard the timer hits at a real meet.
Conference meet · Frederick HS vs. Monocacy Prep · live
click · keyboard ↓ ↑ · undo / reset
Place-based team scoring · top-5 sum · 6th/7th break ties · finish-line ticker on the spectator view. The format nobody else’s bracket tool models correctly.
The math, in plain English
Top-5 places sum. Lower wins. 6th and 7th break ties.
Every team enters up to 7 runners. The first 5 across the line for each team add their places together — place 1 + place 4 + place 9 + place 11 + place 15 = team score 40. Lower beats higher. If two teams tie on the top-5 sum, the 6th runner’s place breaks it. If the 6th ties too, the 7th does.
Every coach in the country knows this. Every other “sports platform” doesn’t. We don’t fake it with a bracket, we don’t collapse it into a leaderboard, we don’t make the assistant coach re-do it on paper after the meet. The team-score cards on the board run the real formula, the moment each runner crosses the chip mat.
What you don’t do
· Run the meet on a spreadsheet your assistant brought
· Re-type chip times into a separate “official” doc
· Wait an hour after the last finisher for team scores
· Explain why the “bracket tool” says your 5-runner team is out
Every meet your AD already schedules
Four shapes. Same chip-time pipeline underneath.
Dual meet
Head-to-head, two teams. Top-5 sum decides it. Most common Tuesday-afternoon meet.
Tri-meet
Three teams on the same course, three pairwise scores. Standings update every time anyone crosses.
Conference meet
Season-end. 6–12 schools, 50+ runners. Team scores + all-conference list, live on the spectator board.
Invitational
5+ teams. Heats by division (JV / Varsity / Open). Course records tracked per distance, year over year.
Course records, properly
Every course, every distance, every year.
A 5K is not a 6K. Hill Park is not Catoctin. Course records are tracked per course, per distance, per division — 3.1mi HS, 6K college, 8K open, whatever you run. The records wall on the meet page shows the current holder and the prior year’s mark; when a runner crosses faster, the record updates in real time and the spectator board flashes the new line. The archive holds every season your program has ever logged.
Frederick County, real numbers
Conference meet · 8 schools · 56 runners.
Team score on the public board updates the moment a runner crosses the line.
No “results in 30 minutes”. No PDF emailed to parents at midnight.
The board on the chip mat is the official board.
Pick the page that’s you
Running a conference, or running a program?
The cross-country vertical comes in two doors. The conference / county-AD door is one annual subscription that covers every school in the conference. The single-program door is per-program monthly, for the lone HS or club team that wants their own meets on the platform.
For organizers
Conferences, county ADs, single HS or club programs, road-race directors. Every school’s meets on one platform; shared chip pool, shared records. $149–$599 a season; $199–$599 a month.
For venues
Host every meet at your course or park with one annual subscription.
For players
Your splits, your PR ladder, your season archive — in one place.
Built for every spectator
The finish ticker is visual first.
Every cross fires a visual line on the spectator board — runner number, name, place, chip time, big and high-contrast. An optional audible chime sits on top for hearing spectators who want it, and a haptic buzz fires on the coach’s phone. Mute the speakers, the meet still runs. Five generations Deaf, since 1891 — the universal-design contract is the floor, not the feature.
One workspace
The kit the products are built from.
Same foundation under Parliamentarian, Meetings, and Arena. The thing you can’t buy because we already built it.
One payments spine.
Every product takes money the same way. Receipts arrive from the same address. Refunds are one click. The studio doesn’t sit in the middle of your funds.
Your data, yours.
Records, archives, rosters belong to you. Export anything, anytime, in plain formats. If you ever leave, you leave with everything.
Live at the edge.
Team scores update the moment a runner crosses. No refresh. No spinner. No “final results posted in 30 minutes.”
Captions default-on.
Audio is additive, never sole. Every state change carries color, icon, and text. Speakers muted, headphones unplugged — the product still works.
Built in Frederick.
The same person who solders the board writes the firmware, hand-codes the page, and pushes the deploy. The studio that built it is the studio that runs it.
From the studio that builds Arena: Cross Country
Three siblings, one foundation.
Parliamentarian
The formal room.
Robert’s Rules, on the TV at the front of the room and the phone in every hand.
Walk through it →Arena: Pickleball
The court.
Brackets that update live. Stats that don’t get lost in a coach’s Google Drive.
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The lane.
Frames on the lane. Brackets on the wall. Stats in the archive.
Walk through it →Run your meet. Honor your runners.
No sales call. No trial. One price page.
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