Scorer/Volunteer

Most ends are straightforward — count the closest boules and tap the score. The hard moments are the rare ones: a measure that ends in a dead end, a time-out called by a captain, a coup-perdu after a foul.

A volunteer who has not scored in six months will hesitate, ask the players for the rule, or get it wrong. Guided prompts walk them through each unusual case in seconds, protect the integrity of the score and reduce the load on referees who would otherwise be called for clarification.

The score entry app presents a simple end-by-end flow with two big buttons for the most common actions and a 'what just happened?' menu for the rest. Each unusual situation launches a short guided sequence — measure outcome, time-out reason, foul type — that captures the correct data without requiring rule knowledge.

When players disagree about a measurement, a foul or whether a boule has moved, the volunteer is the first witness and the natural intake point. Without a tool they end up using their personal phone, walking to the control table or shouting for a referee — and the dispute escalates because both teams feel unheard.

A built-in helper that captures each team's account, time-stamps it and routes it to the duty referee keeps the volunteer in their lane and the dispute on the record.

The dispute helper opens a structured form — capture each team's account in their own words, attach a photo of the boule positions, mark the time and call the nearest referee via the assignment system. The volunteer returns to scoring and the referee arrives with full context already in hand.

Outdoor venues and crowded events both wreck mobile data. A volunteer whose app fails mid-match has nowhere to record the score and no way to publish it to the live feed.

They will lose trust in the tool and revert to paper, breaking the whole live-scoring promise to viewers and media. Offline-first storage with silent sync means the volunteer never thinks about connectivity — they enter scores and the platform handles delivery whenever the network is back.

The scorer app stores every entry locally with a per-device queue, displays a small indicator when offline, and syncs in the background as connectivity returns. Conflicts on sync are handled by the central platform with operator-visible prompts; the volunteer's experience never breaks.

Local data is encrypted and retained until acknowledged by the server.