The mark leaves the judge's hand and it's already on the board.
Judges send one mark from a phone at the chutes. The secretary watches it land, the announcer reads it off, and the video board carries it — the same number, at the same moment, whether or not the wifi is holding up.
Right now that mark travels by hand signal.
A judge holds up fingers, or hollers it across the arena, or writes it on a card that walks to the booth between sections. The secretary hears it wrong, the announcer reads a number that changes ten minutes later, and the video board is always a ride behind. None of that is anybody's fault — there has never been a way to send it.
Kinex is that way. Nothing about how your judges mark changes. What changes is that the number arrives.
Three screens, one number.
A mark makes one trip. These are the three places it shows up, in the order it gets there.
The judge's phone
Whoever the office has loaded is already on screen — name, hometown, animal, contractor. The judge taps one mark on a keypad, decimals and all, and sends it. No paperwork, no scrolling to find the right rider.
The office board
The secretary sees each judge's mark land as it comes in, and the total the moment the last one is there. Every event has its own tab, with the field, the rerides and a live leaderboard underneath.
The video board
The contestant, the score, the chute clock and the leaderboard go straight to vMix — so the jumbotron shows the same number the secretary is looking at, without anyone typing it twice.
The parts that only matter once you're at one.
Arena wifi will drop. It doesn't matter.
Every phone holds the whole day sheet. When the signal goes, judges keep marking — the marks queue up on the phone with the time they were made and send themselves the moment it comes back. A mark is never lost, and a late one never overwrites a correction.
For the ones taking too long.
Set it anywhere from 15 to 60 seconds. A judge starts it from the floor and it appears at once on the secretary's board, the announcer's screen and the video board — the same count on every one. It stops at zero rather than running on.
Awarded, parked, and brought back.
A reride moves the contestant into their own section on that event with the reason attached. When they nod on the reride animal, one press puts them back in the chute for a score or a no-score like anybody else.
Buck-offs, no-scores, turn-outs.
A judge raises it from their phone and it lands on the office board with their name on it. The secretary commits it. Two judges don't always agree, and what's happening behind the chutes isn't visible from the arena floor — so the office has the last word.
The secretary can key it in.
Any judge's mark can be entered from the office, and it's recorded as having come from the office rather than the phone. A dead battery in the middle of the bull riding does not stop the rodeo.
The full sheet, downloaded.
When the event is over, pull the leaderboard as a spreadsheet with every judge's own mark beside the total — not just the score. Everyone entered is on it, including the turn-outs and the no-scores.
Eight seconds, and the horn.
A judge starts the ride clock from the phone when the gate opens; it runs on every screen and the horn sounds from the office laptop, through your sound board, on the second. Freestyle bullfighting counts down with a warning horn. The office can always start and stop it from the board.
Riders and bulls, scored apart.
The bull team event is built in: each judge types the bull and the rider into their own box, to the hundredth, one judge keys the ride time, and a rider who bucks off is a zero while the bull still scores for its team. Riders and teams are ranked as you go.
Off your arena timer, penalties by name.
Hook up the FarmTek and the time shows live on the board and lands on its own. A barrel down, a broken barrier, a leg: one press each, added to the time, and printed on the results. Day sheets come in from Kinex Entry as a file, and results go back the same way.
It already speaks vMix.
Three ways in, because no two production trucks are set up the same. Use whichever fits how you already build your show.
Browser overlay
Point a vMix browser input at a URL. Transparent background, nothing to configure, on air in a minute.
Data sources
Feed your own titles from XML or JSON, so the graphics stay in your house style.
Pushed on the beat
Kinex drives vMix directly over its API — sets the text and pulls the overlay in the moment the score lands.
Contestants, scores, the chute clock, no-score and reride cards, and the running leaderboard are all available to the board.
Two companies, the same Saturday, no crossed wires.
Every rodeo belongs to the company running it. A judge signs in and sees that company's day sheet and nothing else — not the other outfit's contestants, not their scores, not that they exist at all.
- Their judges, their phones
- Their board and video feeds
- Their licence key
- Their judges, their phones
- Their board and video feeds
- Their licence key
Licensed to your outfit.
A licence key, made out to your company for the term you buy. It lives on your laptop and checks nothing over the internet. Download the program here once you have one.
The key works offline. It never phones home to be checked. If the venue has no internet at all, the rodeo runs exactly the same.
Updates when we ship them. Your copy can check for new features and tell you what changed. You choose when to take them.
It will not lock you out mid-rodeo. Whatever a licence says about how many rodeos or judges you have, scoring never stops. A billing question is not worth a stopped bull riding.
Try it on a real one. Ask for a trial key and run a rodeo start to finish before you decide.
Tell us about your rodeo and we'll show you the board.
How many judges you run, what you're using for video, and when your next one is. That's enough to get started.
info@kinexjudging.com