This free fencing scoreboard is a live scoreboard you can open on any phone or laptop at the side of the game. It runs fully in your browser, needs no app download and no sign-up, and both teams can see the same clear score at a glance. It is made for coaches, scorers and players who want a scoreboard that just works, without hunting through menus while the game goes on.
To use it, type the two team or player names at the top, then tap the buttons as the game happens. The score updates at once, and the running log below the scoreboard keeps a plain record of every change, so a disputed point can be checked in seconds. If you tap the wrong button, press Undo to step back one move, and press Reset only when a new game starts.
The scoreboard follows a fencing bout to fifteen hits, across three periods, with cards and priority shown. Each hit adds one point to the fencer who scored it, and the first fencer to fifteen wins the bout, unless time ends first, in which case the higher score wins. A yellow card is a warning, and a red card gives a point to the other fencer, which the board applies at once. If the bout is tied when time ends, the priority fencer wins the next single hit, and the board lets you record who holds priority.
For example, a score of fifteen to twelve is a win for the first fencer, while fourteen to fourteen is tied and needs either one more hit or a priority decision. A score of eight to five is a clear lead for the first fencer, but not a win, because the bout runs to fifteen. A red card at eight to seven becomes nine to seven, because the point goes to the other fencer.
Reading the scoreboard is simple: the big numbers are the current score, and the smaller lines show the detail behind them, such as frames, ends or rounds already played. Keep the phone or tablet where both teams can see it, and call the score out loud after each change, because a visible scoreboard ends most arguments before they start.
Record cards in the log as well as the score, because a card history explains a late swing in points. Change the period marker at each break, and settle priority before any overtime hit, since a priority call made after the hit is always disputed.
A common mistake is letting one person keep score in their head while the board stays out of date. Update the board at once, after every point, and check it against the other scorer at natural breaks, such as between frames, ends or rounds. If the two records disagree, stop and agree on the last point both sides remember, then carry on from there, because a scoreboard both sides trust matters more than a fast one.
Over a season, a simple scoreboard habit pays off in more ways than one. Players learn to check the score before arguing a call, coaches spot patterns such as slow starts or lost leads, and organisers can run more games in a day because less time goes to disputes. Save a note of the final score after each game, and after a few weeks you will have a fair record of form that no memory can match.
This scoreboard is free to use as often as you like, for practice games, league matches and tournaments alike. Try it with your own teams now, and come back whenever you need a clear score that everyone can see. Keep the link saved on the home screen of the phone you take to games, so the board is one tap away when the match starts and nobody has to search for it.