DockScore is tournament software written by a tournament director who got tired of running national events with spreadsheets, walkie-talkies, and prayer. If you've ever stood at a weigh station at 4 PM with a sponsor on your left, a judge on your right, and no idea who's actually winning — this was built for you.
A catch comes in over the radio. Your judge is logging it with one hand while holding the radio in the other. Your scorekeeper is on a different spreadsheet two boats behind. The leaderboard on the projector hasn't refreshed in 40 minutes. An angler's wife is asking why her husband isn't listed yet. A sponsor wants to know when the photo op is. IMPESCA needs Monday's report in a format the spreadsheet doesn't export. Half your anglers speak Spanish, half speak English, and the sign behind you only speaks one of them.
Spreadsheets that conflict. Whiteboards that lag. Radio calls that don't get logged. Sponsors waiting on photos. The audience watching the wrong scoreboard.
You spent the whole season planning this event, and the scoring chaos is the only thing anyone will remember.
Tournament directors who pour their lives into these events deserve the same operational tools that the NFL, F1, and the PGA take for granted. Not enterprise software with a six-figure license. Real tools. Built for one director.
I direct two of Nicaragua's national billfish tournaments every year — up to 50 boats, hundreds of anglers, sponsors, broadcast media, and a community of people who care deeply about the result.
For years I ran them the way you probably do. Spreadsheets named FINAL_v7_actually_final.xlsx. Paper forms in a binder. Walkie-talkies. A volunteer at the weigh station with a clipboard and a pen that ran out of ink twice a day.
I tried every tournament platform on the market.
The basic ones couldn't handle concurrent categories or bilingual leaderboards. The expensive ones wanted $20,000 and a two-person onsite crew to operate. None of them understood that catches come in by radio, that judges work one-handed, that IMPESCA needs Monday's filing in a specific format, or that a billfish tournament leaderboard has to render in Spanish and English at the same time — not as a translation toggle, but side by side, simultaneously.
I know what it feels like to lose 90 minutes of your closing ceremony arguing about a scoring dispute that your spreadsheet can't audit.
I've directed national-level events. I've shipped tournament software. And I now run my own events on it.
DockScore was first deployed at Game Fish San Juan del Sur — one of Nicaragua's premier billfish tournaments.
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Boats | 48 |
| Concurrent categories | 3 |
| Languages, simultaneous | 2 (ES / EN) |
| Live spectator views | 12,847 |
| Onsite vendor staff required | 0 |
| Director running the platform | 1 (me) |
Every feature in DockScore exists because something at that event demanded it. Not because a product roadmap committee thought it was a good idea.
Registration, rules, sponsors, schedule. About 30 minutes.
One walkthrough. They log catches by radio call-in or mobile. Bilingual by default.
Live leaderboard, audit trail, IMPESCA-ready exports, social posts the moment a winner is decided.
That's the whole plan. No onsite vendor crew. No $20,000 license. No learning curve that eats your pre-season.
Disputes you can't audit. A leaderboard that lags real life. Sponsors asking why the social post went out 90 minutes after the catch. A Monday morning spent rebuilding IMPESCA's report by hand.
Anglers trust the leaderboard. Sponsors get the photo op while the fish is still on the scale. The community follows along live in two languages. Monday's filing is one click.
Tournament directors aren't event managers. They're the reason the sport exists at the local level. The tools should respect that.
No demo call required. Tell us about your event and we'll have you live within days.