IPSC match scoring app: from the first stage to the final standings

Setting up a match: stages, squads and waves

As an IPSC match scoring app, My Shooting Hub starts from the same pieces a match director already juggles on paper. You create the match, add the stages, split the shooters into squads and, when the range cannot take the whole field at once, into waves. Divisions such as Production, Standard, Open, Production Optics and Classic are part of the shooter card, and the standings are kept separately for each division.

Stages can be drawn in the stage builder: the layout from above and in 3D, paper targets, no-shoots, steel poppers, walls and the shooting area. The builder checks the stage against the IPSC rulebook and warns about problems before match day, and it prints a briefing sheet that you can hand to the judges and post at the stage.

• Stages with their own layout and briefing sheet
• Squads that move through the stages together
• Waves when the range cannot take everyone at once
• Separate standings for each division

The judge scores on a phone, the shooter signs on the spot

At the stage the judge opens the shooter's result on a phone and enters what is on the targets: time, A/C/D hits, misses, no-shoots, penalties and steel. Points and hit factor are calculated at once. Nobody adds up columns on a clipboard, and nobody spends the evening decoding someone else's handwriting. This is shooting competition scoring done where the shooting happens, at the stage.

Before the squad moves on, the shooter checks the numbers and signs the result on the phone. It is the same agreement as a signature on a paper score sheet, except that rain does not smear it and it does not get lost on the way to the stats office.

Ranges rarely have good reception. The app keeps working without a connection: results are kept on the phone and sent when the connection returns, so the judge carries on scoring whatever the signal bars say.

IPSC scoring: hit factor, stage points and standings by division

Practical shooting match results are counted the IPSC way. For every run, the points for A, C and D hits, minus misses, no-shoots and other penalties, are divided by the time. That number is the hit factor: 80 points in 20 seconds gives 4.0.

Within each division, the highest hit factor on a stage takes the full value of that stage, and everyone else receives stage points in proportion to their own hit factor. Stage points add up to the overall standings, with a separate table for each division. The match director can follow the picture while the match is still running instead of waiting until the next morning.

When two shooters tie for a place, a shoot-off decides it, and the shoot-off is handled in the same app rather than on a scrap of paper in the judge's pocket.

• Hit factor: points divided by time
• Stage points relative to the highest hit factor in the division
• Overall standings for every division
• Shoot-offs when a place has to be decided

Practical shooting match results on paper, by e-mail and online

When the last squad has finished, the results can be printed or saved as PDF: for the notice board at the range, for the club archive or to pass on to whoever needs them.

Every shooter can get a results letter by e-mail. The evening after the match people read through their own stages instead of asking in the group chat who won and by how much.

If the club publishes its public page, the results can appear there too, without people's names. Guests and newcomers see that the club runs matches, and no shooter's name ends up on the open internet.

• Printed results and PDF
• A results letter for every shooter
• Results on the public club page, without names

Open registration, imported results and small club matches

When a match is open to other clubs, registration is open as well: each club signs up its own shooters, and the match director gets one list instead of a pile of messages and spreadsheets. The interface is available in eight languages, with Hebrew and Arabic right-to-left, so visiting shooters work in their own language.

If part of a match, or an earlier match, was scored in another scoring system, those results can be imported. The club's match history stays in one place instead of being spread over several programs and folders.

The same tool fits a small in-club match: three stages, a dozen shooters, a Friday morning. Same squads, same scoring, same standings, just with less paperwork around it.

• Clubs sign up their shooters for an open match
• Import of results from other scoring systems
• Small in-club matches with the same scoring

Match results flow into the shooter's progress

A match is not a separate world from training. Its results join the shooter's progress in the journal next to training runs, so the instructor can compare how a shooter performs under match pressure with an ordinary training day.

A stage that tripped up half the squad can be turned into a drill. The following week the shooters run it again, the runs are scored with the same A/C/D zones and hit factor, and the progress charts show whether the extra work helped.

For the club that closes the loop: stage builder, training, match, results and back to training. An IPSC match scoring app that lives inside the training journal means one place for all of it, on the phones shooters already carry. A club that wants to run its matches in My Shooting Hub simply writes to us.