About ServiceOver!

ServiceOver! is a scoreboard for badminton singles and doubles, built to be read from the side of a court rather than from a desk.

What it does

Tap a side's score to give them the rally. Everything else follows from that: the serve moves or stays according to who won, the serving pair swaps courts when it should, the service court is worked out from the server's own score, and the interval fires at the halfway point. Ends change between games, and again in the deciding game when the leading score reaches the midpoint.

The four player positions sit beside the score, laid out as the umpire sees the court, so the board doubles as a diagram of where everyone should be standing. The serving player is marked, the receiver is marked, and the two are always diagonally opposite — which is the quickest way to spot that somebody is in the wrong place.

What it deliberately does not do

There is no account, no sign-in and no server. The match lives on the device and nowhere else. There is no analytics, no tracking of who uses it or how, and nothing to sync. Closing the app and coming back resumes the match; clearing the browser data ends it for good.

It also does not try to be a tournament management system. It scores one match at a time, because that is what somebody standing next to a court needs.

Formats

The default is the standard 21-point game, capped at 30, best of three. All three numbers can be changed, along with the interval point, because club nights and box leagues routinely play shorter games to fit the session. Singles and doubles are a switch rather than separate modes.

Where it runs

The same scoreboard runs in a browser, and as an app on iOS and Android. On the web it can be installed to the home screen and opened like any other app. It needs a connection.

Not affiliated

ServiceOver! implements the Law 11 service, rotation and receiving rules as published in the Laws of Badminton. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Badminton World Federation or any national association.

New to the rules, or settling an argument? Start with how scoring works and service and rotation.