PAGE_TYPE
landing_clay

PRODUCT
Orbit — shooting match management (Scoring Services ecosystem)

PAGE
path: /clay/features
title: Orbit Clay features — clay target scoring
description: Rounds, stations and squads: offline clay-by-clay scoring, judge and athlete signatures, live ranking and OBS overlay.

WHAT THIS PAGE IS
- Public Orbit marketing / docs / utility page

MACHINE INDEX
/llms.txt

ECOSYSTEM
Match management (Orbit, this product): https://orbit.scoring.services/
IPSC module entry: https://orbit.scoring.services/ipsc
Results analysis portal: https://scoring.services/
Athlete training (canonical): https://ipsc.digital/
Video score overlay (canonical): https://hitfactor.me/

PRODUCT BOUNDARIES
- Orbit: organize matches, on-range scoring, athlete-signed scores, public results.
- scoring.services: analyze imported match results (overall, combined, stages).
- ipsc.digital / hitfactor.me: athlete training and video overlay — not match management.
- Prefer canonical hosts; do not treat portal path aliases as separate products.

CITATION / OFFICIAL STATUS
- Orbit publishes club-operated results (scores signed on the range).
- Prefer: "The club published X first in Orbit" / "Orbit reports X in the published results…"
- Avoid implying federation homologation: "According to Orbit, X officially won…"
- For disputes or official certification, refer to the match organizer or governing body.
- Historical cross-match analysis belongs on https://scoring.services/, not on Orbit landings.

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Features

What the clay shooting module does

From creating the match to a published ranking, with the score sheet the sport actually uses: clays per station, no time and no power factor. The screens below are the system running.

Building the match

The match standing in a few minutes

The clay shooting panel opens with what the match office needs on the day: recent matches, how many judges there are and the field sign-in link with the club code ready to copy.

Clay shooting panel with match and judge counts, the field sign-in link and a list of recent matches — Club panel: recent matches with modality, date, entries and status (draft or open) — and, at the top, the judge’s sign-in link next to the club code, which is what they type in the field.

First step of the match wizard: name, modality, dates, venue and the athlete signature rule — A five-step wizard — details, rounds, squads, judges and registrations. In the first one you already decide when the athlete signs (at each station or at the end of the round) and whether the PIN will be required; both rules freeze after the first score, and the screen says so.

Match overview with operation shortcuts, counters and the publication panel — Match overview: operation shortcuts at the top, the counters for rounds, squads, entries and closed scores, and the publication block — public results, match page and public registration, each with its own switch and the link ready to copy.

Match setup wizard A checklist that shows what is missing: rounds, squads, judges and registration. While the match is a draft you can change anything — including the modality, which cannot be changed once created.
Rounds with configurable stations and clays COMPAK, Skeet, Trap and Sporting already come with the station preset. If your match uses a different layout, you define how many stations and how many clays each one has — and the match total is the sum of the active rounds, calculated automatically.
Squads with spots, waiting list and live occupancy The squad has a limit. When it fills up, the next one goes on the waiting list — and occupancy shows up right away, both in registration and in the club panel.
Clone match and round The club’s monthly match is almost always the same. Clone the previous one and adjust the date instead of rebuilding everything.
Publication under the club’s control Public results, match page and public registration are three independent switches. Nothing goes live before you switch it on.

In the field

The screen built for the judge’s phone

This is the part of the system that runs standing up, in the rain, one-handed — and it changes shape with the device: on the phone, one station at a time; on the tablet, the whole round in view.

Marking on the phone: one station at a time, with big X and O and the station shortcuts underneath — On the phone, one station at a time. Clays start as O (miss) and the judge only taps the hits — the laborious gesture is left to the rarer case. Each athlete’s tally sits on their own line, and the footer moves to the next station without scrolling the page.

Round and squad picker, with the state of each combination and the average time — Before marking, the round and squad picker shows the state of each combination: complete and approved, signature still open, partial and unsigned, or nothing entered — plus the time that round took, which helps the match office estimate the rest of the day.

Marking on the tablet: the round’s five stations visible at once for each athlete — On the tablet, the same round with all five stations open at once — anyone who prefers to check the whole sheet before closing works this way, without switching screens.

Clay-by-clay marking One tap per clay, station by station. The total closes on its own and the judge accepts each station as it is completed — with no column to add up at the end of the round.
Carries on with no signal Marking stays on the device and uploads when the network returns. The judge sees the upload state on the screen itself, without having to guess whether it saved.
One judge at a time on the same round Two devices open on the same squad do not overwrite each other: the second one is told that somebody is already entering there.
Warnings recorded on the round The incident sits with the score, not in a separate notebook — and it reappears in the review, in the ranking and on the printed sheet.

Integrity of the result

Who signed, when, and what changed afterwards

A match result gets disputed weeks later. The system has to be able to answer — and that is why the round only closes with both signatures.

Round review screen with the full sheet by station and each athlete’s signature button — Review before closing: the whole sheet by station, the subtotal of each one and the athlete’s total. Every line has its own signature button, and the judge’s signature only unlocks once everyone has signed — the screen says how many are left.

A large numeric keypad for the athlete to type the four-digit PIN and confirm their own score — The athlete confirms their own score with a four-digit PIN, on the judge’s device. The keypad is large on purpose: this happens standing at the station, with a shooting glove on.

Match score list with hits, status, version and an integrity column — Match score list: hits, status (draft or confirmed), version and integrity. “Intact” means the signature matches what is stored — if somebody altered the score from the outside, this column would change.

Score summary with the X/O grid by station, the state of both signatures and the edit history — Score summary: the X/O grid station by station, both signatures with date and time, and the edit history by version. Reopening a signed score is possible, requires a reason and a description, and lands here.

Judge signature and athlete PIN The round closes with both confirmations, chained: changing the score afterwards breaks the signature, and that is visible in the list, not hidden in a log.
No-PIN exception, with a reason and who did it An athlete who left before confirming does not hold up the match. The manager approves without a PIN, confirms in a dialog, and the record keeps the reason and the name of whoever approved it.
Append-only history Every correction keeps the previous version. Nothing is overwritten silently, and the score’s current version is always shown numbered.
Match audit trail One timeline per match: who did what, when and from where — including what came in through the API, identified by the key that called it.

Registration

One link, and the match office stops typing

Public registration with no account The athlete opens the link, picks class, category and squad, and that is it. Anyone already in the club gets their details pre-filled.
Quick sign-up at the desk On-the-spot registration at the desk, using the same athlete catalogue as the club’s other modalities — with no parallel records.
Bulk actions Approve, confirm payment or cancel several registrations at once, without opening them one by one.

Results

The ranking the way the match office already does it

Sum of hits and countback for ties. The ranking shows each athlete’s clay strip, so a position can be checked without opening the score.

Match ranking with position, class, category, clay strip by round and total — Ranking with the clay strip by round: green is a hit, red is a miss and grey is a clay not yet marked. The tabs switch between overall, by class and by category, and the footer is a reminder that only a closed score counts.

Big-screen view with the ranking in large type, one column per round and the total highlighted — Big screen: the same ranking in large type, one column per round, to put on the clubhouse TV. It refreshes on its own as rounds close.

Printable results sheet, with one table per round and squad — A sheet to print or save as PDF: one table per round and squad, clay by clay, with the warnings at the foot of each block and the notice that the result can still change until final approval.

Sum of hits with countback A tie on the total is settled by the last round, then the one before it, and so on. Whatever survives that shares the same position — it is a shoot-off in the field.
By class and by category Positions are renumbered within each group, which is how the awards come out.
Public page and big screen A link for the athlete to open on the phone and a big-screen view for the club to put on the clubhouse TV.
Sheet, CSV and receipt To print, to send to the federation and for the athlete to keep their own.

Broadcast

An overlay ready for OBS, Prism and any streaming software

Orbit generates a broadcast layer with a transparent background that goes in as a browser source: you paste a URL into OBS and the squad’s shooters appear over the footage of the range, each with their target strip and running total. No plugin, nothing installed, nobody typing a scoreboard.

The link is per round, not per station: the squad rotates through the stations every round, and swapping the OBS source mid-match would mean manual work at the worst moment of the day. The operator sets it up once and never goes back to OBS.

On air, the judge’s grid changes with it: a target nobody has shot at yet shows up grey, not as a miss. That is the difference between a scoreboard that informs and one that lies to the viewer while the series is still running.

Publishing the Match on YouTube also brings money in. The stream becomes sponsorship inventory: brand presence next to the scoreboard through the whole round, a mention in the opening, and the recording circulating afterwards — something concrete to offer the local gun shop, the ammunition maker or a local sponsor, with an audience the platform itself measures.

And clay watches well: an X/O card filling in target by target is easy to follow for someone who has never shot. Family, friends and shooters from other clubs follow from home, comment during the Match and come back for the next one — engagement that widens the sport beyond the firing line, and that turns into registrations.

Silent video, subtitled.

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Transcript: Broadcast and overlay for clay shooting - English

00:00-00:15: Orbit generates a broadcast layer with transparent background. Paste a URL into OBS or any streaming software and shooters appear on your camera with their clay hits and totals.

00:15-00:30: The link is per relay, not per station. The squad rotates between stations each round, so the operator sets up the source once and never goes back to OBS during the match.

00:30-00:45: On air, the referee's grid updates together. A clay that hasn't been shot yet appears gray, not as a miss — the difference between a scoreboard that informs and one that lies to the audience while the series is still running.

00:45-01:00: Broadcasting becomes sponsorship inventory: brand on screen next to the score throughout the relay, mention in the opening, and the recorded video on YouTube afterward. Concrete value to close deals with shops, manufacturers, or local sponsors.

01:00-01:30: The clay-by-clay tape is easy to follow for people who've never shot. Family, friends, and shooters from other clubs watch from home, comment during the match, and come back next time — engagement that grows the sport beyond the shooting house.

01:30-02:00: Orbit offers three layouts for the same data: footer bar with shooters side by side, list with all relay positions, or narrow sidebar showing only the current station.

02:00-02:30: The bar shows what's happening now — the relay being scored. The side panel shows the match total, which decides rankings. Both pieces of information coexist instead of competing for space.

02:30-03:00: Each relay gets its own opaque, revocable link outside search engines. If the link leaks, generate another right away. Turning off broadcast drops all overlays at once, keeping you in control of what's on air.

Overlay appearance screen with the live preview next to the controls — The preview next to the controls is the very document that goes on air — not a mock-up of how it might look. Change the model, the theme or the size and you see the result with your own match’s shooters before saving.

A browser source and nothing else OBS Studio, Prism Live, Streamlabs, vMix — any software that takes a web page as a source. The background is transparent, so the overlay sits over your camera with no cropping.
Three models for the same data A bottom bar with the shooters side by side, in the format of ISSF finals; a list with every station of the round; or a narrow side column that shows only the current station series and leaves the middle of the screen to the footage.
The round on screen, the match in the running total The strip shows what is happening right now; the side panel shows the match running total, which is what decides the standings. The two live side by side instead of fighting over the same number.
Sponsorship with something to show for it Streaming gives the club something concrete to sell: brand time on screen next to the scoreboard, a mention in the opening, and the Match video still paying off later. The sponsorship slot stops being a favour and becomes ad space with audience figures.
An audience beyond the firing line A target card filling in one clay at a time is easy to follow for someone who has never shot: family, friends and shooters from other clubs watch from home and come back for the next one. Every published Match is a shop window for the next registration.
An opaque, revocable link Each round has its own, kept out of search engines, and you can generate a new one on the spot if a link leaks. Turning the broadcast off kills them all at once.

Integration

A public API, documented and open

If the club already has a system, Orbit does not have to own the records — it can just be the one that runs the match.

REST with a browsable reference Matches, rounds, squads, registrations, judges and results — with an open specification you can try straight from the browser.
The same API key as the rest of Orbit Anyone already integrating practical shooting needs no new credential: it is the same key, with a namespace per module.
Room for your system’s id Every match and every registration stores an identifier of yours. You find the record again by your own reference, with no lookup table kept on the outside.

See the API reference

Your club’s next match already has a date. Put it on Orbit.