I’m cheating when I look up scores for the TourneyCentral tournaments that are running in the current weekend. I set up some scripts that pull and refresh the scores continuously every 10 seconds. When I am away from my desk, I get them non-stop on my Treo. This is the way I keep track of how the tournaments are doing with posting scores, etc.
While I don’t play favorites with our tournaments (they are all great!), the two tournaments going on Mother’s Day weekend, Sidney Mayfest Classic and the Novi Jaguar Invitational were OUTSTANDING in reporting scores in almost real-time. It was almost like being there (and, with several parents taking and upload photos, it was even more real.)
Our Advice: Report your scores as close to real-time as possible. If you have a TourneyCentral System, you already have the tools to report quickly, even if you don’t have Internet at the fields. Several tournaments call the scores in to someone hanging out in their living room, entering scores from their laptop in front of a large screen TV! Because it is Internet, the scoring input is always available, anywhere in the world. And, you just never know who is watching your tournament… could even be someone blogging and bragging about you!