Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users

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New Takedown Users — Welcome!

A sample of recent new Takedown users. Welcome to all!

  • Stanford University

  • Alvernia University

  • Anaheim High School

  • Andrada HS

  • Antioch High

  • Armada Tigers

  • Arvada High School

  • Bay High School

  • Bedford Middle School

  • Belton High

  • Berkeley High

  • Berne Union

  • Box Elder High School

  • Brandon High School

  • CRMS

  • Carson High School

  • Cass Tech

  • Castle Rock Middle School

  • Central Catholic

  • Chattooga High School

  • Cherryvale Wrestling

  • Clarke County High School

  • Conway High School

  • Cornerstone University

  • Cypress Park

  • Dove Creek High School

  • Dragons Lair WC

  • Durham Wrestling Club

  • Easton High School

  • Elkhorn Girls

  • Elkhorn High School

  • Elmore County High School

  • Fred T Foard

  • Fredericktown Oh Wrestling

  • Frisco Emerson

  • Frisco Wakeland

  • Garner-Hayfield-Ventura

  • George Washington High School

  • Georgetown Middle

  • Goshen

  • Govenor Thomas Johnson High School

  • HCHS Wrestling

  • Hamilton Southeastern

  • Hargrave Military Academy

  • Hazelwood West High School

  • Hduehdueduh

  • Hunters Creek Middle School

  • Jackson County High School

  • John Hardin High School Bulldogs

  • LCHS Wrestling

  • Lake Belton

  • Lake Shore High School

  • Lakeland

  • Lassen college

  • Lemoore College

  • Linden High Wrestling

  • Logan High School

  • Mack’s Creek Highschool

  • Mat Demon Wrestling Club

  • Menlo College Wrestling

  • Michigan

  • Missouri Military Academy

  • Monroe Central High School

  • Mott Community College

  • Mt. Whitney High School

  • Norris

  • North Atlanta High school

  • North Harrison

  • Oklahoma State University

  • Pagosa Springs

  • Parrish

  • Pleasant Hill High School

  • Prairie Middle School

  • Preston High School

  • Providence Catholic

  • Reading High School

  • Redondo Union High School

  • Roane County

  • Roosevelt High School

  • Sahuaro

  • Sahuaro High School

  • San Antonio LEE

  • Schurr High School

  • Scott

  • Scranton High

  • Seguin High School

  • Selah High School Girls Wrestling

  • Shelbyville

  • Siena Heights University

  • Smith-Cotton Wrestling

  • Southridge

  • Springfield Middle School

  • Steinbrenner Wrestling

  • Strake Jesuit

  • Stratford

  • Sylvania Northview

  • Tecumseh High School

  • The Herd Wrestling

  • Timberline

  • UPRM WRESTLING

  • University Of Missouri

  • Vidalia High School

  • Wapahani Wrestling

  • Westside High School Augusta

  • Westwood High school

  • Westwood Middle School

  • White Swan High School

  • William Chrisman High School

  • Yale HS

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Summer Update #2

Here’s what we’re up to this summer.

We’re busy! Here’s what we’re doing.

Improving Scoring Interface

Engineering is improving the scoring interface by making the scoring buttons easier to access, surfacing “choice-on-restart” to the score sheet, filling in notational voids in the rules books, preventing a handful of infrequent scoring errors and adding support for non-participant penalties. We’re working closely with a bunch of experienced Takedown users to validate the changes and chase bugs. The group is giving us some great insights and they are expert bug finders.

This work will make the scoring interface even more reliable and easy to use while, at the same time, generating statistical details that aren’t currently available. In addition, architectural changes will make it easier for us to implement a high quality scoring interface for international styles in the future.

The major release with these changes will be available in early September.

High School Rules Changes

On April 23, 2024, the NFHS annouced a slate of wrestling rules changes for the 2024-2025 season. The relevant changes concern point awards for takedowns and near falls. These changes will be in the early September release.

Mat Side Scoreboard — Should we offer?

We’ve dabbled in scoreboards from the beginning. Takedown currently offers a a Scoreboard feature for presenting a professional, real-time, wrestling-specific scoreboard on a digital display.

So far, we haven’t offered for sale a hardware scoreboard though we’ve designed, built and used plenty of them.

We were pleasantly surprised to discover we could deliver a tripod stand-mounted, wireless, dual display scoreboard — pictured above — for about $600.

With enough concrete interest, we’ll likely make this dual display scoreboard available for purchase. Until then, it’ll sit in the lab (all lonely and stuff).

Express your interest to support@levelchanger.com .

Generate Revenue for your Program

We’re adding Advertising to the Scoreboard feature. This capability offers an exciting way to generate revenue for your program by allowing you to display a rotating schedule of advertising or sponsorship images on the Scoreboard. This is an easy way to raise significant funds for your program. Many local advertisers will renew their ads every season, so this new feature offers the potential for a low cost, recurring source of incremental funding.

Impact of NCAA Rule Changes on Scoring

Lastly, we’ve analyzed customer data to assess the impact of last year’s NCAA rules changes on scoring. We’re the first to do this work and it’s garnered some attention in the wrestling world. Read our analysis here.

We’ve had some questions from around the wrestling-verse so this work is ongoing.

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Teams and States Leading the Digital Revolution -- Final Tally 2023-2024

Usual suspects lead the way in 2023-2024

Top 20 Digitized Wrestling Teams

  1. Edwardsville High School Wrestling

  2. Hillsborough Wrestling Takedown Club

  3. Evanston Township

  4. Chief Sealth

  5. Jays Wrestling

  6. JC Youth Wrestling Club

  7. North Knox

  8. Big Walnut

  9. Wauseon

  10. Butler (Vandalia)

  11. Liberty High School

  12. Shawnee Mission South HS

  13. Napoleon

  14. Mallard Creek High School

  15. Yorkville

  16. Lockport Township

  17. Hurricane Middle School

  18. Langham Creek HS

  19. Western Boone Wrestling

  20. Hurricane High School

Top 10 Digitized Wrestling States

  1. Ohio

  2. Illinois

  3. Missouri

  4. Pennsylvania

  5. California

  6. Michigan

  7. Texas

  8. Kansas

  9. Indiana

  10. Georgia

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High School Wrestling Participation

It was a very good year.

A company friend suggested we revise our annual look at high school wrestling participation to include the 2022/23 data.

Good idea! We did that.

Wrestling overall is doing better and the girls are a big contributor. Total participation is at an all time high and average boys team size reversed a disturbing downward trend.

Take a look at the data and draw your own conclusions about the health of high school wrestling.

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Takedown v. Matboss

You don’t need another boss. You need help.

We are often asked “How does Takedown compare to Matboss?”

Here’s a comparison.

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Congrats!

Our customers are amazing.

Recently, our our users collectively achieved an impressive milestone having scored more the 400,000 matches — 28,571 high school dual meet equivalents — using Takedown Scoring and Stats. Holy smokes, that’s a lot of digital scoring!

Congratulations on leading our sport into the digital age.

Here are some other stats about user activity.

70,000+
— Number of matches video recorded using Takedown Scoring and Stats

55,000+
— Number of videos shared online

100,000+
— Number of matches published to Takedown LIVE

40,000+
— Number of weigh ins recorded

Top Ten Digital Wrestling Teams

  1. Smiths Station

  2. Ansley-Litchfield

  3. Midview

  4. Columbia

  5. Shelbyville

  6. New Richmond

  7. Tullahoma

  8. Western Boone

  9. Bryan

  10. Seneca Valley


Top Ten Digital Wrestling States

  1. Ohio

  2. Indiana

  3. Pennsylvania

  4. Kansas

  5. California

  6. Tennessee

  7. Georgia

  8. Nebraska

  9. South Carolina

  10. Montana

By any measure, impressive work. Nice job, digital wrestling ninjas!

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