Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users
Understanding the YouTube Scoring Transcript
Uploaded match videos on YouTube have an embedded scoring transcript. Here’s what it means.
Scoring transcripts are available in Takedown Scoring and Stats and on the YouTube platform using a desktop or laptop computer. This post explains the format of the scoring transcript on YouTube.
Takedown scoring transcripts on YouTube are implemented as closed captions and serve three purposes:
Provides an in-video display of match score, scoring activity and match clock
Offers a full visual record of all scoring activity in the match
Enables ScoreSeek functionality allowing immediate navigation to any scoring activity
Accessing the Scoring Transcript
If you’re unware of how to access the scoring transcript on YouTube, please see this tutorial.
When closed captions are turned on, the scoring transcript appears to the right of the video:
Decoding the Scoring Transcript
Here’s a close up of the scoring transcript with a description below for all the annotated elements.
Beginning of Period — demarks period transitions
Match Score — your wrestler is first number, opponent wrestler if after the “-” symbol
Match Clock — match clock value when activity occurred
Elapsed Time — elapsed time since match start in minutes and seconds
Choice — position choice at beginning of period
Scoring Type — E1 for escapte, T2 for takedown and so on. “+” is for your wrestler, “-” is for opponent wrestler. Note the ⬤ symbol is a shot attempt.
To use ScoreSeek, click on any of the scoring transcript entries and the video will immediately proceed to that point in the match. Also note the scroll bar to the right of the transcript allowing access to entries that are off screen.
There you have it, a full guide to using the scoring transcript on YouTube. Check it out!
Two Simple Ways to Share Match Video
You need to get match video out to your wrestlers and coaches, maybe family, friends and fans, too. Here’s how.
You’ve done all the hard work of scoring, video recording and video uploading. Now, it’s time to distribute this critical content to relevant audiences. What’s the easiest way to accomplish this task?
Notify Wrestlers
In Manage Video, lower left corner tap “Notify Wrestlers” which will bring up an email composer pre-filled with:
Email addresses of all wrestlers in the event for which match video is uploaded. Note that for this to work properly, you’ll need to have added email addresses to your roster.
A meaningful subject that includes the name of the event and the date.
All the match titles as hyperlinks to the uploaded video in the body of the email address. Clicking on the match title in the body of the email will play the associated video.
Since this is an email composer, you can add/change/delete any email address. For example, if you want to also send this email message to yourself, add your email address to the header. In this case, we added the email address coachjones@lshs.teacher.com in the cc: field.
Remember to send the email messsage!
Publish to Takedown LIVE
If during scoring you also published your matches to Takedown LIVE, then you can later tag those Takedown LIVE-published matches with a play button for the associated video. In Manage Video, under the column “Publish to Takedown LIVE” simply slide the button to the right to tag a match with a video link.
Here’s what those tagged matches look like in Takedown LIVE. Tapping the red play icon will play the associated video.
Takedown LIVE — Matches with Video
And there you have it, two easy ways to distribute video. Give either or both a try!