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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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Takedown LIVE on a Computer

More platforms means more flexibility and choice for our users. That’s good!

Takedown LIVE is now fully compatible with Chromebook computers. Download Takedown LIVE from the Play Store onto your Chromebook and get the same realtime wrestling results and video access that you’d get on Android or iOS.

LevelChanger’s apps offer the widest range of platform compability in wrestling.

Takedown LIVE Compatibility

  • iPhone and iPad

  • Macintosh

  • Android phone and tablet

  • Chromebook

Takedown Scoring and Stats Compatibility

  • iPad

  • Macintosh

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New Feature: Handout

Release 3.2 has introduces two new and fantastic features. Here’s one of them: Handout.

Getting expected lineups in the hands of your fans can be a daunting task. Lineups aren’t often known until just prior to a dual meet and that leaves scant time for document creation and distribution.

Takedown’s new Handout feature uses existing Event information to quickly generate a high quality expected lineups document that is easily emailed to your fans and wrestlers using email addresses in Contacts and Rosters. If you’re using Takedown’s features to get maximum value from the app, then emailing the Handout to your fans takes less than five seconds.

Using Handout

Select the Event, then next to Pairings tap Handout:

This is the onscreen display.

Tap Options to change the document content. You can include/exclude wrestler photos and include/exclude the Score columns.

Tap the Sharing icon next to Options to email the Handout in PDF format. Takedown will automatically add email addresses from Roster and Contacts into the highlighted To: field.

Add or delete email addresses, change the Subj: or add some text to the email body as you see fit. Tap the Apple Email send button (up arrow embedded in blue circle) when you’re ready.

Here’s what the Handout looks like in PDF format — this is what you’re sending in the email. Since it’s a PDF file — the most popular document format in the world — it renders perfectly on any device (mobile, desktop, laptop).

Handouts draws on these assets in Takedown:

  1. Pairings for wrestler names

  2. Event for weight classes, starting weight class, Event name and date

  3. Roster for wrestler photo and email address

  4. Contacts for email addresses.*

  5. Opponent Teams for opponent logo

  6. My Team for your logo

You don’t need everything perfectly configured to use Handout. For example, if you haven’t entered the Opponent Team logo into Takedown, that portion of the Handout will be blank. In fact, the only information Handout requires is the required information for the dual meet — weight classes, starting weight class, Event name and date.

Use the Handout to dazzle your fans! They’ll appreciate it and, even better, if you’re using Takedown properly the incremental effort is two taps. High value, nearly zero effort is the best it gets.


* Contacts tagged as Head coach, Assistant coach, Team Manager, Scorer, Videographer, Parent or SID will be automatically added to the email To: field. Remember: all information in the email can be edited, including the To: field.

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New Feature: Video Room

Release 3.2 has introduces two new and fantastic features. Here’s one of them: Video Room.

Since we released video support in 2018, Takedown users have had the in-app ability to review video by event. This capability is accessed via the Schedule.

With the new Video Room feature, you can review video by wrestler. This exciting new capability is accessed via the Roster.

In addition, Video Room can filter video by Scoring Actions and Events so that you could, for example, generate a video clip list of all takedowns and escapes (including opponents) for a custom set of Events. Also, similar to Notify Wrestlers in Manage Video, in Video Room you can easily share the video clips with your wrestlers and other interested audiences.

Using Video Room

Access Video Room via Roster. Tap the wrestler of interest.

Filters

The initial view displays all matches for the selected wrestler in the Season.

The initial view displays full matches for the wrestler. Tap Filter for selecting specific Scoring Actions for your wrestler and opponents, and for selecting specific Events. Tap Filter in the upper right to save your selection.

The display updates the results based on Filter selection. Tap the “>” to the right of each row to view the selected video clip.

Video Viewer

The video viewer offers two navigation options. First, we introduce the new ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ buttons for sequencing to adjacent video clips without exiting the viewer. Note the Scoring Action type and count in the top of the display. Also, Video Room offers the familiar navigable scoring transcript for immediately moving to any Scoring Action in the match.

Sharing Video

Finally, share with your wrestler (or anyone with an email address) the displayed video clips. Tap the sharing icon and, optionally, edit the email message. Add comments if you’d like. Tap the send button (up arrow embedded in blue circle) when you’re ready.

Video Room is an exciting addition to Takedown’s portfolio of video review features. It allows you to easily tailor your review to specific Scoring Actions and Events for each wrestler and share clips and commentary. This is an indispensable tool for developing wrestler-specific training and helping your wrestlers improve their skills.

Take a look at Video Room and let us know your thoughts.

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