2026
Badminton Live Scoreboard — SWU Games #42
A real-time badminton scoreboard for the 42nd SWU Games — updates live from Google Sheets.
The 42nd SWU Games needed a way for spectators to follow badminton results live from their phones — without a heavy backend.
The approach
Use Google Sheets as the shared data source — the team updates scores in the sheet, and the page pulls them in and renders in real time. This means:
- Easy updates — no one has to learn a new system
- Works on any device, nothing to install
- Near-zero cost, right for a one-off event
Takeaway
Sometimes "simple but it actually works" beats a perfect system you can't ship in time — a sheet plus a static page was enough at this scale.
See it live via the button above.