An IPSC scoring app for the whole match, not just the timer
Score IPSC matches on a phone, publish live results competitors can follow, and run registration and squadding from the same place. Free for clubs.
What scoring an IPSC match actually involves
Most tools called an "IPSC scoring app" score a single stage. You punch in alphas, charlies and deltas, add the time, and get a hit factor. That is useful in a range bag, and it is maybe a tenth of what running a match takes.
The rest is the part that eats a match director's weekend: building the stages, taking registrations, splitting shooters into squads, assigning range officers, collecting entry fees, entering scores as squads finish, resolving the ones that were entered wrong, and publishing results that hold up when somebody queries their placing on Monday.
Striker does the whole sequence. The scoring is the middle of it, not the product.
How a stage gets scored
Score entry happens on a phone at the bay, by whoever is running the timer. Each shooter on the squad is a row: hits per zone, time, penalties. The hit factor is computed as you go, so a transposed digit shows up as a nonsense number while the shooter is still standing there — not three hours later when the squad has gone home.
IPSC scores every stage Comstock, and Striker scores it the way the rulebook defines it:
- Comstock — unlimited shots, the stipulated best hits per target count, time stops on the last shot. Points minus penalties divided by time gives the hit factor; the highest hit factor takes the stage's maximum points, and everyone else is ranked relative to it.
Other disciplines bring other methods — USPSA adds Virginia Count and Fixed Time, IDPA and the steel disciplines are scored time plus — and Striker runs those as well. On an IPSC event they do not appear at all.
Zone captions follow the discipline. An IPSC stage shows A/C/D and mikes; an IDPA stage of the same shape shows points down. You do not configure that per match — it comes from the discipline on the event.
Results that competitors can watch
Scores publish as they are entered. A shooter who finished stage 3 can see where they stand before they walk to stage 4, and so can somebody following from home. There is no export step between "the squad finished" and "the results are up", because there is no separate results file — the results page is the same data the range officer just entered.
Results break down per stage as well as overall, so a shooter can see which stage cost them the match rather than only their final placing. Placings are computed per division and class, which is what people actually compare themselves against.
The parts around the scoring
A match on Striker carries its own registration. Shooters sign up, pick a division and a squad, and pay the entry fee through the club's own Stripe account. Squad lists stay live, so a match director moving somebody between squads on Friday night does not have to re-send a spreadsheet.
Stages, teams, and officials are set up in the same place. Range officers get the roles they need to enter scores and nothing else.
Bringing an existing match across
Striker imports PractiScore match files (.psc) and PractiScore
match URLs directly, so a club that already has a season of matches does not
start from an empty database. Results export back out again, including a
PractiScore export and a PDF results report for clubs that have to file one.
What it costs a club
Running matches on Striker is free. Registration, squadding, scoring, live results and the club's member registry are not gated — a club can run its entire season without paying anything. Striker Pro is a personal subscription for individual shooters that adds run video, the training library and the Pro assistant; it is not required to score a match or to compete in one.
Where it runs
Score entry works on iOS and Android, which is what matters at the bay, including on a phone with no signal. Match setup and results work in any browser. Bluetooth shot timers are supported for the models we have implemented and tested, currently the SG SST4 and the Special Pie M1A2.