What's New in RecordBoard — March 2026

A lot shipped this month. Here's what's new — and what it means for how you run your next meet.

We've been heads-down across the full stack: staffing, notifications, timing, judge tools, streaming, and scoreboard controls. This sprint touched every type of person who shows up on meet day — meet directors, officials, judges, athletes, and timing operators. Here's the breakdown.

For meet directors

Officials staffing system

This one is the biggest. For the first time, you can manage your entire officials roster inside RecordBoard.

Define exactly what roles you need (Field Judge — Throws, Clerk of Course, Starter, Head Field Judge, etc.), set quantities, and send invitations directly from the platform. Officials receive a clean email with one-click accept and decline links. No account required on their end. One click and they're confirmed.

Your staffing tracker shows status in real time: Needed, Filled, Open. No more digging through text threads the week before the meet to figure out who actually confirmed.

This is a complete replacement for the text chain → spreadsheet → prayer workflow that every meet director knows too well. See how it works →

Public scoreboard publish toggle

Previously, any meet you created in RecordBoard could potentially appear in public scoreboards. Now there's an explicit publish toggle: results only go public when you flip the switch.

This matters if you're running a test meet to train your judges, seeding a private invitational, or setting up before entries are confirmed. Your work stays private until you're ready to share it.

Top-3 result preview on event cards

The Events tab on a meet now shows the top 3 finishers inline on each completed event card — no need to open the full scoreboard to get a quick read on how events finished. Particularly useful when you're managing a multi-event meet and need to track overall status at a glance.

For officials

Officials staffing system (your side)

Meet directors can now find and confirm you before meet week. When a director sends you an invite, you get an email with two buttons: Accept and Decline. Click one and you're done — no login screen, no account setup, no friction.

If you do create a RecordBoard profile, you can list your USATF certification level and the roles you're qualified to fill. That's the foundation for a two-sided match — directors recruiting for certified meets, officials discoverable by role and cert level.

For judges

Pole vault run-up position tracking

Judges managing pole vault can now track each athlete's run-up position directly from the judge view. Three values (A, B, C in centimeters or imperial), inline edit, and a 3-value history per athlete. No more writing positions on paper and trying to read them back under pressure.

This saves real time during a flight. When an athlete wants to move their mark, the judge updates it in the app. The history stays attached to the athlete for the rest of the event.

For athletes and coaches

Notification center

Push notifications, email alerts, and in-app notifications are now live. Athletes and coaches get notified when:

A personal record is set or broken
A flight is called (you're up in 30 minutes)
A competition goes live (real-time results are now available)

Flight call notifications specifically address the "athlete wandering off during a long event" problem. If an athlete is warming up somewhere else and their flight is about to start, they get a ping.

For timing operators

FinishLynx desktop app

The FinishLynx integration now has a drag-and-drop installer with system tray integration. The old CLI watch agent is gone. Install the app, point it at your FinishLynx data directory, and it handles the rest — running in the background, automatically syncing start lists and results between FinishLynx and RecordBoard.

No more command-line setup. No more manually triggering syncs. The system tray icon shows you it's running; you don't have to think about it again until the meet ends.

For streaming operators

Mobile streaming reliability: TLS TURN relay

Live streaming from RecordBoard now works on cellular networks, not just WiFi.

The previous implementation relied on direct peer-to-peer connections that cellular networks frequently block or throttle. With TLS TURN relay, streaming traffic routes through a relay server that works on any network — 4G, 5G, campus WiFi with network isolation, any network environment a meet venue might have.

If you've had streams that worked in the office but not at the facility, this is the fix.

The full picture

This sprint spanned every role at a track meet. Meet directors got staffing tools and scoreboard controls. Officials got an invitation workflow that doesn't require them to create accounts. Judges got pole vault position tracking. Athletes and coaches got notifications. Timing operators got a real desktop app. Streaming operators got cellular support.

That breadth is intentional. RecordBoard is built to handle the full meet day — and that means every person in the facility, not just the meet director.

What's coming

We're working on Athletic.net direct result export, which will let you push results without re-entering data. Android native app support is also in progress for meet directors and coaches managing competitions from Android devices.

See the full changelog →

Questions about any of these features? Email us at hello@recordboard.io.