RGScores Alternative for Rhythmic Gymnastics Meets
The closest peer we have, priced openly, and where each one stops
RGScores is rhythmic-only, publishes its prices, and ships the production work a meet day is actually made of: music playlists labelled and ordered to match the performance order, work orders generated on the spot, and coaches watching when their gymnasts are next on the floor. JudgeMate is a 36-sport platform where rhythmic runs D, A and E panels with the FIG drop rule as a per-category switch, results on a free public page and on an arena LED display, and no charge to anyone. The two overlap on live scoring and results; almost everything else in each product sits outside the other. Pick RGScores for meet production, JudgeMate for the scoring and the screens.
What RGScores is
RGScores is competition software for one discipline. It is made by Developing Agility, it sells itself on giving organisers their time back, and the site walks through a single meet-day loop: work orders generated instantly, judges working electronically or on paper chits typed in by a data-entry operator, live scoring for the crowd, and instant results with apparatus and all-around in one view.
Two things make it the closest peer to JudgeMate in rhythmic gymnastics. It serves this one discipline, where the rest of the field is gymnastics-wide. And it publishes what it costs, which several of the others do not: a free trial with 2 competition credits, A$85 per competition credit after that, 15% off from ten credits up, no per-entry cost and no ongoing subscription, with discounts stated for developing countries and smaller organisations.
The part worth taking seriously is the production side. Music playlists with tracks labelled and ordered to match the performance order, adjustable during the session, and coaches following when their gymnasts are up next. That is most of the work a rhythmic meet generates between routines, and JudgeMate does none of it. For our half of the loop, the rhythmic gymnastics page covers the scoring setup and how rhythmic gymnastics is scored covers the FIG math behind it.
Pricing side-by-side
RGScores publishes its prices and they are fair, so read them at face value. You buy credits per competition, never per entry: a free trial with 2 competition credits, A$85 per competition credit, 15% off from ten credits up, no subscription, and discounts stated for developing countries and small organisations.
JudgeMate charges nothing at any point. No competition credit, no cut of entry fees, no judge seats, and no paywall between a spectator and the live results.
| What you pay for | RGScores | JudgeMate |
|---|---|---|
| Running one competition | A$85 per competition credit | No charge |
| Free path | Free trial with 2 competition credits | Every event, no per-event fee |
| Volume | 15% discount from 10 credits | Not applicable |
| Per entry | None | None |
| Subscription | None | None |
| Concessions | Discounts stated for developing countries and small organisations | Not applicable |
| Athletes and spectators | Not stated on their site | No charge, no account needed to read results |
| Pricing published | Yes | Yes |
The RGScores figures are quoted in Australian dollars and were captured from their site on 31 July 2026. Check the current numbers there before you commit a budget line. One thing this table cannot show you: RGForm (KSIS), the tool most clubs ask about next, does not publish organizer pricing anywhere on its site, so there is no figure to put beside these. If you are weighing every option that has a documented free path, the free rhythmic gymnastics scoring software comparison collects them.
Feature comparison
Both platforms run the same core: a running order, judges scoring, live results with apparatus and all-around. The differences sit either side of that. RGScores has the production layer around the routine; what JudgeMate documents in public is the panel arithmetic and the screen in the hall.
| Capability | RGScores | JudgeMate |
|---|---|---|
| Rhythmic gymnastics coverage | The only discipline it serves | One of 36 sports on the platform |
| Live results during the competition | Yes | Yes, recalculated server-side within seconds of a score being written |
| Apparatus plus all-around in one view | Yes, stated as one view | Yes, per-apparatus rankings and the all-around inside one category |
| Judges on their own device | Yes, electronic judging or paper chits typed in by a data-entry operator | Yes, judges score from their own phones with no venue kit |
| One judge covering D, A and E | Not stated on their site | Yes, and an approved organizer can enter panel scores too |
| Highest and lowest score dropped | Not stated on their site | Yes at 4 or more scores per panel, switchable per category |
| All-around tie-break ladder | Not stated on their site | E scores, then A scores, then D scores, then a shared position |
| Music playlists in performance order | Yes, tracks labelled and ordered, adjustable during the session | No |
| Work orders | Yes, generated instantly | No |
| Coaches see when their gymnasts are next | Yes | No |
| Arena or LED display | Not advertised on their site | Yes, a display route with scale, row count and auto-rotation parameters |
| Public score calculator | Not stated on their site | Yes, running the same functions as the live engine |
| Code of Points element database | Not stated on their site | No |
| Export to PDF, Excel or CSV | Not stated on their site | No, not for rhythmic gymnastics |
| Offline or venue-LAN operation | Not stated on their site | No, online only |
"Not stated on their site" means exactly that. We describe only what RGScores publishes, so an empty cell is a gap in our knowledge rather than a missing feature. The wider field, including RGForm and Sportzsoft LiveMeet, sits on the rhythmic gymnastics competition software comparison.
When RGScores fits
Pick RGScores when the meet-day workload is bigger than the arithmetic:
- Music sits on your critical path. Playlists labelled and ordered to match the performance order, adjusted on the fly when a gymnast moves, is work JudgeMate leaves entirely to you.
- Coaches keep asking when they are up. RGScores gives them that view. In JudgeMate a coach reads the same public results page as everyone else.
- You want the paperwork generated. Work orders come out of the tool, which matters when volunteers rotate through the desk every session.
- Some judges will not use a device. Paper chits with a data-entry operator is a documented path on their side.
- You run rhythmic and nothing else. RGScores serves this one discipline, where most of the field is gymnastics-wide or wider still.
- A per-competition price suits your accounting. A$85 for the competition, two credits free to try it, nothing recurring, and a stated discount for developing countries and small organisations.
That is not a short list. For a club running three or four meets a year with music, coaches and rotating volunteers, the production tooling is the product, and the scoring is the easy part.
When JudgeMate fits
Pick JudgeMate when scoring, screens and cost drive the decision:
- There is a screen in the hall. Results render on a dedicated arena display route with parameters for scale, visible rows and auto-rotation between categories, alongside the public page on everyone's phone.
- Your panels are small. One judge may cover D, A and E, which is the club reality FIG-shaped tooling does not optimise for. At 4 or more scores on a panel the highest and lowest drop out and the rest are averaged, matching Articles 3.5.2 and 3.6.2 of the 2025-2028 Code of Points, and that trim is a per-category switch for panels too small to use it.
- Nobody should pay to watch. Gymnasts, parents and coaches read live results without an account, and the event itself costs nothing to run.
- You run more than one sport. The same account covers 36 sports, so a club with rhythmic gymnastics, climbing and football keeps one tool and one login.
- You want the math checkable before the meet. The rhythmic gymnastics score calculator runs the same functions as the live engine, so a judge can rehearse D + A + E minus penalties and get exactly the number the server will produce.
- The tie-break has to be right. All-around ties resolve on E scores, then A scores, then D scores, then stay shared, which is the ladder in the FIG Technical Regulations 2026, Section 3, Article 3.4.1.2.
The apparatus rotation is configurable and always stored in FIG order: the senior individual programme of hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon, freehand only for beginners, or all six apparatus. Each apparatus is one routine, and the all-around is the sum of routine totals inside a category.
Where JudgeMate falls short
Comparison pages written by one of the two products usually bury this part. Ours is long on purpose.
- No music, no work orders, no coach up-next view. RGScores does all three. If those are the reason you bought software, JudgeMate does not replace it.
- No export of any kind for rhythmic gymnastics. No PDF, no Excel, no CSV. Excel export does not exist anywhere on the platform. Results live on the public page and the display, and that is the whole story. If your club archive or your federation needs a file, that is a hard blocker.
- No Code of Points element database. There is no element lookup at all, so judges enter the D value they calculated themselves. A gymnast who needs a validated difficulty form for a federation event cannot produce one here. RGForm and KSIS are built exactly for that, per Code of Points cycle, for individuals and groups.
- No federation integration. Nothing we produce feeds a national federation's records or rankings. If your event has to, that is a job for a federation-integrated system: Gymnastics Ontario mandates KSIS for its provincial events, and USA Gymnastics, Gymnastics Canada and four European federations are listed on the KSIS references page.
- Online only. JudgeMate needs a live connection, and a dead one stops scoring. KSIS publishes a venue-LAN topology for running a competition with the internet down; we have no equivalent. RGScores does not state an offline mode on its site and we could not verify one either way.
- Our D panel is not the FIG D-jury. FIG uses 4 D judges in two subgroups and sums DB and DA. JudgeMate averages entries on a single D panel, which is right for a club meet and is not the world-level procedure.
- Our A and E judges enter the final 0-10 value, not the deduction total FIG judges submit against a base of 10.00. Same arithmetic, different ergonomics, and judges trained on deduction sheets need a few routines to adjust.
- Line and time judging are dedicated FIG roles. We have one organizer-entered penalty field per routine, covering line, time and attire together.
- The all-around does not roll up across categories, and the public results grid still labels columns Run 1 to Run N rather than hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon.
And a piece of context that applies to everyone in this comparison: FIG-level gymnastics is supplied by Swiss Timing, the federation's timing, judging-terminal and scoreboard partner since 1987, and none of that is procurable by a club. Neither RGScores nor JudgeMate is competing for that tier.
Moving a meet from RGScores
A club meet moves inside one competition cycle, provided you accept that music and work orders stay where they are:
- Bring the entry list across. However you hold names, clubs, categories and apparatus today, they enter JudgeMate as a participant import from a spreadsheet. We have built no importer for RGScores data, so plan on a copy-paste session.
- Build categories the way you rank. The all-around is the sum of routine totals inside one category, so a level or age group that shares a podium has to be a single category.
- Pick the apparatus rotation. Presets cover the senior individual programme of hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon, freehand for beginners, or all six.
- Set the panel rules. Cap the D score per category, then leave the high/low trim on where a panel reaches four judges and switch it off where it does not.
- Assign judges. Each judge opens a link on their own phone and writes only their own score. One person can hold D, A and E for a small category, and an approved organizer can enter panel scores as well.
- Keep your music workflow. Whatever plays the tracks today keeps playing them, and whatever prints the running order keeps printing it. Nothing in JudgeMate touches audio or meet paperwork.
- Point the hall screen at the display route. Set the scale, the number of visible rows and the auto-rotation interval between categories, then leave it running.
Budget twenty minutes for a rehearsal routine before doors open: one judge submits D, A and E, one organizer adds a penalty, and you confirm the total lands where the calculator said it would. Historical results stay in RGScores, because we have no importer for their data and no export of our own. Organisers coming from paper and a spreadsheet instead will find the same steps in how to organize a rhythmic gymnastics competition.
Try JudgeMate on your next event
A rhythmic gymnastics event takes about 10 minutes to configure. No athlete limits, no commission on registrations. See rhythmic gymnastics features · Run the FIG calculator
See also
RGForm (KSIS) alternative
The incumbent in rhythmic gymnastics: Code of Points difficulty forms per cycle, federation registration with music and tariff upload, judge entry through eJudge2, offline mode. Organizer pricing is not published.
Sportzsoft LiveMeet alternative
Gymnastics-wide (artistic, trampoline and tumbling, newer rhythmic and aerobic systems) with an iOS judges app and a documented ISF Gymnasiade 2024 deployment. US$75 per meet plus 2.5% of entry fees.
Rhythmic gymnastics competition software compared 2026
RGForm (KSIS), RGScores, Sportzsoft LiveMeet, JudgeMate, regional systems and paper with a spreadsheet, lined up on D + A + E entry, apparatus rotation, all-around and price.
Free rhythmic gymnastics scoring software 2026
Three routes have a documented free path: RGForm, RGScores on trial and JudgeMate. The fourth is paper with a spreadsheet — free until you count the hours it costs.
Frequently asked questions
Sources
- RGScores: product and pricing pages — RGScores
- FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Code of Points 2025-2028 — Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
- FIG rules library, Technical Regulations 2026 — Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
- USA Gymnastics rhythmic competition structure — USA Gymnastics
- RGForm (KSIS): difficulty form scripting per Code of Points cycle — KSIS
- KSIS offline topology diagram for venue-LAN operation — Gymnastics Ontario