Snowboard Competition Software Compared

We read each vendor's public pages on 10 November 2026, without logging in, and quote them. Where a page says nothing about a rule, the table says "not stated" instead of guessing. The yardstick is the FIS rulebook for park and pipe: the ICR Book VI in its June 2026 edition and the Park & Pipe Judges Handbook. A club contest does not have to follow FIS to the letter, but riders, parents and national federations compare your results with FIS practice, so it is the fairest common test.

JudgeMate is our product. It went through the same checklist, and its weak spots are in the table and in its own section below. If a vendor detail here is out of date, write to us and we will fix it.

Prices as shown on the vendors' pages on 10 November 2026. US dollars where the vendor uses them.

LiveHeats is an Australian action-sports platform with its own ski and snowboard product. Its page names halfpipe, slopestyle, big air, boarder cross and skier cross organizations among its users. Judges or a tabulator enter scores on phones, tablets or a laptop, and the score reaches the announcer, coaches, athletes and livestream as soon as the head judge approves it. Registration can check the FIS code and assign bibs. Cross events get brackets.

For sanctioned events the key feature is FIS results XML. The organizer enters the codex, gender and discipline and LiveHeats builds the file in a FIS-approved format. On the pricing page this sits under "premium add-ons" with "Get in touch", so it is outside the credit price.

Costs: one credit per event, US$132 for up to 50 entries and $396 for up to 250, with discounts when you buy several credits at once. A cancelled or postponed event still uses its credit. The judge devices need an internet connection, which matters on a glacier with weak coverage.

Pick it when the event is on the FIS calendar and you need the XML, when you run cross as well as park, or when registration with payment matters more than the entry price.

Most national and club contests still run this way. Each judge writes scores on a steno sheet, and someone in the results office types them into a spreadsheet. The FIS accepts it: ICR 3405 names a spreadsheet as the minimum data system, and the Judges Handbook says the steno sheet is the official score. Keypads or tablets become mandatory only from Continental Cup level up.

The Polish Championships in slopestyle (Białka Tatrzańska, 18 February 2026) published a PDF with three judges' scores per run and their average, for example 92, 93 and 91 giving 92.00.

The risks are arithmetic and speed. A spreadsheet rounds unless you write TRUNC into every formula, so 61.67 appears where the ICR wants 61.66. DNI, ties and the cup points table are typed by hand. Riders wait for a printout instead of seeing the board update after each run.

Pick it when you have one experienced results person, three judges and a small field, and live results are not expected.

JudgeMate is free for organizers, with no entry caps. Snowboard contests use the Snowboarding Slopestyle category type; for halfpipe, the setup wizard has a ready criteria set called Snowboarding Halfpipe with the same FIS rules. The template has six weighted criteria from 0 to 100, three runs and the best run counting.

What follows the ICR: the run score and the best-run result are truncated to two decimals (ICR 3403). A judge can mark a run DNI from the second run. With the head judge gate on, scores wait until the head judge releases the run, and "Release with gaps" publishes when one judge is missing. Before release the head judge sees the start order or the standing, with ties shown in red. The start list import takes first and last name in separate columns, bib, club and year of birth. Stance, FIS code and NSA code can be public organizer fields of up to 40 characters. Cup points use the FIS park and pipe table (100 to 1 for 30 places) or your own table from a spreadsheet. The PDF lets you pick columns and add up to 6 sponsor logos. The interface works in English, Polish, German and Spanish.

Where it differs from the ICR: the high/low drop switch works from 5 judges, while FIS starts at 6, so leave it off with five judges. Ties are broken by the other runs (best, then second, then best trick, then third), which ICR 3503 does not do. Judges can enter scores in steps of 0.1, while FIS scores are whole numbers.

What it does not do: no FIS results XML, no import from the FIS database, no boarder cross, no separate big air or halfpipe category type for snowboard. A final is a separate category with a qualification line, and the qualification score does not carry over.

Pick it when the contest is a club event, a youth series or a national cup without the XML requirement, and the budget is zero. Create a snowboard contest or watch the snowboard setup film first.

FIS has its own freestyle data system, GSS. Its manual (version 1.7, 7 May 2026) sets up courses only for moguls, dual moguls and aerials, with judges on Windows tablets cabled to a scoring laptop. Park and pipe events on the FIS calendar have a data provider who uploads results in the FIS XML protocol. For a club or national contest outside that calendar, none of this is required.

Freeski park and pipe follows the same ICR Book VI, so the checklist above applies to freeski contests too. JudgeMate has a Freeskiing category type with the same truncation and DNI rules; see the freeskiing page.