This article provides steps on how to start and run a game on the ScoreVision Lacrosse Scorekeeper App.
Connecting Your Scorekeeper App to a Scoreboard Display
1. Log in to your Scorekeeper App using your ScoreVision credentials. If you want to connect the Scorekeeper app to a display, ensure that the YES tab is selected. Then, press CONNECT on your display of choice (generally, you will select SV-1, but SV-2 also works; naming may vary based on your facility). If you do not want to connect to a display, refer to #2 below.
2. If you do not want to connect the Scorekeeper app to a display, ensure that the NO tab is selected. The most common reason for choosing NO is when you scoring at an away game in order to send information to the ScoreVision Fan App. To do this, you will need a source of wifi such as a hotspot or a connection to the wifi in the facility you are visiting.
3. Press DEFAULT LACROSSE SEASON/TOURNAMENT to bring up a list of any active seasons created in the cloud.
4. A list of available pre-made seasons will appear in a pop-up window. Select the season that you want to use. NOTE: If Default Season/Tournament is the only season available in the list, seasons will need to be created in the cloud.
5. If you have previously entered games in the cloud, a list of those games will appear in the open space below the filter menus. These games will be sorted by start date and time, the nearest upcoming game first.
Press SELECT to begin the game of your choice. The rules that were defined in the cloud (number of periods, length of periods and timeouts, etc.) will automatically be applied.NOTE: Games created in the cloud will be visible 24 hours prior to the scheduled start time. If you need help creating games in the cloud, please follow this link to cloud training. 
Setting Pre-Game Clock
1. Once you’ve started the game, a scoreboard assistant for PRE-GAME CLOCK will appear giving you three options for pre-game:
- set clock to default time,
- set clock to custom time, or
- I am ready to keep score, skipping pregame all together
NOTE: The board will not engage until you start the pre-game clock. Ads will continue to run.
To set a custom length for your pre-game clock, press on the time at the bottom of the scoreboard assistant.
- Type in the desired amount of clock time.
- Drop the keyboard by pressing the button in the lower right corner.
- Then press SET to engage the pre-game clock on the board.
- Press END if you would like to stop a running pre-game clock after it has been engaged.
NOTE: You can engage the Pre-Game Clock scoreboard assistant as many times as needed by pressing Pre-Game from the menu button but the option will disappear from the menu once you start keeping score for this game.
2. During Pre-Game, it is a best practice to check the rosters for each team. Touch the ROSTER button below the game clock to open the roster wing for each team. Players can be added for each team in the cloud or can be added within the app by pressing the + button.
Press the PENCIL button at the bottom of the roster wing to edit details about the players such as first and last name, jersey number, and if the player is suited up. Then press SAVE. Close the edit menu by pressing the pencil.
Scorekeeping During the Game
1. At the bottom of the screen you see the Clock Start/Stop button. Notice that when the clock is stopped, there are red bars behind the clock time at the top of the screen. This is a peripheral cue that the clock is not running. When you start the clock, the bars behind the clock turn gray. Whether the clock is running or stopped, the display board will remain with a black background behind the clock. This visual cue is to assist the scorekeeper with keeping correct time throughout the game.
2. Press the round buttons on the field that coincides with the shots, saves, and goals for each team.
3. If a penalty occurs, press the PENALTY button for the corresponding team. 
A roster wing will slide open so you can attribute the penalty to an individual player. Press on the jersey number and then select the length of the penalty. NOTE: The countdown clock for penalties will not begin until the game clock is started.
If more than three players are serving penalties concurrently, only three will be shown on the scoreboard display. As the first player's penalty clock expires, the fourth penalty clock will engage and begin counting down.
4. To initiate a timeout, press the TIMEOUTS button near the top of the scorekeeper screen enabling you to apply the timeout to the appropriate team, or official. After selecting the appropriate team or official, a scoreboard assistant for DISPLAY TIMEOUT CLOCK will appear giving you 4 options:
- set clock to default time,
- set clock to custom time,
- just show scoreboard, or
- cancel
Notice that aesthetically the timeout yellow bars will change in the app as well as below the team names on your board to reflect the number of remaining timeouts available for each team.
5. When the game clock reaches zero, a scoreboard assistant will appear giving you three options for transitioning into the next period:
- start a period break (or halftime) with the clock set to the default time,
- start a period break (or halftime) with the clock set to a custom time, or
- jump to the next period without a period break.
Quick Edit and Undo
1. At any point throughout the game, you can use QUICK EDIT to edit the score, shots and saves, timeouts, game clock, period, team colors, or team names. Then press SAVE to apply the changes.
2. The UNDO button allows you to undo in order of how actions or points were entered. The two buttons perform the same function but are conveniently placed for left or right handed scorekeepers. The most recent action is indicated in the space between the buttons to help the scorekeeper know which action will be undone.
Overtime Scoring
Overtime rules are set in the cloud when you create a season. You can set the duration of the sudden death period, as well as choose if the overtime will be a single period or repeating in the event of another tie at the end of the overtime.
1. If the game is tied when the clock reaches zero at the end of the game, the system will automatically reveal a scoreboard assistant that gives you two options:
- proceed to sudden death overtime, or
- end the game in a tie.
2. Score the overtime period in the same manner as regulation. However, because this is sudden death overtime, when you attribute a goal to either team it will trigger a scoreboard assistant asking if you would like to end the game. Select YES if the goal stands or select NO if you need to make any quick edit corrections and continue the overtime period.
3. If the clock reaches zero during overtime and you still have a tie game, you will repeat the steps above for another overtime period if the season settings were selected to repeat. If the season was set to not repeat overtime, the scoreboard assistant will prompt you to end the game in the same manner as described below.
Ending a Game
1. Once the game is over, a scoreboard assistant will appear that allows you to end the game, or go back to make changes if necessary.
- END GAME completes the game and archives the results in the cloud.
- CANCEL allows you to make adjustments to the game data by using the Quick Edit or Undo features discussed earlier in this article.
2. If at anytime during the game you would like to close the game, press the X button in the upper right corner. A window will appear giving you these 3 options:
- save & close out game,
- save & leave game open, or
- cancel
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- Save & close out game will archive the game in the cloud and you will be unable to access and change data at a future time.
- Save & leave game open leaves the game available to access even after you have closed the app. This option may be needed if you need to leave the Scorekeeper App for whatever reason but wish to continue scoring the game when you log back in.
- Cancel will return you to the scorekeeping screen with no changes.
ScoreVision Support Contact Information
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