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The first hour with WR Score.

From installing WR Score to the score on a hall screen, in about an hour.

You need: a PC with Windows 10 (22H2) or Windows 11, your WR Score account, and the setup file from it. A TV or a second screen helps for the last steps.

The first hour with WR Score
  1. Step 1

    Install WR Score.

    Double-click the setup file. If Windows says Windows protected your PC, press More info, then Run anyway: WR Score isn't signed for Windows yet during the beta. Do this only for the file you downloaded from your account page, never for one sent by e-mail or in a chat. Press Install. When it says WR Score is ready, press Open WR Score.

    The installer's first window
  2. Step 2

    Open WR Score.

    WR Score opens on Welcome to WR Score. New here? Press Sign up. Have an account? Press I already have an account, and sign in with your e-mail.

    Welcome to WR Score
  3. Step 3

    Start the setup.

    WR Score asks a few questions, one at a time. You can skip any step and come back to it later. Press Start.

    Let's set up WR Score
  4. Step 4

    Your venue profile.

    A venue profile holds the setup of one hall. Check its name and press Next.

    Your venue profile
  5. Step 5

    Pick your sport.

    Pick your sport from the list. This guide uses Football; every sport works the same way.

    Which sport do you play?
  6. Step 6

    Check the rules.

    WR Score fills in the rules of your sport. Press Change beside any you play differently, then Next.

    Which rules do you use?
  7. Step 7

    Choose how you keep the score.

    Press By hand on this PC: you press the keys on the Scoreboard yourself. You can change this any time with Score from on the Scoreboard. Press Next.

    How will you keep the score?
  8. Step 8

    Choose what to set up now.

    Pick the parts you want WR Score to walk you through, or none. Press Next.

    What should we set up?
  9. Step 9

    Error reports.

    To help us find problems, switch on Send error reports. Nothing is sent until you switch it on, and you can change it any time on Home, in Privacy. Press Next, or Not now.

    Send us error reports?
  10. Step 10

    A daily safe copy.

    Switch on Copy my setup every day, and WR Score keeps an encrypted copy of your setup every day, ready for a new device. Press Continue.

  11. Step 11

    Check your setup.

    WR Score lists what is set and what is not. Press Start using WR Score.

  12. Step 12

    Your first steps.

    This page lists what to do before your first game, in any order. Press Set up a friendly game.

    Your first steps
  13. Step 13

    Name the two sides.

    Type the home side's name and the away side's. The short names fill in by themselves; change them if you like. Press Create.

    Who plays?
  14. Step 14

    Make it the current game.

    Press Make it the current game, so the Scoreboard and the hall screens show it.

    The friendly game
  15. Step 15

    Keep the score.

    Open Scoreboard from the tabs on the right (press Tabs at the bottom right if they're hidden). Press +1 under a side when it scores. If WR Score asks Who scored?, pick the player's number, or press Skip.

    The Scoreboard, a goal counted
  16. Step 16

    Start the clock.

    Press the clock to start it, and again to stop it. The keys under it move it by a second, five seconds, fifteen seconds or a minute.

    The clock running
  17. Step 17

    Open Hall screens.

    Open Hall screens from the tabs on the right. The picture at the top is what your hall sees. The Modes change what it shows: the score, half-time, the line-ups and more.

    Hall screens
  18. Step 18

    Show it on a screen in the hall.

    Press Link to screen, and open the link on the TV or the screen in the hall. It shows the score as it changes. To keep your screen links, sign in under Account.

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