Rodeo Broadcasts
There's no home team. There's a field, and a clock, and who's ahead right now.
Rodeo isn't two sides fighting over a ball — it's a ranked field of competitors, each making a timed or judged run, one at a time. SpreeSports' rodeo product was built as a leaderboard from the ground up, for National High School Rodeo Association events, junior and amateur circuits, and county fair arenas alike — not a football scorebar with "home" relabeled "contestant."
No import pipeline. No electronic timing gate. Still faster than a clipboard.
There's no ScoreStream or MaxPreps behind this product — those don't track rodeo at all. And there's no electric-eye timing integration either: rodeo, on the ground, is overwhelmingly hand-timed. A judge or timer calls the number, the arena announcer relays it, someone posts it. SpreeSports doesn't pretend otherwise — it builds the graphic around exactly that workflow.
What most arenas run today
A clipboard standings sheet at the timer's table, maybe a chalkboard by the gate, and the announcer reading times off a stopwatch. The crowd — and the stream — sees whatever the announcer says out loud, and nothing else.
SpreeSports, arena side
Enter your field once — name, hometown, horse, events entered. As each judge or timer calls a result, the operator posts it in two clicks. The leaderboard re-sorts itself on screen, live, the same moment the crowd hears the announcer say it.
No import button — but a real shortcut where it counts: Save Setup → Load Setup brings back a familiar entry list in two clicks for a multi-day rodeo or a recurring circuit stop.
Built as a leaderboard, not a scoreboard
Timed events and judged (roughstock) events are scored on completely different scales — you can't compare a 14.23-second barrel run to an 87.5-point bull ride. SpreeSports treats them as what they are instead of forcing both through one generic "score" field.
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Live leaderboard — unique to rodeo
No other sport in the SpreeSports family has this, because no other sport is a ranked field instead of a two-side contest. Standings for the current event re-sort automatically the instant a run posts — ascending on time for barrel racing, roping, and steer wrestling; descending on score for bareback, saddle bronc, and bull riding.
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The run graphic — live stopwatch or name-only card
Timed events show a live stopwatch counting up from 0:00 while the run is in progress. Judged events show just the competitor's name — the 8-second whistle isn't something a countdown graphic can meaningfully show, so it doesn't pretend to.
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Timed events, handled honestly
Barrel racing, team roping, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, breakaway roping. Raw run time and any fault penalty (a knocked barrel, a broken pattern) are tracked as separate fields — the official time shows the total, but the raw time stays visible too.
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Roughstock events, handled honestly
Bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding. A two-judge score out of 100, plus a qualified-ride flag — a buck-off before the whistle scores zero regardless of what the ride looked like up to that point.
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Judges, not referees
The officials card defaults to "Tonight's Judges" instead of "Tonight's Officials" — a small detail, but it's the difference between a graphic built for rodeo and one adapted from another sport.
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The full content layer
Going-to-break panels that can show the current standings leader instead of a team score, station bug, fanfare, countdown ("GATES OPEN"), trivia, credits roll, a hometown-to-arena distance map, weather, and an ESPN-style cross-sport ticker.
Rodeo day, end-to-end
From "I want to broadcast today's rodeo" to on-air, run by run.
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Build your field
Enter each competitor's name, hometown, horse name, and the events they're entered in. Typed once from the entry sheet — the whole field, before the first go-round.
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Pick the event and go-round
Rodeos commonly run two or three go-rounds plus a short-go for the top qualifiers. Select which one is up — the leaderboard and run graphic follow it.
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Add the output to vMix
Drop the output URL into vMix or OBS as a browser source. Transparent background, overlay channel. Graphics are on the air before the gate opens.
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Post each run as it happens
Time and any penalty for timed events, or the judges' score and qualified-ride flag for roughstock. Two clicks per run — the leaderboard re-sorts itself the instant you post.
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Cycle through the events
Switch currentEvent as the rodeo moves from barrels to roping to bull riding. Each event keeps its own leaderboard, computed fresh from the runs on file.
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Save it
Click Save Setup. Same circuit stop or a returning entry list next weekend? Load Setup brings the field back in two clicks.
Clipboard & chalkboard vs. SpreeSports
Most arenas aren't comparing this to a rented CG rig — they're comparing it to a paper standings sheet and an announcer's voice. Here's that comparison, honestly.
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SpreeSports |
Clipboard / generic CG |
| Competitor field & entries |
Type once, saved forever |
Retyped or re-copied from the entry sheet every rodeo |
| On-screen standings |
Leaderboard auto-sorts the instant a result posts |
Chalkboard at the gate, or nothing on screen at all — just the announcer's voice |
| Timed vs. judged results |
Separate, honest fields for both — raw time + penalty, or score + qualified ride |
One generic "score" box forced to fit both, if there's a graphic at all |
| Run timing |
Operator posts what the judge/timer calls — same real workflow, now it hits the screen |
Stopwatch at the table, never reaches the broadcast |
| Reusable next rodeo |
Save Setup → Load Setup, two clicks |
Re-enter the whole field from scratch |
| Setup time, first event |
~15 minutes for a full field |
No standard graphic exists — build one from nothing, or go without |
| Posting a run |
Two clicks |
Chalk and an eraser, or not shown at all |
Built for the people who actually run these broadcasts
Rodeo secretaries, timers, arena announcers, and the crews streaming the whole thing. Not a unionized graphics operator from a network truck.
Rodeo associations & circuits
NHSRA state and regional finals, junior rodeo associations, county and amateur circuits — a live leaderboard on the stream gives contestants and families something a chalkboard never could: standings they can see from home.
Arena / fairgrounds production crews
Already running a camera and a switcher for the grandstand feed? Add the SpreeSports output as a browser source. No new hardware at the timer's table.
Independent rodeo streamers
Covering a circuit's weekend stops for a subscription or ad-supported feed? A real leaderboard graphic is the difference between a hobby stream and a broadcast people come back for.
Booster clubs & fair boards
Make the rodeo stream look as sharp as any other sport on your slate, for the same $1,000/event license — no separate hardware to buy or cable to the timer's table.
Multi-day event operators
Running the same field across several go-rounds and a short-go? Save Setup keeps the field intact across the whole event — enter it once at the start.
Stock contractors & committee members
Want the crowd and the livestream to actually see who's winning, event by event, without hiring a broadcast crew? This is built for exactly that gap.