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Background
Volleyball WA runs the state's flagship volleyball events — the WA Open on the sand at Scarborough Beach, the WAVL State League Finals, and Australian Volleyball Super League home games.
VWA wanted a scoreboard that did more than post a scoreline: something that lifted the spectator experience and looked the part at a marquee event. They partnered with Focus AV to design and build it, and the two organisations worked through the specification together.
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The challenge
The events don't share a venue. One weekend it's an outdoor beach tournament, the next it's an indoor stadium on the other side of the city, across a season running from February through to September.
A fixed installation was never going to work. The scoreboard had to travel to each venue, set up fast, and perform outdoors as readily as indoors — and it had to be operable by whoever was rostered on that day, not only by a trained technician.
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The solution
A custom-designed, trailer-mounted LED scoreboard, built to VWA's requirements. It tows to the venue and is ready to run once it's parked — no rigging and no fixed structure to build around.
Control is from a smartphone. An operator manages the scoreboard remotely with a few taps, from anywhere with a view of the court, which removes the need for a dedicated scoring position wired back to the board. The display is fully customisable rather than locked to a single scoring layout, so what appears on the board is set by the event rather than by the hardware.
The design was developed with VWA throughout, which is why it suits how their events actually run instead of how a generic scoreboard assumes they do.
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The outcome
The scoreboard made its debut at the WA Open at Scarborough Beach in February, then went on to the WAVL State League Finals and Australian Volleyball Super League home games from July through September.
VWA now brings a proper event display to every flagship fixture regardless of the venue, and running it takes a phone rather than a crew. For spectators, the difference is a match that reads like a broadcast event instead of one where you squint at a manual scoreline.
