BuzzerCue
A companion app for multi-day championships

Navigate your child's path through a multi-day championship.

A buzzer championship is hundreds of events, across many rooms, across many days. BuzzerCue is the calm pocket companion that picks your child's path through it: their events, their rooms, their personalized lane and table assignments, their leave-by times. One screen, from check-in to closing.

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Live. In production with real families navigating multi-day championships.
Where BuzzerCue helps

The competition runs the event. BuzzerCue tracks your child through it.

Multi-day championships are well-organized. The schedule is thoughtful, the room assignments arrive on time, and the organizers keep things moving. None of that changes what's on your mind between events: where your child is, where they need to be in twenty minutes, which lane the registrar finally assigned, and how to cross the venue to get there in time. That's the layer the app lives in.

  1. 01

    The room riddle.

    "Salon C" is a name on a sheet. Without context, it's a hallway hunt. We show your kid's next room and where it sits in the building, so the walk is obvious before you start it.

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    The lane lookup.

    Personalized assignments arrive as long, name-sorted lists. Finding your kid's row at 9:47 AM, with coffee in one hand, is its own little event. We pull it out for you and keep it on the event card.

  3. 03

    The leave-by math.

    Check-in is 10:15, so leave at 10:05. Unless a sibling needs collecting from the other end of the venue first, in which case 9:55. You do this thirty times across a championship. We do it once.

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    The quiet overlap.

    Block-system schedules occasionally let two of your kid's events fall in the same hour. You usually notice the morning of. We catch it the moment you tap the second one.

"Where IS Salon F?"

Saturday · what I need to track

09:00 · Maya · History Heat 3 Salon B · Lane 7
10:30 · Maya · Quarterfinal Salon C find lane
12:15 · Lunch Atrium
14:00 · Maya · Round Robin Salon C · T4
14:30 · Mateo · Geography Heat Salon F · T1
leave by 14:20 to cross to Mateo can I?
16:30 · Awards Grand Ballroom
Two kids, two rooms, ten minutes apart.
What BuzzerCue does

Four small things, carried for every championship day.

Not a dashboard. A quiet pocket assistant that pays attention to four things so you don't have to. Open it once an hour, glance, close.

Their path through the championship.

Out of 260 events on the master schedule, your family is in 24. BuzzerCue lays out their path in order, with rooms and check-in times. Multiple kids spread across the schedule? Switch between per-kid views, or see one merged timeline with each event tagged by name.

09:00 History Heat 3 · Salon B
10:30 Quarterfinal · Salon C
14:00 Round Robin · Salon C

Quiet overlap-catching.

If two of your kid's events fall in the same window, we flag it the moment you tap the second. Not the morning of. Not while running.

⚠ Sat 14:00–14:45 overlaps Round Robin · Geography Heat
14:00 Round Robin · History
14:30 Geography Heat 2

Reminders in the calendar you already use.

One tap hands your kid's schedule to Apple or Google Calendar. Native alarms, native ringtones, your lead-time of choice. No new notification box to learn. Optional push reminders are there too if you'd rather get a quiet ping fifteen minutes before each event.

Apple Calendar
28 events · 5 alerts each
✓ synced
Google Calendar
.ics · works on web & Android
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Local-first, with optional sync.

No sign-up by default. Your kids and schedules live on your device, full stop. If you want them to follow you to another phone, opt into a Google sign-in. That's it. No tracking, no marketing cookies, no server holding things you didn't choose to share.

●On-device storage
●Works in airplane mode (after first load)
●Optional Google sign-in for cross-device sync
○Email verification
○Marketing cookies

The venue, with your kid's room ringed.

Drop your venue's floor plan in and we tag each event's room precisely. Tap a card and see the walk, not just a name on a sheet. Works for hotel ballrooms, convention centers, school gyms.

● Salon C · Ballroom Wing
● Plaza F · Convention Level
● Bayhill 28 · Lobby Level

Live results, one tap from each card.

When you publish standings or live brackets in a sheet, families get a tappable link from every event in their kid's path. The standings open right where they're already looking. No paper hunt.

↗ Quarterfinal · live standings
↗ Round Robin · room map sheet
↗ Finals · bracket
How it works

Three taps. Then their path appears.

No install, no email confirmation, no password. Open the app in your phone's browser, name your kids, tap the events they're registered for. Their path through the championship appears, the conflicts surface themselves, and you're set.

STEP 01
Open the app
your-event.buzzercue.com
BuzzerCue
Tap to start
no install · no signup

1. Open the app.

A web app at a friendly URL. Add to Home Screen and it'll look and feel like the real thing.

STEP 02
Your kids
MayaGrade 6
MateoGrade 4
+ Add another
stored on this device

2. Name your kids.

Just a first name each. Grade or favorite color if your event uses them. Stored on your phone, nowhere else.

STEP 03
Pick events for Maya
History Bee✓
Stage Four✓
Round Robin✓
Spelling Heat 1
→ timeline appears

3. Tap their events.

One tap per event. The timeline appears, conflicts surface themselves, and you can put your phone away.

For competition organizers

Run a championship? Give your families the companion.

Quiz Bowl, NAQT, Scripps regionals, History Bee, Science Olympiad, FIRST Robotics, state band competitions. The shape of these multi-day events is roughly the same, and so is what every family is tracking in their head. BuzzerCue is a thin, branded companion you can hand to families at sign-up: calm, free for them, and ready in about four weeks.

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    Your branded subdomain.

    your-event.buzzercue.com. Your name, your colors, your event's categories.

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    We work from the schedule you already publish.

    Whatever format you use: XLSX, CSV, or the printout your registrar emails. We turn it into structured data for the app.

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    Personalized assignments, surfaced per family.

    When you post lane and room assignments, families see only theirs. Pulled out of the master list automatically, kept on the event card.

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    Indoor map and "where am I?" support.

    Optional: drop in your venue's floor plan and we'll pin each event's room. Families tap a card and see the walk, not just the name.

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    No accounts. No data on your shoulders.

    Families don't sign up. Nothing about a competitor leaves their parent's phone. No PII compliance theatre, no support volume.

Plain answers

Questions families actually ask.

Honestly, maybe not. If your kid is in one event and you've got a free morning, the printed schedule is fine. BuzzerCue is for families balancing many events across multiple days, where the math of "leave by when, walk to where, find which lane" gets old fast. We're a smaller, calmer layer on top of your official schedule, not a replacement for it.

You can, and after one tap in BuzzerCue, that's exactly what happens. We hand the schedule to Apple or Google Calendar so your phone's native alarms do the buzzing. The app is the source-of-truth view your calendar gets fed from, with the rooms, lanes, and leave-by times your calendar doesn't know about.

No. Open the app and start using it. There's an optional Google sign-in if you want your kids and schedules to follow you to another phone or browser, but it's never required. Guests work the same way, on-device only.

Yes, always. Families never pay. The competition that commissioned the app paid once for the build. Your family uses it for free.

On your device by default. We don't run a server you have to trust with your kid's name. If you sign in with Google, the app also syncs a copy to Firestore so you can pick up on another device. Sign out and the local copy is still there, untouched. Clearing your browser clears the local copy.

Yes. Add the app to your Home Screen and it installs as a PWA. The schedule and your kids' data are cached locally, so ballroom dead-zones and patchy hotel Wi-Fi don't break it. Live results sheets need a connection, of course.

No. It's a web app you open in Safari or Chrome. Tap "Add to Home Screen" and it'll look and feel like a native app. Works on iPhone, Android, iPad, and any laptop.

Yes. That's the whole point of the platform. Email hello@buzzercue.com with a one-paragraph description of your event and we'll come back the same week.

Email the address on the bottom of your event's app, or message your competition's organizer through their usual channel. We're small. We read every note.

Run a buzzer-based competition?

Tell us about your event. We'll give your families the calm companion: branded as you, ready in about four weeks, free for them.

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