EvoSports

Professional broadcasts cover a tiny fraction of the sport actually played, and a pool hall or club has no practical way to stream its own tables and courts. EvoSports gives venues a three-piece self-install kit for streaming, scoring and brackets, and gives players a place to watch, share and commentate on their own matches.

Amateur players want their matches recorded and shared as much as professionals do, and venues want the footage too, because it brings people back. What stood in the way was equipment: high-end camera systems built for professional team sport, complex installations, and nothing a pool hall owner could set up on a Tuesday afternoon.

EvoSports makes the venue the broadcaster. A three-piece kit goes on the table or court, scoring and brackets run through the platform, and commentators can call a match from a laptop anywhere, which is how one partner channel ended up commentating from a cruise ship. The company started in billiards, where it also streams tournaments, and is taking the same kit into volleyball, pickleball and badminton.