You are at the game desk. Here is the whole board.

Eggbeater Desk is a scoring console for the volunteer at the game desk. It is a separate app from the Eggbeater spectator app. The Desk is the one that writes the score, and everything it records reaches spectators, the TV and the box score within about five seconds.

• One screen. The actions, the clock, the shot map, the lineup and the play log are all in view at once. You should never scroll mid-game.
• Free, on the iPad you already have. The Mac version is on the same free listing. One app, one download, whichever you end up with at the table.
• It is not required. A phone can still score a game from the Eggbeater app. The Desk is what you want when you have a table.

Download Eggbeater Desk from the App Store on an iPad. It is free, and there is nothing to buy inside it. The Mac version is on the same listing: a real Mac app, not a stretched iPad one, where the keyboard does the work and the window resizes like anything else.

• iPad. Search the App Store for “Eggbeater Desk”. It is free, and you can install it today.
• Mac. On the Mac App Store, on the same listing, and free there too. Nothing extra to pay.
• Android tablets. Eggbeater Desk is on Google Play, with its own listing. Free there too.
• Windows. Eggbeater Desk is on the Microsoft Store, with its own listing. Free there too.

• iPad and Mac: App Store
• Android tablets: Google Play
• Windows: Microsoft Store

On first launch, enter the club code your admin gave you, or sign in if your club uses accounts. Recent clubs are remembered, so the second weekend is one tap.

• Multiple squads. A club can carry several teams. Use the Team button in the header to switch between them. Each has its own games.
• Wrong club? Leave club in the header puts you back at the code screen.

The games list shows every game for the squad you picked, with live games sorted to the top. Tap the one you are scoring. The board asks for your club’s scoring password once, then opens directly on the game. There is no separate “start a game” step.

• Already in progress? The board seeds itself from whatever has already been recorded, so taking over from another device mid-game is safe.
• Wrong password. The board still opens so you can set up the roster and clock. It tells you it is not syncing and asks again before anything is published.

The settings cog on the games list is for this device only. Nothing in it is published, and nothing in it belongs to the club.

• Appearance. Light, dark or follow the device. A pool deck at 8 am and a lit gym at 8 pm are different rooms.
• Language. English, Spanish or French.
• Shot map on by default, and Always track opponent stats, so a club that always wants them stops tapping them on every game.
• Volume buttons run the clock. On by default on iPad, and worth turning off if they get bumped in a bag.
• Resync rosters, and the version number support will ask you for.

Open Practice from the games list and you get a real board with a real roster that is not connected to anything. Every button behaves exactly as it does in a game, and nothing you tap reaches a spectator. It is the best five minutes a first-time volunteer can spend.

• Where the button is. On a Mac or a large iPad, Practice sits in the header of the games list. On an 11-inch iPad the header runs out of room and it moves into the More button (three dots) at the end of that row. Tap that and Practice is inside.

You should never have to hunt for the clock. Whichever device you are on, there is one control you can hit without taking your eyes off the water, and the app prints it right under the clock so you do not have to remember it.

• Mac: the keys. The space bar starts and stops the clock. G is our goal, O is the opponent’s, T is a turnover, and Command-Z undoes the last thing you recorded.
• Mac: the Game menu. It carries the same actions with Command shortcuts, so you can find them without memorizing anything.
• iPad. The volume buttons start and stop the clock. The rest is the action grid, which is the fastest thing on the board anyway.
• The keys are a Mac feature. An iPad ignores a hardware keyboard here, so do not go looking for the space bar on one.
• Clock drifted from the wall clock? Edit clock opens a minutes box and a seconds box. Put the right time in and tap Set. Reset Clock puts the whole period back and needs a long press, because it throws the period away.
• Coming in the next update. Edit clock opens with the current time already selected, so you can type straight over it instead of clearing it first.

The board opens with the period and clock already seeded from the schedule. Tap the clock to set an exact M:SS, use Reset Clock to put the period back to full, and Sprint Won to log the swim-off that starts each period.

• The period bar runs Q1 to Q4, or H1 and H2 if your club plays halves. Your admin sets that in the club’s clock settings.
• The clock keeps time accurately even if the screen sleeps or the app goes to the background.
• Prefer not to run a clock at all? Your club can score by period alone. The actions all stay, only the countdown goes.

Everything is action-first: tap what happened, then who did it. There are no plus and minus steppers to nudge, so a mis-tap is one Undo away rather than a score you have to reconstruct.

• Goal, then who scored, then shot type, then assist (optional), then where it went in the cage, then where the shot came from.
• Every step after “who scored” can be skipped. Tap Skip and the goal still counts. Detail is a bonus, never a toll.
• Attempt, 5m, exclusions, turnovers, steals, blocks, GK saves and timeouts all follow the same shape.

The pool map is the largest target on the board on purpose. Tap the water where the shot was taken and the dot lands there. The zone tallies underneath build themselves as the game goes.

• One step at a time. You are asked where the ball went in the cage first, then where the shot was taken.
• The cage is optional. Tap Skip and go straight to placing the shot. Nothing is lost. The goal still counts, and the map has the whole screen to itself.
• True pool scale. The board is 20 m by 12.5 m, the same proportions as the half tank you are looking at, so a shot 5 m out looks 5 m out.
• For / Against. Flip the map to see what the other team is doing to you.
• Coming in the next update. The cage step opens over the board at full size, and the pool map underneath is full size too, so neither one is squeezed into half the screen.

The In the Water panel is the seven caps currently playing. Keeping it honest is what makes minutes played and goalkeeper save credit come out right at the end of the game.

• The GK slot drives save attribution. Swap it when the keeper changes and the saves are credited to the new keeper.
• The sprinter slot marks who took the swim-off.
• A player who has been excluded shows a countdown to when they can come back in.

A player is out of the game on their third major exclusion. The board counts them, grays the cap when it happens and shows a BENCHED chip, so you cannot pick them by mistake.

• Common fouls do not count. Only major exclusions do.
• It applies to the opponent too. A neutral desk serves both benches, so the opposing cap grays out on their third as well.
• A 5m penalty foul does count toward the three.

When your club is set to High School, the board prompts you for the two announcements the rulebook assigns to the desk, at the moment they are due.

• A side’s last timeout: tell the referee.
• One minute left in the final regulation period: announce it.

A referee can card a coach or the bench, and the desk is the record of it. Under Bench, pick which side, then yellow or red. It lands in the play log with the period and clock, and on the referee’s own sheet at eggbeater.app/ref.

End Game publishes the final. By default it is a simple confirm. Your host can require a referee sign-off first, in which case the board asks for the referee’s name, and a second referee where there are two, before the result goes official.

• A signed-off final shows “Signed off by [referee]” everywhere the score appears.
• High school games can legally end in a tie, and a shootout is never offered for them.
• A finished game can be opened again for corrections. Publishing again replaces the record.

If your team ends up playing someone other than the schedule says, fix it on the game card before you start, or from the board once you have. The change publishes immediately, so spectators, the TV and the box score all follow.

• Pick from your own schedule where you can. A team already on it matches the crest and the league tables. A typed name may not.
• Say whether the new game still counts toward league standings. A replacement opponent is often from a different league than the one you were due to play.
• Bracket games are not editable here. There the opponent comes from the draw, so an unexpected team means the bracket needs fixing, and that is the tournament director’s job.

The Undo button in the header, or Command-Z on a Mac, removes the last thing you recorded, including the goal it was attached to. Spectators see the correction within seconds.

Every action lands in the play log with the period and clock time. It is the fastest way to check that the thing you just tapped is the thing that got recorded.

Game roster edits who is dressed and what number they are wearing for this game only. It does not touch your club’s season roster.

• Today. A player your admin adds in the admin panel shows up once you leave the game and open it again.
• Coming in the next update: Add player. Someone turns up who is not on the roster, you type the name, and they are in the pickers immediately and stay put if you close and reopen the editor mid-game.
• Coming in the next update: Refresh roster. It pulls in a roster that changed in admin while you were scoring, without leaving the game.

Edit Score adjusts the scoreboard directly when something was recorded on the wrong side or missed entirely. Use it sparingly. Goals recorded properly carry the player attribution that the box score and season stats are built from.

Keep scoring. Actions queue on the device and sync as soon as the connection returns. The board tells you when it is not syncing rather than pretending it is.