On the boards
One card per board with the match being played and the score in legs. The header stays green while play is on. At the bottom it says who is up next on that board, in the colour of the group that match belongs to.
The screen on the wall
The room never has to ask.
This is the one screen everyone sees, and at a darts tournament it is the only one the room looks at. It cycles every fifteen seconds by itself, so anyone who looks up knows within seconds whether they are on and against whom. Below are all five views, filled with a tournament that was really played — so you see what actually ends up on it, rather than empty boxes.
View On the boards — click through yourself
Open Darts 2026
Group stage · 4 boards
In the room this moves on by itself. Here it stops the moment you click, so you can take your time.
The five views
Group standings
Two groups side by side, then the next two. Played, won, leg difference and points. The places that go through to the knockout have a green background, so you can see at a glance who still has work to do.
The knockout bracket
Quarter-finals, semis and the final next to each other, winner in bold. The bracket narrows to the right, so each semi-final sits exactly between the two quarter-finals it came from.
The podium
After the final the screen moves on to the finishing order: one, two and three on a podium. And there it stays. A good moment for a photo.
Why it looks the way it does
Light, not dark
The control screen and the phones are dark; this one is deliberately not. A projector does not make black — it projects light, and where it projects nothing you see the wall. In a lit room black therefore turns grey and the contrast disappears. On white it works the other way round: the text holds up even with the lights on.
A colour for every group
Ten clearly different hues, not ten variations on one. Colours shift on a projector, so two tints that differ only in saturation are indistinguishable from ten metres away. The same group has the same colour on every screen, including the phone by the board.
Big type, little at a time
This gets read from the other side of the room, pint in hand, by someone who is not going to walk closer. So there are never more than two groups on screen at once, and the names are bigger than you would pick for a monitor.
It only moves when something changed
A new view slides in and the cards inside follow in sequence, so it is visible that something switched. But only on a real switch: a result arriving while the same view is up appears without any movement. Otherwise the screen would be shifting about all night.
Getting it onto your second display
01
Connect the projector as a second display
Extend, do not mirror. Your laptop then keeps its own screen with the controls, and the projector becomes a separate display.
02
Open the big screen in its own window
There is a button on the control screen that does exactly that. Drag the window onto the projector and put it full screen.
03
Done — you can leave it alone
The screen cycles by itself and updates the moment a result is entered anywhere in the room. The arrow keys let you page through it yourself if you want to show something.
What you need in the way of kit
The questions a landlord asks first, with the honest answer: this is an ordinary web page on an ordinary screen, so whatever is already on the wall will almost certainly do.
Projector or TV?
Either. A TV with an HDMI port is arguably easier: nothing to focus, no lights to dim, and a brighter picture. A projector only wins once you want something bigger than about 55 inches.
How big does the picture need to be?
Reckon on one inch of diagonal per four inches of viewing distance. If the back of the room is eight metres away you want around 80 inches — too big for a TV, nothing unusual for a projector. Up to five metres, a 55-inch TV is fine.
Cable or wireless?
Cable. HDMI does not drop out when somebody switches the microwave on, and with the offline edition there is no network to send it over anyway. Get a ten or fifteen metre cable and an adapter for your laptop; it costs less than an evening of irritation.
Where do you hang it?
Not behind a board — nobody looks at it while they are throwing, and that is exactly when you want the room watching. The bar wall works best: that is where everyone who is not on happens to be standing.
What if the room is brightly lit?
That is why this screen is light rather than dark. Black on a projector in a lit room is simply grey, and nobody reads white on grey from eight metres. On a light background the contrast survives, even with the lights up so people can see the board.
Does a laptop have to sit by the screen?
No. The laptop goes wherever you can put it and the cable runs to the screen. In the cloud version the big-screen view can even run on a different device: any browser that opens the address shows the same picture.
This will be on your wall too.
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