Heats and advancement
Model prelims, finals, wildcards, and stage movement without rebuilding the day manually every time a round shifts.
Cheer Competitions
Run the whole competition like it belongs on the big screen.
Import teams fast, structure heats and finals, keep judges aligned, and give parents the live timing clarity they never get from static PDFs.
- Heats
- Finals
- Judging
- Parent watchlists
The arena screen — now / next
The arena screen — now / next
Main screen
LIVE
Now
Opening session
Up Next
Main programme
05:00
Import first
CSV, PDF, Excel, copied text
Bring in whatever the organizers or coaches already have and turn it into workable heats faster.
Family clarity
Parents know when their team is really up
Weekend passes, watch labels like “my kid’s team,” and live shift alerts all fit the cheer reality.
See it run
The running order, live on every screen.
The big screen, the team's phones and the crowd all read the same source of truth — updating the instant the floor changes.
Arena screen — now / next
Main screen
LIVE
Now
Opening session
Up Next
Main programme
05:00
Today · live
On air- Doors & warm-up9:00
- Prelims — Heat 410:00On the mat now
- Finals seeding12:30
- Finals & awards2:00
How it runs
One operating system the whole room can trust.
Judge-friendly scoring
Preload scorecards, keep panels aligned, and expose rankings with the right amount of control for the room.
Parent-facing timing
Give families a reliable live view so they stop living inside rumor, hallway chatter, and stale schedules.
What the platform sets up first
Replace the chaos with a system everyone can see.
The organizer, the team, and the audience all work from the same live source of truth — no static PDFs, no whiteboard, no guesswork.
Import + structure
Get the rosters, divisions, and rounds into the system first.
- CSV, spreadsheet, PDF, image, and copied-text intake
- Heat sizing and advancement configuration
- Draft the whole competition before fine-tuning
Judge + scoreboard layer
Make the competition look professional without extra clipboard chaos.
- Preset scorecards and judge counts
- Live rankings, finals logic, and projector-ready output
- Competition settings built for cheer, not generic events
Parent + fan experience
Turn the crowd into an informed audience instead of a confused one.
- Watchlists and labeled favorite teams
- SMS alert hooks for team movement
- Livestream and media-friendly expansion path
The difference
The same competition — minus the hallway rumor mill.
The usual competition day
- A printed schedule that’s already out of date by 10am.
- Parents pace the hallway asking when their kid’s team is really up.
- Rosters retyped by hand from three different spreadsheets.
- Judges working off mismatched paper scorecards.
- Heat-order changes spreading by word of mouth.
Your competition on NextSet
- One live heat order on the projector and every parent’s phone.
- Families follow a watchlist labeled “my kid’s team” with live shift alerts.
- Import the roster from CSV, PDF, Excel or copied text — no retyping.
- Judges work from preloaded scorecards; rankings update live.
- Move a heat once and every screen reflects it instantly.
- No app for families
- Import from CSV / PDF / Excel
- Projector-ready output
- Cancel anytime
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- Limit of 5 staff, 100 people
- Unlimited Use
- Accept subscriptions/tickets
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$194.93USD / month
$185 plan + $9.93 for 500 texts (2.0¢ each)
- Unlimited Staff
- Unlimited People
- Unlimited Rooms / Events
- Crowd questions, polls & trivia
- Discounted SMS
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Before you ask
Every question, answered.
No. They open a link or scan a QR and follow live timing in the browser — including a watchlist labeled for their own team.
Next step
Start with the real roster, then let the system shape the day.
The highest-value first step is simple: import the actual competition data, model the heats and rounds, and get a live timing surface parents and staff can both trust.