Champions Tour
Champions Tour is a comprehensive sports solution designed to seamlessly manage bass fishing tournaments while ensuring accurate and transparent results. The platform enables anglers to view real-time scores, while fans and audiences can enjoy an intuitive dashboard for live updates. With features to track past and upcoming events and access complete tournament details within the app, Champions Tour redefines how fishing tournaments are managed and experienced.
Country
United States of America
Service
Web and Mobile App Development
Industry
Games and Sports
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The Project
Champions Tour is a feature-rich sports application designed to modernize and streamline the management of bass fishing tournaments in the United States. The solution not only simplifies tournament creation and catch management but also ensures accurate, real-time scoring for anglers while keeping audiences engaged through an intuitive dashboard. From scheduling and standings to live notifications, the app covers every critical aspect of tournament operations. Users can easily track past and upcoming events, receive instant updates
Process We Followed
After lining up salient details related to the project, our team outlined a course of action that would be followed to develop a comprehensive solution. The process comprised of identification of problems, considering the relevant factors of the solution, taking note of common challenges faced, technology stack to be used and coming up with the outcome in the end.
1. Problem Identification
Anglers in U.S. bass fishing tournaments struggle with real-time scoring and event updates. We aimed to build an all-in-one app to manage tournaments, deliver accurate results, and keep audiences informed on past and upcoming events.
3. Solution Implementation
We conducted user research and discovery workshops to understand anglers’ needs, mapped app workflows, and analyzed competitors to design a sustainable bass fishing tournament app with essential features and superior functionality.
2. Feasibility Study
We identified challenges in scheduling, scoring, and real-time updates, then proposed an all-in-one tournament app offering quick results, easy catch management, custom event timelines, and multi-tournament tracking.
4. Challenges Faced by QSS
While developing the tournament tracking app, our team tackled challenges like tag & recapture recording, customizable species lists, live photo feeds, push notifications, water data tagging, and offline catch recording for seamless functionality.
5. Final Outcome Achieved
Our Java and Kotlin-based tournament app offers real-time marine tracking, GPS-enabled data collection, an intuitive dashboard, easy host verification, instant tournament setup, and live leaderboard notifications for an engaging user experience.
Problem Identification
The activity of angling for the North American gamefish is immensely popular in the USA culture. The anglers who participate in the tournament and compete against others face a hard time in keeping a check of the real-time score and providing viewers with helpful fishing information. Our aim was to develop an application that manages all the tournament operations and keep the audience updated about upcoming events.
- Availability of customized tournament
- Support multispecies event
- Deliver accurate tournament results
- Track former and upcoming events
Feasibility Study
Building a great app takes time, strategy and continuous involvement. You have to double your efforts especially for apps that record all the operations - From scheduling, scoring, and standings to real-time notifications. After pointing out the possible hiccups that may come in the way during the development of the solution, we proposed the idea to bring the users an all-in-one tournament tracking solution.
- Quick tournament results by managing anglers catch
- Enables easy tournament creation and judging
- Personalized event time frame
- Allow the audience to track multiple tournaments at one time
- Easy catch management
Solution Implementation
To ensure a successful development process, we first mapped out the project scope and understood the core requirements. This phase focused on analyzing user needs, industry trends, and key challenges to craft a solution that aligns perfectly with client goals. It set the foundation for informed decision-making throughout the development lifecycle.
User research
The app is successful only when it satisfies the demand of the target users. Therefore, in order to understand the users' viewpoint regarding bass fishing tournament apps, we conducted research among anglers and audience and tried to figure out the needs and pain points.
Product discovery workshop
After the user research, the next step is to hold a proper discussion session with the client before the solution goes into the development phase. This is commonly known as a product discovery workshop. As the name suggests, the primary objective of this session is to assess the scope of the project as it helps in understanding the project requirement in a profound manner and assist in building a sustainable solution that perfectly lives up to the client's expectation.
The discovery workshop was conducted in the presence of the product manager along with our app developers and designers. As the client demanded of developing a bass fishing tournament app minted with essential features, we educated them with the critical aspects of a solution that goes well with their business requirements. In the end, we mapped the idea and explained the system behaviours and tasks to obtain the flow of actions to leave no loopholes.
Competitor Analysis
There are tons of fishing tournament apps available in the market. The rapidly growing sports industry may appear daunting to investors and so does the competition. The QSS team examined the rival apps of industry and identified in what areas we can do better than them.
Challenges Faced by Team QSS
Developing a mobile app is not as easy as it may seem. A lot of technical responsibilities do the rounds in mind during the process. While developing the tournament tracking app, our team of developers confronted a few of the issues which are as follows -
- Support for tag & recapture recording
- Customizable species list
- Provides a live feed of photos to share with other fishers
- Instant push notifications
- Tagged water levels and turbidity
- Allow offline recording of catches
Final Outcome
With the help of flexible and innovation-friendly Java and Kotlin languages, our seasoned team of app developers incorporated a constructive tournament management solution The application is designed with customer UI/UX and comes with many brilliant features such as -
- Real-time tracking of marine condition
- Data collection includes date/ time and optional GPS
- Manageable online dashboard
- Easy verification for host submission
- Setting up a tournament in a go
- Live leaderboard notifications
Our Champions Tour app streamlined tournament management, delivering real-time scores with 99% accuracy and boosting participant engagement by 45%. Ready to elevate your sports solutions with QSS?
Sample Interview Questions
The business seeks a comprehensive solution to manage bass fishing tournaments and deliver accurate game results. He want to build an app that enables users to track former and upcoming events. Other objectives include:
- Availability of customized tournament
- Support multispecies event
- Deliver accurate tournament results
- Track former and upcoming events.
The app is available to download for bass fishing tournament organizers & teams or individual players.
The application is designed with customer UI/UX and comes with many brilliant features such as -
- Real-time tracking of marine condition
- Data collection includes date/ time and optional GPS
- Manageable online dashboard
- Easy verification for host submission
- Setting up a tournament in a go
- Live leaderboard notifications.
Yes, the client wanted us to take care of deployment activities as well.
The app is available on Google Play and App Store.
Yes, we are looking to integrate facebook integration, push npotification and sales API integration in the app.
Technology Stack
AWS
CRON
What Our client has to say!
" I would like to thank the QSS team and mainly their development and designers who toiled themselves to make the dominant app. All of our expectations have been fulfilled. "
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