New features and improvements at a glance.
Highlights
For international competitions, show the texts of the performances section by section on the projector, for example as German and English translations. You decide whether you need this when creating the competition. Add texts per performer with title, language and formatting, then advance them in the control view by click, keyboard or presentation remote.
When creating a competition, you can mark it as an international event. You can then add a country for each participant, and the screen shows the flag and country below the name. Whether the country appears is up to you in the competition settings. Nothing changes for all other competitions.
If you type scores in very quickly one after another using Tab, each number now shows up on the display right away. Before, the display waited until you paused briefly and then showed all numbers at once.
The beamer no longer shows “Now on stage” above the person’s name. The audience can see who is performing anyway, and you can show a name even when the person is not on stage.
We have renewed the technology behind Slam Voting. Scores now appear on the display faster: in our test after 0.4 instead of 0.6 seconds, and switching to the next person after about 0.3 instead of 0.6 seconds. After the update you sign in once more, your password stays the same. Signing in with Google keeps working.
The scoring check now asks about the kind of evening, the scoring, the number of performances and extras. Then you see scoring, flow and tie-breaker with links to the guides, also for poetry jams. With “Set up competition like this”, the kind of evening, scoring and texts are prefilled.
On “Now on stage”, the host slide and in tie-breakers, the slide was slightly taller than the screen, so a light scrollbar appeared on the right. Every slide now fills the screen exactly, also with the font size “Small” or “Large”.
In rounds with groups, feature guests no longer get a group and do not count toward the split. Each group has at least two scored participants. In the round form, rows no longer get stuck after dragging, and there is no more empty space below the end of the page.
For evenings with a show character: in a round without scoring, everyone performs, without scores or results. You control the projector and texts as usual and create the next round with everyone in one click after ending. This works in any competition, for example for an opening round in a slam. You can also start a whole competition as a poetry jam and still score individual rounds.
Add who hosts your competition without adding them as participants. Check who hosts each round when creating or editing it. In the live control, show the hosts on the projector at any time with “Host”.
The projector now always shows your whole background image, even in fullscreen or on screens with a different aspect ratio. Free margins automatically get the color at the edge of your image, or a color you choose. For photos, “Fill the screen” is still available. Images up to 3840 px wide stay unchanged when uploaded, so text and sponsor logos stay sharp.
When you end a round, the projector now shows the final standings in the mode you chose, so a dark projector no longer switches to light. Entering the jury votes quickly in an X/O tie-break no longer shows a false error message.
Sponsors now have their own slide, which you can show at any time in the live control with “Sponsors”. Choose from three layouts: grid, main sponsor or tiers by size. Drag to change the order. The “Show sponsors” switch in the competition now also applies to the title slide.
When you add several sponsors in a row, every logo is now reliably kept. Feature guests no longer appear in group 1 of the participants overview on the projector but on their own. The background image upload now states the best format (16:9, 1920 × 1080 px) and shows a notice if an image is too small or not 16:9.
For international competitions, show the texts of the performances section by section on the projector, for example as German and English translations. You decide whether you need this when creating the competition. Add texts per performer with title, language and formatting, then advance them in the control view by click, keyboard or presentation remote.
If a score cannot be saved, the scoring view now shows this right on the row. Your entries stay in place and can be saved again. Two devices working on the same round no longer overwrite each other. Applause ties are kept after reloading, and “End round” lists open ties or scores that are not confirmed yet. After a connection drop, the live display fetches the current state automatically.
Use the expand icon in the top-right corner to open the live display in fullscreen. Moving the mouse or tapping shows the controls for three seconds. Exit with the X or your browser’s close action. Scores and following rounds keep updating.
The blue keyboard tip shows TAB and its arrow symbol as a large key beside a short explanation. It appears when using a mouse or trackpad and stays hidden on touch devices.
When you enter scores and repeatedly click between fields, a short tip appears in the top right: Tab moves to the next field, Shift + Tab moves back. The tip appears at most once an hour per account and browser. Once you use Tab between score fields, it stays off in that browser.
The new “Final standings” tab in the premium display settings lets you customize cards, borders, names, scores and rank circles for the top three and all other places. Light and dark modes can be adjusted separately. The preview updates instantly, including long names and ties. Reset one mode’s final standings colors while keeping your other settings.
Qualifiers now have a small check in the upper-right corner of their card. Long names can wrap instead of being squeezed out by the qualification label. Green cards in grouped standings remain unchanged.
During jury scoring, a delayed display update could hide the total after locking. Newer display actions now take precedence. If an update fails, a message appears in the display controls.
You can now switch between standings, live scoring and the winner reveal right on the homepage. The larger display preview uses sample data to show what your evening could look like on stage. Clearer feature cards, refined spacing and consistent heading typography complete the familiar stage design.
Comments on feature ideas can now be expanded and read on the public roadmap, even without an account. The toggle names the number of comments instead of only inviting you to write one. The vote button now carries a thumbs-up icon and an "Upvote" label so it is recognisable as a way to back an idea.
The small brand menu on logo right-click now opens right below your cursor and nudges itself into view so it never gets cut off at the screen edge again.
When ending a round, the live display could get stuck on the last selected screen, for example "on stage now" after an applause vote. The display now switches to the final overall standings automatically when the round ends, including placements, advancing performers and resolved tie-breaks.
Saved applause rankings were not treated as completed scores internally, so "End & create follow-up" could not prefill advancing performers from applause rounds. This now works just as reliably as with jury scoring.
The green dashboard button in the public navigation led to the team overview instead of the dashboard. The click now lands in the right place again.
Our emails got a clean new design in the brand look, with the real logo and colors that hold up in dark mode. Also new: the brand page with logo downloads (SVG/PNG), copyable colors and usage rules. Tip: right-click the logo for a small brand menu.
Once all scores are locked, the live page now suggests ending the round on its own, including the follow-up round in one click if you like: "End & create follow-up" completes the round and opens the prefilled form with the advancing performers right away. In addition, every live round can now be ended directly from the round overview; a "Ready to end" hint shows there once all scores are locked. No need to hesitate: the display link stays valid and all results are preserved.
Set up the projector once and never touch it again: display links now stay valid after a round ends and show the final standings. When the follow-up round starts, every open display switches over automatically, no new link, no black screen. Plus a new one-click workflow: optionally define how many performers advance when setting up a round (now also without groups), and create the follow-up round directly from the advancing performers after finishing, prefilled in reversed placement, optionally merged from several preliminary rounds. A points tie for the last advancement spot is resolved with the usual tie-break.
When several groups had tied scores with an identical margin to their group winner, the system kept demanding new tie-breaks and the round could not be finished. It now works the way you would expect: first each group resolves its own tie, then only the best-placed candidates of each group face off in a direct duel for the open spot. The duel result actually counts for advancement, and the round can be completed normally afterwards. Since an advancement spot cannot be shared, "accept tie" is intentionally unavailable for this duel.
The temporary and final overall standings now show groups as columns side by side instead of stacked. Rows scale automatically so everything always fits on a single screen, so nobody has to scroll on the projector anymore. In the final standings, advancing performers are additionally highlighted as a fully green box and group headings are centered, so the audience can see at a glance who made it.
A feature guest can now have several appearances in the same round, for example before the competition starts, after the break and before the final. In the lineup editor the person simply stays selectable after being added and gets a separate slot in the running order for each appearance. Scored performers remain limited to one appearance per round as before.
Accepting a tie, for example for two non-advancing performers on places 5 and 6, no longer accidentally switches the projector. Accepting now happens silently in the background, the current display screen stays put and the shared place simply shows up in the next standings view.
The home page has been completely redesigned. A dark stage panel with an animated live display instantly shows what a slam night with the tool looks like: score bars roll in, jury cards float alongside. Features now appear as a varied tile grid, and for the first time real organizers share in testimonial cards how the tool performs on stage.
In the logged-in area, many pages were still shown in German even on English (/en), e.g. team management, competitions, participants, rounds, settings and profile. The whole dashboard now appears correctly in English when the English language is selected. In addition, the previously German-only "Settings" and "Profile" pages have been fully translated.
When you pick or type a duration in the pause dialog, "Show timer on display" is now enabled automatically, if you set a duration, you usually want to show the timer too. You can still uncheck it manually if you don't want a timer, or start the break via "Start without timer" as before.
On the live display (title, winner and "round ended/not started" screens) it used to say "Round 7: Final tiebreaker 2". Now we only show the round name itself, e.g. "Final tiebreaker 2", especially for tiebreaker and final rounds with high numbers, the leading "Round 7:" was rather confusing. The "round ended/not started" screen now also respects the "show round name on display" setting, just like the live screens, previously it showed the name even when it should have been hidden.
In the guides, the Cmd+K search popped open again right after you clicked a result and jumped to the page. Now the search stays closed after the click, you land directly on the article without the search window reappearing.
Background images on the live display, plus team, competition and sponsor logos are now kept in the browser and CDN cache for 1 year instead of just 1 hour. During slams with large audiences this saves noticeable bandwidth and storage egress. When you replace a logo, we append a cache buster (?v=timestamp) to the stored URL, new images therefore still appear instantly for every viewer, nobody is stuck with the old logo for a year.
Previously, clicking "DE" on an English page with English URL slugs (e.g. /en/use-cases) led to a 404, because the German page uses a different slug (/de/anwendungsfaelle). The language switcher now translates the URL to match the target language and jumps directly to the German or English equivalent of the current page. Plus: all old URLs under /de/ and /en/ permanently redirect (301) to the correct slugs as a safety net, in case someone linked to an old URL.
The notifications dropdown now has two sections: "New" for unread and "Recently read" for the last 5 read notifications. A mis-click no longer makes the notification disappear, it moves to "Recently read" and stays visible. The badge counter on the bell still only shows unread.
All English pages now use English URL slugs: /en/use-cases instead of /en/anwendungsfaelle, /en/pricing instead of /en/preise, /en/scoring-check instead of /en/wertungs-check, /en/imprint, /en/privacy. The documentation under /en/docs/... also uses English paths (e.g. /en/docs/getting-started/create-account instead of /en/docs/erste-schritte/konto-anlegen). Existing links to the old URLs permanently redirect (301) to the new paths, so bookmarks, social media posts and Google results land smoothly on the new addresses. German URLs are unchanged.
In competitions with groups enabled, the top-3 highlighting (gold, silver, bronze) in the final standings and the live scoring controls was misleading, because with groups, advancement is not determined by position within the group but by the "Advances ✓" badge. The top-3 color highlighting is therefore removed in group views; only the "Advances" badge remains as a visual anchor. Classic final rankings without groups keep the gold/silver/bronze coloring as before.
When toggling the display options for the background image (title, pause, winner, final standings), the change could fail to reach the database if the page was reloaded right after the click. The cause was a 500 ms debounce before saving, which got cancelled by the reload. Saves now happen immediately; with multiple fast clicks, the final state is guaranteed to land in the database.
In the display settings you now see all the important live display screens (title, pause, standings, final standings, winner, sponsors) as small live-preview cards. Color and font changes update instantly. Plus: a collapsible section with 6 curated stage backgrounds (spotlights, bokeh, velvet and more) you can download, so you don't have to hunt or build them yourself.
After login you now land on a dedicated dashboard with a greeting, a "Continue where you left off" block for your most recent competition, quick actions for a new slam, a glance at What's New and quick access to your teams. The header has a help menu with guides, changelog and feedback. Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) opens a fast full-text search across all guides without leaving the app workflow. The sidebar has a subtle Help & Guides block. New users see a friendly 3-step onboarding, pending team invitations now pulse in amber and are impossible to miss. Empty states in teams, competitions, performer pool and feedback link directly to the matching guide.
Organizers aren't developers. That's why the docs are now called "Guides" everywhere in the navigation, footer, sidebar and the in-app search. The URLs under /docs/... stay the same, all existing bookmarks keep working.
Switching between light and dark mode is now a smooth animation instead of a hard cut. The sun rotates smoothly into the moon, and all colors fade simultaneously. Touch users and people with reduced-motion preferences still get the instant switch.
Three annoyances cleaned up at once: the feedback list occasionally got stuck in a retry loop and never finished loading, the "Delete team" dialog logged HTML nesting warnings to the browser console, and the notification bell unintentionally shared a realtime channel across multiple tabs. All three are properly fixed.
Brand new public documentation at /docs: 26 pages in German and 26 in English, organized in 9 sections from "Getting Started" to "Glossary". More than 30 screenshots walk through how you set up teams, configure competitions, score live, resolve tiebreakers, and run the display. Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) opens a fast full-text search across everything.
The public navigation now uses a slim sub-navigation on top (language, dark mode, live display icon) and the main navigation with logo and links below. Scrolling down hides the sub-navigation smoothly, scrolling up brings it back, the main navigation stays visible at all times.
Multiple language hiccups fixed in one go: clicks in the navigation on English pages occasionally jumped to the German variant (Privacy, Imprint, Scoring Check), and statically cached /en routes silently returned German content along with a German html lang attribute. Both fixed: locale resolution in the root layout reads the language reliably from request headers, and every statically rendered page calls setRequestLocale consistently. /en stays English now, wherever you click.
The "Reset all" button on the display design is now red as a destructive action and asks for confirmation first, including a list of what gets reset. It now really resets everything: light and dark mode, advanced settings, screen contents and the background image (including the image file in storage).
When multiple participants have the same vote count in an X/O vote (e.g., Markus wins clearly, but Peter, Anna, and Sascha are tied with 1 vote each), there are now two options: "Accept shared places" or "Re-vote for the sub-tie group". The latter opens a new tie-breaker just for the tied participants, nestable to any depth.
The X/O tie-breaker now works for three or more tied participants. With two participants you can choose between letters (X/O) and number mode; with three or more it runs automatically in number mode, each participant gets their own number that jurors hold up. Defaults to 1, 2, 3, …, fully editable.
When a round uses groups, the "Current ranking" list on the live scoring screen is now split per group. Each group shows its own 1st/2nd/3rd order, and advancing participants are marked with "Advances ✓".
Instead of the previous hard cap of 3 groups per round, you can now have up to floor(participants / 2) groups. 12 participants → max. 6 groups, 14 → max. 7. The lower bound of 2 people per group remains.
Adding Google fonts as a supporter feature was recently blocked by a 500 error. A storage permissions issue has been fixed.
The supporter page previously listed only three features, while many more are actually unlocked. The overview is now grouped into four categories (Whitelabel & Branding, Design & Typography, Background & Layout, Visibility & Animations) and lists everything, from sponsor links to background images, confetti and fade transitions.
On the changelog and feedback form, content was always rendered in German regardless of the URL. The DE/EN switcher also occasionally landed on a 404 with a duplicated locale prefix. Both issues are fixed.
The background image is now its own tab under "Advanced Settings" (alongside Appearance and Screen Content). Live rounds have a pulsing red border and a blinking Live badge so they stand out in the competition overview. Confetti now fires on the Final Standings screen (not only on the winner reveal).
Competition and sponsor logos briefly could not be uploaded. A storage permission bug has been fixed.
Resetting tie-breakers and revoking non-profit status now show a proper in-app dialog, no more browser popup.
New display screen that shows all performers of a round, perfect for previews before the start or during breaks. Group competitions are grouped accordingly, and feature guests get their own badge. Activate it via the "Participants" button in the display controls.
New options under "Advanced Settings": font size (Small/Normal/Large), score display (decimal places and separator), confetti on winner reveal and smooth transitions between screens. The sponsor heading above logos is now customizable too.
Rounds can now be split into up to 3 groups. Each group is scored and ranked separately. The advancement configuration determines how many performers advance overall, with group-aware standings on the display.
The X/O dialog now opens directly with the juror buttons, the separate assignment step is gone. Each juror has two buttons (X and O) side by side, one click per vote. A swap button in the top right flips the X/O assignment if needed.
In the X/O vote, performer names are now the focus. The X/O letters are just small hints in the top corner, and both cards are neutral gray before voting starts. Colors appear on the counter only when jurors actually vote. No side looks preferred before the first vote comes in.
When two or more performers end a round with exactly the same score, the dashboard now shows a warning and offers five resolution methods: without strike scores, applause voting, X/O vote, assign manually, or accept the tie. Each method comes with matching display screens for audience and jury. Only for jury scoring with strike.
You can now sign in or sign up with one click using your Google account, no password needed. Email/password still works as before.
The idea form now shows collapsible example formulations for bug reports and feature requests, making it easier to write clear descriptions.
All display screens (title, performer, scoring, results, standings, winner) now look great on mobile too.
Supporter teams now see a direct link to display settings in the sidebar, no longer hidden in team settings.
Competitions can now span multiple days (e.g. 3-day festival). A new calendar picker replaces the old date field.
Competition and sponsor logos can be uploaded again. All logo uploads are now saved automatically.
You can now write comments on feature ideas and join discussions.
Performers can now be marked as feature guests. They get scored but are excluded from overall standings.
Anyone can now submit feature ideas, upvote them, and track development progress.
Each round now has a 6-digit PIN. Enter it at slam-voting.com/display to see the live display, just like Kahoot.
The legally required pages are now fully translated into German and English. On first visit a cookie banner lets you transparently consent or decline, tracking cookies are only set after consent.
Supporter teams can now choose custom colors and fonts for their live display.
You can now upload a logo per competition that shows on the live display. Under the hood, PIN entry is now protected against brute-force attempts (rate limiting), other team members' email addresses are no longer accidentally exposed, and the sidebar reflects team and competition changes in realtime.
Show your sponsors' logos on the live display. Supporter teams can add clickable links.
slam-voting.com has a new look: new logo, green accent color, clearer typography. The applause scoring is now complete: the audience applauds, the host ranks by volume, and ties are decided by a "Stechen" tiebreaker. Plus: dark-mode background switching and tighter layout polish on the team and competition dashboards.
You can now define the order of performers per round individually, via drag-and-drop in the lineup view. Plus: a performer pool with inline creation, a mobile-friendly sidebar, the scoring check as an interactive landing page and a dedicated section for archived competitions.
Manage your account in one place: change your display name, email (with confirmation) or password, or delete your account along with all linked data. Plus a user menu in the top-right with all options, a dedicated settings page and a friendly 404 page with quick links back to home.
New scoring system: The audience rates by applause, the host ranks by volume.