Judging Without Internet
Venues lose connectivity. iRank is built so that a round can be judged from start to finish with no connection at all.
What keeps working offline
- Opening the ballot for a room you have already loaded
- The timer, including its chimes
- Your notes
- Entering and changing scores
- Submitting the ballot
What happens when you submit
Your ballot is stored on your phone first, then sent when a connection returns. This is not the browser’s ordinary behaviour — iRank keeps a durable queue that survives closing the tab, reloading the page, or restarting the phone.
The banner at the top of the screen tells you when you are offline and how many actions are waiting to be sent. When the count reaches zero, everything you did has reached the server.
Before you leave signal
Open the tournament and the rooms you are assigned to while you still have a connection. iRank cannot show you a debate it has never seen.
If a round is paired while you are offline
The tab team can share the draw directly to your phone — by QR code or by file, no internet involved. See Sharing Data Between Devices.
When you reconnect
Everything queued is sent in the order you did it. You do not need to press anything, and you must not re-enter a ballot you already submitted: it is already saved, and iRank recognises a resend rather than creating a duplicate.
If something could not be sent — a ballot for a round the tab team has since reopened, for instance — it is flagged rather than silently dropped, and the coordinator can see exactly which device is holding it.