arena-public

Arena

Arena is an On Venue Results Management System for Combat Sports.

It is has been developed and is actively maintained by the United World Wrestling IT Department.

United World Wrestling uses Arena to manage its Officials International Competitions.

Install

Docker based image:

• Follow Discussion

VirtualBox based image:

[!important] Virtualbox based image support will expire at the end of 2025!!!

• Download VirtualBox and Install it
• Download Arena VM (1.5.93) [MD5: 27b9b2a0987109ab07a0a736f3470ac1] - Valid until 01-Mar-2026
• Open VirtualBox
• Go to File > Import Appliance > Select the Arena VM you just downloaded
• Continue with the default settings
• Double-click on the newly created VM to start it (You can then reduce this Window)
• Go to http://localhost:8080

Upgrade

If a new version is available you wil see an “Upgrade” button on the top right corner, just click and wait.

Known issue:

You may receive “ERROR: Error installing bundler” message during upgrade. To fix the error follow these steps:

• Download the arena_upgrade executable for the Operating System where Arena is running (Find them in the Wiki)
• Make sure Arena is running and accessible via http://localhost:8080
• Open Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (macOS)
• Run arena_upgrade from its download folder (on macOS, you may have to grant execute permission to the command by “chmod +x arena_upgrade_osx”)
• Wait until the upgrade completes

Reporting problems

Support requests, bugs can be reported on the Github issues tracker.

Features

• Individual / Team competitions
• Single elimination / Double elimination / Round-Robin Tournaments
• Custom Weight Categories
• Sessions Optimization
• Rest Time Management
• Results Checker
• Score Sheets printing
• Rankings
• PDF Reports
• Referees assignment
• On-Screen display
• Offline access
• Centralize DataBase Synchronization
• Web-Formated results
• API

Usage

Webinars

• UWW IT Webinars - Arena Training Series
  • Arena Training Series - Overview and Install
  • Arena Training Series - Running events
  • Arena Training Series - Arena advanced feature - Part I.
  • Arena Training Series - Arena advanced feature - Part II.
  • Arena Training Series - Companion applications
  • Arena Training Series - REST API Interface

Frontend

• http://localhost:8080

Backend

• http://localhost:8080/bracket

On Venue Features

• http://localhost:8080/onvenue

Wrestling Competition Workflow

• Add event
• Add Weight Categories
• Add Athletes
• Draw Weight Categories
• Create Matches
• Print Score Sheets
• Check Results
• Print Reports

External Applications

Arena comes with a Score Board & Live Graphics application.

Score Board [Windows Only]

The application offers an automatic update if a new version is available. Please read the Changelog displayed by the Autoupdater to learn about the changes

• Version 1.2.39.42 (09-Feb-2024)
• Some previous versions are available here - For Arena version earlier than 1.5.85

Usage

Watch the UWW IT Webinars - Arena Training Series - Companion applications video for details.

Live Graphics Application [Windows Only]

• Download (If this link does not work, check the current one
• Documentation

API

Arena has a built-in Rest API which allows you to extend the main scope of the project. API Documentation