Competitive Activity Social Networking And Event Management

An apparatus comprising:

• a network interface communicatively coupled to a communication network to convey competitive activity data over the communication network;
• a storage device to store user controls retrievable by external user devices through the network interface, the user controls being configured to:
• accept identification data of respective players in the competitive activity;
• and
• accept input of one or more points scored by a scoring one of the players by only those user devices not associated therewith;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface and the storage device and configured to:
• associate the user devices with the respective players of the competitive activity;
• receive the points scored from the user devices not associated with the scoring player;
• accumulate the received points scored;
• determine rankings of the respective players from the accumulated scores;
• and
• provide to the communication network through the network interface the rankings of the respective players.

A tangible non-transitory computer readable medium or media having encoded thereon instructions that, when executed by a processor, configure the processor to:

• associate a plurality of user devices with respective players of a competitive activity;
• receive, over a communication network, points scored by the players as accepted by the user devices not associated with a scoring player;
• accumulate the points scored by the players as received from the user devices;
• determine rankings of the respective players from the accumulated scores;
• and
• providing the rankings to at least one of the user devices upon demand therefor.