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For spectators

Watch & follow iMatch

Watching iMatch takes no account and no app. Here's where to look — the video, the live scores, and how to put it all on a TV.

Watch without an account

Spectating iMatch is wide open — no account needed, nothing to install, just to watch. Which surface you reach for depends on what you want: the match video, the live scores and standings, or a quick browse of who's playing. Three surfaces cover it, and every one of them works signed-out.

  • iMatch TV (imatch.tv) — watch the video: one around-the-clock live broadcast plus on-demand channels.
  • A tournament's public page (imatch321.com/t/<id>) — read live scores, per-game detail, and standings.
  • The iMatch mobile app — open the Tournament tab and browse tournaments as a guest; signing in is only for entering an event, your rating, and “Mine”.

Watch the matches on iMatch TV

iMatch TV (imatch.tv) is the place to watch — match-analysis video, open in any browser with no sign-in. The top navigation has three links: Live, Browse, and Search. Live is a single, round-the-clock broadcast that starts playing the moment you open it; Browse and Search lead to the on-demand channels, where each channel collects a creator's published matches.

  • Live auto-plays the current broadcast. Between real sessions an always-on Exhibition demonstration match keeps the channel warm — it's clearly labelled, not a real tournament.
  • Browse filters channels by sport (All, Table Tennis, Tennis, Badminton, Pickleball); Search looks across channels, matches, and players.
  • React (🔥 Fire, 👏 Clap, 😲 Wow, 🏆 Trophy) and comment anonymously as you watch — no account required.
  • Follow a channel to bookmark it and the button flips to “Following” — but it's saved on this device only, so it won't sync across your devices or send real notifications yet.

Read live scores & standings

Scores, per-game detail, and standings live on the tournament's own public page on the Portal — imatch321.com/t/<id> — served signed-out, no app needed. That's a different surface from iMatch TV: TV is the video, the tournament page is the scoreboard. Open the tournament, pick an event, then open a match to read it.

  • A match in play shows an In Progress badge; the board shows the current game plus each completed game's score, refreshing as results are recorded. For the point-by-point ticker, open the “Watch live scoreboard” link.
  • Event standings sit alongside the draw — “Standings appear once results are recorded”, so a fresh result can move the table.
  • A “not found” page can mean the link is wrong, or that the tournament is private or not yet public — it's a privacy feature, not proof of a bad link. Check the link with the organizer before assuming it's gone.

Put it on a TV

A dedicated Apple TV app isn't available to install yet, so the way to watch on a television today is to cast or mirror the imatch.tv website from a phone, tablet, or computer that's already playing it. Everything you can watch in the browser — the live broadcast and on-demand video — comes along to the big screen.

  • Apple devices: use the device's native AirPlay (Control Centre, or the video's AirPlay control in Safari) to send imatch.tv to an Apple TV or AirPlay-compatible TV.
  • Android / Chrome: use the browser's built-in Cast (Chrome menu → Cast) to a Chromecast or Cast-enabled TV.
  • If casting the page looks rough, screen-mirror the whole device instead — the viewer plays just the same on the larger display.