Score Card Program

I am currently looking for a program. I help out an organization, and at the end of the month, we are doing our first Trivia Night. Now, we need something that we can input scores and display them. Usually, people would use Excel, or something similar, but right now, being about a month away, we have over 40 tables reserved, and have the capacity to up to 70, so I think the best thing was to have a "page" of scores being shown at a time. I was appointed to come up with a solution to display the running totals. For the past two days, I have been writing a program (in VB. Hey! I'm short on time and it's the language I know most without having to research everything), but it's turning out to be a larger task than I anticipated.

Basically, I need a program to keep track of teams and scores per round. Remember, at the minimum we are having 40 tables, but could go up to 70. I really don't know what you would call this, but every combination or words I can think to describe it yields no results in every program site I've tried.

Does anyone know a program (for either Mac or Windows) to do what I want? Thank you.

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Just checked Sourceforge & freshmeat using terms "scorekeeping", "score", "trivia". Haven't found anything for ya yet. About to do my daily look of the freeware sites & will keep my eyes open?

I could whip something up for you in Access97 relatively quickly?

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Thanks for your help SirSmiley. I recently switched to using an Access database for my program. It's letting me take some shortcuts. I just have been cutting out a lot of fancy stuff that is really not necessary [like some transition (I wanted a slight movement up with a fade out, and the new page to fade in a little) to show the page is changing rather it just all changing at once, but VB is just too slow to render it smoothly].

Thanks again for your help .

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No problem.

VB should be rendering it fairly quickly unless of course you are showing each team(table) on the screen at the same time?If your looking for some transitions ability why not do a odbc connection from a localized web page.

It doesn't take long to increase the complexity. Off the top of my head you could do it in as little as two tables or nine tables/subtables and up.

Check out The Access Web. They have some good examples/links.

http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/downloads.htm

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