Organizing shouldn't bea battle

Real-time scoring and transparent judging for live competitions—starting with dance battles

Dancers & Judges

Major Events

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Real-Time Scores

Straight From The Scene

Judges & Organizers On Tap.In

Here's what the community says.

“Tap.In is the best system to plug into. It's one of a kind, nobody's doing it, and it's going to be around the world.”

Jig Man

Krumper & Comedian

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“There was no space for call on bias.” Velocity“We need this. We need this!” TekBoi“It made everything so easy.” Flower Boogie“It was peaceful.” Velocity“Made things easier, 100%.” Maria“A real improvement for the dance scene.” TekBoi“So sweet!” Flower Boogie“The best system to plug into.” Jig Man“It's one of a kind. Nobody's doing it.” Jig Man“Complex brackets, simple software.” Tarik“A super smooth experience.” Honcho“Straight to the point.” Hybrid“It was a movie. It really was.” Korpsx“There was no space for call on bias.” Velocity“We need this. We need this!” TekBoi“It made everything so easy.” Flower Boogie“It was peaceful.” Velocity“Made things easier, 100%.” Maria“A real improvement for the dance scene.” TekBoi“So sweet!” Flower Boogie“The best system to plug into.” Jig Man“It's one of a kind. Nobody's doing it.” Jig Man“Complex brackets, simple software.” Tarik“A super smooth experience.” Honcho“Straight to the point.” Hybrid“It was a movie. It really was.” Korpsx

“No temptation to switch up the setup.” Velocity“It made me remember what I was looking for.” Maria“If you're not using Tap.In, you should be.” Velocity“You were ready to change anything we needed.” Maria“I love that you can write to the dancer.” Flower Boogie“No room to say 'they set this battle up.'” Velocity“We need this for the scene.” TekBoi“It's beautiful.” Jig Man“Even prelim dancers get feedback now.” Tarik“Effortless.” Honcho“We should do Tap.In more at events.” Hybrid“It'll work its way into the dance world.” Hour“The more you do it, the easier it gets.” Cube“No temptation to switch up the setup.” Velocity“It made me remember what I was looking for.” Maria“If you're not using Tap.In, you should be.” Velocity“You were ready to change anything we needed.” Maria“I love that you can write to the dancer.” Flower Boogie“No room to say 'they set this battle up.'” Velocity“We need this for the scene.” TekBoi“It's beautiful.” Jig Man“Even prelim dancers get feedback now.” Tarik“Effortless.” Honcho“We should do Tap.In more at events.” Hybrid“It'll work its way into the dance world.” Hour“The more you do it, the easier it gets.” Cube

Also backed by Tyrell Black and Bionic — “use it as much as possible, for the benefit of the battlers to grow.”

Battle-Tested

Customizable criteria. No room for bias.

Tap.In runs real competitions across the country, with weekly testing and live events.

50+

Battles Run

States

10+

Cities

SF · Oakland · Fremont · Sunnyvale · Saratoga · Oxnard · Dallas · Austin · San Antonio · NYC · Brooklyn

Complex Dance Competition

700-person audience in Fremont. The crowd's vote decided prelims and the Top 4 — bringing the freestyle and choreo communities together.

Double or Nothing

Four brackets in one weekend in Oakland — popping, house, krump, and turfing — plus a 7-to-Smoke between the winners.

R&B Jam

60 dancers and a ~100-person crowd in San Francisco.

State of Flow

73 dancers battling it out in New York City.

Brackets · 7-to-Smoke · judge vote · audience vote · judge-and-audience hybrid — and you set the categories and criteria for whatever's being judged: popping, krump, house, turfing, all-styles.

Tap.In In Action

What Does Tap.In Look Like?

From the dancer's perspective to the judge's phone.

The Problem

The Problem With Dance Battles Today

Judge scoring can be hard to understand

Criteria and scoring methods vary by event, and competitors and audiences may not receive the category breakdown behind a close result

Visible crowd votes may not explain the outcome

When the visible colors and final decision seem different, people are left wondering how the result was reached

Audience voting needs a transparent tally

Without live totals and a clear tie-resolution rule, voters cannot tell how their participation affected the result

Competitors may leave without useful feedback

Without category scores or judge notes, dancers have little information about what worked or what to improve

Case Study: Red Bull Dance Your Style Finals

Red Bull Dance Your Style has brought global visibility to street dance and shown how electric a competition can be when the crowd decides the outcome. However, recent audience comments show there is room to improve how vote totals and tie decisions are communicated.

Instagram comment saying Jaira was great, Wackxy deserved the win, blue votes visibly outnumbered red votes, and an extra round felt unnecessary and unfair — Visible votes did not explain the extra round
This comment says Wackxy deserved the win because blue votes appeared to outnumber red, making the extra round feel unnecessary and unfair.

Instagram comment saying the viewer asked AI about the supposed tie, received an unverified one-in-tens-of-millions estimate, and felt the extra round was unfair — Without official totals, fans create their own explanations
This comment shows a fan using an unverified AI probability estimate to make sense of a tie because no official vote total was visible.

YouTube comment praising the format while asking for software that tallies votes and alleging the final round was forced by announcers despite looking blue-sided — A viewer directly asks for vote-tallying software
This comment directly asks for vote-tallying software after the viewer perceived the final round as announcer-driven and blue-sided.

Instagram comment saying the viewer saw clearly more blue when a tie was declared, had voted blue, and felt sad and disappointed — The announced tie did not match what this voter saw
This comment shows a blue voter who could not reconcile the announced tie with seeing “clearly more blue.”

These comments do not prove that the announced result was wrong. They show that fans lacked the official totals and tie-resolution details needed to understand it. Tap.In preserves the energy of audience voting while giving organizers and fans transparent, real-time results and a reliable event record.

The Solution