Studio graphics for a national cup, run out of a browser
For Football Australia's Hahn Australia Cup, LIGR built a twenty-graphic broadcast package and ran the studio show from Control Room: a rundown in a Google Sheet, a rack at the broadcaster, and a browser in the gallery.
- Football
- Australia
- Network 10 and Paramount+
- Graphics in the package: studio and match, one theme
- 20
- Browser. The studio rundown ran out of Control Room
- 1
- Dedicated graphics engines in the gallery
- 0
- From the round-of-32 issue list to fixes confirmed live
- 24h
A competition that changes shape every round
The Australia Cup is a national knockout: A-League clubs drawn against NPL and state-league sides, in venues that change every round, with the next draw made on air. A studio show built around it has to carry brackets, qualified teams, formations, promos and a panel, and be rebuilt between rounds, on a week's notice, without the look drifting.
Studio graphics are normally the part of a broadcast that pins you to a building: a graphics engine in the rack room, a proprietary client, an operator sitting in front of it. For a competition this shape, that is the expensive constraint, not the design.
Sheet in, air out
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A rack at the broadcaster
LIGR installed servers at the broadcaster in July 2026, so the package arrives in the gallery as a clean source alongside the network's own feeds, selected on the vision mixer like any other input.
02
A rundown in a spreadsheet
The studio rundown lives in a Google Sheet holding the studio version of every fixture. Control Room reads it, so the show is built before the show starts.
03
Preview, then take
The show is operated from the LIGR Control Room in a browser. Every row previews before it takes. No graphics workstation, no proprietary client.
04
Fixed between rounds
After the round of 32, twelve issues were logged on the Monday night. Eight were fixed and confirmed live inside twenty-four hours, including a stream auto-reconnect, a crash in the live stats feed and an editable match clock.
The package, rendered from the production files
Scorebug with VAR, card, substitution, team-stats and added-time extensions, scoreline, formations and team lists, match stats, fixtures, qualified teams and the round-of-16 bracket, promos, countdown, weather and a family of presenter, commentator, name, stats and talking-point lower thirds. Rendered from the production Rive files with generic clubs.
Round-of-16 bracket to the semi-finals
A spreadsheet, a browser, a renderer
No part of this chain is exotic. The rundown is a Google Sheet. The gallery runs a web page. The graphics are Rive files rendered by FUSE. That is the whole stack.
The rundown is a spreadsheet
A tab called Fixtures - Studio Gfx holds the studio version of every fixture: teams, kick-off, score, a live flag, whether the result is shown yet, and a title override for anything that needed one, like a penalty shoot-out.
The gallery runs a web page
Match events down the left, the graphics rundown down the right: Pre Match, Lower Thirds, Scorebug, Full Frames, Draw GFXs and Studio Graphics. Every row has its own preview and a button that takes it to air. Nothing else is installed.
One theme, versioned
The theme's register lists every graphic, from FF Fixtures and its studio version to FF Formations, FF Qualified Teams and FF Round of 16. Each one was edited and rebuilt in place, between rounds.
FUSE renders the Rive file
The formations file opens in FUSE with its control variables exposed: which team to show, coach names, captain numbers, whether substitutes appear. The file being edited is the file that goes to air.
In the gallery on show night
- Football Australia
- Rights holder: Hahn Australia Cup
- Network 10
- Free-to-air broadcast
- Paramount+
- Streaming
- DoubleTake Sports
- Live production partner
- Sportradar
- Match data
The Australia Cup package, end to end
The cup is one competition of many
LIGR runs the same chain for the Australian Championship and built Gatekeeper for Football Australia's national competitions, each with its own package, all out of one Control Room.
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