Online registration, judge-on-their-phone scoring, ticketing, and live streaming - one platform for the whole event, so you can spend contest day with your students instead of the tab room.
You already run a program. Then you decide to host an invitational and inherit a mountain of admin: registration emails, a tab room full of paper, a separate ticketing vendor, a streaming setup, and a treasurer asking if it all netted out. Marching Maestro puts the whole event in one platform so the day runs clean and the revenue stays with your program.
Registration by email, PDFs, and reminder calls
Visiting bands sign up and pay online themselves
A tab room running on paper and spreadsheets
Judges score on their phones, recaps build automatically
Stitching together ticketing, scoring, and streaming vendors
One platform for the entire event
Chasing schools for registration checks
Bands pay when they register, straight to your account
Guessing whether the gate covered your costs
A live dashboard showing every dollar as it comes in
Most contests still run on clunky legacy software that takes a manual just to stand up a scoring system. We built ours to be the opposite - intuitive enough that directors set it up in minutes and judges need no training at all. Set your captions, hand each adjudicator a phone or tablet, and let the math take care of itself.
Setting up scoring the old way vs. with Marching Maestro
An abstracted table of categories, captions, and subcaptions
A builder that looks like the actual scoring recap
A manual just to stand up your scoring system
One click to load your state or circuit's template
Training every judge on unfamiliar software
Judges who get it on sight
"Best tool I've seen. A total breeze."
Adjudicator, 2025 season survey
Tap-to-pay ticketing, concessions, and merch run from the same volunteer phones - no rented card readers, no separate vendor taking a cut of your gate.
The same platform covers the rest of contest day, so your boosters and volunteers work from one app.
Stream from a phone on the sideline. Free or ticketed, with optional replays you can turn on for families who could not make the trip.
Learn about streaming →One QR scan gives each volunteer the right role, then a quick walkthrough from a teammate. No board-member babysitting.
Learn about volunteers →Parents and friends buy a shout-out for their student, read live by the announcer. Real revenue, real smiles.
Learn about shoutouts →Set your own captions and judges and let scoring run itself, so your invitational posts fast, accurate results every time.
Registration, payments, and the day-of dashboard run themselves, so you can be on the field with your students instead of behind a laptop.
Lower fees than the big platforms and direct payouts mean more of every ticket and entry dollar lands in your fund.
Can we use our own judges and caption sheet?
Yes. You set the captions and assign your own adjudicators. Marching Maestro handles the scoring math and recaps so your panel can focus on the field.
How do visiting bands register?
From the event page the platform builds for your contest. Directors sign up, enter their details, and pay the entry fee online - you approve everything from one dashboard.
What does it cost to host?
$99 per event with every feature included, plus standard transaction fees on tickets and payments. Live streaming is an optional $149 per-stream add-on. No subscription, no per-band charge.
Do we need special equipment?
No. Scoring, ticketing, and concessions run on phones and tablets you already own. The only optional gear is a phone or tripod for streaming.
A 15-minute demo walks you through a full contest day on Marching Maestro - registration, scoring, ticketing, streaming, and payouts.
Marching competitions made easy