How Score Verification Works: The Green Checkmarks
When you look at a match on Good Game Sports, you'll see a green checkmark next to each team's name once their score is confirmed. These checkmarks indicate that a match result is agreed on by both sides before it counts toward standings, brackets, or ratings.
What the checkmarks mean
Each team in a match has its own checkmark:
No checkmark — this team hasn't confirmed the score yet
Green checkmark — this team has entered and confirmed the score
A match is only officially scored when both teams have a green checkmark. That's the signal that both sides agree on the result.
How a score gets verified
The flow works like a handshake between the two teams:
First team enters the score. After the match ends, one team opens the match and enters the game-by-game scores (for example, 11-7, 9-11, 11-5). When they submit, their checkmark turns green. The other team's checkmark stays blank.
Second team enters the score. The other team opens the same match and enters what they have written down. When they submit, the system compares the two entries:
If the scores match — the second team's checkmark also turns green. The match is now verified and locked in.
If the scores don't match — the system removes the first team's checkmark too. Now neither team is verified, and both sides need to sort out which score is correct.
This mismatch behavior is intentional. The system pauses the result rather than letting a wrong score go official because one team typed faster than the other.
What makes a checkmark disappear
A previously-green checkmark can go back to blank in two situations:
The other team submitted a conflicting score. A disagreement clears the earlier confirmation so both teams have to re-enter and agree.
The team reset the match to 0-0. If a player clears their entry (usually because they entered the wrong match), their own checkmark goes away until they submit again.
What to do if a checkmark is missing
Most of the time it's one of these:
One team simply hasn't entered yet. Ask them to open the match and submit.
The two teams entered different scores. Have them pull up the match side by side and compare. Almost always it's a typo on one game (11-7 vs 11-9 is common). Once they both enter the same numbers, both checkmarks appear automatically.
Someone reset the match. They just need to re-enter the final scores.
For more on entering scores and what happens after, see Scoring bracket matches. If you need to change a finished result, see Editing bracket matches.