ASU Football Scoreboard Games

Sun Devil Stadium holds 50,000+ fans on football Saturdays. The scoreboard system runs IoT-powered in-game fan engagement — second-screen experiences synchronized to what's happening on the field. Touchdowns, fourth-down decisions, halftime — all of it driving real-time games audience members played from their phones while in the stadium.

I worked on the full stack: the Angular frontend fans interacted with, the AWS-hosted backend that handled synchronization and scoring, and the IoT integration layer that kept the in-stadium scoreboard, the broadcast feed, and the in-app games coherent.

The interesting engineering problem is latency. A scoreboard event happens; an in-app game has to update; 50,000 phones need to see that update within a window short enough that the experience feels live. The backend architecture had to handle bursty traffic correlated to in-game events — a touchdown causes a flash mob of game interactions, and the system has to absorb that without falling behind.

[PLACEHOLDER — fuller detail on the IoT integration, the latency architecture, and specific game-design decisions coming.]