What's new
What we've added and changed, newest first. Follow along with the RSS feed, or suggest what we build next.
Clubs are ranked by points, not medals
Every club table, competition and season ranking now uses points: 8 for 1st in a final, 7 for 2nd, down to 1 for 8th, with ties split on countback. It's the same scoring as the official LiveHeats pointscore, and where LiveHeats publishes official club points for a competition we show those, labelled official.
The rules, explained
Plain-language guides to the Lifesaving South Africa Competition Manual: age groups, the awards you need to compete, how each beach, surf and team event is run, and more. Each guide cites the manual sections it comes from.
- Learn
Combined-age races show each age group's places
When two or more age groups race together in one heat, each athlete is now placed within their own age group as well as overall, using the age groups LiveHeats records for that race. Result pages and share cards show the age-group place.
- Results
Club analytics and club-vs-club comparisons
Every club has an Analytics tab with sections for Points, Strengths (every discipline by podium rate, medals and form), Depth (members by rating, with relay line-up ideas), Pipeline (new, returning and lapsed athletes) and the club record book. Compare any two clubs side by side, season by season.
- Clubs
Share cards
Tap Share on a result, division, competition, athlete or club section to get a ready-made image in story or square format, in a light or dark theme. Send it straight to WhatsApp, Facebook or X, save it, or copy the link.
- Sharing
Head-to-head
Pick any two athletes to see every race they've both been in, grouped by competition, with who finished ahead each time, the last meeting and the current streak. Filter by discipline, or by finals only. Clubs have a head-to-head too.
- Athletes
Flags on results
Division results now point out what stood out in each race: the favourite, upsets, athletes who beat the odds, first wins and other milestones, rating changes and newcomers. Junior athletes are never flagged for a bad result.
- Results
- Athletes
Seasons follow LSA's 1 October start
Seasons on Flagline now run from 1 October to 30 September, matching Lifesaving South Africa's competition season, so a season's results, rankings and pointscores line up with the official year.