Owner review 6 — rulings (2026-10-12)
Status: Active · Date: 2026-10-12 · Answers the owner's review-6 points: the MediaBand ratio, the roster's role badge, when a face shows, a proper process for stopping a match, the rule against inline text for actions, tiebreak entry, and names and brand strategy for a global amateur-tennis app. Evidence: lane L (roster badge, commands, stopping a match, host review) and lane K (names and strategy). Each decision is logged for veto in the decision log. Companions: review-5 rulings, library.
The answers at a glance
| # | Your point | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Match the MediaBand to the Block | Done: one proportion, 2.4 : 1, for both bold surfaces. The band is 208 tall on a 390 phone (was 240); the map pin re-centres in the visible area. |
| 3 | Roster: the role badge beside NTRP | The role leaves the NTRP line: 호스트 or 게스트 is now a small pill on the bottom edge of the face (as a LIVE pill sits on a story avatar), and the NTRP chip stands alone under the name. Each person is read aloud as "김민준, 호스트, NTRP 3.5". |
| 4 | Avatars or initials: when exactly? | A photo shows only when the person has one and you may see it: yourself, a shared club, an accepted friend, or their own "public" choice; never logged out. Otherwise initials, the same whether there is no photo or you may not see it. In a doubles pair each face is decided separately; from 150% text the faces drop. The match grammar board has the table. |
| 5a | No inline text for actions | Made a rule for the whole library: a command is a Button (a quiet one is the ghost Button); text only links somewhere. The one exception is the Toast's undo, by platform convention. Every other inline command is converted, and a board check fails any new one. |
| 5b | Stopping a match: "경기 종료"? a modal? | 경기 중단, not 경기 종료: every match ends, so 종료 does not say anything went wrong. It is a tonal button beside 점수 저장. One screen picks what happened and who, the next the score so far, and the last button names the outcome ("기권 저장"). No extra modal: the step that names the outcome is the confirmation, and an 8-second undo follows. The rain outcome is renamed 일시 중단 so the words never collide. |
| 5c | Tiebreak at the end or under its set? | Under the set that needs it: a small TB cell appears beneath that set's column the moment a set reaches 7-6, so several tiebreaks never shift the columns. The display keeps the small number beside the games. |
| — | The host's review sheet | Keeps its two buttons (그대로 유지, 이 점수로 바꾸기). 기록에서 제외 moves behind the ⋯ in the title row and asks once in a dialog, because it changes four players' records; the host can put the match back later. |
| 7 | Names and a global brand strategy | Below. |
Names and strategy (point 7)
Strategy, whatever the name: the amateur's club OS. Playtomic owns courts and UTR owns the number; nobody owns the club's weekly life (RSVP, fees, draws, honor scores, ratings). Win the organiser, and the club comes with them; the rating and ranking make it the amateur's tour as a by-product. Pickup and venues are the top of the funnel.
| Rank | Name | Strategy | For | Against |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hitmates | community | "A hit" is what amateurs call a practice session; the cleanest record of all nine names (no apps in the US or Korean stores; five free domain endings); extends to padel and pickleball. | "Hit" can read as violent; 히트메이츠 is five syllables; "mates" sounds young and British for a 50-year-old Korean organiser. Needs native checks. |
| 2 | TwoMore | keep, globalise | No rework; "two more" is a phrase players say in every language (games, balls or players); the marks are drawn. | Says nothing about tennis; another Korean app is already called 투모어; twomore.com is taken. |
| 3 | Tennio | invented | No store hits; three syllables; the category is audible. | Tennis only; reads like a startup; tennio.com is taken. |
Deuce is the best story (it literally means "two more points") but a live tennis app owns it; keep it as in-app copy. The board shows six wordmarks.
My read: the strategy matters more than the name, and both TwoMore and Hitmates carry it. Before choosing, run the trademark searches (KIPRIS, USPTO, WIPO and the EU office, classes 9, 41 and 42) on the top two and a native check in Japanese and Spanish; a name that fails there is not a choice.
Open for you
- Rename or keep, and which strategy. Authorise the trademark searches for the top two first.
- The roster's role pill covers the bottom 12 of the face: acceptable?
- The brand meaning, still open from review 5, matters only if TwoMore stays.
Found along the way
- A disabled primary looked like the tonal button beside it (both gray). A soft-disabled primary now keeps a pale ball tint, so the 경기 중단 · 점수 저장 pair always reads as one secondary and one primary that is not ready yet. This applies to every soft-disabled primary.
Boards: conversation and scoring (110 frames), rows (198, roster), chrome (117, MediaBand), match grammar (31, when a face shows), brand (60, names), detail (294), flows (78). Every board passes every check, including the new one that fails any command drawn as inline text (472 text actions measured).