Water polo game day: FlippaBall to Opens, every rotation tracked.

FlippaBall (also written Flippa Ball) is Water Polo Australia's junior introduction to water polo, designed for kids aged roughly 5 to 12. It's a fun, modified, non-contact version of the game that any child with basic swimming ability can play — 7 in the water, played in halves rather than quarters.

Yes. The match clock is anchored to real time, so backgrounding the app, locking the phone or stepping away for photos never stops it — the time is right when you come back, and a live match timer sits on your lock screen on both iPhone and Android.

Yes — carnival mode is built in. Plan every game's lineup before the first whistle: game one loads as your next match, the rest queue behind it, and after each game one tap loads the next plan, opponent included. Fully offline, so an aquatic centre with no reception is no problem.

Yes. FlippaBall halves are a built-in format preset, and Kickd keeps minutes fair for all 7 in the water with unlimited substitutions — so every kid gets a fair go from their very first season of Flippa Ball.

FlippaBall halves through to club and championship quarters, with the common format presets built in — the same app carries a player from FlippaBall to Opens.

Swimming fatigue makes rotations the whole game, so Kickd runs the bench live: unlimited substitutions in two taps on the pool view, rotation alerts when a change is due, and running minutes for all 7 in the water — goalkeeper included.

Yes — rotation pools, from U12 up. Tag each player Centre Forward, Wing, Driver or Point and Kickd pairs each substitution within that role, so your hole set is replaced by a centre forward rather than by whoever is next on the bench. Water polo gets four roles instead of the usual three because the centre forward and the point who defends them are specialist jobs, while wings and drivers are the interchangeable perimeter pair. The goalkeeper is excluded from the pairing, and FlippaBall ages rotate without positions. It is a preference, never a block: a short bench still rotates, with the mismatch flagged.

Yes — every player's time in the water counts up live on the pool view as the clock runs, bench included, and every match stores a fairness record. Fair pool time becomes a number you can show, not a poolside guess.

Yes — Kickd Callout, included in every plan at every age group, logs the game completely hands-free on your phone mic or a Bluetooth headset (a boom mic like the Shokz OpenComm 2 for match day): say "goal seven", "drew four" or "save three" and the match updates without touching the screen — the 5m flow included, down to "penalty four, goal seven" in one breath. Recognition runs on-device and works fully offline.

Goals with the scorer attributed at every age, and exclusions conceded from U14. From U14 up, with Team Stats: assists, shots on and off target for both teams, GK saves, field blocks, steals, turnovers, exclusions drawn, and 5m penalties with who won each one and whether it converted — the official AU scorecard columns and then some — with Player of the Match voting after the final whistle.

Extra-player conversion is THE water polo number, and in Kickd it needs zero extra logging. When you log an exclusion drawn, a 20-second player-up window opens automatically — a live countdown sits on the pool view — and any goal inside it counts as a converted opportunity. Exclusions conceded work the same way in reverse, giving you a penalty-kill percentage. The windows follow the real rules: a goal, a steal or a turnover ends one early, exactly as the excluded player re-enters. Every break shows the card — player-up conversion, man-down kill and 5m penalties, with a shots comparison for both teams.

One tap opens the penalty flow: who won it, us or them. Yours asks who drew it and whether the throw scored — any player can take it, so the scorer is named separately — and the goal counts toward your 5m conversion rate. Theirs records the penalty against you and their goal if it scores. By voice it is one breath: "penalty four, goal seven".

Yes, if the coach wants them. The full set comes with Team Stats from U14, and U12 teams — where the full umbrella game and rep pathways begin — can switch on EXTENDED STATS on the Team tab. FlippaBall ages stay simple by design: fair rotations and one-tap goals.

Yes. Kickd works fully offline and runs on the phone or tablet you already own — no extra hardware needed poolside.

Seven: one goalkeeper and six field players, at every age including FlippaBall. Substitutions are unlimited, through the re-entry area during play and from anywhere between quarters, after a goal or in a timeout, so a team of 10 has three players out of the water at any moment. Kickd's pool view shows all seven with a dedicated keeper slot and never auto-rotates the keeper.

Associations set their own. FlippaBall (U8 and U10) plays two halves, and Kickd's default is 2 × 10 minutes. Club water polo plays four quarters: Kickd's defaults are 4 × 5 at U12 and U14, 4 × 6 at U16 and 4 × 7 at U18 and Opens, with COMMON TIMES presets from 4 × 5 to 4 × 8 and 2 × 7 to 2 × 12 and a FORMAT switch between halves and quarters. Australian water polo runs on even age groups.

Your first 3 matches are free at the full Team Stats level, so you see everything before paying anything. After that a Team Pass is $19.99 per team, per season: the live match clock, substitutions and rotations, fair game time, lineups, goals with the scorer attributed and exclusions conceded, Player of the Match and the free parent live view — all of it callable by voice with Kickd Callout. Team Stats is $49.99 per team, per season and adds the full water polo stat set — assists, shots on and off target for both teams, exclusions drawn and with them the player-up and penalty-kill ledger, 5m penalties, saves, blocks, steals and turnovers, from U14 or with the U12 EXTENDED STATS toggle — and widens what Callout hears to match; a coach on a Team Pass can try it free for 14 days, once. A Performance Analyst logging for a Team Stats team gets the full set with no pass of their own. Parents and supporters are always free, and a club buys one plan that covers every team, priced per sport on the pricing page.