Tennis Scoring systems designed & written by Broder's Skunkware are used by a variety of customers at almost every Grand Slam, ATP Tour, and WTA Tour tournament in the world. Through an exclusive licensing agreement with IDS of Jacksonville, Florida, Skunkware is deployed in a major way at virtually every pro tournament. Special thanks and kudos to Rallis Pappas, President of IDS, and the extremely talented IDS engineering & operations staff.

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Broder's Skunkware debuted the umpiring tool CHUMP for PALM OS at the 2001 Australian Open. Since 2002, every match at the US Open has been scored with CHUMP for Palm OS running on Palm m500s.

Some of the US Open "Bat Cave" crew from IDS, USTA, Skunkware, & AusSoft.

Chair umpire using the 1994-2001 Skunkware umpire solution on

an IBM PenDOS machine, the 4612. For 2002, this has been replaced by Palm m500s running CHUMP for Palm OS (see below).

Christo & Tim, ace Palm OS programmers

IBM Match Update Center at the Australian Open. Hardware by IDS, software by Skunkware, powered by LINUX.

IBM command bunker "The Batcave" at the Australian Open. Software by Skunkware and IDS. Seated near the back of the room is Tony Hede of Hede Electrics, who has since achieved fame as one of the great criminal minds in Australian history.

Every Batcave needs appropriate signage on its door. Australian Open 2002.

Too many Palms can be dangerous. This poor guy didn't realize the danger of Palm avalanches.

Red Hat LINUX on IBM Thinkpads, driving the 12-foot matrix displays at the US Open

Blair Edwards and Chris Hayes, tech support wizards for CHUMP at the 2003 US Open

Note the stylish walkie-talkie headsets:

"You want fries with that?"

For 2004, Blair has graduated to an executive position at sports agent SFX. Congratulations, Blair!

Chris is working his way into a tech support role with the IDS ETS division.

But they both started as CHUMPs

2004 intern Spencer Clark. Spencer is a ranked player in the MALTA 12 & Under. After learning what it's

all about at the 2004 US Open, we expect great things from Spencer in the future, both on and off the court.