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Put your room on the Hill.

Cameras over your tables, the score on the stream, and a leaderboard your regulars check every day. The Hill turns the matches already being played in your room into something people watch, share and come back for.

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Players at Strokers Billiards
9,398
Matches played there
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Rooms on The Hill
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On camera now

Strokers Billiards, every match a video

The first room with cameras. Each streamed match keeps its video on its match page, a chapter for every rack, and the clips people cut from it.

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What your room gets

More reasons to play at your place

Live streams with the score

Pick a table on the scoreboard and the match goes out live on YouTube, the players and the score along the bottom. No staff, no laptop at the table.

Clips for Reels and TikTok

Anyone watching can clip a shot from the stream. It comes out tall and wide with The Hill on it, ready to post, and it says where it was played.

King of the Hill

A crown for each game at your room. Take it, then defend it within seven days or it opens up again: a reason for your regulars to come in this week.

Tournaments and bonus

Brackets, table calls and a TV board for your events, plus the bonus auction: bids, outbid alerts, reminders, and who owes what when it closes.

A page for your room

Your own leaderboard, regulars, recent matches and streams, and a YouTube playlist of every match played on your cameras.

Any TV is a scoreboard

Open thehill.social/tv on a screen in the room, type the code from a player's phone, and it shows the live score as they tap.

What it takes

One box, a few cameras

  1. 1

    A small computer

    A mini PC on your network sends the cameras to YouTube and keeps 30 days of recordings, which is what clips are cut from. We set it up and look after it remotely.

  2. 2

    Cameras over the tables

    One per table, or one per pair, mounted high. Wired into your network is best: cameras on the Wi-Fi your customers use drop out when the room is busy.

  3. 3

    Players do the rest

    Whoever keeps score picks the table. The stream starts, the score follows their taps, and when they post the result the video stays with the match.

Questions

What owners ask

Do players need the app?
No. Everything works in a phone's browser. The app is free on iPhone and Android for anyone who wants it.
Does my staff have to run it?
No. Players start the streams themselves from the scoreboard, and the box at your room looks after the rest.
Where do the videos go?
To The Hill's YouTube channel, in a playlist for your room, and onto each match's page on The Hill.

Talk to us

Want your tables on camera?

Tell us about your room: how many tables, where the TVs are, the events you run. We'll get back to you about what it takes.