Merge Referee Schedules From Arbiter, RefQuest & More

If you officiate across multiple leagues and conferences, your games come in through several assigning platforms at once: Arbiter for one conference, RefQuest for another, Horizon Web Ref or EventLink for the rest. Each has its own login and its own calendar. iCal Merge pulls every assignment into one feed, so your whole schedule lives in a single calendar and you stop missing games buried in an app you forgot to check.

One app per assignor adds up

Officials working several conferences juggle a handful of assigning systems. Most of them, including Arbiter (ArbiterSports), RefQuest, Horizon Web Ref, and EventLink, can publish your accepted games as an iCal feed. Merge those feeds and every game you've been assigned shows up in one place, whichever platform sent it.

Step 1: Get the feed from each platform

In each assigning system, look for a calendar sync, subscribe, or iCal/ICS export option. It's usually near your schedule or game list. Copy the link from each platform you work with. New to these links? The iCal feed explainer covers where to find them.

Step 2: Add each platform as a source

Create a calendar in iCal Merge and paste each link in as a source: one for Arbiter, one for RefQuest, and so on. Each game is prefixed with the source name, so when you check your week you can tell which assignor a game came from.

Step 3: Subscribe to your whole schedule

iCal Merge gives you a single feed with every assignment across every platform. Subscribe to it in Google, Apple, or Outlook and it updates on its own. When a new game is assigned or a time changes, your merged calendar follows along, so you can spot conflicts before you accept the next one.

Get alerted to overlaps (Pro)

Working several assignors, it's easy to accept a game that collides with one from another system. Double-booking alerts, a Pro feature, email you when assignments from two platforms overlap, so a conflict doesn't slip through. Enable it per calendar from the calendar's page.

Show only the games you're working (Pro)

Some assigning platforms publish open or available games alongside the ones you've accepted. Keyword filters, a Pro feature, let a source keep only titles that match (say, Accepted) or drop the ones that don't (like Available). Your calendar then shows the games you're actually working, not the whole board.

A quick tip

Some calendars give you a link that starts with webcal://. Paste it in as-is. iCal Merge handles webcal:// links automatically, so you don't need to change it to https:// first.