Booth guide

First 5 minutes

Get in

• Open the invite link the operator sent you. A crew link opens the booth for that race.
• Or, if you have a Discord role on the restream site, sign in with Discord, open Broadcast, and press Join booth under Your booths. It does the same thing.
• Use the newest link. An old one tells you it has expired; ask for a new one. Don't share your link, it's yours.
• Use a computer if you can. A laptop is fine. A phone also works for tracking (see On a phone).

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Check your mic before anything else

Your browser will ask to use your microphone. Allow it. Then look at the bottom right of the booth:

• Booth only: the crew hears you, the stream doesn't.
• On air: the stream hears you (while the Race or Results scene is showing).
• The mic button next to them mutes you. Nobody hears you.

Your microphone, noise filter and Test my mic are in the Comms panel.

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What you're looking at

The big picture in the middle is the stream itself, with the tracker drawn on it. You click right on the picture to track. Every click is shared: the other crew see it at once, and so do viewers while the Race scene is on.

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The four clicks that cover most tracking

• 1 Triforce: click to step through not found → level found (blue) → triforce found (gold) → not found. On level 9, gold means Gannon is killed.
• 2 Hearts under each triforce: click to count the heart containers in that level, 1, 2, 3, then back to none.
• 3 Items: click to give the racer the item. Swords, candles, arrows, rings and the book open a small menu so you can pick which one.
• 4 Item locations, the column in the middle: click it and pick where that item is (a level number, or a spot like Armos or the Old Man). Locations are shared by every racer, because it's the same seed.

The numbers match the picture on What you're looking at. For every click and Shift+click, see Tracker basics.

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Fixing a mistake

There is no undo button. Instead:

• Triforces, hearts and simple items: keep clicking. They go round in a loop and come back to empty.
• Items with a menu: open it again and pick the right one, or the dimmed one to clear it.
• Locations: open the menu again and pick the right place, or the dash at the end to clear it.
• An X you didn't mean: Shift+click the same spot again (on an item, twice more: X, then !, then clear).

Not sure what something should be? Ask before guessing; see who to ask.

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What to leave alone, and who to ask

As a tracker you can ignore:

• Scene, the red-outlined pulldown at the bottom left. It changes what the stream shows.
• Go live and the power button (Shut down booth).
• Everything in Tools, especially the red Clear Tracker.

If something looks wrong, say so on comms, or post in chat with Booth picked, which only the crew can see. The operator who invited you is the person to ask; your commentators can help too.

That's it. The rest of this guide is reference: start with Tracker basics when you want more.

Tracker

Tracker basics

The rules are the same in every layout:

• Click moves a thing to its next state, in a loop.
• Shift+click marks it instead, usually with an X. On a phone, hold does what Shift+click does.
• Empty slots are dimmed in the booth so you can still click them. Viewers don't see empty slots, only what a racer has (and anything marked with an X).
• Some things are shared by every racer because they describe the seed: item locations, overworld blocks and the bomb upgrade count.

Triforce colors

Pick your layout: two racers, three or four racers, or a phone.

Tracker

Two racers

Each racer has a nameplate above their video and a strip below it. The column between the videos holds both racers' items, with the item locations in the middle.

Hover an item in the middle rail to see when it was picked up, in race time. Hover a location to compare when each racer got that item. If a best-of series is set, small hearts by each name count series wins; click one to fill or empty it.

Tracker

The location and item menus

To close a menu without changing anything, click anywhere outside it.

Tracker

Three and four racers

Each racer gets a card: the video plus a panel with their name, place and time, triforces with hearts, and a grid of items. Item locations sit in a center rail between the cards (four racers) or a row along the bottom (three racers). The clicks are the same as for two racers.

#	What	Click / Shift+click
1	Name	Opens that racer's panel
2	Place and time	Opens Results. Filled in once a final is accepted.
3	Triforce	Not found → level found (blue) → triforce found (gold) → not found. On level 9, gold means Gannon is killed.
4	Heart	None → 1 → 2 → 3 → none. Shift: X on an empty heart.
5	Item grid, 15 items	Toggle or menu, as for two racers; Shift marks X, then !, then clear
6	Extras (four racers only), from the outer edge	Same cycles as the two-racer extras; Shift X on empty; Shift on a bomb upgrade steps the shared count
7	Take Any caves (four racers only), from the rail side	Same as two racers
8	Center rail: each item and where it is	Click the place under an item to open the location menu. A ? means not set yet; viewers see a blank. The item pictures in the rail aren't clickable.
9	Race clock	Opens Results

Three racers: no extras or Take Any row, and the locations run along the bottom. Four racers have no overworld blocks. In these layouts you can also Tab to a tracker spot and press Enter (with Shift for the mark).

Tracker

On a phone

Hold a phone upright and the booth turns into a tracker made for thumbs:

• 1 Items, Dungeons (triforces and hearts) and Program (the stream picture, with Scene, timer, mic and Go live under it).
• 2 The Loc column opens a location sheet. Its modes stand in for Shift: Floor is a normal pick, Basement makes the next number a basement, and on the heart container row Several lets you tap each place, then Done.
• 3 Tap an item to cycle it or open its menu. Hold to mark it (X, then !). On Dungeons, tap a triforce to go not found → level found → triforce found (Gannon killed on 9), and hold an empty heart to X it.
• 4 The bottom bar: Track, Racers, Mic, Chat and More (Results, Race & stream, Mix, Tools).

The phone tracker doesn't have Take Any caves, extras or overworld blocks. Use a computer for those.

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The whole booth

Here is the whole booth on a big screen. On a laptop the side panels open as pop-up dialogs instead, and chat slides in from the right. The parts are the same.

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The footer

9 Panel buttons

They're icons on most screens. Left to right:

• Racers
• Race
• Mix
• Comms
• Info
• Results
• Tools
• Chat

A button looks pressed while its panel is open. The Chat button shows a count of unread messages while chat is closed.

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Your mic and going live

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Race timer

Click the timer in the footer to set a time (1:05:00, 58:30 or plain seconds), Start or Pause, Reset, or Hide the timer on stream.

"Shared" means everyone, and the stream, sees your change. A struck-through timer is hidden on stream. If your role can't edit the tracker, the timer is read-only.

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Chat

• One list for Twitch, YouTube and Booth. A YouTube and Booth lines have a chip; lines without one are Twitch.
• C Your message goes to exactly one place: the tab you pick. Reply (hover a message) answers in that message's place.
• Booth is private to this race's crew and posts under your Discord name. Use it for "R2's feed is lagging" or "is that a 3 or a 5?". A Booth line says Not saved until it's stored.
• Twitch posts as you. D Connect your Twitch once to allow it.
• YouTube posts as the Z1R Racing channel (commentators, operators and admins).
• B Aa changes the chat text size, just for you. × closes chat; the footer Chat button brings it back. Drag the left edge of the column to resize it.
• Type : and two letters for emote suggestions, or use ☺.

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Comms panel

Your mic at the top: who hears you, which Microphone, the Noise filter (Clean is a good start), Mic level (it changes what others hear) and Test my mic. Your name is in its corner; you're not in the list below.

In the booth lists everyone else. Their levels and mute buttons change things for everyone, so leave them unless you're running the mix. Ask on air only asks; it never switches anyone's mic.

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Info panel: lower thirds

Open Info (ⓘ) in the footer, then Lower thirds. On a wide screen, Info docks in the left column under Comms. These are the promo, matchup and flags panels that slide over the broadcast picture. They appear on Twitch and the YouTube simulcast while you're live.

Booth footer

Commsⓘ InfoResults

1. 1
   Check what's on air.
   The status line shows the time left and what comes next.
2. 2
   Choose a promo.
   The red dot marks the active panel. “Queued” means it'll show after that panel clears.
3. 3
   Show race info or stop.
   Matchup is for 1v1; Replay sequence is available in Results. Cancel clears the panel and queue.

The automatic sequence

Switching the program to Race (On Air) starts the sequence: by default, a 20-second wait for your introduction, then Twitch, YouTube and Site + Discord, each for 8 seconds with 8-second gaps. That's one minute from the scene switch to the last panel clearing.

Race preview doesn't start it, and selecting Race again while it's already on air doesn't repeat it. Rolling into the next race starts a fresh sequence if Race stays on air. Changing scenes stops the sequence.

Showing a panel yourself

• Twitch, YouTube or Site + Discord: show that promo panel. The default hold is 8 seconds.
• Matchup: show the two racers' shared race history. This button is for 1v1 races; if they haven't raced together, the panel says so.
• Flags: show this race's flags. A 1v1 Race scene gets a card with up to three pages, 8 seconds per page by default. Three- and four-racer layouts and Results use a shorter band. A race without a flag string shows “This race has no flags yet.”
• Replay sequence: run the promo sequence again during Results.
• Cancel: clear the panel and anything waiting to show.

The status line tells you what's showing, its time left and what's next. The active button has a red dot. One request can wait its turn, marked Queued; another request won't cut the current panel short.

!matchup and !flags from a booth account in chat also show their panel the first time viewers see it that race. Later commands answer in chat only; use the button to show the panel again. Testing before Go live doesn't use up that first showing.

Council can change the timings in Lower-third settings.

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Lower-third settings for Council

Open Council → Tools → Lower thirds and sign in with Discord. These settings are shared across production booths; they aren't a preference for just the race you're working on. Staging keeps its own settings for rehearsals.

• Turn the automatic sequence on or off, and choose the wait before its first panel.
• Set the Twitch, YouTube and Site + Discord holds, the gap between them, and the hold for panels shown with a booth button.
• Set the flags page duration and the Flags corner circle to Auto, Always or Never.

Times are whole seconds. Waits and gaps can be 0–300; panel holds 1–60; flags pages 3–30. The form shows the total automatic sequence length before you press Save.

When changes reach the booth

An awake control plane checks for changes every five minutes and when a sequence starts. Allow up to about five minutes for a saved change to reach it. A sequence already running keeps its original timings; later sequences use the refreshed settings. A sleeping control plane reads the saved settings when it wakes, so Council can make changes before a show.

Not saved yet means the booth is using its built-in defaults, including the 20-second opening wait and 8-second holds, gaps and flags pages. It doesn't mean lower thirds are disabled.

If someone else saves while your form is open, use Reload saved settings, check their changes, and reapply yours. If a save can't be confirmed, your form stays in place; reload to check what was saved. A temporary connection problem leaves booths using their last good settings, or the defaults if they haven't read any yet.

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Racers panel

One tab per racer: Nameplate (seed #, name, color), Video (open their stream, Refresh a stuck feed, pause, switch to their Twitch VOD if the live feed fails, Crop, Swap), Audio (listen to just this racer, or change their volume on stream), Result, and Invite racer.

If one racer's video freezes, give it a moment, then use that racer's Refresh once.

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Results panel

Every racer's final in one place. Type a time like 1:05:00 or 58:30, or DNF, and press Save. The clock button saves the race timer as that racer's final.

When racetime.gg reports a result, it shows under the racer with Use result, and a small card also pops up at the bottom right of your view. Clear a final and Save to unlock it.

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Race panel

The race itself: a Ready to go live check at the top, the on-screen title, the race room (Swap room, Race Info for the flags), Logo and Best of, the Crew names shown on stream (Comms 1, Comms 2, Tracker), and the Twitch title and category (sent only by Apply to Twitch).

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Mix panel

What viewers hear: a volume and mute for each racer, Music and Comms, plus the music player. Every change here is heard by everyone. For your own headphones use You hear on the footer instead.

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Tools panel

Invite crew or racers, roll into the Next race, Raid another channel at the end of the show, and Recovery: Restart Stream, Swap Encoder, Refresh Tracker, Refresh Audio and Clear Tracker.

Recovery actions can interrupt the stream. They all ask first, but if you're not the operator, leave them alone.

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Tracking questions

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Mic and audio questions

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Layout and chat questions

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Grayed-out controls and other surprises