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TrueNorth Live Stream Draws

Run a live, verifiable main prize draw yourself from the competition page using TrueNorth. Perfect for revealing each winner in real time to your audience.

Live Stream Draws let you run the main prize draw yourself, live, from the competition page. Each result is drawn through TrueNorth and shown on screen, and you confirm each winner before RaffleX saves it. This is ideal if you like to reveal winners on a live video stream.

Here is a short preview of what a live draw looks like on screen.

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This preview has no voiceover. It is just to show you how the draw looks in action.

This page assumes you have already connected your TrueNorth account. If you have not done that yet, start with TrueNorth Setup.

TrueNorth Setup

What You Need First

The live draw option appears when all of the following are true:

  • TrueNorth is connected for your site.

  • You are logged in as an admin.

  • The competition has ended.

  • The competition is not set to Auto Draw. A live draw and an automatic draw are alternatives, so the live option only appears when Auto Draw is off.

  • The winners have not already been drawn.

If you do not see the option to draw on an ended competition, check that TrueNorth is connected and that the competition does not have Auto Draw turned on. The option only appears to admins.

Where to Find the Live Draw

While logged in as an admin, you will see a Draw Winners button in two places once a competition has ended:

  • On the competition page for that competition.

  • On the competition's card in your entry list.

Click Draw Winners in either place to open the live draw.

Run the Draw

  1. Click Draw Winners to open the live draw. RaffleX shows the competition details, including the tickets sold, the ticket range, and how many winners you need to draw.

  2. Click Start verifiable draw. RaffleX draws a ticket through TrueNorth and shows the ticket number and the winner's name on screen.

  3. Decide what to do with the result:

    • If you are happy with it, click Confirm & draw next (or Confirm final winner if it is the last one).

    • If you would like a different result before confirming, click Discard & redraw.

    • If the ticket cannot be used, for example it was not sold or has already won, RaffleX will ask you to Redraw.

Seeing a forced Redraw, or not sure how it differs from Discard & redraw? See Redraws in a Live Draw Explained.

  1. If your competition has more than one winner, RaffleX moves straight on to the next draw after you confirm. Repeat until every winner is confirmed.

  2. When all winners are confirmed, RaffleX shows that every winner has been drawn. Click Done to finish.

Only confirm a winner when you are happy for that result to be final. As soon as you confirm, the winner is saved and their winner email is sent automatically. Use the redraw option before confirming if you need a different ticket.

If RaffleX cannot reach TrueNorth during the draw, it will show a message asking you to try again. Any winners you have already confirmed stay saved, so you can pick up where you left off.

Draw All Winners at Once (Turbo Mode)

If your competition has several winners and you would rather not confirm them one at a time, you can use Turbo Mode to draw them all in a single run. This is handy when you have a lot of winners to get through and do not need to reveal each one separately.

On the opening screen of the live draw, below the draw details, you will see a Turbo Mode toggle. It shows its current state on the right:

  • Off: the normal draw runs, one winner at a time.

  • Armed: Turbo Mode is switched on and ready.

  • Locked: Turbo Mode is not available, because the draw has already started or a winner has already been drawn.

Turbo Mode can only be switched on for a fresh draw, before you draw your first winner, so decide before you begin.

When you switch it on, the main button changes from Start verifiable draw to Start turbo draw. Click it and RaffleX will:

  • Draw all of the winners in one go, with no need to confirm each one.

  • Automatically discard any unsold numbers for you, so you never have to redraw by hand.

  • Verify every winner and tag them on TrueNorth, exactly as the normal draw does.

  • Reveal all of the winners together on the final screen once the draw is complete.

When the draw finishes, click Done. RaffleX closes the draw and refreshes the competition page for you, so the confirmed winners appear straight away.

Turbo Mode confirms every winner automatically, so there is no chance to review or redraw a result partway through. Use the normal one at a time draw if you want to check each winner before it is saved.

A turbo draw works through every winner in one longer step. While it runs, RaffleX keeps checking in the background, so if your connection drops but the winners have already been drawn, the completed screen usually appears on its own.

If the draw takes much longer than expected, RaffleX shows a "Connection interrupted" message with Close and Try again buttons. Click Try again. If all of your winners were already drawn, you are taken straight to the completed screen showing every winner, with no new draw run. If the draw had not finished, it carries on from where it left off.

After the Draw

Once your winners are confirmed:

  • The winners are saved against the competition and shown on the competition page.

  • Each winner is sent their winner email automatically, provided your email settings are set up correctly.

  • A Provably Fair Draw panel confirms the result was verified by TrueNorth.

  • Customers can use the Verify Result on TrueNorth link to check the result for themselves.

You do not need to add the winner again anywhere else. Confirming the winner in the live draw records the result for you.

Related Guides

TrueNorth AutodrawsManual Draw
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