Hieland
Ein Event-Begleiter für die schottische Highland-Games-Saison – Spielplan aller Veranstaltungen, persönliches Wettkampf-Tagebuch für Caber-Distanzen und Piping-Ergebnisse, Athleten-Profile und Reiseinfos pro Veranstaltungsort.
Athleten und reisende Zuschauer der schottischen Highland-Games-Saison
- Games-Kalender: alle Highland Games in Schottland nach Datum, Region und Disziplin (Heavy Events, Piping, Dancing)
- Persönliches Logbuch: eigene Wettkampfergebnisse und Distanzen über die Saison
- Athleten-Profile: Suche nach Top-Performern pro Disziplin, Saisonvergleich, Follow-Funktion
- Reise-Begleiter: Anreise, Parkplätze, Übernachtungen und Wetter pro Veranstaltungsort
Die Dornoch-Absage zeigt, wie fragmentiert die Information über den Highland-Games-Zirkus ist – vieles lebt nur auf verstreuten Facebook-Seiten, ein zentraler Kalender fehlt.
Sustained but niche interest: national-level coverage (BBC, STV, Scotsman) of the Dornoch cancellation, Google Trends 100+ for 'highland games' GB, and multiple tourism sites (VisitScotland, Scotlander, RSHGA) maintain dedicated calendars — yet the audience is small and largely Scotland-/diaspora-focused.Highland games cancelled amid 'financial irregularities' probe ↗Scottish Highland Games Calendar 2026 - Scotlander ↗
HeavyAthlete.com already offers athlete profiles, scores, an event calendar and rankings, and HGScores.com aggregates NASGA/Heavy Athlete/Scottish score databases; an open 'highland-games-tracker' GitHub app also exists, so the core feature set is largely served.Heavy Athlete - Learn, Compete, Celebrate ↗Heavy Aggregator — Athlete Search ↗mhalladaptive/highland-games-tracker - GitHub ↗
HeavyAthlete already sells 'Upgrade' premium tier (throw replay, comparisons) plus merch, showing some willingness to pay exists, but the addressable market is tiny (Scottish + diaspora niche sport), limiting real revenue potential.Heavy Athlete - Learn, Compete, Celebrate ↗
Highland Games have been held 'almost every year since 1835' (Yahoo) — an extraordinarily stable cultural tradition, but flat-to-slowly-declining participation, so durable but not a growth story.Popular Highland games held 'almost every year since 1835' cancelled ↗
Core features (aggregated schedule, athlete profiles, score log, travel info) are technically straightforward, but ongoing data maintenance per scattered Facebook pages and event-by-event score entry is a real operational burden and key data already lives behind HeavyAthlete's database.Heavy Athlete - Learn, Compete, Celebrate ↗