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Kabaddi matches, championships and tournaments, essentially at the local and grass-root level, there are limited as well as manual scoring and no live score management systems, due to which there can occur less accessibility for viewers to actually view the scores, less efficient co-ordination between the organizers and may occur delays for match updates. Thus, there is a lack of a digital infrastructure which also caters the ability to maintain a centralized player information, events ledger and scoring mechanism for kabaddi at the grass-root level. As the popularity of Kabaddi is growing, there is a requirement of a scalable digital platform which will be able to manage the live scoring and its broadcasting for the events of kabaddi including matches, tournaments and championships for frequent match updates. This paper represents our platform RAIDX, which is a real-time Kabaddi live scoring and score broadcasting platform for all kabaddi events including the tournament and championships which is designed using the event-driven architecture. The proposed system designed utilizes the scorers having the organizer role to record the various events occurring in the match per raid, which is then updated to the backend server which is implemented in Golang using a persistent WebSocket connection. Those match events are processed by the match event engine at the backend that updates the match score data instantly and streams it to all the connected viewer connections. This robust infrastructure is implemented using the Fiber framework using the Redis as in-memory cache to accommodate the high frequency match updates. The persistent tournament, or championship data, including the player accounts, team information, fixtures and invites are stored using MongoDB. For secure and scalable user management, the current design involves the hybrid mechanism including the JSON Web Token (JWT) with server-side session tracking, to allow the device-based session management (by controlling and revoking access). Also, there is an implementation of the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) model that manages the different user roles including the organizers, team owners and players with viewers as the default role for all the mentioned roles. The system is also incorporated with the invitation framework which supports both direct as well as the token-based invite links for both team and match event invites. The proposed system architecture determines how a scalable sports event management platform can be implemented combining the application of both the modern web technologies as well as real-time communication protocols. The RAIDX system improves tournament coordination, enhances the viewer engagement by quick score updates, and providing a structured digital ecosystem for managing Kabaddi competitions.