[7moritz7]

> It’s also ironic that the one thing HTML was designed for, namely presenting static content, is now deemed unworkable without having to run custom client-side code.

Because the content here is dynamic. It changes every 30 minutes, even if it's just the scores. HTML was not designed to serve dynamic content.

[layer8]

That’s not dynamic content. It’s okay to have some optional JavaScript to dynamically update the scores or whatever. But that’s no reason not to show the main/initial content without JavaScript. As a user I certainly prefer regular content to not update by itself, though.