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Does Trace Keep All Your Games? The 5-Game Limit and How to Download Full Games

Trace's Basic plan gives you access to your last 5 games, and its plan comparison lists recorded-game access as Last 5 versus All depending on tier. Full-game downloads are available on Club plans or when enough families subscribe to the Family by Family plan — Trace's own pricing FAQ puts that threshold at 7 or more paid subscriptions on a team. Highlights download only on Pro. Here is what each tier gives you, and how to keep every game instead of the last five.

Does Trace keep all your games?

No. Trace's Basic tier gives you access to your last 5 games, and its published plan comparison lists "Access to recorded games" as Last 5 on Basic against All on the paid tier. That means the moment your sixth game is recorded, the first one rolls off. For a fall season of ten to twelve matches, Basic effectively holds the back half of the schedule and loses the front half as the season progresses. The situation is more layered than "you lose the games," though, because the tiers differ in two separate ways: how far back you can access footage, and whether you can download it. Full-game downloads sit behind Club plans or a team subscription threshold, and highlight downloads require Pro. The practical answer for a family that wants the whole season is to pull footage down through whichever route their plan allows and archive it somewhere that does not roll over — Cutsio's Visual Intelligence indexes every frame, so a season you move off Trace stays searchable by description.

How many games does Trace keep?

It depends on your tier, and the difference is stark.

| Trace tier | Recorded games you can access |

|---|---|

| PlayerFocus Basic | Last 5 games |

| PlayerFocus Pro | All |

| Club | All |

The "last 5" limit is a rolling window, not a cap on total storage. Your sixth game does not fail to record or fail to upload — it simply pushes the oldest accessible game out of the window. That distinction matters because it means the footage is being captured and stored; what changes is what you can reach.

For a youth soccer season running August through November, a 5-game window means that by midseason the August matches are already out of reach on Basic. Parents who only start thinking about a full-season archive in November often discover the early games are no longer accessible at that tier.

How do you see a full game on Trace?

For a family on Basic, you generally cannot see a full game that has rolled out of the 5-game window — the footage is no longer in your accessible set.

For a family on a higher tier, the game remains accessible. The limit on Basic is about access, not about whether the footage exists in Trace's system.

The important thing to understand is the sequence: access narrows as the window advances, and downloads are gated separately. A parent who assumes "I'll download everything at the end of the season" can find that the early games are already unreachable by then.

How do you download full games from Trace?

This is the part most guides get wrong. Full-game downloads are not strictly a Club-plan feature.

Trace's own FAQ states that full game footage downloads are available for Club plans or when enough families subscribe to the Family by Family plan. Trace's pricing FAQ puts a number on that threshold: 7 or more paid subscriptions on your team.

So there are two routes to full-game downloads:

1. A Club plan, where the organization carries the subscription.
2. Seven or more paid family subscriptions on the same team, which unlocks full-game downloads for those families under the Family by Family arrangement.

That second route is genuinely useful and widely missed. A youth team with fifteen families that all subscribe on the family plan crosses the threshold without anyone buying a Club plan. A team with four families subscribing does not, no matter how much any individual family wants the footage.

If you are weighing whether to ask your team to subscribe, the number to organize around is seven — not "everyone" and not "just me."

Can you download highlights from Trace?

Yes, but only on Pro. Trace's FAQ is explicit that you can download your highlights as long as you are a subscriber to the PlayerFocus Pro plan. Its pricing comparison reflects the same split: the Basic column does not include download-and-save-highlights, and the Pro column does.

This creates an awkward middle position for Basic subscribers. You can watch highlights, and you have a 5-game window of recorded games, but you cannot download the highlights you are watching. A parent who has been building up a sense of which moments matter, without downloading them, has nothing portable when the window moves on.

Can you watch your team's games on Trace without paying?

Trace's tiering governs access and downloads separately, and the free or entry experience is narrower than families often expect. If a game has rolled past your 5-game window on Basic, paying is the mechanism that makes it accessible again on a higher tier.

Rather than guess at your specific situation, check which tier your team is on — the difference between "I can watch it" and "I can download it" is where most of the confusion lives, and it is set by the plan your team holds.

What happens to Trace footage as the season progresses?

The window moves with each new game, and the effects compound quietly.

| Point in the season | On Basic | On Pro |

|---|---|---|

| After game 3 | All 3 games accessible | All 3 accessible |

| After game 5 | All 5 accessible | All 5 accessible |

| After game 8 | Games 4–8 | All 8 accessible |

| After game 12 | Games 8–12 | All 12 accessible |

| Highlights download | Not included | Included |

The pattern is worth sitting with. In a twelve-game season, a Basic family retains access to the final five matches. Everything earlier has moved out of reach, and the moments a parent would most want — often the early-season games where a player was finding their footing — are precisely the ones that go first.

For development and recruiting purposes, this is backwards. A recruiting reel built in the spring draws on the whole season, and the strongest reels show change over time. A rolling five-game window gives you a snapshot, not a progression.

How do you keep every Trace game, not just the last five?

You archive the footage somewhere the window does not apply. Cutsio is built for that handoff.

Cutsio's Visual Intelligence analyzes the visual content of every frame alongside audio, creating a unified search index for any moment. Upload the Trace footage you have been able to download and it becomes searchable by description — find every goal, every assist, every appearance of a specific player — without anyone logging a timestamp or placing a marker manually.

Three properties matter for a family or club coming off Trace's window:

• The archive does not roll. Footage in Cutsio stays until you remove it. There is no equivalent of the sixth game pushing the first one out of reach.
• Storage is metered by minutes, not by tier. Cutsio's pay-for-minutes model means you pay for the footage you actually keep, rather than moving to a whole plan tier to unlock access.
• Seasons are searchable together. Once several seasons are in one library, comparing a player's sophomore year against their senior year is a search, not an afternoon with a timeline. How to search your entire video library by meaning covers the workflow.

This is also why the download step matters more than it first appears. A rolling access window plus gated downloads means the practical window for capturing a season is narrower than the season itself. Building the archive habit early — pull the game down when it happens — is what makes the difference by November.

If your library spans more than one camera or platform, how to search game film by a player's jersey number shows what multi-game player search looks like in practice.

How does Trace's game window compare with a searchable archive?

| | Trace (Basic) | Trace (Pro/Club) | Cutsio archive |

|---|---|---|---|

| Recorded games accessible | Last 5 | All | Everything you upload |

| Rolls over as season advances | Yes | No | No |

| Full-game download | Gated — Club or 7+ team subscriptions | Included at Club tier | Your own footage, always |

| Highlights download | Not included | Included | Included |

| Search method | Manual browsing | Manual browsing | Visual Intelligence — description-based search |

| Cross-season comparison | Not available | Limited | Search across every season |

| Pricing basis | Plan tier | Plan tier | Minutes stored |

| Tied to one platform | Yes | Yes | No |

Trace and Cutsio do different jobs. Trace captures and streams the game. Cutsio is where the footage goes to stay reachable, downloadable, and searchable. A program running both gets automated capture on the sideline and an archive that does not expire at five games.

If you are also filming with an automated camera that deletes footage on a fixed clock, how long Veo keeps recordings covers that retention model, and XBotGo's cloud storage limits covers what happens when a camera's own cloud fills up. For the wider landscape, Best AI Video Tools for Sports Teams, Schools, and Creators compares the options.

How was this verified?

The figures in this guide — the 5-game access window on Basic, the two-column "Last 5 / All" plan comparison, the Club-or-7-subscriptions rule for full-game downloads, and the Pro-only restriction on highlight downloads — were checked against Trace's own published pricing FAQ and subscription documentation in October 2026.

Plan terms are set by Trace and can change, and the Family by Family threshold in particular is the kind of detail a vendor may adjust. Confirm your own team's tier and current terms before planning a download around them. This page is dated so you can judge how recent the figures are.

FAQ

Does Trace keep all your games?

No. Basic access covers your last 5 games, and the window rolls forward with each new recording. Higher tiers list access to All recorded games.

How many games does Trace keep on Basic?

Five. The sixth game pushes the oldest accessible game out of the window, so by the end of a twelve-game season a Basic family can reach the final five matches.

How do you download full games from Trace?

Full-game downloads are available on Club plans, or when enough families subscribe to the Family by Family plan — Trace's pricing FAQ sets that at 7 or more paid subscriptions on a team. It is not strictly a Club-only feature.

Can you download highlights from Trace without Pro?

No. Highlight downloads require a PlayerFocus Pro subscription. Basic subscribers can watch highlights but cannot download them.

What happens to older Trace games when the window moves on?

On Basic they leave your accessible set. The footage is still recorded and stored by Trace — what changes is whether your tier can reach it. Downloading games as they happen, and archiving them somewhere that does not roll over, avoids the problem entirely.