Advanced Competition Settings

As well as its name start and finish dates et cetera, each competition has a number of Advanced Settings which can be changed to reflect your preferences for how the competition is to be run. These Advanced Settings can be set independently for each competition i.e. our Blackball Championships may have different advanced options from our Urenui Invitational competition.

The Advanced Settings for a competition can be accessed by clicking on the Show Advanced Settings button when you create or edit a competition. The Advanced Settings for one of our demonstration competition, the Blackball Championships, is shown in the Figure below and an explanation of each setting is given after the screen shot.

Late Entries

A late entry is any entry which is received after the start order has been drawn and this option allows the competition organiser to specify where these entries will be placed in the starting order on the day of competition.

The options available to the organiser are:

•Place First in Grade - the late entry will be placed as the very first athlete to compete in the grade. The athlete will be placed at the beginning of the first start group if there is more than one start group for the grade.

•Place Last in Grade - the athlete will be placed as the very last athlete to compete in the grade. The athlete will be placed at the end of the last start group if there is more than one start group for the grade.

•Redraw Grade - the starting order for the grade will be redrawn each time a late entry is received for the grade.

•None - ScoreManager will take no action when a late entry is added to the competition. The competition organiser will manually have to redraw the starting order for the athlete to appear in the competition.

	Type of Competition
	This setting determines whether ScoreManager will see this competition as a club, regional, or international competition. If it is a club competition then ScoreManager will show a list of clubs when new entries are being created or imported into ScoreManager. Similarly if it is a regional or international competition then ScoreManager will show a list of regions or countries which have been saved in ScoreManager.

	Scoring Paradigm
	The scoring paradigms chosen here will determine whether ScoreManager calculates an athlete's scores using 2017 - 2020 FIG Code of Points or the 2013 - 2016 FIG Code of Points.

	Teams Paradigm
	At the moment ScoreManager does not calculate team results and placings but the ability to use ScoreManager for team competitions is planned for future versions.

Include Horizontal Displacement

There may be some competitions where it may not appropriate to include horizontal displacement in the scores for individual and syncrhonised trampoline. Such competitions could include: recreational competitions where horizontal displacment is not important; internal club competitions where the club does not have a horizontal displacement machine; competitions for young athletes where the organiser wishes athletes to concentrate on factors other than horizontal displacement.

This setting enables ScoreManager to accommodate these competitions by allowing the competition organiser to specify whether they wish horizontal displacement to be included in the scores.

The setting is automatically disabled if the if FIG 2016 Code of Points is selected as the scoring paradigm.

Horizontal Displacement Method

In competitions where horizontal displacement forms part of the athlete's score, the organiser can specify whether displacement is to be scored by machine or by judges. Changing this option will affect the input fields available when entering an athlete's scores manually.

This setting is automatically disabled it the FIG 2016 Code of Points is selected as the scoring paradigm.

Synchronisation Method

For synchronised competitions the organiser can specify whether the scores for synchronisation are to be calculated using a machine or manually by synchronisation judges.

Changing this option affects the input fields available when entering scores for synchronised trampoline manually.

Ties in Semi-Final Round

This option allows the organiser to automate the process of progressing athletes from the Qualifying Round to the Semi-Final Round.

Where two or more athletes have tied for the final place in the Semi-Final round, the organiser can specify whether all of the tied athletes will be added to the start list for the Semi-Final round or whether all of the tied athletes will be removed from the start order for the Semi-Final round.

For example: if the organiser specifies that 24 athletes are to progress from the qualifying round to the Semi-Final round but two athletes are tied for the 24th place in the qualifying round, setting this option to Add Tied Athletes to Semi-Final will cause ScoreManager to progress 25 athletes to the Semi-Final round.

Ties in For Final Round

This option is the same as the option above except it applies to the progression of athletes to the Final round from the Qualifying Round or the Semi-Final round.

Where two or more athletes have tied for the last place in the Final round from either the Qualifying round or the Semi-Final round, by using this setting the competition organiser can specify whether or all of the tied athletes will be added or removed from the starting order for the Final round.

For example: if eight athletes are to progress from the Qualifying round to the final round but three athletes are tied for eighth place in the Qualifying round, setting this option to Remove Tied Athlete from Final will cause ScoreManager to progress only five athletes to the Final round (eight athletes minus the three tied athletes).

Location of the Competition

This setting tells ScoreManager where the competition is being held. The information entered here will help spectators using ScoreManager's online results to quickly find the competition they are interested in.

Most countries of the world are already in the list shown but regions are only shown for New Zealand and Australia. Please contact OutBounce Software if your country is not in the list or you would like to have your country's regions added to ScoreManager.