Competition Grades
The grades for a competition are the groups in which the athletes compete within the competition. In other scoring systems they may be called them events, klasses, competitions, groups, categories, etc.. but only in ScoreManager do you have the flexibility to customise them in a way that suits you and your competition.
A grade has a number of criteria which determine the way ScoreManager handles the entries and scoring for the grade. These criteria shown in the section Grade Settings and Their Meanings set for each grade independently giving great flexibility to the ways that grades can be used with the ScoreManager programme. In addition, grades belong to the competition for which they are created so that you can have grades with the same name in more than one competition but with quite different criteria.
Other unique ways which grades work in ScoreManager : -
•entries can be checked for any restrictions on the grade for age and gender.
•criteria are specific to each grade so that different grades in the same competition and discipline can have their own settings e.g. age, gender, recording ToF or Horizontal Displacement, etc.
•grades are unique to each competition allowing a competition organiser to use different names and criteria in each competition
•information and the criteria for grades can be saved as standard grades and used for new competitions. This avoids the need to re-enter them for each competition.
•unused grades can be hidden from the most commonly used screens so that organisers and recorders can concentrate on the grades that matter
•a maximum of 30 grades can be created for each discipline in a competition
ØCreating Grades in a Competition
ØStandardised or Default Grades
ØGrade Settings and Their Meanings