Main Menu -> Judging Panels -> Create New Panel

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Before Competition -> Create New Panel

The short code entered here is used to identify the panel when assigning the panels to grades and specifying which judges will form part of the panel. It can be any combination of letters and numbers that you like.

The brief name or description into here is used when the panel is printed on the competition results for its assigned grades.

In this option you will choose which discipline this panel will be judging. Only one discipline can be chosen for each panel and choosing the correct discipline is important because it will determine the number and types of judges ScoreManager assigns to the panel.

This option tells ScoreManager how the athlete's marks are going to be entered for this panel. At the moment marks can only be entered by recorders using a workstation or laptop but future versions of ScoreManager will enable Judges to input their scores directly in to ScoreManager

This option tells ScoreManager that the athlete's scores for each grade judged by this panel are to be calculated using the total mark given by each judge rather than the optional median scoring method available in the 2017 CoP. The ability to use the median scoring method will be introduced in future versions of ScoreManager

The Panel Sort Order determines the order in which the panels are listed in any screen where there is more than one panel shown. Changing the Sort Order allows you to quickly arrange a list of panels to match the order in which your competition will run.  The value of the Sort Order for each panel can also be seen in the screen for managing judging panels.

By default ScoreManager automatically increments this figure by 10 for each new panel but the value in this field can be changed by overtyping the number which is there. If the same number is given to two panels then ScoreManager will order the list of panels numerically by Panel Sort Order first and then aphabetically by Short Code given to the panel.