Competition Start Lists and Start Groups

 

Competition start lists are lists which show the order in which the athletes in each grade are to compete. Start lists are created, or drawn, for each round of the competition i.e. the qualifying , semi-final and final rounds of the competition. A start list for the qualifying round is created by sorting the athletes to a random order but the start lists for the semi-final and final rounds are determined by the scores which the athlete's achieved in the previous round. To ensure the start list is truely random it is not possible to manually change the order in which athletes are set to compete.

 

When there are a large number of athletes entered into a grade it is often easier to manage the athletes by splitting them in to a number of groups or start groups. Each group then competes separately before the semi-finalists or finalists are found from the results of the combined groups. Start groups are only used in the qualifying rounds of a competition.

 

FIG requires the maximum number of athletes in a start group to be 16 and recommends that start groups should have between 8 and 12 athletes in each group. ScoreManager provides a simple method of creating start groups and allows organisers to choose either the maximum number of athletes in a start group, or the number of start groups to be created. This makes it easy to build the optimal number of start groups for the competition. The competition organiser can also manually move athletes between start groups but can not change the randomly assigned order in which the athletes must compete.

 

ØCreating Start Lists

ØPrinting Start Lists

ØStart Groups