Add and configure categories

After configuring your round(s), the next step is to add categories to the competition.
Categories serve two main goals in the application. Firstly the categories allow you to distinguish between groups of participants, in order to know who is competing against each other, i.e. results are created by category.
Secondly, categories determine the competition format for its participants.

*If you plan on importing your participants from a csv file, or from another event, consider executing the import before configuring the categories, since this will create your categories for you.

Regarding the preparation of the competition schedule, the most important settings of a category are:

• The name: include information such as level and age group in the name of a category.
• Participant type: either individual or group. Use individual for all categories where the gymnasts perform their exercises individually. Whenever gymnasts perform exercises together (Acrobatic Gymnastics, Trampoline Synchronous, etc …) use Group.
• Competition format: the competition format will determine a number of aspects related the scoring the participants, most importantly:
  • Types of exercises: i.e. the number of routines, which apparatus or which events are performed by the participants of the category.
  • Judge panel en score calculation: some disciplines have variations in the composition of the judge panel, or the way the scores are assigned and calculated.
• Number of sub divisions: the default number of sub divisions is 1. Increase the number of subdivisions if you want to split the participants of the category over multiple competition sessions. Doing so, will allow you to a) assign specific sub divisions to each session, and b) distribute participants over the subdivisions.