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 one another, i.e. results are created per category.
Secondly, categories determine the competition format for its participants, indicating which exercises need to be performed and how the scoring is handled.

*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, 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. The format will determine which variation is used for participants of the category.
• 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.
• Score Publishing Restrictions: by default, scores as well as rankings will be published to the audience (if you provide any means of public access to results). You can set limitations on what information is published. For exercises scores, you can block the publication (in score flashing or in the live results website) of separate exercise scores. For Rankings you can block all publication of results, publish only awards information, or publish full rankings.
• Participant Awards: for some competition, you want to assign awards to the participants rather the (only) a ranking. You can create awards for the individual All-around result, for event results and for team results. The award can be based on the overall score (use score miinima as value), or on the ranking (use percentage as value).