Competitions
When creating a competition, ensure that the 'Entries close' date is initially entered before today's date. This means that the competition won't be visible to Team Leaders until we're ready to open it up after internal review.
Events
We aim to provide 6 events for each paddler class at each Regatta. Generally, there's not enough time during the weekend to support more than 6 events, particularly when there are potentially heats and finals for each of these events and allowing for an hour's gap between races for paddlers.
Creating Events
When setting up events, remember to include the event category, e.g. Mini-sprint series, Paddle-ability, National Champsionship, Selection etc. These categories appear on the Start Lists next to each event.
The system allows us to control what percentage of the correct class needs to be in each crew boat for the entry to be valid.
This can be set up using the 'Ratio' value.
0% or NULL means not applicable.
25% means at least one paddler has to be from the higher class, i.e. not racing-up class.
50% means at least two paddlers have to be from the higher class, i.e. not racing-up class.
The Ratio can also be used for mixed crew boats. In this instance, all the gender classes should be split between the higher class and the racing-up classes, i.e. men or boys classes in one column, women or girls classes in the other. It doens't match which way round these are. You can then apply a 50% ratio value.
During entries, the system enforces the ratio and throws up an error message.
Merging Events
1. The timetable has to be truncated. You can truncate the timetable from import menu. 2. In events setting you just select the event to merge and system automatically rename the event and merge the entries from selected events. 3. Older events are automatically deleted. 4. Edit the event name to be more prettier