Competitions
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
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
When setting events up in the Online Entry System, please, adopt the following naming conventions
Reduce the number of characters by shortening the overall length as much as possible:
• Men is plural so there is no need for Mens, similarly Women
• If you use Mens or Womens, don't add a single quote, not Men's or Women's
• Combine adjoining classes with an oblique, not space-plus-space or space-ampersand-space
• Combine wider classes with hyphen, not space-to-space
• Men Masters can be shortened to Masters
• Women Masters can be shortened to WMasters
• Reduce Over to O, so Over 44 (7 chars) becomes O44 (3 chars)
• Reduce Under to U, so Under 14 (8 chars) becomes U14 (3 chars)
• Remove single quote from Va'a, make it Vaa (or Va-a?)
• Consider removing Va'a altogether as Va'a is indicated by boat type V1
• Reduce Saturday to Sat
• Reduce Sunday to Sun
Do not use the following characters:
• ampersand (&)
• single quote (')
• double quote (")
• colon (:)
• semi-colon (;)
• equals (=)
• asterix (*)
• hash (#)
Examples
From
To
Mens A + B
Men A/B
Womens A + Womens B
Women A/B
Boys C & D
Boys C/D
Womens A & B + Girls A & B
Women A/B + Girls A/B
Womens A & B + Girls A + Girls B
Women A/B + Girls A/B
Canoe A to D - mixed
Canoe A-D - mixed
Men Masters Over 44
Masters O44
Women Masters Over 44
WMasters O44
Women Masters Over 34 & Over 44
WMasters O34/44
Girls Under 14
Girls U14
Boys Under 18 + Boys Under 16
Boys U18/16
Para Men Va'a VL1-3
Para Men Vaa VL1-3
Para Men Va'a VL1-3
Para Men Vaa VL1-3
Para Men Va'a VL1-3
Para Men VL1-3
Paddle-Ability - Saturday
Paddle-Ability - Sat