⚙️Competition Settings

Learn how to change a competition's settings such as ranking methods, tiebreakers, and more.

Overview

Competitions have a few different settings that alter what the public sees and how ranks are calculated. All of these settings are accessible from the competition's Settings section. In this guide we'll cover:

1. Competition Name

2. Max athletes per subdivision

3. Scoring Settings

   1. Team Score Count

   2. Rank bumping on ties

   3. Tie-breaking decisions fl

4. Deleting competitions

Editing and publishing

To modify your competition, click it from the list of competitions and navigate to the settings section. Upon modification of the competition, you must press the "Publish changes" button to save and publish any edits.

Click on the competition from the list of competitions

Use the Publish Changes button to save your edits

Competition Name

The name of the competition should communicate who is competing and for what. By default, it's set to the name it's the category. Below are our recommendations for names and formatting based on the scenario:

Scenario	Name
All athletes from a category and no finals	Category name Ex: Senior
All athletes from a category and there are finals	Category name ~ Comp. type Ex: Senior ~ Qualifications; Senior ~ AA Finals

* Note that we don't include the sport in the name (WAG, MAG), as you can only have one sport (WAG/MAG) in a meet. Ideally, the sport is in the meet's name.

Max Athletes per Subdivision

You can change the maximum size of the subdivisions in your competition in the settings section. This number is used when you're generating subdivisions, and organizing your athletes across the subdivisions. It constrains the size of each subdivision so no more than the given number can be added.

Scoring Settings

You can control how each competition's scoring works. GAM provides settings for how many scores count per team, whether to bump athletes/teams on a tie and how to break athlete/team final score ties.

Team Score Count

This number decides how many athletes' scores count towards the final team score. It defaults to 3 meaning that it will identify the top three scores from the team on each apparatus and add it to the team's final score. If there are less than three athletes in a team it will take all the athletes' scores.

A 5-4-3 competition (five athletes in the arena, four compete on each apparatus, and 3 scores count) would set this number to 3.

Rank bumping on ties

For both individual athletes and competitions, you can decide whether to skip a rank when there is a tie. The best way to explain this is through an example where two athletes tie for 1st place:

Ranks with bump: 1st, 1st, 3rd

Ranks without bump: 1st, 1st, 2nd

Tie-breaking decision

In artistic gymnastics scores are multi-layered. This complexity allows us to differentiate two scores with the same final score. In GAM you can control how (and if) final score ties are broken. The following three options will affect whether athletes with the final scores are classed with the same rank.

Execution

• If the final score is the same, look next to which athlete has the highest* final execution.

• If the execution scores are the same, look next to which athlete has the highest* difficulty

• If the difficulty scores are the same, the tie remains

Difficulty

• If the final score is the same, look next to which athlete has the highest* difficulty score.

• If the difficulty scores are the same, look next to which athlete has the highest* execution

• If the difficulty scores are the same, the tie remains

None

• If the final score is the same, the tie remains

It is possible to have the same final score and execution but a different difficulty score because of neutral deductions.

Definitions *

• Having higher execution means that an athlete has received fewer average deductions than the other

• Having a higher difficulty score means the difficulty + bonus is higher than the other athlete

• The final score is calculated as difficulty + bonus - neutral deductions + initial exeuction - average deductions

If you're new to how scores work, here's an interactive guide:

Deleting competitions

Deleting competitions will remove all athletes in them from all sessions they are in. It will also delete all scores and routine videos in this competition. This feature preserves data integrity and cannot be turned off.

You can delete competitions from two places:

1. The competition list page of your meet.

   1. Select which competitions to delete and click the "Delete" button.

2. The settings page of the competition

There is a confirmation dialogue to make sure you want to delete the competitions.

Select competitions to delete and delete them using the Delete button

Confirm you want to delete the competitions and remove them and their athletes from the schedules