βοΈCompetition Settings
Learn how to change a competition's settings such as ranking methods, tiebreakers, and more.
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Learn how to change a competition's settings such as ranking methods, tiebreakers, and more.
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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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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 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:
The competition list page of your meet.
Select which competitions to delete and click the "Delete" button.
The settings page of the competition
There is a confirmation dialogue to make sure you want to delete the competitions.
