⚡Creating competitions
Learn how to create competitions for your gymnastics meet. This will also create scores for each athlete in the competition as well as allow you to add subdivisions of athletes to sessions
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Learn how to create competitions for your gymnastics meet. This will also create scores for each athlete in the competition as well as allow you to add subdivisions of athletes to sessions
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Once you have made your athletes you're ready to create competitions. The subdivisions (groups of athletes) of your competitions are how you can assign athletes to the rotations of a session. In other words, to create schedules and rotations, you must first create competitions.
To create competitions, navigate to the competitions page of your meet and click the "Create" button. This will open a dialogue with further instructions.
In the "Generate Competitions" dialogue, there are different settings you can modify to fine-tune your competition generation. This dialogue allows you to create competitions for one or multiple categories at once, set the maximum amount of athletes per subdivision, and auto-populate your subdivisions with athletes.
This may have already been done for you when you first made your athletes.
Select which of your categories to generate competitions for. You may want to select all categories, or just one. In either case, a competition will be created for each of the categories you've selected.
In the case that you want all athletes from a category to be added, check this box. For each competition, checking the box will automatically add all athletes from each respective competition's category to that competition's subdivisions.
If your categories have only one competition, all your athletes will be in it. For a qualifications competition, we add all athletes.
In a finals round, where not all athletes compete, this option would be unselected.
If you have checked the "Add all athletes" button, the software will add all athletes from each of the categories to the competition's subdivisions. The number entered in the Max athletes per subdivision field constrains how big each subdivision can be. GAM will then figure out how many subdivisions are needed and evenly divide athletes across those subdivisions.
For example, if we set a max of 28 athletes and have a competition with a total of 82 athletes, three subdivisions of sizes 28, 27, and 27 will be generated for that competition.
The Max athletes per subdivision constraint is applied to all competitions and their subdivisions uniformly when you are generating competitions. If you want to have different maximums for different competitions, you should create them in separate batches.
Once you hit create, GAM will look at all the teams and coaches of the athletes you want to add to each competition. It will do its best to keep athletes from the same team and with the same coaches together.
Furthermore, we provide a tool to re-generate the subdivisions and re-assign the athletes with a click of a button. You can learn more about that in this guide.
You can always move athletes around after they been added.
The number of athletes in each subdivision is correlated with your planned session and rotation size. When you add a subdivision to a session, your job will be to assign all of the athletes from that subdivision across the rotations. Put simply, you must be mindful about the subdivision sizes beforehand.
Typically a subdivision size will be approximately the (number of apparatus) * (number of athletes in a rotation). For WAG this could be 4 * 7 = 28.
