Meets
Learn what an artistic gymnastics meet is in the context of Gym Art Meets.
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Learn what an artistic gymnastics meet is in the context of Gym Art Meets.
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In this guide we'll cover what a gymnastics meet is in the context of Gym Art Meets. Depending on your background you may use different terminology. Our goal here is to clarify the different components of a meet and how they all work together.
The topics covered are the following:
Below is a visual guide on how all these parts work together
Meets are gymnastics events where gymnasts from different categories and teams compete against each other. A meet can range from one day to many depending on the number of sessions needed for all athletes to compete.
The different parts of a meet include categories (competition levels), teams (gymnastics clubs), athletes, coaches, judges, and competitions. All these parts come together in the schedule.
Scores are entered by judges using Judge’s Companion and are published on the spectator’s app Gym Art.
If you're ready to create a meet, you can jump right in with either of these guides:
A meet can be thought of as the container encompassing all other parts (athletes, categories, etc.). It's like the wrapper that keeps everything together! Below you'll find overviews of each component in a meet and how they are related to each other. This will not only help clarify our terminology but also help you understand how all the pieces come together and how they affect each other.
As anyone who's organized a meet knows, there are always last-minute changes that end up affecting everyone else in the meet. Be it athletes dropping out before the event or venue complications arising last minute, we need to stay alert so that we have the tools and best practices which allow us to pivot effectively. Gym Art Meets is a software that allows administrators and organizers to quickly make changes dynamically so that when a perturbation in our original plan arises, we can quickly adapt and implement the best solution
Categories (or levels of competition) are a way to define the level of difficulty the different athletes are competing at. Categories can either be the well-defined FIG levels or custom regional levels of your province of the state. Each category has an age range and often different sets of rules attached. Each category must have a unique name that’s used to link it with athletes
Teams, AKA gymnastics clubs, provincial or state teams, or countries, represent a group of athletes from the same geographical location. Athletes from a team can be from different categories and can share the same coaches. Each team has a unique name, which is used to link it with athletes.
Furthermore, teams are used in Gym Art Meets to
Calculate team scores for competitions
In essence, schedules are timelines consisting of sessions. Sessions are allotted time for different athletes to compete in the venue. Gym Art Meets also enables you to create multiple schedule variations and toggle which one is publicly visible.
Rotations are groups of athletes within a session. Each rotation represents an ordered group of athletes that will compete on each apparatus.
When specifying rotations within a session, you are specifying the initial apparatus and the starting order of the athletes. In other words, when a session begins, the athletes and their coaches begin at the rotation's apparatus. Once everyone is done competing everyone will move over to the next apparatus and compete there.
, or gymnasts, are the whole reason we're here! They're the individuals competing on the apparatus during the meet, sticking the landings, and receiving the perfect 10s. In the context of Gym Art Meets, athletes are associated with a category, or a team, and have a unique identifier. Check out this interactive guide if you're a visual learner.
. You can create multiple competitions per category, such as qualifications and final rounds.
Group athletes together in of with our tool
Group athletes together in of with our tool
are how you assign athletes to compete and be ranked against one another. They only have athletes from one category, which can be further partitioned into . Gym Art Meets provides tools to rapidly generate and evenly distribute athletes across subdivisions such that they remain with their team and coaches.
are the sub-grouping of all the athletes you've added to the competition. For example, if there are 60 total athletes, you may want to create 3 subdivisions such that each has 20 athletes in it. An athlete cannot be in two subdivisions at once.
Subdivisions are significant when it comes to creating well-balanced sessions for your . Only one subdivision may be assigned to a session. Therefore, if you have 60 athletes in subdivision 1 and try to assign them to a session, you'll have to figure out how they will all compete in the venue simultaneously!
are the aggregation and thoughtful ordering of the athletes, categories, teams, and competitions such that the experience for everyone involved is the best.
Sessions are time slots within . Each session has a list of rotations (or groups of athletes) which decide where everyone will start competing. of athletes are added to each session so that we may assign them to the rotations.
Sessions also include a to describe where and when the athletes arrive, warm up and compete. Finally, each session has a section where you can manage which and will be judging at each apparatus.
Judges enter scores and upload routine videos using . They login to the app using a session and meet password and then choose the apparatus, rotation, and their role. Judges can be either D1, E1- E7, or a Video Recorder.
Scores are uploaded instantly online and are available to view from the application. Ranking is done instantaneously as well as team score calculations.
You can control how individual and team score ties are handled . For example, you can change how many scores count towards the team score, whether to bump on a tie (1st, 1st, 3rd vs 1st, 1st, 2nd), and how to break final score ties (comparing execution, then difficulty or vice versa)