🔢Ordering & adding rotations

Learn how to organize your rotations in a session

Overview

Each session has a set of rotations that represent the apparatus that athletes will compete on, and the groups of athletes that will compete. In general, we want to have the four (or six for men) apparatus in Olympic order for rotations. Then, for each rotation, we will assign a group of athletes to start at that apparatus. Once the competition time starts, each group will compete and then move on to the next rotation in the order that you set. In special cases, you may also want to add a break apparatus to fit all the groups of athletes in a session.

Ordering rotations

To change the order of your rotations, simply use the drag handle above its tile.

The order of your rotations, and consequently the apparatus, will determine the sequence of apparatus the gymnasts will compete in. Below is an example of reordering rotations to better understand the logic behind rotation order.

Adding rotations

In the special case that you want to add a 'break rotation', or you removed a rotation and want to add it back, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the "Rotations" page of the session

2. Click the "+ Rotation" button

3. Select which apparatus (rotation) you want to add your new rotation after

4. Select which apparatus you want to add

5. (Optional) Set the judge's table to either no table, create a new one, or assign an existing one

   • This option is only applicable for live scoring and can be ignored otherwise

6. Click "Add" and the rotation will appear in the rotation list in the designated position

From the "Rotations" page click the "+ Rotation" to add a rotation

Select the position (apparatus to add after) and the apparatus to add

Break rotations

A break rotation is a rotation without apparatus, which means no one is competing or being judged when on break. Adding such a break allows for smaller rotation sizes and more athletes in the session.

Break rotations are used in the case that there are too many athletes to fit in the current rotations, and it is not worth it to create a new session for the excess athletes. You can add as many breaks as you want, but in general, being parsimonious with regard to rotation count is recommended

Removing rotations

Removing a rotation will also remove its apparatus so that no athlete will compete on that apparatus. If you are looking to have empty rotations, then simply leave the rotation athlete list empty.

Follow these steps to remove an apparatus (rotation) from the competition order:

1. Navigate to the "Rotations" page of the session

2. Click the "delete" icon button on the rotation's tile

3. Confirm you want to remove this apparatus from the competition order

4. The rotation and its apparatus will no longer be on the list of rotations

If you removed a rotation by accident, you can always add it back by following these steps. Also, check out the example of how removing an apparatus will affect the competition order.

From the "Rotations" page click the "delete" icon button

Confirm you want to remove this rotation

An example of removing a rotation

If we originally had the four rotations in Olympic order (i.e. Vault, Bars, Beam, and Floor), then removing Bars would make it so all athletes in this session will only compete on Vault, Beam, and Floor.

Example of reordering

To illustrate the re-ordering of rotations, we can imagine we have two different groups of athletes. Furthermore, the rotations are initially set to the Olympic order: Vault, Bars, Beam, and Floor. If Group 1 starts on Vault, and Group 2 starts on Bars, the order they will compete, initially, is such:

Initial competition order

• Group 1: Vault, Bars, Beam, and then Floor

• Group 1: Bars, Beam, Floor then Vault

Then, if we were to drag the Vault rotation after Beam, the competition orders become:

Modified competition order

• Group 1: Vault, Floor, Bars, then Beam

• Group 1: Bars, Beam, Vault, then Floor