# Glossary > Definitions of terms used throughout Gym Art Meets documentation. ## General | Term | Definition | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Meet** | A gymnastics competition event organized through Gym Art Meets | | **Club** | An organization (gym, team) that manages gymnasts and registers for meets | | **Discipline** | The type of gymnastics: WAG (Women's Artistic), MAG (Men's Artistic), etc. | | **Level** | A competition category (e.g., Level 5, Xcel Gold, Junior Elite) with its own rules and pricing | | **Registration** | The process of adding gymnasts/coaches to a meet and paying | ## Scheduling | Term | Definition | | ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Session** | A competition time block (e.g., "Saturday Morning") with its own rotations and timeline | | **Rotation** | A group of gymnasts that competes together, starting at a specific apparatus and cycling through all apparatus | | **Flight** | A sub-group within a rotation (Flight A / Flight B) used to split large groups | | **Apparatus** | A piece of equipment gymnasts compete on: Vault (VT), Uneven Bars (UB), Balance Beam (BB), Floor Exercise (FX) for WAG; Floor Exercise (FX), Pommel Horse (PH), Still Rings (SR), Vault (VT), Parallel Bars (PB), Horizontal Bar (HB) for MAG | | **Apparatus Order** | The sequence in which rotations move through apparatus | | **Rotation Bump Number** | A configuration value used in rotation assignment calculations | ## Scoring | Term | Definition | | -------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **D Score (Difficulty)** | The difficulty value assigned by the D1 judge, based on element difficulty | | **E Score (Execution)** | The execution deduction assigned by E judges (E1-E7), starting from 10.0 | | **Start Value** | The pre-deduction value: Initial Execution + Difficulty + Bonus | | **Final Score** | The calculated result: Execution + Difficulty + Bonus - Neutral Deductions | | **Neutral Deduction** | Penalties for time violations, boundary violations, etc. | | **All-Around** | The sum of scores across all apparatus | | **Vault Scoring Decision** | How two vault attempts are combined: one vault only, average, or best | ## Judge Roles | Role | Description | | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **D1** | Difficulty judge - evaluates element content and difficulty | | **E1-E7** | Execution judges - evaluate execution quality (deductions from 10.0) | | **S1** | Supervisor - can fulfill any judge role | | **VR** | Video recorder - records routines for review | ## Score Status | Status | Description | | --------------- | ---------------------------- | | **Not Started** | No score entered yet | | **In Progress** | Judge is entering the score | | **Submitted** | Score submitted by the judge | | **In Review** | Admin is reviewing the score | | **Verified** | Score confirmed as final | | **Scratch** | Gymnast did not compete | ## Competitions & Grouping | Term | Definition | | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Competition** | The combination of a level + age group + subdivisions - the unit that gets assigned to sessions and ranked | | **Age Group** | A birth date range that groups gymnasts by age within a level (e.g., born 2014-2015) | | **Subdivision** | A sub-group of gymnasts within a competition, used for scheduling and optionally for separate awards | | **Award Group** | When "treat subdivisions as award groups" is enabled, each subdivision is ranked and awarded separately | | **Bump Rank** | Rank method where tied ranks skip the next number (1, 1, 3 instead of 1, 1, 2) | | **Cascading All-Around** | A tiebreaker that progressively drops the lowest apparatus score and compares remaining sums | | **Tiebreaker** | An algorithm that determines which gymnast ranks higher when final scores are equal | ## Registration Status | Status | Description | | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | | **Not Registered** | No registration submitted | | **Pending** | Registration submitted, awaiting approval | | **Approved** | Registration accepted | | **Waitlisted** | Capacity full, gymnast is in the queue | | **Rejected** | Registration failed validation | | **Scratched** | Withdrawn after approval | ## Migration Terms | Term | Definition | | ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **KSIS** | Gymnastics Ontario's competition management system - see [KSIS-to-Gym Art Meets migration guide](/migration/ksis-index.md) | | **ProScore** | Auburn Electronics Group's Windows-based gymnastics meet management and scoring software, the official scoring system of USA Gymnastics - see [ProScore-to-Gym Art Meets migration guide](/migration/proscore-index.md) | | **SportzSoft LiveMeet** | Cloud-based gymnastics meet management platform used across Canada, the United States, and Australia - see [SportzSoft LiveMeet-to-Gym Art Meets migration guide](/migration/sportzsoftlivemeet-to-gym-art-meets.md) | ## Related * [How do I register for a meet?](/registration/index.md) * [How do I set up scheduling?](/scheduling/index.md) * [How does scoring work?](/scoring/index.md) * [How do I configure competition levels?](/levels/index.md) * [How do tiebreakers work?](/tiebreakers/index.md) * [How do competitions, age groups, and subdivisions work?](/competitions/index.md) * [Switching from KSIS?](/migration/ksis-index.md) * [Switching from ProScore?](/migration/proscore-index.md) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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