KScore meet setup
You've done this before in KSCORE. Here's how to do the same thing in Gym Art Meets.
Before you start: You'll need a Gym Art Meets account and a club set up in the Club Dashboard.
What you're used to
In KSCORE, you contact their team and they help you set up the event. You give them the details (name, dates, location, what disciplines), they configure the categories and scoring, and eventually you're up and running. The whole process depends on someone getting back to you.
How it works now
In Gym Art Meets, you do it yourself. The whole thing takes about 15 minutes and nobody needs to approve anything or get back to you.
Step 1: Create the meet
Go to meets.gymart.org and create a new meet. You'll fill in the name, dates, venue and address, and pick the sport (WAG, MAG, etc.). You can also set whether the meet is public or private, and add a background image or description if you want.
Step 2: Add your levels
This is where things are named differently. What KSCORE calls a "category" or "group" (CCP 2, Xcel Gold, etc.), Gym Art Meets calls a level.
Create one level for each competitive category you need. When you create a level, you set the entry fee right there. That replaces the per-athlete registration fee from KSCORE.
Step 3: Set up scoring for each level
In KSCORE, scoring is set at the event level. In Gym Art Meets, you set it per level. This actually gives you more control, because different levels can have different rules within the same meet.
For each level, you'll configure:
Whether it uses FIG or 10.0 scoring (or a custom setup)
Tiebreaker rules (there are 8 different algorithms to choose from)
How vault scoring works (one vault, average of two, or best of two)
Team scoring (how many gymnasts contribute, how many scores count)
Whether tied gymnasts skip a rank number or not
If you're used to mixing FIG and 10.0 in the same KSCORE event, you can do exactly the same thing here.
Individual score settings and Team score settings
Step 4: Add age groups
Where KSCORE uses color-coded sub-categories (like "Xcel Bronze Orange" and "Xcel Bronze Yellow"), Gym Art Meets uses age groups defined by birth date ranges.
Inside each level, you create age groups and set the date range for each one. The platform then automatically checks that gymnasts are the right age when they register.
There's also something new here called subdivisions. If you have a huge age group (say, 60 gymnasts) and you need to split them across two sessions, subdivisions let you do that while still ranking them all together. KSCORE doesn't have anything like this, and you don't need it right away, but it's there when you need it.
Create age groups and Create subdivisions
Step 5: Set up registration
Configure when registration opens and closes, what the late fees are, whether you need coach registration, and any custom fields you want to collect (allergies, shirt sizes, whatever). If your meet requires floor music, you can set the music deadline here too.
In KSCORE, registration happens through register.kscore.ca. In Gym Art Meets, it's all built into the same platform.
Quick comparison
How you get started
Contact KSCORE, wait for setup
Do it yourself at meets.gymart.org
Reusing past meet settings
Not documented
Clone any existing meet
How levels and ages are organized
Categories with color sub-categories
Levels created first, age groups added inside each one
Where scoring is configured
At the event level
Per level (so different levels can have different rules)
Splitting big groups across sessions
Not available
Subdivisions
Public vs. private
Not documented
Toggle for public or private
Next step
Once your meet is set up, head to scheduling and judges.
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