# Assign gymnasts to rotations

You have your rotations configured. Now you need to fill them with gymnasts. You can let the system do the heavy lifting with auto-assignment, or you can place gymnasts by hand. Most organizers use a mix of both.

## Prerequisites

* [Configure rotations](/scheduling/configure-rotations.md)

## Auto assignment

1. Open the session and go to **Rotations** or **Squad Generation**.
2. Click **Auto Assign**.
3. The system distributes registered gymnasts across rotations based on their level and discipline, the apparatus types per rotation, and any capacity constraints you have set.
4. Review the assignments.
5. Adjust any placements that do not look right.

Auto assignment is a starting point. It gets you 90% of the way there, but you will almost always want to move a few gymnasts around afterward.

## Manual assignment

1. Open a specific rotation.
2. Use the gymnast list to add or remove gymnasts from the rotation.
3. Drag and drop to reorder gymnasts within a rotation. The order here determines competition order on each apparatus.
4. Repeat for each rotation.

## Things to keep in mind

Squad generation settings can be saved as templates, so if you run similar sessions throughout a meet, you do not have to reconfigure from scratch each time.

Watch your capacity limits. A rotation should not have more gymnasts than the apparatus can handle in the allotted time. If a rotation is too large, consider splitting it into flights.

The order of gymnasts within a rotation determines their competition order on every apparatus they rotate through.

## What's next

* [Manage flights](/scheduling/manage-flights.md) -- split large rotations into Flight A and Flight B
* [Set session timeline](/scheduling/set-session-timeline.md) -- define warmup, competition, and break times

## Related

* [Configure rotations](/scheduling/configure-rotations.md)
* [Scheduling overview](/scheduling/index.md)


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