Competition/Individual Events Setup

Planning Individual Finals reduces the possibility of making errors and increase the ease of results management, especially if the ISK-NG is planned to be used

Manage Events

Individual Events List

Competition => Individual Events Setup => Manage Events shows the list of individual events.

• Event Code: Code of the event. This is the code that will be used throughout ianseo. It changes into a button when saved in order to change which categories and eventually subclasses are eligible to shoot in this event (see #Event Category Selection)
• Event Name: description of the event
• Para/IPC: check to enable as para event
• Order: order by which the event will be listed
• Eliminations: type of elimination. See #Elimination Types
• Match Scoring: select the scoring format (cumulative or set system) for the event
• First Phase: select the first phase for the brackets part of this event. Please check with Participants#Statistics to set the correct starting phase based on the actual participant numbers. Select "--" (no starting phase) to create events without brackets.
• Target Type: select the correct target type for this event
• ø (cm): diameter (in cm) of the target
• Distance: Shooting distance. Can be 0 for events where the distance varies between phases or ends.
• Create and Delete Events based on Participants button will create or delete events based on the categories not set as part of an event or delete events where no eligible archers are present.

Event Category Selection

Category Selection

Category and eventual subclass eligibility is defined in this page. Select which categories are eligible. Multiple selections are made with CTRL+Click. Default is no subclass filter, it must be enabled manually to be used.

Advanced

Category Selection, Advanced

The Advanced button opens some extended fields. These values are critical for the correct behaviour of the event results:

• Number of Athletes/Teams to Select: automatically calculated based on the starting phase, can be changed to reduce the selection only: top ranked archers will have a bye
• Rank of First Athlete/Team to Select: usually "1" for regular brackets, can be set to another value, for example to manage secondary competitions with lower ranked archers
• Is a Medal Event: selects if the event will be awarded
• Event's Winner Final Rank: set this to the first ranked after the event is finished. Should be the same as Rank of first athlete
• Parent Event Code: If this event is a child of another event, then leave the category selection above empty as the opponents will be the dropout/winner of the parent event
• Select Winners of Parent Event: if Parent Event Code is selected, defines if the event will be populated by the dropouts (default) or the winners of previous events
• Gold Label: Label to set for the first level tie breaker
• XNine Label: Label to set for the second level tie breaker
• Points as Gold: Points to be retained to calculate the first level tie breaker
• Points as XNine: Points to be retained to calculate the second level tie breaker
• Check Golds in Ties: Establishes if ties should be break based on the first tie breaker
• Check XNine in Ties: Establishes if ties should be break based on the second tie breaker
• Ranking AFTER following distance: Usually set as "last", can be changed to accommodate specific needs of the competition format
• WA Category: Equivalence between this event and the WA category if any

Elimination Types

Elimination Types

Defaults to "Regular brackets", but can be changed to other types of elimination.

Changing this value will litterally kill the previous elimination type references and matches and recreate the all items needed to manage results for this new type.

1(2) Elim.Round

Intermediate Elimination Rounds Setup

This kind of elimination will place 1 or 2 intermediate rounds before placing qualified archers into the final brackets. Some fields need to be entered or verified for each round:

• Archers: Number of archers to select
• Ends: number of ends to shoot
• Arrows: number f arrows per end
• Shoot Off: SO arrows

World Games(Archery) Pools

World Games/Archery Pools Setup

This kind of elimination prepares 2/4 Shoot Up pools where athletes ranked 3 or more after qualification will be placed, with (WG) or without (WA) beauty match between first and second ranked. As usual some fields need to be entered or verified:

• Archers: Number of archers to be placed in the pools
• Ends: number of ends to shoot
• Arrows: number f arrows per end
• Shoot Off: SO arrows

Round Robin

Round Robin Event Setup

Round Robin global setup for this event only need to set how many "waves" of Round Robin matches will be held until placing archers in the final brackets (if any).

• Levels: number of Round Robin levels will be held (see Round Robin for the complete setup)

Archers on Targets

Target and Phase Opponents Setup

Clicking on this item, the software will open an empty page, where the user can choose the wished event. Clicking, then, on ‘OK’, the software will enable the user to manage the number of athletes per target (see Figure 4.5). By clicking on Field of Play Layout, the user can print the Layout of the Final Matches Field. This view is really useful for organizing committees, since it enables the user to intuitively arrange targets for the final rounds in a fast way.

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Arrows per Set

Arrows and Ends Setup

Generally, this screen is used only as informative reference, since the number of arrows and ends doesn’t change from tournament to tournament, but it’s always defined by the existing rules (see Figure 4.6).

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Targets Number

It enables the user to manage the Targets Number (in Grid View mode) for each event. Starting from the first step, the user can input the Targets Number to arrange the Finals Field Layout for each set of matches (see Figure 4.7).

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Scheduling

From this section, the user can create the tournament agenda (Scheduling) for the Elimination and Finals Rounds. It is a major step, but it is not vital for the tournament management (see Par. 5.5).

Warm Up Schedule

In this section the user can manage, if needed, the number of targets on which archers can shoot the scheduled Warm Up Ends (see Par. 5.5).

Manage Running Events

This section is meant for managing Running Events.

The description sequence is based on the events order, or, following the explanation of each command, the user can create a schedule for a tournament in a simple, complete and fast way.