Individual Finals

The Individual and Team Finals, or Elimination and Final Rounds, are one of the most important stages in a tournament. Though they can seem hard to be managed at first, once the user will learn the basic management method, organizing national competitions will be much easier and flawless.

Setting the Elimination Round

Before starting the Elimination Round, the user has to check for any tied scores, mainly, in the last place granting access to the Finals. When there are tied archers, the user can check their ranking through the windows that can be opened clicking on:

Individual Finals → Check shoot-off before final rounds

All the tournament Divisions and Classes highlighted in red concern tied archers (as in the first row of both the Individual Finals menu, and the Team Finals one; see Figure 4.1). This is not a mistake in the data management, it simply points out the shoot-offs to be broken before starting Final Rounds.

<placeholder: Figure 4.1: The menu highlighting shoot-offs to be broken before starting Final Rounds>

To break shoot-offs and proceed to Elimination and Final Rounds, the user has to click ‘OK’ on each screen, after choosing All (or the wished Division) in the drop-down menu (meaning that the user has to confirm each selected Division and Class), so that the program will save that there are no shoot-offs to break. In case of shoot-offs, matches will be highlighted, and, once ties are shot, the user can simply input the scores of the shooting athletes to break them (on the right) and modify the relative position in final rankings (on the left).

<placeholder: Figure 4.2: Shoot-offs to be broken, with tie scores and Final Ranking position.>

Once scores are entered, the user can click on ‘OK’ and break the tie (see Figure 4.2). To view the last updates in the rankings and check for shot-offs, the user can click on the second item in the menu, Shoot Off/Coin Toss Status Printout, which will print a document with the names of tied archers (see Figure 3.11).

Setting the Field Layout

Before explaining how to manage matches and the related printouts, the user has to set up a quick, but important, section, related to the Field Layout for Finals, which could rise planning issues, as organizing committees perfectly know. To manage the Field Layout setup, the user should open the page:

Competition → Individual Finals Setup.

In this section, the user can set a list of parameters that enable organizing committees to manage all the tasks related to Individual and Team Finals (see Figure 4.3).

<placeholder: Figure 4.3: Individual Finals Setup menu>