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2017-03-09:

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Appendix I: Championships with Qualifiction and Final

Updated: 2017-03-09

This guide goes through a number of steps needed to implement a championship contest (or equivalent) with qualifying and final heats. Input data is, in addition to entries and courses, ranking, which is used to create even qualifying heats and define the starting order.

Preparations

• Create a competition and import the entries.
• Import the rankings to be used for heat subdivision and seeding.
• Check in the table mode for competitors that ranking has been imported as expected.

Heat Subdivision

• On the page Classes, select one class and then Split Class.
• Select Make equal classes (ranking), the number of classes and type the number of competitors for each heat.
• When classes are created, you can rename them to your preference.

Drawing Start Times and Seeding

Each qualification has to be drawn manually. Usually you put up a start schedule in consultation with the competition management.

• Select Draw / Manage Start Times. Select method Seeded start groups and seeding source ranking.
• Enter the desired sizes of the seeding groups (a size of one results in a strict ordering based on the ranking) and mark Prevent competitors from the same club to start at adjacent start times, if you want to prevent that.
• Enter First start and Start interval. You can assign bibs now or later using the general functionality.

Run the Qualifications

No special actions need to be taken compared to an ordinary competition.

Preparing for the Final

First you need to create the final competition.

• Open the qualification locally and verify that MeOS functionality for several stages is activated.
• Click Manage Several Stages, and Add New Stage, and then Transfer Results to the Next Stage.
• Open the newly created competition and verify (the the table mode on the page Competitors) that you have transferred competitors correctly and that everyone has the expected incoming results (place in, time in etc.) and that the heat field is defined. It is expected to be 1 for heat A, 2 for heat B etc.

Creating Final Classes

• On the page classes, select one of the qualification heats and click on Merge Classes to merge it with another qualification heat. Repeat until all heats (that belong together) has become one single large class.
• Select the merged class, Split Class and Split by result.
• Enter the Number of classes and the Number of competitors in each class.

Start Times

The instruction below is for ordering the start times strictly by the results from the qualification. Of course you can use distribute start times by other rules.

• Select again Draw / Manage Start Times on the page Classes and then Seeded start groups.
• Select seeding source Result.
• Enter 1 (one) as the size of the seeding groups. This means that no randomness is involved, but that each competitors comes a one person group. The qualification heat order is also used to order groups.
• Select also Prevent competitors from the same club to start at adjacent start times, if you want to prevent that.