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2023-03-22:

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Manual Leg Settings

Updated: 2023-03-22

If none of the predefine form of competitions suite you needs, you can change the rules for each leg manually. Select a class on the page Classes. If it is a multi class, you will see a table like form with settings for each leg, see the section on multi classes. The possible settings are explained below.

Leg type decides the rules for the leg and how results are calculated. There are the following options.

• Normal means that the leg is run after the preceding leg has finished.
• Parallel means that the leg runs in parallel with the preceding leg (which may or may not in turn be parallel with its preceding leg). The start time is assumed to be the same. The time on the leg is the maximum of the time for any runner in the parallel block; the last of the parallel runners change over to the next leg. If you want three parallel legs, number one, two, and three, use normal for leg one and parallel for leg two and three.
• Optional works just like parallel with one difference: it is allowed for a team to not have any runner on that leg. The type can be used in a class where you can run individually or in a patrol. In the patrol case, it is the runner with longest time that decides the time of the patrol.
• Extra is another variant of parallel or optional. The difference is that the fastest time is used to define the start time for the next leg; the runner first to finish defines the time on the leg; the results of the other extra runners are ignored.
• Sum means that the leg time of the the time on the leg is added to the team time, disregarding the time elapsed from team start time to finish time of leg. This is required when the relay does not run linearly from start to finish, for example if there is a break. If you use this kind of leg, there is in general no guarantee that first to finish will win.
• Co-runner means that the runner is included in the lists, but is completely ignored when calculating results. A co-runner need not have a a SI-card.
• Group means that the competitor is a member of the team, but runs his/her own race in his/her own class (which may be an individual class). MeOS has no rule for calculating the team result; This option is useful when you have defined a Result Module that defines the rules. Please note that a competitor may belong to at most one team.

The field Start type defines how the leg starts using the following options.

• Start time means that the time supplied in the field Start time will be used for all runners on the leg.
• Changeover means that the finish time on the previous leg is used as start time. Note that the leg types parallel, optional, and extra have special rules for which time is used.
• Assigned mean that MeOS will not modify the start time automatically. You are responsible for assigning start time by drawing the leg, using a start punch, or some other method.
• Pursuit means that the result of the preceding legs are used to setup a pursuit. The first runner in the pursuit starts at the time specified at Start time.

In the field Start time you can specify the start time (when the start type is start time) or the first start time (when the start time is pursuit). When the start type is Changeover you can either specify Ordered, which means that the runners will start in the order of the team line-up, or specify a leg. For parallel legs, ordered means that the runner that finishes first on the preceding leg will send out the runner that is listed first on the next leg, and so on. By instead specifying a leg, you say that the runner must be sent out by that specified runner. For example you can specify that leg 1 sends out leg 3 and leg 2 sends out leg 4, no matter who finishes first of leg 1 and leg 2.

The field Runner decides which team member will run the leg. The normal case for a rely is that this number is the same as the leg number. But you can select the runner of a previous leg, which means this runner will run again. For example, if you want the same runner to run, say, leg one and three, select Leg 1 in this field for leg three. The fields Rope and Restart are explained in the section Restarting.