Managing Non-Competing Partnerships
If a partnership is no longer expected to compete, Acro Companion provides several ways to handle the situation. The correct option depends on when the partnership withdraws and why it is no longer competing.
1. Choosing the Correct Option
Use the table below to determine which action is appropriate.
2. Changing a Competition Status
The ABS, DSQ, and DQB buttons are available from the Starting Order tab.
To display the available actions, hover over the partnership.
When a partnership is marked as ABS, DSQ, or DQB, it appears greyed out and crossed out in the starting order. This information is visible to both competition managers and the public.
Click the appropriate button to assign the desired status.
After changing the status, click the Save 
button.
3. Re-enabling
If a partnership has been marked as ABS, DSQ, or DQB by mistake, you can restore it.
In the Starting Order tab, hover over the partnership and click the Re-enable button.
After making your changes, click the Save button.
4. ABS (Absent)
Marks the partnership as absent.
Use ABS when a partnership withdraws after the starting order has been created, but before competing. This allows the published starting order to remain unchanged while clearly indicating that the partnership will not perform.
Besides marking individual exercises as ABS from the Starting Order, you can also set all exercises for a partnership to ABS from the Partnerships tab.
Select the partnership and click the Set all exercises for the selected partnership to absen 
button.
If the withdrawal is known well before the competition, it is generally recommended to remove the partnership from the competition instead.
Example: A partnership withdraws on the morning of the competition after the starting order has already been published.
Consequences:
- The partnership remains visible in the starting order.
- The partnership is displayed greyed out and crossed out.
- The partnership remains part of the exercise navigation in the Head Judge (CJP/D1) screen. When the exercise is opened, a message indicates that it has been set to Absent.
- The absence is visible to competition managers and the public, and is also marked in the scoring inputs.
- Exercises marked as ABS do not receive a score and are not ranked.
- Setting or resetting ABS does not change the rankings.
5. DSQ (Disqualified)
Marks the partnership as disqualified.
A DSQ indicates an official disqualification issued according to the FIG rules.
Source: FIG, Appendix to the Code of Points 2025–2028, p. 13.
Consequences:
- The partnership remains visible in the starting order.
- The partnership is displayed as greyed out and crossed out.
- The disqualification is visible to competition managers and the public.
- Any submitted score is removed and replaced by a DSQ score.
- If the ranking contains only a DSQ score, no ranking position is assigned and the participant is placed at the end of the ranking.
- If the ranking combines multiple exercise scores (for example, an All Around ranking), the DSQ score is counted as 0 while the remaining exercise scores are still included in the calculation.
6. DQB (Doping Disqualification)
Marks the partnership as disqualified because of a doping violation.
A DQB indicates a disqualification resulting from a violation of the Olympic Charter, the World Anti-Doping Code, or other applicable regulations issued by the IOC, FIG, or an NF/NOC.
Source: FIG, Appendix to the Code of Points 2025–2028, p. 13.
Consequences:
- The partnership remains visible in the starting order.
- The partnership is displayed as greyed out and crossed out.
- The disqualification is visible to competition managers and the public.
- Any submitted score is replaced by a DQB score.
- If the ranking contains only a DQB score, no ranking position is assigned and the partnership is placed at the end of the ranking.
- If the ranking combines multiple exercise scores (for example, an All Around ranking), the DQB score is counted as 0 while the remaining exercise scores are still included in the calculation.
7. Other options
7.1 Disable Specific Exercises
If a participant is known in advance not to compete in specific exercises, you can disable those exercises instead of marking them as ABS.
This is useful, for example, for apparatus specialists or team competitions where a participant is only expected to compete on selected apparatus.
- Open the Participant Lists tab.
- Locate the participant.
- Clear the checkbox for each exercise the participant will not perform.
Consequences:
- The disabled exercise is not included in the starting order.
- No score can be submitted for the disabled exercise.
- Exercises can only be disabled if no score has already been submitted.
7.2 Remove the Partnership
If it is known well before the competition that a partnership will not participate, it is recommended to remove it from the competition instead of marking it as ABS.
Note: Partnerships can only be removed if they have no submitted scores.
Removing a partnership may require updating other competition information.
For more information, see the Deleting Partnerships chapter.
7.3 Judges' Actions
Some actions related to participants not competing are performed by the Head Judge (CJP/D1) during the competition rather than by the Competition Manager.
7.3.a DNS (Did Not Start)
If a partnership reaches its turn to compete but does not start the exercise, the Head Judge can set the exercise as DNS.
Unlike ABS, DNS is applied during the competition after the partnership has been called to compete.
For more information about setting an exercise to DNS, see the Head Judge (CJP/D1) chapter.
7.3.b Skip Exercise
Use Skip Exercise when an exercise is intentionally not performed and should not be included in the competition.
Unlike DNS, this action does not record that the participant failed to start the exercise.
Typical examples include:
- Optional routines in Trampoline qualifications.
- Artistic team competitions where not all participants perform every apparatus.
For more information, see the Head Judge (CJP/D1) chapter.