Creating Starting Order

Before creating the competition starting order, make sure you have:

  • Read and met all the requirements presented in the Introduction chapter, especially in the Administration Information and Requirements.
  • Configured all the competition information in the General Setup.

Also, be sure to complete all the necessary steps to set up the Participant Lists in the chapter Managing Participant Lists and all its prerequisites.

1. Where to start

  1. In the sidebar, select your competition and click Administration.
  2. If you don’t see this option, you may not be a manager for this competition.
    Learn how to become a manager of an organization.

1.1 Starting Order

Before creating the Starting Order, make sure to first add and configure all the competition information.

Learn how to do this here.

  1. Select the subdivision and track you want to work on from the dropdown below the tabs. Track 1 holds the men's apparatus and track 2 the women's.
  2. Select the competition phase, the amount of byes and the order preset for that subdivision and track.
  3. The apparatus of the track appear side by side, in the Olympic order of their gender.

1.2 Adding starting groups to the Starting Order

You don't create rotations or blocks yourself. You choose which group starts on which apparatus, and the rotations are created from that.

Each apparatus card shows the groups that start there. In every following rotation, those groups move to the next apparatus, in the Olympic order of their gender.

Before you start: split each participant list into groups, for example one group per team. A list without groups can only be placed as a whole, so all its gymnasts start on the same apparatus. Learn how to create groups.

  1. Click the Add button on the apparatus where the group should start.
  1. Select one or more groups and confirm.
    Only the groups of the selected competition phase and of the track's gender are listed: men on track 1, women on track 2. A group can only start on one apparatus.
  1. The card now lists the Starting Groups and their Gymnasts, and the rotations of every apparatus on the track are filled in.
  1. To remove a group, click the Remove button next to it. The group is removed from all rotations.

Repeat this for every apparatus, and then for the other track and every subdivision.

1.3 Byes

A bye is a starting position where a group does not perform an exercise and rests for that rotation.

Groups move through the byes in the same way they move through the apparatus. When a group reaches a bye, it sits out that rotation and continues on the next apparatus afterwards. You can also place groups on a bye, so they start with a rest.

Byes are useful when a track has more groups than apparatus. They give every group its own starting position, while some groups rest during a rotation. For example, on the women's track (4 apparatus), with one group per starting position:

  • 4 groups = 0 byes
  • 5 groups = 1 bye
  • 6 groups = 2 byes

Use Amount of byes to add up to 2 byes to the track. The first bye comes after the first half of the apparatus, and the second at the end.

⚠️ The amount of byes cannot be lowered while groups are placed on a bye that would be removed.

1.4 Changing the order of gymnasts

The Order Preset decides how the gymnasts are ordered in each rotation:

  • Shift up per rotation: after every rotation, the first gymnast moves to the bottom of the list.
  • Keep original order: the gymnasts keep the same order on every apparatus.
  • No Order: there is no fixed order. During scoring, the head judge selects the next gymnast after approving a score.
  • Manual order: the order is not recalculated, so the changes you make in the detailed starting order are kept.

With Shift up per rotation or Keep original order, drag and drop the gymnasts in the card to change the order they start in.

1.5 Detailed starting order

Click the See detailed starting order button in the sidebar to see the complete starting order generated from your starting groups: every rotation of the selected subdivision and track, with the groups on each apparatus and the exercises in order. The exercise actions below are available there.

1.6 Exercise Actions

To view the actions available for an exercise, click the arrow to expand the exercise.

1.6.a Score button

  1. Click Score to open the Chief Judge scoring screen for the selected exercise.
  2. From this screen, you can:
  • View the score;
  • Edit the score;
  • Resubmit the score (if necessary).

You can only access this screen if your competition is using the Acro Companion scoring system.

1.6.b ABS, DSQ, and DQB buttons

The ABS, DSQ, and DQB buttons allow you to manage a partnership's competition status directly from the starting order.

For information about each status, when to use it, and how to re-enable a gymnast, see the Managing Non-Competing Gymnasts chapter.