Can I allow registrants for technical numbers to choose between 2 startgroups?

Question

I am curious as to how each athlete's desired group (almost all technical events are finished in two groups) is stored and if the athlete is then automatically placed in the correct group. That hardly seems possible to me, because surely that depends on how I define the startgroups? I suspect therefore that I still have to do the assignment to the correct groups manually.

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Answer 1

You can set Athletics.app to allow registrants to determine the startgroups of athletes themselves.

You set this up as follows:

1) Set the startgroups to Manually Manage

In the Wizard, step 10: There, set the 'Startgroups setting' to Manual

2) Create the appropriate startgroups

Make the startgroups as the race director has devised. For example, all running numbers 1 startgroup per category and some technical numbers 2 startgroups per category.
You do this via the top of the green bar 'Timetable' --> 'Edit timetable and startgroups'.
Create the startgroups there.

3) Choose the appropriate (advanced) settings per startgroup

If you create or edit a startgroup also set the following:

• Maximum number of competitors
• Maximum number of competitors from the same team (is only visible if your competition works with teams)
• Allowed categories

Setting that prevents registrants from accidentally placing a Girl in the Boys startgroups. It also prevents startgroups from becoming too big or too many team members being placed in 1 startgroup.

4) Set up online registrations

Through the wizard, step 7 'Set up online registrations' you can now open the online registrations.
Set the following there as well: 'Let registrants choose their own startgroups': Yes.
This will ensure that registrants can select the correct startgroup for each athlete, if you leave that option set to No then registrants will not be able to classify the athletes themselves and you will have to do this yourself as an organization.

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Comments

I have only created additional Startgroups for technical events. Athletics.app is supposed to automatically create heat divisions for running events. But now I see in my registrations that athletes are not in a Startgroup (for running events). How do I adjust this?

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Athletics.app can then (automatically) create Heat divisions within a Startgroup. You must therefore create Startgroups manually, for example 1 Startgroup for the 100m. You place all athletes in this group (for example 50 athletes). You can then (automatically) create Heat divisions within that Startgroup.

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