Hello,
I help out in the competition secretariat. Am always a little hesitant to put the management of startgroups on manual. When creating the heats, it might be useful to include the same event from another category in the heats. So you get a heats for 1 event for multiple categories.
We do the merging of categories anyway only for running numbers. For technical numbers, we always make a startlist per category.
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