How to Edit Classes

When you set up a competition, you can normally just use one of the standard competition types, which has all of the classes defined for you. Occasionally though, you just might need to do your own thing....

Click on 'Edit this Competition' to get the Edit Competition screen, then click on 'Edit Classes'. You should see a screen like this:

The lower part of this screen contains a list of all the classes in the current competition. It usually just shows those classes currently having competitors, but you can show all of the classes by clicking the cunningly named 'Show All Classes' box. Click on a class in this list to show and edit its settings.

The top part of the screen shows the settings for the currently highlighted class. Make the changes you need and then click 'Save Changes'

You can also create a new class (using the 'Add' button) and save the entire list of classes to a definition file by clicking 'Save to File'.

You can define up to 100 classes for each competition.

As elsewhere in TScore, clicking on a column header will sort on that column.

The values that you can set for each class are as follows:
Name	The 'short name' for the class, used in tight spaces!
Full Name	The 'long name' for the class, used where there is plenty of room
Age	The age group code (must match the 'AgeGroup' value in import files and entry forms)
Grade	The grade code (must match the 'Grade' value in import files and entry forms)
Gender	The gender code (must match the 'Gender' value in import files and entry forms)
Discipline	Individual, Syncro or DMT - pick from the list
Panel	The default panel to assign this group to. (Can be changed later with the timetabler)
Time per Entrant	The time in minutes to allow for each competitor when calculating duration in the timetabler.
Final	Whether this class should run a final
Zero Final	Whether positions in the final just use the scores in this round
Tariff Round 1	Whether the 'Set' round has a tariff score
Qualifying score	Score needed in rounds 1 & 2 for promotion. Can be an absolute value, or a percentage of the entrants (enter a value less than 1; for example, 0.15 = top 15%)
Include Tariff	Whether the tariff counts in the qualifying score
Relegation	Score needed in rounds 1 & 2 to avoid relegation. Can be an absolute value, or a percentage of the entrants to be relegated (enter a value less than 1; for example, 0.25 = bottom 25%)
Min Entrants	Minimum number of entrants needed for the relegation zone to be applied
Age	The age group code (must match the value in import files and entry forms)

In addition to the above values, the 'Current Settings' frame shows you the planned start time, panel and number of entrants.

Flights

If there are more than 10 entrants in a class, TScore will offer to split the class into flights. Up to 3 flights may be defined. When you click on each of the 'Flight' check boxes, you can enter the 'Split' competitor count, which determines the number of entrants in each of the flights.

Saving and Reusing Class Definitions

If you choose to save the class definitions to file, TScore asks you for a file name and a description of the class set. It then saves the definitions to a file of the given name in the 'ClassDefns' folder. The next time you use the 'New Competition' option, your saved class set will appear in the 'Competition Type' picklist for you to select directly.

A class definition file is a simple text file that relies on column position to identify each field. This means that it is also possible to edit your classes directly in the file if you're feeling brave!