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Competition Details Management Screen

The most basic details about your competition are defined in the competition details management screen.

Competition Details button in management screens

Basic Details

Exemplar Basic Details box

Competition Naming

  • Full name — The full name of the competition (i.e. what it would be called on formal documents).
  • Short name — A shortened name of the competition for easier display where space is limited.

Dates

Note

If your competition takes place on one day only, both date fields should have the same date.

  • Date — The date of the first day of your competition.
  • Finish Date — The date of the final day of your competition.

Slug

Your competition's slug is the bit of the URL that will uniquely identify your competition. Try to choose something short and snappy!

Note

Your slug should be one which could be used every year, to enable you to use the same slug for any annual iterations of your competition. It's best to ensure your slug doesn't include any dates or sponsors, which could change and become outdated.

Type

You can choose from a variety of competition types in the drop-down. Make sure to pick the one which best suits your competition!

Note

Selecting the correct competition type will ensure age groups are calculated correctly for your competitors.

Location Information

  • Venue — Look up your venue in our database, and select it if it exists. If not, feel free to head over to our facilities database to add it.

Note

Our venues database consists primarily a list of stadia, and so if you have chosen road or XC as your competition type, then this field will not appear.

  • Address — The street address of your competition.
  • City — The city (or town) your competition is taking place in.

Contact Details

  • Contact name — The name of the person the contact email belongs to. Not necessary, but good to let people know who they're getting in touch with!
  • Contact email — The email address at which you can receive any queries about the competition.

Organiser

  • The organisation responsible for your competition

Warning

Ensure that your selected organisation is correct, as this field determines where money from entries is sent.

Advanced Details

Advanced competition settings

Home Country

If your competition is in the UK, you will be able to select whether the competition is in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales.

Competition IDs

  • Tilastopaja ID — ID of this competition in the Tilastopaja database, usually blank
  • European Athletics ID — ID of this competition in the European Athletics database, usually blank
  • National Competition ID — ID of this competition in the relevant national federation's database, usually blank

League

If your competition is part of a league hosted on OpenTrack, you can select the league and season here to ensure this competition is included in the league scores.

Tickboxes

  • Hide from public — When ticked, your competition will be hidden from the public, and only accessible using the competition's URL.
  • Cancelled — When ticked, this will allow users to still access the competition, which will show as cancelled, as an alternative to deleting it altogether.