There is information needed to score a tournament beyond the teams and appraisers.  This includes:


  1. general information about the tournament such at where and when it is scheduled
    This information it typically needed for any output from the scoring that might be printed or placed on a website.

  2. the rules for advancement to the next level of competition
    The teams advancing to the next level of competition is often as important as the winners of the competition.  For the scoring program to determine the advancing teams, it needs to know the advancement rules.


The Resource Area has #1 information because it setup the tournament.  It passes this information to the scoring program.


The Resource Area does not always know the advancement rules.

  • an affiliate decides the advancement rules from regional tournaments to the affiliate tournament
  • the Resource Area does know the advancement rules from the affiliate tournaments to Global Finals as DIHQ sets the rules each season
  • there are no advancing teams from Global Finals


The Scoring Program Settings page lets you see and set some of this information for the scoring program.  You can reach this page from the Tournament Dashboard (Tournaments=>dashboard).  The Scoring Program Settings button in the Scoring Program section will display this page.


In the screenshot below, the settings for a regional tournament are displayed.  #1 information appears at the top of the Tournament Settings area.  Depending on the level of tournament, the settings that can be adjusted vary.


  • Minutes when late is a setting specific to the Web Scoring Program (WSP)
  • Advance Places is used by both WSP and CSP
  • Advancement Rules are used by both WSP and CSP 
    Encoding advancement rules is a bit complex.  It is a list of comma separated integers. The integers refer to the number of teams competing against one another in a challev.  The first integer says 1 team will advance if you have this many teams in the challev (1 in the exanple).  The second number says 2 teams will advance if you have this many teams in the challev (3 in example).  3rd number: 3 teams advance when this many teams (6 in example).  As this can be difficult to understand, the Interpret Rule button in the Interpret Advancement Rules area will put your rules into words.
  • Include Early Learning is specific to the WSP


Once you set these settings, they are supplied to either the WSP or CSP.  For the WSP they are provided when it is launched.  For the CSP this information is provided when using the tournaments wizard to setup the tournament.