Relay events

Audience: Event organisers setting up a relay competition.

How relay events differ from individual events in Manager: teams, legs, course assignment, and what the results look like.

Status: Stub — not yet written.

What this page will cover

• [ ] What makes a relay event different from an individual event in Manager
• [ ] Creating a relay class — number of legs, course per leg
• [ ] Forked courses and shared legs
• [ ] Creating teams and assigning competitors to legs
• [ ] Late team changes (swapping a runner, adding a reserve)
• [ ] Mass start and wave-start formats for relays
• [ ] How punches and downloads work for relay legs (start punch = previous leg finish, etc.)
• [ ] How relay results are calculated — leg times, cumulative times, team status
• [ ] Common relay-specific problems (wrong leg, missing team member, course mismatch)

Per-leg course assignment

Relay legs are often run on different (forked) courses. If your course-setting software exports TeamMemberCourseAssignment entries in its IOF course file, Manager imports them as per-competitor course locks — each leg runner is pinned to their assigned course. Runners are matched by bib number, so import the start list (which carries bibs) before the course file. See Locking a competitor to a course and Importing event data.

Related

• Classes and courses
• Competitors, clubs and teams
• Results
• Resolving issues on the day