Competitions

A competition in Velos is one event your federation, club or academy runs — a shoot, a tournament, a trials day — with its own dates, venue, leagues and its own run from setup to final results. It belongs to one sport and never spans sports.

This section follows a single archery competition through that run, in the order you meet it. Read it front to back before your first event, or jump straight to the stage you are standing in.

The stages

Every competition moves through the same five stages, and Velos shows them as a row at the top of the competition’s Overview.

The Overall progress card at the top of a competition's Overview, showing five stages left to right — Draft, Qualifying, Qualification Complete, Eliminations in Progress and Completed — with the first four ticked and Eliminations in Progress marked as the current one. — A competition mid-run. The ticked stages are behind it; the highlighted one is where it stands.

Draft — the competition exists and is being set up. Leagues, dates, the registration window, shifts and target assignments all belong here, and entries can still be taken.
Qualifying — the ranking round is being shot and scored. A competition reaches this stage as soon as its first shift opens, which starting a shift does — and so does saving the first score against it, because that opens the shift for you.
Qualification Complete — scoring is closed and the standings are locked, which is what lets elimination brackets be drawn from them.
Eliminations in Progress — the head-to-head matches are being shot and scored.
Completed — everything is settled: medals awarded, results final.

Two things are worth knowing before you rely on that row.

Each league moves at its own pace. The stage above is a summary. What actually decides what you can do is the stage of the individual league you are working on — Recurve Men can have finished its qualification and be shooting brackets while Compound Women is still on the shooting line. Each league’s own stage is in the Phase column on the Leagues tab, and that is where you close a league’s qualification and open its eliminations.

Nothing skips ahead on its own. Velos advances a league when you tell it to — when you end a shift, when you finalize a league’s qualification, when you award its medals. The one thing it does automatically is recalculate rankings when a shift ends.

Where you see it

Every competition your federation, club or academy runs is on one list, under Archery → Competitions.

The Archery Competitions list in Velos with the word Championship typed into its search box: a Filters button and an Add Competition button sit above a table with columns Competition, Date, Registration and State. Six rows show a mix of Registration Open, Awaiting Start, Qualification Complete and Completed, with Open and Closed registration states, and the first row carries a Hidden badge. — The list narrowed by its search box — the same table, six competitions deep instead of the whole history.

The search box above the table narrows it by name, which is how you find one event in a federation with years of them behind it. Filters narrows it by anything else.

The two right-hand columns answer the two questions people actually ask:

Registration — whether athletes can be entered right now, and how long is left.
State — the stage from the list above. While a competition is still a draft this column says something more useful than “Draft”: Scheduled, Registration Open, Upcoming or Awaiting Start, depending on where today sits against its dates.

A Hidden badge means the competition is not published — it exists for the people running it and does not appear publicly. Everything in this guide works the same either way.

Open a competition and you land on its Overview, with the rest of the work on tabs across the top: Leagues, Registrations, Shifts, Scoring, Eliminations, Medals and Prints. Those tabs are the order of the job, left to right. A More menu at the end holds Sponsors and Records, and where it is in use, Announcer.

Who does what

Velos does not give a competition its own set of roles — what you can do here is what your account can do generally, described in Roles and access. In practice:

Organizers set the competition up, take entries, build shifts, close qualification, draw brackets and award medals.
Scoring staff and judges work in Scoring and in the elimination Score Entry screen, and check what has been entered against the paper scorecards.
Clubs see the competition and their own athletes’ entries, and can enter athletes while registration is open.
Athletes see their own entry, their shift and their target, in the mobile app.

The stages, page by page

Setting up — creating the competition, adding the leagues it runs, and dividing the field into shifts and targets.
Entries — getting athletes into it, and what an entry’s status means once they are in.
Qualification — recording ends and arrows, ending shifts, and closing a league’s qualification.
Eliminations — drawing brackets from the standings, scoring matches, and shoot-offs. Team and mixed team events too.
Results and prints — medals, final classification, and the paperwork an event needs on the day.

Competitions are shot by athletes, and athletes belong to clubs. Clubs covers how those rosters are kept, and who may enter whom.

Updated for v1.36.0