Glossary

Event

An event is a set of races/trials managed in a unique file.

It can consist in one or many races and be organized into one or several stages.

The list of participants is global to the event, each participant being assigned to a race.

Race

The race is the cardinal element of the structure of an event.

Declaring several races on an event allows to naturally divide the events that will be managed in the same Wiclax file. Each race generates its own ranking independent of the other races. Each race can be customized with its own parameters.

Example of an event over the duration of a weekend: the event can contain a Vertical Kilometer run on Saturday and several trail runs on Sunday.

When to create races?

The division into races comes into play as soon as competitors

• have to be ranked independently from other groups

• and/or do not run the same route or the same distance, have a different number of laps to record

Conversely, a company ranking, for example, is not a separate race and will be obtained simply using a filter.

If the event consists of only one trial, it is not necessary to create a race. Management will be simplified since participants do not need to be associated with a race.

Each participant in the event is assigned to one and only one race, even if the event consists of several stages.

Focused race

When only one race of the event takes place at a given time, in other words each of the races takes place one after the other, the focus race status can be activated.

Designating this focus race will affect for example the acquisition of a start signal and the data displayed on Live screens which can be set to react to the change of focus race.

Bib numbers

The bib number is a unique, numeric identifier assigned to each competitor. It is generally identical to the number worn by the athletes.

In the event that uniqueness cannot be respected (2 races of the event use the same range of bibs), or if the bibs worn are not numerical, it is possible to use the real bib data in addition.

Stages

An event can be made of several stages.

Unlike races, a participant can belong to several stages.

A general classification after each stage can be computed and displayed.

Depending on the sport involved, the wording used to designate a stage can be customized for a better fit. For example Heat or Round. In the documentation remember we're trying to stick to stage most of the time.

Dependent and independent stages

We speak of dependent stages when a competitor can only start a stage if he has finished the previous stage. This is the case of a cycling event like the Tour de France for example.

In the case of dependent stages, competitors are automatically associated with all stages, whether they are starters or not. For independent stages, it is possible to associate them with all or part of the stages (at least one).

Active stage

When an event has multiple stages, one of them is designated as the active stage. Symbolized by a green circle on the control to navigate between stages.

The active step primarily dictates which stage results acquisitions will be integrated into by default, as well as the origin of the data displayed on Live screens.

It also triggers warnings in case you try to modify - perhaps accidentally - data from another stage.

General classification

A general classification, or general ranking, is a ranking obtained by aggregating results from several stages. It's computed by default over the sum of times, but can be adapted to deal with different criteria like a best time, the overall distance, ...

As it always refer to a stage race context in Wiclax, it should never be confused with a kind of 'overall' ranking simply made from a regular race results.

Acquisition

An acquisition represents a mean for integrating passages, that is to say an athlete detected at a certain place and at a certain time.

Acquisitions can be of various kinds:

• connection to an electronic timing device (RFID)

• regular file import

• connection to a cloud service

• connection with third party software - middleware between Wiclax and electronic devices

Categories

Categories are the age or level groups that can be associated with competitors. The reference dictionary for an event - usually from a federation's official categories - allows automatic assignment to athletes based on their gender and age.

Wiclax allows the definition of 2 levels of categories, for example an age category and another level category. A competitor can be classified as Senior and Elite for example.

Categories are used to create category rankings and podiums.

Intermediate splits

An intermediate split point corresponds to a timed point on the course, somewhere between the start and the finish.

The splits are declared globally for the event, but it is possible to associate them or not with the different races. For example, a split point can be common to several races and in this case does not need to be declared several times.

A logical split declared in the event is not always the equivalent of the physical location. For example, if the route passes the same location twice, it's a unique physical location and probably a single acquisition, but in the event it will be necessary to declare 2 separate split points.

In the case of a lap race the increment of the lap number happens through successive passings through the finish line. Thus an intermediate split will rather represent a point of the track, through which competitors have to pass at each lap.

Segments

A segment is a race section defined by its start and its end as timed locations. Between start and an intermediate split points, between 2 intermediate split points or between an intermediate split points and the finish line.

It can be for example: the swimming trial in a triathlon, a non timed transition between 2 climbs, a section of a circuit track.

Championship

A Championship, or Trophy, allows for aggregating results of several independent events, generally happening at different dates.

Most often a system of points awarding is used for the computation of the final ranking.