Orion and Rezults are full of new features that benefit athletes, coaches, and spectators. Learn to take advantage of everything Orion has to offer by following these five new best practices.
The start and end date, which you set in Match Properties, is used to tell Orion and Rezults when your match is going to take place. Is it in the future, is it going on now, or has it completed?
For example, a start date that’s in the future will list your public match on Rezult’s “Future Matches” page, which can help attract coaches and athletes to compete at your competition.
On the other side, an end date that’s in the past let's Orion and Rezults know your match has completed. This will mark your results Official and rank all your athletes and teams with all appropriate tie-breaking.
The type of match, whether it is a practice match, local match, or maybe even a regional match, affects how an athlete's scores get factored into their score history’s metrics.
For example, on an athlete’s Event Style card, last Practice has to come from a Practice Match or Training. Whereas an athlete’s Last Competition score has to come from a competition type of match. Further, an athlete’s Competition Record can only be set in a competition; practices don’t count towards this metric.
During a competition, while athletes are still firing their shots, Orion ranks them by a reduced set of tie breaking rules. Only after all shots are fired will Orion switch the status from Intermediate to Unofficial. And only after the results are in the Unofficial status (or Official) will all tie breaking rules be used.
Oftentimes when scoring paper targets a stat officer may see that an athlete didn’t fire a shot. Because adding a miss (which is the correct step to take) won’t affect an athlete’s score, a stat officer may be inclined to skip this step. However, by skipping this step Orion won’t advance the results from Intermediate to Unofficial, and therefore won’t rank athletes correctly with all tie breaking rules.
Score History is a powerful tool in Rezults that lets athletes track all of their practice and competition scores in one place. But scores are only added when you, the match director, link your athletes to their Scopos accounts in Orion.
There are two ways Orion knows your match is completed, and to list your scores as Official. The first, described above, is the end date if the match is in the past. The second, is when the match official manually marks the match complete.
Watch our video on the latest best practices on our YouTube page below.
