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How to add a competition to Soaring Spot?

 

The core functionality of Soaring Spot allows you to manage gliding competitions online. If you are trying to organize a competition you need to stop worrying about how you are going to upload results to the internet or where you are going to publish news about your competition. Soaring Spot is the way to go as here is more than enough features here to cover basic and advanced needs you may have as competition manager.

There are three simple steps that you need to complete to start a competition at Soaring Spot:

1. Acquiring a competition key
Is done by following the Register new competition link in your Soaring Spot account. After you fill in all the data about your competition you will be sent a registration key by email.

2. Administering your competition at Soaring Spot
First you need to sign in to Soaring Spot. Then enter the Competition key that was sent to you by email into the Competition Key form in the Manage Competition section of "MyAccount":

Enter Competition key to MyAccount 

After that you must fill out all the required information including Official competition title, Short competition title, Competition begin and end date, Competition location, Country , UTC offset and Class(es) of the competition (most important). For more information on these essential elements of Soaring Spot please read the Add or Edit Competition through MyAccount chapter.  

Enter competition data to Soaring Spot

3. Setting up the CUC file in SeeYou Competition
After installing SeeYou 3.8 you need to make sure of two operations:
1. Enter the competition key to Edit > Contest Properties > Options > Registration key

Enter Competition Key to SeeYou Competition 

2. Make sure that you have selected correct class in Edit > Contest Properties > General > Class

Select class in SeeYou Competition 

If you have completed the Setup correctly, then all you need to do is choose
Edit > Publish to Internet Publish to Internet (or corresponding toolbar icon Publish to Internet)
to send competition data to Soaring Spot each time there is some news.

author: Andrej Kolar 14/09/2007, modified by: Andrej Kolar 09/11/2007
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