Configuring types of teams

This article explains what a team is in Copernico, how to set up team types and which calculation types you can use to obtain team rankings.

1. What a team is

A team is a group of participants grouped under one criterion.

The criterion Copernico uses to assign a participant to a team is: event + team type + team name. Under this criterion, a participant can belong to several team types.

Timing teams is similar to timing individuals and is carried out in parallel to timing the participants, by setting a series of conditions that allow you to obtain a ranking.

2. A club is not the same as a team

Keep in mind that a club is not the same as a team. The «club» field is merely informative and, therefore, Copernico does not generate rankings for clubs. If you have to publish rankings involving more than one participant, use the «team» field.

A participant can only have one team name. Copernico associates the «team name» field with the participant and looks for identical team names to group them. Using the «team name» and «team type» fields, it carries out the calculation that has been set up.

On the other hand, the same participant can belong to several team types.

For example, in a ranking a prize can be awarded to the club with the highest participation and also to the fastest men's and women's teams, ranking the first 3 finishers. Male participants who have a club will appear in two team types: their club's team and the men's team (in both, under the same team name, as each participant has a single team name).

3. Set up the team types

Team types are set up in the race setup, in the Types of team section of each event. Add as many types as you need with the + button. From the three-dots menu of the section you can also import the team types of another race or clear them all.

Fill in the information of each team type:

• Name: the name of the team type you are going to set up.
• Type of calculation: choose one of the available options, described in the next section. By default, sum of times is selected.
• Participants required to classify: number of team participants taken into account to calculate the team ranking. By default, 1.
• Field for calculation, in time-based calculations: official time (Guntime) or net time (Chip time).

Depending on the calculation type, additional fields appear; for example, the minimum number of men and women in the sum of times by gender with minimums, or the limit of participants averaged in the time average. With the participants counter, only the name and the calculation type are set.

Once any event has team types, the race's Teams menu appears, where team results are shown.

4. Calculation types

The calculation type options include the following:

• Sum of times: the times (official or net) of the first participants of the same team, limited to the number of participants set by the race rules.
• Participants counter: counts all the participants that have the same team name and team type.
• Sum of times by gender: sum of the times (official or net) of the first finishers, for example two men and one woman, or three men and two women, that have the same team name and team type.
• Time of the participant in the position (x) in the team: the time of the participant who finishes in position (X) of the team. For example, the time of the participant who finishes 2nd.
• Time average: calculates the average time (official or net) of the team members who reach the finish line. Participants required to classify sets how many must finish for the team to get a result, and Limit of participants how many are averaged: as many as required to classify, or all of them (All team components).
• Sum of times by gender and with minimums: set the number of participants that must finish to calculate the sum, with a minimum of men (Minimum number of men) and of women (Minimum number of women). For example, to count 5 team members with a minimum of 2 women, leave the minimum of men at 0 and set the minimum of women to 2.
• Sum of positions: adds up the positions of the set number of participants, choosing between overall, gender or category position.
• Sum of points by gender: adds up the positions of the set number of participants, choosing a minimum number of men and women and between overall, gender or category position.

5. Assign team types to participants

With the team types set up and assigned, Copernico will calculate the team rankings of each event automatically.