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Competitions

Run and fly championships, tasks and flying events, from the organiser's manager to the pilot's competition device.

Help ArticleChampionship Penalties

See the penalties, warnings and disqualifications in a championship, inspect the flight behind an infringement, and how organisers add, waive and change them.

Help ArticleChampionship Queries and Protests

Raise a query about a championship result, follow the answer, and lodge a protest if you disagree.

Help ArticleChampionship Standings and Results

Read the championship standings, switch between pilots, teams and stages, open task result sheets and score breakdowns, and know what Interim, Provisional, Official and Final mean.

Help ArticleChoose or Scan a Task Before Takeoff

Pick the task your flight is scored against on the record start screen, or scan an XCTrack task QR code and fly it.

Help ArticleClaim your competition pilot profile

Use the organiser's claim link to move your competition pilot profile, flights and scoring history into your own Gaggle account.

Help ArticleCompetition Devices and Location Masking

Sign pilots in on competition devices with a one-time QR code, sign them out, and turn location masking on or off for an event.

Help ArticleCompetition Flight Screen

Use the competition flight screen, with its map, limited readings and tools, and learn how Reveal my position works and what it costs you.

Help ArticleCompetition Manager

Open the competition manager from the group home, see which sections you get as an organiser, scorer or marshal, and use the Overview to see what needs attention.

Help ArticleCompetition Maps and Offline Maps

Choose the map layers on a competition map, measure on it, and set up offline map downloads so pilots can fly an event without a connection.

Help ArticleCompetition Notices

Post a notice to every pilot in a competition, pick its kind, pin it, link tasks to it and take it off the board.

Help ArticleCompetition Pilots

Add competition pilots, import them from a spreadsheet, send claim invites, assign trackers and import IGC recordings from the competition manager.

Help ArticleCompetition Roles and Registration Fields

Give members the Scorer, Marshal or Team leader role, and choose the registration fields pilots answer when they sign up for a competition.

Help ArticleCompetitions

Follow a competition from its home page, with your entry, the programme, the latest results, notices, and where to find standings, queries and flights.

Help ArticleCourse Photos

Look at the course photos before you fly and mark where you saw each one in flight, for automatic scoring.

Help ArticleEconomy Leaderboards

Set up an economy leaderboard that scores how well pilots spend a fuel load, with a course, gates, landing and scoring formula.

Help ArticleFlight Details on Leaderboards

Open the flight profile of a leaderboard entry, replay the flight, and for organisers read the scoring log and control when hidden gate and waypoint scores are released.

Help ArticleFlight Recording Sets and Activity

Choose which recording counts as official for each competition pilot, delete bad candidate recordings, and read the competition's activity log.

Help ArticleFlymaster Tracking for Competitions

Follow Flymaster trackers live in a competition, connect the Flymaster account, check tracking health, and fix gaps, mappings and IGC matches.

Help ArticleHidden Gates and Waypoints

Add hidden gates and waypoints to an obstacle course, attach photos for pilots to find, and control when hidden scores and locations are published.

Help ArticleLive and Replay Commentary

Turn spoken commentary on or off while you watch a live competition or a replay, choose its language, and see what the status messages mean.

Help ArticleMarshal Entry

Record judged task results and economy weigh-ins as a marshal, with the task list, the pilot list and the number keypad.

Help ArticleRun a Championship

Create a championship, set up its classes, stages, tasks and rules, publish results, cancel a task or day, and manage paragliding competition tasks as an organiser.

Help ArticleSpectator Course, Standings and Scored Panels

What the tabs on the spectator panel show when you watch an obstacle course live or in replay, and how to follow a pilot from the standings, the course or the activity feed.

Help ArticleStopwatch and Calculator

Time laps with the in-flight stopwatch and work out distance, time or speed with the calculator on the competition flight screen.

Help ArticleTiming Declarations

Declare the time you expect to take for each gate of a timed obstacle course task before you fly, and see how organisers manage declarations.

Help ArticleWatch a Live Competition or Meetup

How to open the live view of a group, meetup or competition, switch between Live Tracking and a leaderboard, and what the waiting, sign-in and access screens mean.

Help ArticleWatch a Replay

How to play, scrub and follow pilots in the replay of a meetup or competition, and what the replay options do.