Overview

Skipping a Round is used when a Round doesn't need to be danced at all. There are two common situations:

So few couples remain that the next round would have the same (or more) entries as the round it's replacing, so the field can move straight to the next round without competing.
Nobody is left in the round — every entry has scratched, or it never had any. This is most often the final of a small event whose last couple scratches before it's danced.

Skipping is a Round Manager action available to Scrutineer. It is a one-way action: once a Round is skipped, it cannot be un-skipped, restarted, or otherwise reopened.

What Happens When You Skip a Round

A round with couples still in it

All of the round's non-scratched entries are copied onto the next round — the closest round that follows it, e.g. skipping the Quarterfinal copies entries onto the Semifinal. Each entry keeps its athlete/partnership/team, bib number, and check-in status.
Scratched entries are not copied forward — a couple that scratched out of the skipped round stays out of the competition.
Any recalls already submitted by adjudicators for this round are deleted.

An empty round

There's nobody to carry forward, so nothing is copied. If the round is the last round of its event — usually the final — skipping it closes the event:

The event is marked Canceled if this was its only round. The event never produced a result.
The event is marked Completed if earlier rounds were danced. Their recalls stand as the record of what happened, so the event did take place.

Any placements, tabulation or results already recorded for a skipped final are cleared, so the event doesn't go on showing a result it never produced.

Either way

The round's status changes to Skipped, and all of its round dances are marked Skipped as well.
The change is pushed out in real time, so Adjudicator, Emcee, and Deck Captain views update automatically. Adjudicators see a notice in place of the round's ballots.

Skipping affects only the round being skipped, the next round its entries are copied into, and — when it was the event's last round — the event's status. It never changes the competition's status.

Conditions for Skipping a Round

A round can be skipped only if all of the following are true:

Its event isn't already Completed or Canceled. Once an event is closed, none of its rounds can change.
It hasn't already been Finalized or Skipped. A finalized round's results are locked, and a round can only be skipped once.
A final can be skipped only when it's empty. There's no round after a final to carry anyone into, so as long as anyone in it hasn't scratched, Skip isn't offered. Once every entry has scratched — or the final never had any — Skip becomes available.
A round with couples in it needs a round after it. For any round before the final, the round that follows it must already exist, since that's where the entries are copied. The next round is the closest one that follows, even if the round numbers have gaps. If no following round exists, create or generate it first, then skip.

Unlike Start or Finish, Skip does not require the round to be in any particular status first — you can skip a round that's still Created, Queued, In Progress, or Completed, as long as the conditions above are met.

How to Skip a Round

Open the competition's Scrutineer view and go to Round Manager.
Select the round you want to skip from the side navigation.
In the Round Control panel, click Skip.
Confirm in the dialog.
- For a final, the dialog warns that nobody is left to dance it, so the round will be marked Skipped and the event closed without placements.
- For any other round, the dialog reminds you that non-scratched entries are copied onto the next round. Review the entry list before confirming, since scratched entries are left behind.

Once confirmed, the round shows a Skipped status badge and its controls (Start, Finish, Restart) disappear, since no further action can be taken on it.