Changes between 09/28/26 - 10/02/26

Summary

The emcee can now drive the running order directly — putting a heat on deck, starting it, and ending it when the floor clears — and the live screen follows along. One person can hold several official roles at the same competition, which small events have been asking for. Adjudicators get a roomier scoring screen and one less click per submission, deck captains get a view built for a phone, and error messages across the site now explain what actually went wrong.

System

Clearer Error Messages

When something goes wrong, the message you see should tell you what happened and what to do about it. Error handling has been reworked from end to end so that every refusal — a form that won't save, an action that isn't allowed yet, a competition that's closed — comes back with a specific explanation rather than a generic failure.

Heats Have a Status

A heat now carries a status of its own — Created, Queued, In Progress, or Completed — shown as a badge wherever heats are listed. This is what lets the emcee move a heat through the running order and the live screen keep up.

Adjudicator

Enhancement

• Contested rounds come first. When a heat holds several rounds, they're now ordered by how many competitors are still in each one, so the rounds that need real judging are at the top of your screen and single-entry rounds — where there's nothing to decide — sit at the bottom. Beyond that, rounds are ordered by division, age and proficiency.
• The scoring area for a final round now sizes itself to the number of entries, so a small final doesn't leave half the screen empty and a large one doesn't need scrolling to reach the last couple.
• The judging screen has been tightened up to remove wasted vertical space.
• Submitting marks no longer asks you to confirm. Pressing submit now sends the marks straight away. A notice at the top of the judging screen explains that submissions are final and can't be taken back — which the confirmation dialog was there to say, once per submission, to people who already knew.

Organizer

Features

• One person can hold several roles at the same competition. The same account can now be added as organizer, scrutineer, emcee, deck captain and adjudicator all at once — useful at a smaller competition where the same few people cover everything.

Enhancement

• Round names have been reworked. A generated round is now named after what it actually is: the event's division abbreviation, age, proficiency, styles, and which round it is. For example:

  ProAm A1 Open Bronze Standard - Round of 8

  An event covering more than one style lists them joined with a slash, as in "Standard/Latin".

• "Heat" has been renamed to "Event" where it refers to an event's number on the program: the first column of the Events page is now Event, and Event Details reads "Event #12: …" rather than "Heat #12: …". A heat is the slot on the running order; an event's number is its place on the program, and using one word for both was confusing.

• Dynamic Event ages, proficiencies and dances are now listed in their conventional order rather than alphabetically.

Deck Captain

Enhancement

• The Deck Captain view has been redesigned for phones. Tabs have been replaced by accordions, so a heat with several rounds in it shows every round's entries on one page instead of hiding them behind separate tabs.

Emcee

Features

• Run the heat from the Emcee view. A new control panel on each heat lets you put it on deck, start it, and end it when the floor clears.

  Putting a heat on deck tells the deck captain to line competitors up and check them in, and adds it to the upcoming list on the live screen. Starting it opens scoring, so adjudicators can submit recalls, placements and points.

  Ending a heat says the floor is clear and the next one can be called — it does not close the round. The heat drops off the live screen, but adjudicators who are still writing up their marks can carry on submitting, and the scrutineer closes and finalizes the round on their own schedule. That matters for a round danced across more than one heat, where there's still more to come.

Public

Enhancement

• The live screen has been redesigned around the fact that it's usually on a projector with limited room. Heats are grouped as they run, with the on-deck heat highlighted and a clock in the corner. For a heat running several events at once, individual event names are no longer shown and every competitor is listed together in bib order — one list a dancer can scan for their number, rather than several to search through. The screen follows the emcee's controls as the day runs.

  This doesn't change the Deck Captain view, which still lists entries by round.

• A competition's full contact details — email, phone and website — now appear on the competition banner and on the registration page header.

• The public events list no longer labels events as "Heat", and events are ordered by session, division, age and proficiency rather than by number alone.

Thank You

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