StoaHub TAB #2 - Setup Event Settings
Click on Admin-Setup-Tournament Setup-Events
Click on each event one at a time.
For speech events -
Under "Main", make sure the "Ballot Template" is "Speech". Make sure the "Event Rules" match whichever event you clicked on.
Under "Schedule", make sure you check the box for each time slot that particular event is in.
"Custom Start Times" is used during a tournament if a specific event needs to start a little later or earlier than the other events in their pattern.
"Tab Settings" is for each specific event.
Under "Judging", this is where you select how many judges per section in prelims and elims. You'll be able to adjust these when you pair the round.
Under "postings", this is only for Extemp. Make sure for Extemp, this box is checked and click "Update".
"prelim-ranking" just shows the tiebreakers used. You can leave it alone.
Under "sectioning", the "Default Speech Strategy" is standard, which will try and make sure sections are as even as possible by spreading out club mates to different rooms. You can also select random, which will take all rules about speech club protect off. Since this is not standard, you'd need to make sure you announce that on your tournament website.
"Max Speakers Per Section" can be determined ahead of time by how many rooms you have and how many students per room. Enter that number here. You can always change this number each time you pair a round.
"Same Club Penalty - Sectioning", "Same Family Penalty - Sectioning", and "Seen Before Penalty - Sectioning", are all part of the standard sectioning rule that the computer uses to try and make sure students are spread out each round and they aren't going against the same students if possible. The higher you make the penalty score, the more the computer will try and avoid those things. This does NOT give anyone a penalty. It's simply for the computer to process.
"sweepstakes" is event specific and will override any sweepstakes settings from the tournament setup.
Under "tab", you can set a "Max Rank Prelim", which means if you have 6 kids in a room, you want 6 to be the max rank so if you accidentally enter a 7, you'll get an error. For "Max Rank Elims", you'll want to enter the amount of students who are breaking to finals.
Under "Advanced Options", the only thing would need this part for is if you are going to delete an event. This is where you would do that.
Once you have updated the items for one event, you can hit "Update & Next" to cycle through events until you are done.