When building your heat draw, LiveHeats provides a set of default options for progressing athletes between rounds. We also allow you to set custom progression rules for formats with non-standard progressions.

Example of non standard progressions where you'd use custom progression rules:

• In a 6 person heat, 1st goes to Quarter finals, 2nd and 3rd go to Round 2 (repechage), all others are eliminated
• In a 30 person heat, 1st-4th go to Finals, 5th-10th go to Last Chance Qualifier

This article describes how to configure advanced progression rules from a round. If you would like to customise where athletes are progressed to  within a round, see this article.

How to configure custom progression rules from a round

1. Once your event is created, all athletes are in the seed list, and you have drawn the heats, go to the relevant division from the  Event dashboard
2. Find the round which you'd like to customise progression from (e.g. Round 1). This will set the rules for how athletes are progressed from this round. Click  Round settings
3. Scroll down in the dialogue and click  Create custom progression
4. This will open two rules. In each rule, you must define:

• the places (e.g. 50%, 1st, or 1st-2nd). If your option does not display in the drop down, just type in the value (e.g. if you want to select 1st-10th, type in "10"), and;
• the round you'd like to progress those places to. Must be a number. For example, if Round 2, "2", if Finals, "4" and so on based on the number of rounds in your draw).

5. You can add additional rules if you have a more complex progression (e.g. 1st goes to round 4, 2nd goes to round 3, 3rd goes to round 4)
6. When you are happy with the rules you have configured, click  Save
7. Then, click  Redraw heats on the top right which will rebuild the draw with your new rules. If the computer-generated draw is not how you want it to look, you can simply edit it by dragging the progression positions around into a custom order, or deleting heats and re-shuffling as required. See here for customising progression places.
8. To remove custom progression, just follow the prompts, and then  Redraw

Common uses of custom progression:

• Configuring second (2nd) chance, repechage, and no loser rounds
• How to set up a 'small final' in your draw
• Building a double elimination heat bracket

Updated on: 04/06/2025