• Creating, editing and deleting a series group

  On Liveheats, a Series represents a relationship between multiple Events and can be used for Rankings or Membership. This article describes how to create and edit series into groups so they can be navigated to with ease on both your director Ranking & membership page and your public rankings page, and also how to ungroup/delete any existing series groups. Please note that this series grouping is only available if you have 20 or more series on your account CreatingFew readers

• Creating a new series for rankings

  On Liveheats, a Series represents a relationship between multiple Events and can be used for Rankings or Membership. This article describes how to create a Series for rankings. To create a new series for your organisation: Go to your LiveHeats dashboard Click Rankings & memberships in the top navigation, then click the Create series button in the top right: (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/4/8/7/1/48714ddcbf925400/screenshot-2025-05-1Few readers

• Setting top counting results for rankings

  With LiveHeats you can set the number of counting results that determine the ranking. For example, your series might contain 8 events, but each athlete's top 6 results count towards their ranking. You can set top counting results for the whole series, as well as use advanced settings to: customise counting results per division (e.g. top 3 for opens, and top 5 for juniors) set a special event to always count in rFew readers

• Setting the default ranking points allocation for a series and creating a custom point allocation

  Each Series in your account will have a default ranking points allocation (point system), that awards points to athletes in the rankings based on their final event result in a division. This article details: how to set the default points allocation in a series how to create a custom points allocation for your organisation the default LiveHeats points allocaPopular

• Adding, hiding or removing an event from the rankings

  Events will appear in the public rankings leaderboard, if: the event is part of a series, and; the event status is set to Results published Adding an event to the rankings Go to the Event settings and ensure that the Series is included in the field that reads Which series does this event belong to? Then, change the Event status to Results published to make the event visible on your public rankings Hiding an event from the rankings To hide an eFew readers

• Display additional athlete or team field on rankings

  LiveHeats allows you to create Custom fields that are relevant to your competition - for example, state, nationality, stance, gender, and so on. We also allow you to choose to display a field on your rankings. In the example below, this demo organisation's custom field State is selected to be displayed: How to display additional athlete or team field on raFew readers

• Increasing or decreasing the rankings point weighting for an event

  LiveHeats allows you to increase or decrease the weighting or points allocation of an event in your rankings with our Ranking points multiplier feature (formerly the leaderboard multiplier). This is useful for events such as double points events - or different levels of events in a series (e.g. 1 star, 2 star, 3 star). When you use a ranking points multiplier, it multiplies the points for every position by the number you choose. To edit the Leaderboard multiplier for an event, go to thSome readers

• Overriding the points allocation for a specific event division in a series ranking

  This article describes how to run advanced rankings where divisions in the same event are awarded different point allocations in the series rankings - for example, winner of u18 Men wins 1000 points for first place in the series rankings, but U16 Men wins 800 points for 1st place in the series rankings. How to override the points allocation for a specific event division in a series rankingFew readers

• Exporting series rankings to csv

  You can export any series ranking to csv to analyse or use in any spreadsheet software. How to export rankings to csv Navigate to the Series area and select the relevant Series On the Rankings tab, you'll see a button to Export rankings Clicking this will download the file in csv format. The file will contain all divisionsFew readers

• Deleting a series

  If you have created a series and no longer need it, it can be deleted. You should only delete series if you are certain you no longer need the rankings or members within the series. How to delete a series Once logged in as a director, click  Rankings & memberships in the main navigation Find and click the series you want to delete from the list ClickFew readers

• Adding, importing/uploading event results into your rankings that didn't run using LiveHeats

  Every now and again an event will run not using LiveHeats, but you need the results to be added for the purpose of rankings and seeding. The below describes how you can use our results import feature to manage this.Few readers

• Determining which series is used for seeding

  When you use our Rankings feature, LiveHeats will automate the seeding of your events within that series. If your events have been added to more than one series (for example, your event might be set to part of the National rankings and your State rankings), you can easily select which Series' rankings will provide seeds. Below describes how. How to determine which Series' seedings are used in an event When creating a new event: When you've added more than one Series to anFew readers

• Running a rolling ranking

  Some organisers run a rolling ranking which involves setting a time window and then results from events run within that time window count towards the ranking. For example your rolling rankings might look at the previous 52 weeks of events. Once an event's start date falls outside the previous 52 weeks, then that result automatically drops out of the ranking. HoFew readers

• Publishing your event result to the federation's rankings

  If you are a director of an organisation account who is configured as a 'child' of the parent organisation - usually a national or international sporting body - then follow the below steps to publish your event to the parent's federation rankings. Step 1: Configure your event to belong to the parent series When logged in as a child organisation, click CreateFew readers

• Excluding an athlete's result from rankings eligibility

  Organisers often have athletes competing in events within a Series who are not eligible to receive points for rankings. For example, a foreign competitor in a national rankings, or a visitor in a club competition. With LiveHeats, you can exclude an athlete's result in a particular event division from rankings eligibility. We also offer a way to automatically exclude athlete's from rankings based on their age, see here (https://liveheats.crisp.help/en/article/automatically-excluding-athleteFew readers

• Automatically excluding athletes from a ranking based on age

  In some organisations, only athletes within a certain age range should appear in the rankings. For example, a Junior ranking, or a Masters ranking.Few readers

• Applying a fixed filter to a series ranking

  A 'fixed filter' will automatically only include athletes from a series ranking based on a certain athlete field (these can be created using custom fields). For example, you might like to operate a national ranking for New Zealand where only athletes from New Zealand appear on the rankingFew readers

• Displaying a filter on the public rankings for a Series Ranking

  When viewing your rankings, people may be interested in seeing where an athlete is ranked in the Series against a sub-set of athletes. For example: when viewing a global ranking, I'd like to filter for athletes from a particular country or region when viewing a national ranking, I'd like to filter for athletes from a particular state or club LiveHeats is excited toFew readers

• Breaking ties in series rankings

  In Series rankings, if two or more athletes have the same amount of total points, they will be tied, and Liveheats does not auto-break them for you, since all organisations have different rules in place relating to rankings tie-breaks. Instead, you can request to have ties broken and we'll process this for you within 1-2 business days by filling in the form below. (https://storage.crisFew readers

• Freezing an athlete's points on a rolling ranking via injury protocol

  If your organisation is using a rolling ranking and has an injury protocol, refer to this article for how to log an injury and have the points frozen. How does LiveHeats frozen points feature work? Background & context: In a rolling Series ranking, each event division result has an expiry date, that is by default 52 weeks after the event's end date (or whatever the duration of the rolling period) Each aFew readers

• Displaying cut lines in the rankings

  In some rankings, there is a concept of 'the cut', where the top X athletes in the ranking advance to the next phase of your series. This rule is common in professional world tours, but can be used at any level to bring some more excitement to your rankings. Here's how to set this up with LiveHeats. How to set a cut line in the rankings Navigate to the SeriesFew readers