Cumulative Competitions

This suite of modules was written to calculate and display the results of camera club competitions. Although it is written to support a particular set of rules and conventions it is fairly flexible.

There are a number of concepts which you have to understand in order to make effective use of this suite of modules.

• A season is a club season. It has a name, start date and end date. You have to create at least one of these.
• A competition type is a class of competition. You have to create at least one of these.
• An entry type is what is entered into the competition. You have to create at least one of these.
• The heart of the system is the cumulative competition. Each competition series or even a single competition needs one of these.
• A competition is an actual competitive event.
• A super competition aggregates a number of cumulative competitions. This content type is optional.
• The compindex module shows a list of super and cumulative competitions for a given year.

Competitions should be scored out of twenty for the highlighting of 20s, 19s and 18s to work.

For this module to work well every entrant must be a Drupal user. Also the profile module must be enabled with the following profile fields defined:

• A code number for the user. The field name must be profile_codenumber, the title must be 'Code Number'. The uploaded result data will contain this number.
• A first name. The field name must be profile_firstname, the title must be 'First Name'.
• A surname. The field name must be profile_surname, the title must be 'Surname'.

This module constructs the user's name from the profile_firstname and profile_surname fields. If it is unable to find a user in the Drupal user data it uses the name given in the upload.