What are Corrals?

Sometimes, Participants in the same Scored Event will need to have different Start Times. You can set up a Corral, which is a group of Participants or Teams who should use a Start Time that is different from their Scored Event Start Time.


For instance, you may have a simple race with one Scored Event, Marathon, that starts at 7 am, but some participants are going to be starting an hour early. You would set the Scored Event Start Time to 7 am, then create a Corral for the Early Start and set the Corral Start Time to 6 am.

Then you assign Participants or Teams to that Corral either automatically by creating a Member Assignment Rule (useful if they answered a Custom Question from RunSignup about doing an Early Start) or manually (either one by one on the Participant or Team record, or importing a spreadsheet of Corral Assignments with bib numbers).


You can learn more about creating Corrals here.

Assigning Members to your Corral

You can assign Members to a Corral in three main ways:

  • Manually by searching for a Participant or Team and updating their Corral Assignment
  • Manually by importing a spreadsheet of Bib Numbers (or Team Bib numbers) and Corral Assignments
  • Automatically using a Member Auto-Assignment Rule

Manually by searching for a Participant and updating their individual Corral Assignment

The most simple method of Corral Member Assignment is to find a Participant in your Race, click into their Participant Record, change their Corral Assignment dropdown, then save their record:

Manually by importing a spreadsheet of Bib Numbers and Corral Assignments for those Bib Numbers

The next method of assigning Corral Members to Corrals is to import those assignments from a spreadsheet.


Maybe you have someone at the Early Start jotting down bib numbers of those 15 or so participants who actually showed up at the start line for the early start. You could type those into a spreadsheet and import them using this function instead of having to manually look for each participant and change their Corral Assignments individually.


To do this go to your Corral setup and click Import Corral Assignments:


Then browse for the file that must include Bib Number and either Corral name or Corral ID.

Here's an example:

After importing this file those Bib Numbers will be immediately placed into the assigned Corral. Team rows in that file should use the team's Team Bib.

Automatically using a Member Auto-Assignment Rule

What are Corral Member Auto-Assignment Rules?

Corral Member Auto-Assignment Rules are useful if you know that Participants or Teams who meet certain conditions should always be included in a certain Corral.


For instance, you may have a Custom Question from RunSignup that asks each Participant if they'd like to start early. You can use that data in RaceDay Scoring then set up a Corral Member Auto-Assignment Rule to automatically assign any Participants who answered "Yes" to this question to your Early Start Corral.

Adding a Member Auto-Assignment Rule


First go to your Corral setup and click Member Auto-Assignment:


Next you will need to define a rule to select the Participants or Teams you would like automatically placed into this Corral.


Apply To

Each Member Assignment Rule has an Apply To setting. This controls whether the rule assigns participants, teams, or both.

  • Participants & Teams (default). Assigns every matching participant and every matching team in the Included Scored Events you check.
  • Participants. Assigns only participants.
  • Teams. Assigns only teams. Use this when a heat should start relay teams, but you do not want the individual team members listed as corral members.

If Apply To is Participants & Teams and you check a relay Scored Event, Assign Corrals (or a participant sync) will keep adding the individual members even after you clear them. Change Apply To to Teams, then use Clear Corral Assignments on that corral and assign again.


Included Scored Events

Check the Scored Events this rule should use. You can check more than one. With no age, gender, bib, or additional filters, the rule includes everyone in those Scored Events who matches Apply To.

Filtering

Now you will need to set up any Filtering you need to apply to the group selected above. For instance you may want all Males regardless of Event between the ages of 1 and 39 in one Corral, while all Females 1 through 39 should be in another.

In my Early Start example, I need to use a Custom Question Response as a way to identify who should be in this Corral. Specifically I want anyone who has answered Yes to the Early Start question:

Because I have not selected any bib, gender, or age filtering above, this setup will include all participants in the Arkansas 20k who selected Yes to the Early Start question I had set up in registration.

Add Additional Member Assignment Rule (Optional)

If you have a more complex set of rules to create you can add additional rules using Add Additional Member Assignment Rule. Rules on the same corral are combined with OR. This will let you say that you would like all participants who selected Yes to the Early Start Question, or any participants whose bib number is less than 100, for instance.

If one heat should start individual participants from one Scored Event and teams from another, add two Member Assignment Rules:

  1. Apply To: Participants. Included Scored Events: the individual event.
  2. Apply To: Teams. Included Scored Events: the relay event.

Do not use one Participants & Teams rule on the relay event if you only want the teams. That rule also assigns the members.

Save & Preview Assignments

To double check your work and continue with the assignment, scroll up and click Save & Preview Assignments.

On this page you can preview what Participants and Teams your rule has selected without updating their information yet. This way you can adjust as needed.

The first set of options allow you to either:

  • Assign all included participants and teams
  • Assign only participants and teams with a different corral assignment
  • Assign only participants and teams without a corral assigned

In the table below, you can browse through the affected Participants and Teams to make sure it looks accurate before using the Continue button to apply this Auto-Assignment Rule.

Notes

  • Saving the rule is not enough. Use Save & Preview Assignments, review the list, then Continue. Assign Corrals on the Corrals page applies every corral that has a Member Auto-Assignment rule.
  • Corral Members lists both participants and teams assigned to that corral.
  • A single report section cannot mix individual rows and team rows. Use Corral Members for a combined on-screen list, or put a Pre Race section and a Group Pre Race section in the same report.
  • Anyone without a corral uses their Scored Event start time.