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Competition: the event in the portal (for example a regatta) with its dates, deadlines and race classes.
Organizer: the organization that hosts a competition. Its managers manage the competitions; the owner can also change the bank details.
Entrant: a person who enters boats for a club; this requires an active membership in the club.
Race class: boat class, age class and distance with their rules, for example “3012 K1 Herren LK 500m”. The number in front is the race class number.
Race: a single start with lanes. A race class has one or more races.
Round: the stage a race belongs to, for example heat, intermediate round, semifinal, Final A.
Race no.: the program number of a race, unique across the competition.
No. in round: the number of a race within its round (“Heat 2”).
Boat number: the start number of a boat in its class; the organizer assigns it during the draw.
Entry number (“Entry no.”): the running number of a club's entries in a competition.
Qualification mode (qualification scheme): defines the rounds of a class and who advances to which following race.
Draw: distributes the boats randomly across the lanes.
Long distance: mass start without lanes; one race per class with start positions.
Entry deadline: the deadline for new boats; the athlete entry deadline applies to crew changes.
Late entry: an entry or booking after the regular deadline. It needs the organizer's acceptance and costs the late entry fee in addition to the entry fee.
Withdrawal: a boat no longer starts, but it is kept with its number, results and entry fee. Not the same as deleting.
Exception request: a request to the organizer to let an athlete start in a class despite a different age or gender.
Substitute: a substitute athlete of a boat; coxswain (cox): a seat of its own to which no age and gender limits apply.
Pool boat: a boat with athletes from several clubs; the costs are split proportionally.
Racing community (RG): an association of several clubs that enters with released athletes of its member clubs.
Team leader: a club's contact person at the competition. Team leader meeting: the meeting of the team leaders before the competition.
Referee: a person a club provides to serve as a judge. Officials: people with a task at the competition who have no account of their own.
Cost statement: a list of all fees of a club; the portal does not create invoices.
Start release: the year for which an athlete is eligible to start according to the federation.
Phases of a competition: Preparation, Registration, Programme, Live, Closed. They determine what clubs may still change themselves.
Official: a race whose result is confirmed; before that, the result is shown publicly as “Provisional”.
DNS / DNF / DSQ: did not start / did not finish / disqualified.