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Practical guides for organizers running competitions on WOD Lane. Browse by topic below or use the sidebar.
Getting started
Create your first competition
Walk through the creation wizard end-to-end: what each step locks in, what stays editable, and what you'll do next on the dashboard.
Connect your Stripe account
Onboard with Stripe Connect to accept registrations: how the OAuth flow works, the verification states, and what unlocks once your account is :complete.
Divisions vs. qualifiers
When to use a division, when to add a qualifier, and how the composition string controls team size and gender — the conceptual core of WOD Lane.
Pricing and fees
What athletes pay, what you receive: base price, platform fee, Stripe processing fee, VAT, discounts, and how the numbers compose under each fee-payer choice.
Registration
Managing registrations
The registration lifecycle from reserved spot to confirmed team, the dashboard list and CSV export, self-service roster fixes, the access-code gate, and QR check-in on event day.
Athlete pack
Configure the goodies athletes receive with registration: t-shirts, meals, swag — included for everyone or optional add-ons with a surcharge, with size/flavor variants per item.
Discount codes
Percentage-off promo codes per division or qualifier: active windows, usage caps, how athletes redeem at checkout, and what a discount does to fees.
Workouts & scoring
Workouts
Build WODs with one or more scoring components, weight them with coefficients, set tiebreaks and time caps, and assign each workout to the divisions or qualifiers where it runs.
Score entry and leaderboards
From finished workout to live board: direct entry on-site, reviewing video submissions, how ranks, tiebreaks, and points are computed, and revealing the leaderboard to the public.
Withdrawals and disqualifications
Handle injuries, no-shows, and rule violations with WD/DQ ranking statuses — CF Games semantics, reversible, no refund implications.
Competition management
Running an online qualifier
From qualifier setup to a filled finals roster: windows, video submissions, review and reveal, then rank-based invitations with paid finals registration.
Heats and schedule
Venues, seeded heat generation per workout, drag-and-drop lane adjustments, chase starts, and publishing the public day-by-day schedule.
Emailing your athletes
Announcement campaigns from the dashboard: audience targeting down to divisions, teams, or captains only, per-recipient delivery tracking, and retrying failures.
Division splits mid-event
Split a combined day-1 division into separate tiers (RX / Inter / Scaled) for the rest of the event, with seeded rankings.
Reassign a team
Move a single confirmed registration between sibling divisions (or sibling qualifiers) in the same competition.
Cancellations and refunds
Every way a paid registration can be cancelled — participant request, organizer decision, missed payment deadline, whole-event cancellation — what athletes get back, and who bears the fees.
Expenses log
Log what the event costs you — venue, judges, medals — so the dashboard's net revenue shows your real result. Informational only: no money moves.