Compute awards and print the run-sheet

Once a competition is finalized, CommunATI can work out the official medals and podium results for you. The same results drive the TV ceremony, the certificates, and a printable run-sheet for whoever reads names out loud.

Compute the awards

Open the event's Admin page and find the Awards section. Click 🏅 Compute awards. Within a few seconds it tells you how many award rows it wrote — the TV ceremony and certificates immediately reflect the official results.

It's safe to run again any time results change — click Recompute. Re-running never disturbs an award someone has already corrected by hand; it only rewrites the ones CommunATI computed itself.

What kind of awards an event gives

Whether an event hands out an overall top three, a medal per category, a participation award for everyone, or a mix of these isn't something you set here — it comes from the template the event was built from. See Choosing a template.

CommunATI works out the categories on its own from the actual entries — by sub-competition, age group, division, or grade, whichever the event genuinely has more than one of. An event with only a single age group isn't split into age-group medals; it falls back to one overall podium instead.

Ties

If two competitors tie for a place, both receive that award. A tie for gold means no silver is given at all, and the next competitor down takes bronze — nobody is bumped up to a place they didn't earn.

Print the run-sheet

Next to the Compute awards button, Download run-sheet PDF → builds a clean, printable list for an announcer or MC — every award in ceremony order (overall finishes first, then category medals, then participation), each with the recipient's display name and affiliation. It's meant to be handed to someone at the podium, not published anywhere.

Where the results show up

• The TV ceremony reveals computed awards one at a time — gold, silver, bronze, with confetti on the big moments. Until awards are computed, the ceremony shows the live leaderboard instead, so nothing is ever blank.
• Certificates print the official award wording — see Print certificates.

Awards never show a competitor's real name unless the event is configured to. They follow the same display name and number rules as every other public surface.