For organizers · 1 min read
Run a multi-tier competition
A multi-tier competition is a chain of events where winners move up — a classroom round feeding a school round, feeding a division, and so on up to provincial or national.
Feeder events
The smaller event is a feeder of the bigger one. A feeder has to be approved before its results count; some are approved automatically, others wait for the parent organizer to accept them.
Who advances
You set a qualification rule on the parent event:
- Top N per feeder — the best few from each feeding event.
- Total cap — a fixed number of spots overall.
- Hybrid — a mix of both.
- Open — anyone from a feeder may enter.
- Invitation only — the organizer picks.
Levels
Tiers follow real structures: class, school, division, region, province, country — plus authorities and community groups for programs that don't sit inside a school board.
Competitors carry their display name and number up the chain, so a family following along sees the same identity at every level.
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