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Scoreboard and standings

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How the total is calculated, how a tie is settled and what goes public.

The scoreboard is a count of hits

In clay shooting there is no time, no factor and no penalty that changes the number: your result is the number of clays broken. Each hit is worth one, and the match total is the sum of the rounds.

Round 1: 23 · Round 2: 24 · Round 3: 22 → total 69.

Tie: clay-by-clay count-back

Tied on the total? The rulebook count-back decides it: the whole strip of the match is read backwards, clay by clay, and the first of the tied shooters who missed loses.

With one round, it starts at clay 25 and works back: 24, 23... With two rounds it starts at 50; with three, at 75. It is not the total of the last round — it is each shot, in the order it was taken.

If the tie survives the whole strip, it is a shoot-off in the field — and until that happens, both athletes appear in the same position.

The club can choose the other way of counting (by round, as the ISSF does) and turn on the field tie-break — it is all in Ties and tie-breaks.

Example. Two athletes on 48 across two rounds. The first missed clays 49 and 48; the second missed clay 50. By the round total the second would be ahead (24 against 23), but the count-back starts at clay 50 — and the one who broke it was the first, who comes out on top.

Class, category and overall

Standings can be seen overall or split by class and by category, according to the club catalogue. It is the same list, grouped differently — nobody is recalculated.

What goes into the public scoreboard

Only a closed round, that is, a signed one. A result still being scored does not appear to anyone outside.
The club decides whether to publish the results; while it does not, the link does not respond.
There is a big-screen version, in a large font, that refreshes on its own — made for the club TV during the match.
The club staff can also see what has not been closed yet, to follow the progress.

Why you can trust the number

Every closed round carries two electronic signatures — the judge's, who scored, and the athlete's, who checked — and they cover exactly that strip of clays. If the result is changed afterwards, by any route, the signature check flags it.

Correcting is possible, but never in silence: reopening a round requires a reason, creates a new version of the result and keeps the previous version in the history. What happened in the match remains possible to reconstruct after it.

Taking the data with you

Standings can be downloaded as a spreadsheet (CSV), which opens straight in Excel.
The traditional sheet, clay by clay by round and squad, can be printed for the club archive.

External export (federation)

The export button on the results screen opens the model choice. Besides the ranking CSV (Model 1), Model 2 generates the file in the layout that external federation systems import: one row per athlete, with CPF, name, class and one FIREHIT field per target of the match, in launch order.

Rounds enter in sequence: in a 2×25 match, the second round takes fields FIREHIT_026 to FIREHIT_050 — and so on.
Athletes are grouped by class, from highest to lowest total, and only closed scores (signed and confirmed) are included.
DQ and cancelled registrations are left out of the file.

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