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Precision shooting glossary

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The terms that show up on the screens, in two lines each.

The match

Match: The one-day (or few-day) event. It has modalities, series, relays, entrants and a result.
Modality: The course of fire: how many targets per series, how many shots per target, how many series and the times. It is what the ranking uses to separate the athletes — it is the "division" of this module.
Series: The round — and it belongs to the MODALITY, not to the match: Rifle may have five series and Pistol three in the same stage, each with its own grid. Every series produces one score per athlete, and the athlete's total is the sum of the series of the modality they registered for.
Relay (bench): Who shoots together and at what time. It has a slot limit. It is the equivalent of the Squad in the other modules.
Championship: Groups several Matches as legs of a season, with a summed ranking and the worst legs dropped.
Category: The people-based split — age or sex, for example (Senior, Master, Women). It does not change the scoring: it changes the group the award comes out of.
Class: The performance-based split (A, B, C…), set by the club or by the championship. Like the category, it is an award group inside the modality.

Target: Each bullseye the athlete shoots in the series. The modality says how many there are and how many shots go on each one.
Ring: The concentric circles of the target. Each one is worth its own number: 10, 9, 8… down to 1. Off the target is 0.
X: The centre ring. It is worth 10 points, like the 10 — the difference is that it is counted separately and is usually the first tie-break rule. Not every modality has an X.
Strip: The complete scoring of the series: how many shots went into each ring, target by target. It is what the judge fills in and the athlete checks.
Score: The result of one athlete in one series. It holds the scorecard, the points, the X count, the penalty and the signatures.
Penalty: Points taken off by the judge's decision, with the reason in the note. They show separately from the shot total.
Sighters: The warm-up shots the modality provides for. They do not score points.

Judge (scorer): Whoever scores out in the field and signs the series. They have their own record at the club, with a username and a field password.
Implicit judge: The club manager, who can score without needing a separate judge record. The system creates that link on its own.
Staff / match office: Whoever runs the club in the system: creates Matches, registers athletes, publishes. Whoever has read access sees the screens but changes nothing.

PIN: The 4 digits with which the athlete confirms their own series, when the Match requires it. They choose the PIN and nobody can read it afterwards — only erase it.
Sign: Closing the series. Only a signed score enters the ranking; before that, what is on the screen is a draft.
Approved without PIN: Exception: the staff closed the score without the athlete's acceptance, giving a reason that stays in the history.
Reopen: Undoing the signature in order to correct it. It requires a reason and is recorded — nothing is overwritten in silence.
DNF (did not show): The athlete did not shoot. They show in the ranking, on zero and flagged, below whoever shot.
DQ (disqualified): A club decision. Goes to the end of the ranking, flagged.
Draft, Open, In progress, Closed: The states of the Match. Draft publishes nothing; Open opens up registration and scoring; Closed freezes the structure and makes the result final.

Public code: The short address of the Match on the internet. It is the same one for registration, results and the Match page — each one opens or not according to its own switch.
Audit: The record of everything that was done in the Match: who, what and when, including through the integration.
API key: The credential that lets the club system talk to Orbit. Created by the club owner; the same key works for all three modules.