Snowboard Cup Stop Software
Qualification and final, a head judge who signs off every run, and points that follow the place
A cup stop is one round of a season-long series. Riders arrive with licence codes, a judging panel scores each run from 0 to 100, the head judge approves the numbers, and every place turns into cup points for the overall ranking. JudgeMate covers that day for a national cup, from the imported start list through qualification and final to a PDF with a cup points column. It does not write the FIS XML results file, so an event on the FIS calendar still needs a FIS data service for the upload.
A slopestyle cup stop, hour by hour
07:45 Team captains' meeting. The format and the start list are confirmed here. Under ICR 3604, once the start list exists no riders can be added and no names changed, so late corrections belong before this point.
09:00 Course inspection and practice, while the judges calibrate on a few test runs.
10:30 Men's qualification, 28 riders in one heat, two runs each, the better run counts.
12:15 Women's qualification, 14 riders, same format.
13:15 The cut. Ten men and six women go to the final, and the finalists' start list is printed for the start hut.
14:00 Finals, scored from zero.
15:30 Results with cup points, prize giving, and the PDF sent to the series coordinator the same afternoon.
The tight spot is 13:15. Between the last qualification run and the first final run, someone has to agree the standing, settle any tie on the last qualifying spot and print a new list.
What goes on the start list
ICR 3701.1 names the competitor columns for a FIS start list and results list: bib number, family name, first name, nation, year of birth, FIS code, and stance for snowboard events. National lists add their own columns: the Burton Young Punks 2025/26 list, for example, has the national federation (NSA) code and points.
ICR 3701.2 also asks the start list to show the heat or phase and the seeding criterion, for example FIS points. Riders are seeded from the WSPL or FIS points list (ICR 3604.1).
Prepare the sheet the way FIS lists look: family name and first name in separate columns, one column per field. In JudgeMate, a column whose header matches one of your entry fields goes straight into that field, and headers it does not recognise are shown before you confirm the import. Fields marked public (stance, FIS code, NSA code) hold up to 40 characters and appear on the start list, in the judges' view and in the results. A field named YoB becomes a single birth-year column.
Six judges, one head judge, and the average that is left
Each judge gives a whole-number score from 0 to 100 (ICR 3403). With six or more scoring judges the highest and lowest scores are discarded; with up to five, every score counts (ICR 3403.2). Any result that involves division is truncated to two decimals, never rounded up.
A worked example with six judges: 81, 77, 76, 74, 73 and 68. The 81 and the 68 drop out, and (77 + 76 + 74 + 73) / 4 = 75.00.
The head judge can check this by eye. With six whole-number scores, four count, so a run score always ends in .00, .25, .50 or .75. The check assumes each judge enters one whole number out of 100. The ready-made Snowboarding Slopestyle criteria in JudgeMate add up six weighted marks instead, so totals there can end in any decimal.
The head judge preferably does not score (ICR 3311.5). Under JHB chapter 7, no score is released as official until the head judge has verified and approved it. At World Cup and Junior World Championship level the panel is at least six scoring judges plus the head judge (ICR 3311.7.2). At national events a judge with a C licence may act as head judge (ICR 3311.4).
From qualification to the final
ICR 3501.1.1 sizes a slopestyle qualification heat at 12 to 30 riders, ideally 20 to 25. ICR 3501 recommends a semifinal once the field passes 24 to 30. With one men's heat, the top 10 to 12 usually advance; for women the range is top 6 to 12. The recommendation is around one third of the field. A phase only counts as a result once at least two runs have been completed (ICR 3502).
When riders tie for the last qualifying spot, all of them go through and the final gets bigger (ICR 3503.1, 3503.2).
In JudgeMate the final is a linked category created with Add next round. It copies the settings and takes the riders who made the cut. You set how many advance, and a tie on the cut line sends both riders through. The final starts from zero: the qualification score does not carry over.
Plan for one difference. JudgeMate first breaks a tied score using the riders' other runs, so fewer ties reach the cut line than under the ICR, where a tie stands.
Turning places into cup points
The FIS park and pipe World Cup table (WCR 1.7.1) pays the top 30: 100, 80, 60, 50, 45, 40, 36, 32, 29, 26, then down to 1 point for 30th. Moguls, ski cross and snowboard cross use a different table (WCR 1.7.2), so do not copy that one.
National cups usually publish their own table. Take the values from your series' current rules document, not from last season's results.
In the category settings, Cup points offers two sources:
- FIS 100–1, the park and pipe table above, 30 places.
- Upload points tables, an .xlsx or .csv sheet with the place in the first column and one table per further column, its name in the header. You then pick the table by its points for first place. A series that pays 100 at regular stops and 150 at the finale can keep both tables in one sheet.
Tied riders share the place and the points. A rider without a run gets no points. The points appear in the results, on the public page and as a column in the PDF.
Setting up the stop in JudgeMate
Allow about an hour the week before.
- Start from snowboarding in the create menu and create the event. Add one Snowboarding Slopestyle category for men and one for women.
- In the scoring step, set two runs and Best round. With six judges, switch on Drop extreme scores. Switch on Head judge releases scores.
- Add entry fields for stance, FIS code and NSA code, marked public, and a field called YoB.
- Import the start list from your sheet and check the unrecognised headers before confirming.
- Send Invite judges once for both categories. Use Add to categories to place the head judge and the speaker in both at once; the same window adds a co-organizer for the whole event.
- Under Cup points, choose FIS 100–1 or upload your series' tables.
On the day, judges score on phones or tablets and can mark a run DNI from run 2. The head judge sees the scores before the board does, sorted by Start order or Standing, with ties in red, and releases each run. Release with gaps publishes a run when one judge's score is missing. After qualification, Add next round on each category builds the final.
For the paperwork, the PDF window lets you choose columns such as bib, birth year, club and cup points, plus up to six sponsor logos. The whole event also exports to XLSX.
The snowboard tutorial with Mate walks through the same setup on screen. For the scoring rules themselves, read how snowboarding is scored.
Where JudgeMate stops for a cup stop
- FIS XML. ICR 3405 requires the data and results system to upload results in the FIS XML format. JudgeMate does not produce that file. For an event on the FIS calendar, use a FIS data service for the upload. For a national cup, check what its own rules require.
- FIS database. There is no import from the FIS database. The FIS code is an ordinary field filled from your sheet.
- Ties. ICR 3503 gives tied riders the same rank and lists the higher bib first. JudgeMate breaks a tie by best run, then second run, then the best trick if used, then the third run. The rank is shared only if all of those are equal. The head judge's preview shows the tie without that tie-break.
- Dropping scores. The switch drops one high and one low score from five judges upward, while the ICR starts at six. With exactly five judges, leave it off.
- Decimals. A JudgeMate score allows steps of 0.1. ICR scores are whole numbers, so tell the judges before the first run.
- Points by hand. Cup points come only from the place and the chosen table. They cannot be typed in for one rider.
- Halfpipe and big air. There is one snowboard category type, Slopestyle. A halfpipe uses the halfpipe criteria template inside it. For big air, the rule that the two counting tricks must be different (ICR 3502.3.1) is checked by the judges, not the system.
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