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Awards and announcing

The Awards and Announcing tabs: how speaker awards are ranked and saved, what the announcing stage shows, and when awards become public.

Awards and Announcing are the last two of the four tabs under Standings in the left rail. Awards ranks the tournament's speakers by their speaker points and saves how many places are awarded. Announcing is a full screen stage for the awards ceremony that reveals those places one at a time. Both open at /tournaments/[id]/admin/standings, with the view setting awards or announcing. The older address /admin/awards sends a director to the Awards tab. Use Awards once the last ballot is in, and use Announcing in the room where the ceremony is held. Standings and the break are in Standings and Breaks and elimination rounds.

Who can use it

Role	What it can do on these tabs
Platform admin	Read the awards list, save the depth and open the announcing stage.
Organization owner or admin	The same, for tournaments the organization hosts.
Tournament admin seat	The same.
Tab seat	The same. Saving the depth is allowed for a tab seat.
Compliance seat	Cannot open either tab and cannot save. A compliance seat is sent to Records with a read only notice.
Organization role Settings only	Cannot open either tab.
Coach, competitor, judge, observer	No access to either tab. Public awards are shown on the public tournament page under the rules in When awards are public.

How speakers are ranked

A speaker award goes to the entries with the most speaker points. The list is computed again each time the tab opens. The computation follows these rules.

Only pairings that are completed count. A pairing without a recorded decision adds nothing.
Each side of a pairing contributes the speaker points recorded for it on the ballot. Elimination rounds count when they are completed.
A bye adds nothing to either side, and a side with no recorded points adds nothing.
Each entry is one row. The row is named for the entry's first competitor, with the entry's team name beside it, and an entry of two debaters is therefore one row, not two.
Rows are ordered by total speaker points, highest first, and the place is the row's position in that order. Two rows with equal totals take consecutive places in the order the data happens to arrive, and no tiebreak is applied.
The Awards tab ranks across every event of the tournament together. The public page ranks each event on its own.
The list is cut to the top 10 on the Awards tab. The depth chosen there trims the list further.
A school is read from the club answer given at registration, and reads Independent when none was given.

The ranking uses total points and does not drop any scores, whatever the Adjusted speaker points drop setting is. The average column is shown for information and is not what orders the rows, so an entry that has debated more rounds, such as one that went deep into the elimination rounds, can outrank an entry with a higher average.

Awards tab

The tab is a console with a header, an optional list of award sections on the left, the computed list in the middle, and a panel for the selected award on the right. The list of sections shows from the xl screen width up, and the selected award panel stacks under the list on narrower screens.

Control	What it does	Default or limit
Standings / awards	The eyebrow line above the title.	Read only.
Awards	The page title, with a detail line giving the tournament name and the sentence depth is a league setting, not a constant.	Read only.
Draft awards	A status word in the header while no save result is shown.	Replaced by the save result after a save.
Saved · logged to Records	A green notice shown after a successful save.	Appears when the address carries the saved setting.
Error notice	A red notice in the same place, carrying the refusal. See Troubleshooting.	Replaces Draft awards.
Award sections	A column with four rows: Speaker awards, Team awards, Special recognition and Certificate set. Speaker awards is marked Ready and the others are marked Open.	Shown from xl up. Only Speaker awards has content. The other three rows do nothing when selected.
Depth	Three buttons, Top 3, Top 5 and Top 10, that choose how many places the awards carry. The chosen button is filled.	Opens on the saved depth. If no depth is saved, or the saved setting is Off, the tab opens on Top 3.
Computed list	The ranked rows, up to the depth chosen, headed by the count of places and the words submitted speaker points. Each row shows Place N, the name with the team name beside it, the school, and the average to two decimal places followed by avg. Selecting a row selects that award.	A depth change is local until it is saved.
No speaker points have been submitted yet.	The empty state of the list.	Shown when no completed pairing has speaker points.
Selected award	The panel on the right. It shows the name, Place N with the team name, the Computed value, which is the total speaker points to two decimals, the number of rounds spoken with the average, and the School.	Opens on the first row. Reads Select an award when the list is empty.
Save awards	Saves the chosen depth for the tournament.	Accepts 3, 5 or 10 only.
Print certificates	Opens the browser's print dialog for the whole page.	It prints the console as shown. It does not build certificates.
Footer	Two lines. The first reads Saving builds the announcing script and certificate set. The second says who can see the awards, and is described below.	See Known mismatches.

The footer's second line reads Nothing is public until the tournament is finalized in Records while the tournament is not completed. Once the tournament is completed it reads that the awards are public, that they stay editable, and that a change saved shows publicly at once.

Announcing tab

Announcing is a presenter view for the ceremony. It fills the screen with a colored background and shows one placement at a time. It holds no settings and saves nothing. It reads the same top speakers as the Awards tab, cut to the saved depth, and falls back to Top 3 when the depth is Off or unset.

Control	What it does	Default or limit
Top line	Shows the tournament name followed by Awards announcing.	Read only.
Counter	Shows the position as N / M, or 0 / 0 when there is nothing to reveal.	Starts at 1.
Placement label	Reads Top speaker followed by place N, or Awards when the list is empty.	Read only.
Name	The speaker's name in very large type. A long name breaks over lines so it does not run off a small screen.	Reads No award is ready to reveal when there are no placements.
School line	The school, or School not recorded when it is missing.	Reads Set the awards list first when there are no placements.
Citation	A sentence: the name, the place, the average speaker points to two decimals, and a line asking the room to join in recognizing the result.	Replaced by a note that the stage reveals one verified placement at a time after the awards list is saved, when there are no placements.
Back	Moves to the previous placement.	Disabled on the first placement and when the list is empty.
Reveal next	Moves to the next placement.	Disabled on the last placement and when the list is empty.
Footer line	Reads Next placement is held until the room is ready, or No placements available.	Read only.

The stage starts on place 1 and moves down to the lower places. It does not count down from the last place, so a ceremony that announces from the lowest place up reads the list from the end using Back, after moving to the last placement.

The stage does not send anything, post anything publicly or record that a name was read. The position is held only in the open page and starts again at place 1 when the page is reloaded.

Tasks

Save how many speaker places are awarded.

Open Standings in the left rail. Select the Awards tab.
Check the computed list against the standings and the ballots.
Select Top 3, Top 5 or Top 10 under Depth.
Select Save awards.

The tab reloads with the notice Saved · logged to Records, and the choice is added to the tournament's audit trail with the old and the new depth. The same setting can be changed in Setup, in the Standings section under Awards, where it can also be switched off.

Run the ceremony.

Save the depth on the Awards tab.
Open Standings and select the Announcing tab on the screen shown to the room.
Select Reveal next to move from place 1 to each lower place.
Select Back to return to an earlier place.

The stage shows the name, the school and the citation for the place on screen.

Switch speaker awards off.

Open Setup. Select the Standings section.
Under Awards, select Off and save the section.

The public page then shows no speaker awards. The Awards and Announcing tabs still work and use Top 3.

When awards are public

Nothing on the Awards or Announcing tabs publishes anything. Speaker awards appear on the public tournament page only when all of the following hold.

The tournament is Completed, which happens when it is finalized in Records. See Results and closeout.
A depth is saved, so the setting is not Off.
Standings are public by the Publish standings rule, no round is live, and no round uses the winner only reveal mode, so speaker points may be shown.
The tournament does not mask participant names on its postings.
At least one event is shown, since a hidden event has no awards.

The public page ranks each event separately, by total speaker points, to the saved depth, and labels each list with the event name when the tournament has several events. Awards stay editable after the tournament is completed, so a depth saved later changes the public page at once. The closeout packet has an Awards sheet that lists the same speaker places at the saved depth, using Top 3 when the depth is Off.

Troubleshooting

Message	What it means	What to do
Choose a valid speaker award depth.	The depth sent was not 3, 5 or 10.	Select one of the three buttons and save again.
Could not verify your session.	The sign in could not be confirmed.	Reload and sign in again.
You do not have admin access to this tournament.	The access check ran and refused the account. A compliance seat always gets this answer.	Ask an admin for an admin or tab seat.
Could not check your admin access. Try again.	The access check could not run, which says nothing about the account's permissions.	Try again in a moment.
Could not save awards settings: followed by a reason	The tournament record could not be read or written.	Read the reason and try again.
Could not save awards settings: the tournament was not found.	The write matched no tournament.	Reload the page. If it repeats, report it to a tab director.
No speaker points have been submitted yet.	No completed pairing has speaker points, so the list is empty.	Enter ballots in Ballots, then reopen the tab.
No award is ready to reveal.	The Announcing stage has no placements.	Enter ballots first. The stage fills when speaker points exist.
Set the awards list first.	The Announcing school line when there are no placements.	Same as above.

Known mismatches

Setup says speaker awards are ranked by adjusted speaker points, then by the tiebreak order. The Awards tab, the Announcing stage, the public page and the closeout packet all rank by total speaker points with no drop and no tiebreak.
The footer says that saving builds the announcing script and certificate set, and a line in the selected award panel says the selected value is carried into the announcing script. Saving writes only the depth. The Announcing stage reads the live ranking and nothing is carried over from a selected row.
The left column lists Team awards, Special recognition and Certificate set as sections, and a note says every override records the computed value beside the chosen one. These rows do nothing, and no override exists.
Print certificates prints the console page. No certificate layout exists.
The Awards tab ranks all events together, while the public page ranks each event separately.
The Awards tab shows the average to two decimals and orders by total, so row order can disagree with the averages shown.