Entering a competition

You do not need an account, a password or an app. A club or federation sends you a link, you fill in one page, and you press Submit.

Finish it in one sitting

Nothing you type is saved until you press Submit. There is no “save and finish later”, and closing the tab loses everything you have entered. Have your documents ready before you start.

Getting the link

The address looks like …/register/ followed by a long code. It reaches you one of three ways:

• An organiser sends it — by email, in a club group, on a poster, or as a QR code.
• You find it on the organisation’s own public page, if they switched that on.
• Somebody forwards you an older version of the link. That still works: it forwards to the current version by itself and corrects the address bar.

Before you start

The first screen is an overview, not a question. It carries:

• At a glance — up to four tiles: Competition dates, Venue (with a View map ↗ link where the organiser added one), Entries close with the exact date and time, and Entry fee, marked per athlete where the fee is charged that way.
• N spots left, in amber, if the organiser capped the number of entries.
• Before you begin — the organiser’s own instructions.
• What you’ll need — the list of documents to have ready.
• Documents — rules and schedules the organiser attached, each opening in a new tab.

Read What you’ll need properly. It is the only warning you get that a file will be asked for.

Individual or team

If the form takes both, you choose:

Individual	One athlete, one set of details. You pay for your own entry.
Team	Your team or club. You add each member and their events, and pay for everyone in one go.

Duilian and group events

These must be entered as a team, with every athlete who will perform. They cannot be added to an individual entry later. If your competition runs them and you enter individually, your entry will not include them.

Where the organiser allows only one type, you get a single Start registration button and no choice to make.

Filling it in

A progress bar reads Filling in your registration with a percentage. Required questions carry a red asterisk. ← Back to overview takes you back to the instructions at any point without losing what you have typed.

Date of birth is three dropdowns — Month, Day, Year — not a calendar. It drives a lot: your age group, which events you may enter, and your weight category all update as you set it, marked Calculated from date of birth. Options you are not eligible for appear as Not eligible or No category for this age group and cannot be picked.

The form tells you which date your age is judged on — usually the end of the competition year rather than the day of the event itself.

The organiser may also add declarations you must open, read and tick.

Team entries

Under Competitors you start at No competitors added yet. Press Add Competitor, fill in that person’s details, then Add Competitor again to save the card. Saved athletes can be edited or removed, and each athlete’s documents are attached inside their own card.

If the competition runs group events or duilian, the button becomes Next: group assignments and a second step appears where you build each group or pair and drag athletes into it.

Uploading documents and photos

Where a file is asked for you get a Choose file… box with the accepted types under it. Once picked, a green line confirms the name, the size, and will upload on submit.

• 10 MB is the ceiling for every file. An organiser can set a lower limit on a particular question, never a higher one.
• Accepted: PDF, JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC/HEIF. SVG is refused.
• Photos are shrunk automatically before the size is checked — longest edge 2400 pixels, re-saved as JPEG — so a photo straight off a phone normally fits without you doing anything. This also strips the GPS location phones write into pictures. PDFs are never re-compressed.
• iPhone .heic photos are converted for you.

Nothing uploads when you pick it. Every file is sent after you press Submit.

Submitting

If anything is missing you get a red box naming it — “Please complete: …”, “Please add at least one member before submitting.”, “Please accept all required declarations before submitting.”

Then you get Registration Submitted! and, on it:

• Your reference number, in the form REG-2026-000123, with a copy button. Save this. It is how organisers find your entry, and how a coach pays for you in a season basket.
• Download PDF — your completed application, every answer as you sent it. See Your entry document.
• The payment section, if the form charges a fee. See Paying your entry fee.
• What happens next — your entry is under review, you will be emailed a decision, and if approved your entry is confirmed.

There is no “we received your entry” email

The success screen is your only record at that moment. The organiser’s staff are emailed; you are not. The first email you get is the decision — approved, changes needed, or not approved — or a payment confirmation if you pay.

This is why the reference number is worth copying before you close the tab.

Coming back later

Reopening the same link in the same browser on the same device takes you back to that success screen, with the payment section up to date, rather than a blank form. To enter somebody else, use Picking this up for someone else? → Register another.

If something goes wrong

What you see	What it means
Form not found	The link is wrong, or the form was deleted.
Registration deadline passed	Past the closing time. The deadline is exact to the minute.
Registration full	The organiser capped entries and the cap is reached.
Registration closed	The organiser closed or unpublished the form.
“…nothing was submitted.”	The form closed, expired or filled while you were typing. Nothing was sent — contact the organiser.
“Network error … your answers are still here.”	The send failed but your answers are still on screen. Press Submit again; it cannot create a duplicate.
“The selected discipline isn’t offered for the entered date of birth.”	That date of birth falls in no age group for that discipline.
“File too large. Maximum size is 10MB.”	Still over the limit after shrinking. Nothing was attached.

Check your attachments were received

If a file is refused at the moment you submit — because it is the wrong type, or the organisation has run out of storage — you are not told. The success screen appears exactly as normal and the attachment is simply missing. The organiser’s staff see it flagged on their side.

If a document mattered, ask the organiser to confirm they can see it.