How it works

Create the competition

Sign in with your name, email, password, country and — if you like — your organisation or gym. Then press New competition in the top bar.

• Give it a name, pick the sport, and set the city and dates.
• It saves instantly as a private Draft that only you can see.
• Creating a draft is free — you don't pay anything yet.

Work through the six setup steps

The setup wizard walks you through everything in order, and you can jump back to any step at any time.

• Competition information — Name, sport, dates, venue, description and a competition logo.
• Divisions — The categories you are running — for example RX Men, RX Women, Masters or Teams.
• Athletes — Add them one by one, or paste or upload a CSV list to bring them in all at once.
• Events — The contests inside your competition. Each one gets a scoring method, an optional time cap, a start time and a reset gap between heats.
• Scoring system — Place points, your own points table, or points scaled to the number of athletes.
• Heats — Build them by hand, or let PodiumHub fill them: athlete list order, seeded by ranking, copied from a previous event, or the top of each heat advancing to a final.

Note: You can add divisions, athletes, events and heats now, or add and edit them later after your competition is set up and paid.

Preview and pay the $40 setup fee

Open Preview & publish to see your competition exactly as spectators will see it, then pay the one-off fee with PayPal.

• The preview shows the schedule, athletes, heats and leaderboard as the public will see them.
• One $40 Competition Setup Fee activates one competition — paid once, not every month.
• The competition is published automatically as soon as PayPal confirms the payment.

Set the status: Upcoming, then Live

The Status page controls who can see your competition and when results can be entered. Pick a status and press Update status.

• Draft — private, still yours to build.
• Upcoming — published, so people can see the competition, its events, athletes and heats.
• Live — competition day. This is the only status where results can be entered.
• Completed — finished, results locked and final.

Enter results as the day runs

On the Results page, choose an event, a division and a heat, type the scores in and save.

• Ranking, points and standings are worked out for you the moment you save.
• The public leaderboard updates straight away — no exporting, no posting manually.
• You can move through heats in any order as they finish.

Correct, print and close

Mistakes happen on every event, and paperwork still matters. Both are handled from your own menu.

• Corrections: fix any result and keep a written history of the change.
• Print Centre: upcoming heats, judge scorecards, event results and final standings — preview first, then print or save as PDF.
• When every score is in, close the competition as Completed and the final standings are labelled final.