Guides · Clubs · 9 November 2026 · Thomas Schüller
Remote competition: one task, many places
How clubs and schools announce a competition without travel, score it fairly and record only the data that is needed.
Not every competition needs a shared venue. In a remote competition groups solve the same task in different places: a run over a fixed course, a jump test, a number of repetitions. The results are then merged and scored.
Fair scoring
Fairness comes from a precise announcement: same task, same measurement procedure, same time window. Hopkins describes how large measurement errors are in repeated measurements; differences within that range should not decide rankings. Self-reported results are marked as such.
Little data
Initials, group and result are enough for scoring. Names, dates of birth and places are not needed; this keeps the competition lean in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation.
With remote competition
The tool announces, collects results, merges files and scores them — without an account. Medals and course models can be produced with the medals tool.
Key point: Same task, same measurement, same time window — and initials instead of names.
References
- Hopkins, W. G. (2000): Measures of reliability in sports medicine and science. Sports Medicine 30(1), 1–15.
- Hamari, J.; Koivisto, J.; Sarsa, H. (2014): Does Gamification Work? — A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Gamification. 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 3025–3034.
- Europäisches Parlament und Rat (2016): Verordnung (EU) 2016/679 zum Schutz natürlicher Personen bei der Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten (Datenschutz-Grundverordnung), insbesondere Art. 4 Z 5, Art. 5, Art. 9, Art. 20 und Art. 25. Amtsblatt der Europäischen Union L 119, 1-88.