Half Stages

An event is divided into full stages or days. Next, every such stage consists of one or more half stages.

A half stage is the only thing in StageRace that actually requires competitors to do any work; it represents them riding from A to B (or from A to A, for that matter).

A half stage can optionally be a time trial.

A half stage holds at a maximum the following items:

• Stage arrival, with bonuses and corrections, and for time trials on gross times sorted an arrival list;
• General classification, optionally also sorted on start no.;
• Masks:
  • Stage classifications; and
  • General classifications;
• Teams classification;
• Sprint classification;
• Points classification;
• Climbing classification;
• Most aggressive rider classification;
• Time trial starting order;
• Cross out list;
• Sign in list;
• Sign outs; and
• Communiqué.

Note that often you will just have one single half stage per full stage or day. For this reason half stage numbering is by default suppressed, except of course for when there actually are more than one single half stage in a stage. Numbering will be 1, 2, 3-1, 3-2, 4, rather than 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-1. This can be changed by general settings.

Adding

When a full stage is selected in the event tree, a new half stage can be added through Half stage... in Insert in the Configure menu. The Half stage settings dialog (read below) will appear.

New half stages are added at the end of the list of existing half stages for the particular full stage.

It is not possible to insert new half stages between existing half stages in the same full stage.

Deleting

A half stage that is selected in the event tree can be deleted through Delete... in the Configure menu. A confirmation will be asked for after which the entire half stage will be deleted.

Half Stage Settings

The Half stage settings dialog for an existing stage can be accessed through Configure selection... in the Configure menu, when the half stage is selected in the event tree.

Main Settings

The following parameters can be entered:

• Title
  Enter the title of the half stage.
  Often the start and finish locations of the particular half stage are entered, e.g. "Maastricht-Maastricht" or "Paris-Roubaix".
• Opening hour
  Enter the starting time of the half stage.
  Note that this is an informational field and is not used in any calculations.
• Distance: ... rounds of ... meters
  Enter the number of rounds and the distance per round.
  The number of rounds should always be one or more. Therefore, with city-to-city events the number of rounds is normally one exactly and the total distance will be entered directly as it is.
  For time trials the number of rounds is forced to one.
  What you enter is always interpreted as a meters value. Even if you choose to print only miles values on publications, you still have to enter values in meters here.
• Finish deadline
  The finish deadline for the half stage can be given in a percentage number. A value of 0% signifies no time cuts to apply to this half stage.
• Time trial
  Set the half stage to be a time trial. Additionally choose the type of time trial:
  • Input net times
  • Input gross times
• Allow late start time changes
  Choose if it is allowed for this time trial to make changes to the starting order even when already competitors have been ranked.
• Exclude from general
  Set the half stage arrival not to be added to the general classification and the cumulative distance. This is useful for team time trials. Note that bonus seconds etc. are nevertheless counted as before.
• Only count deciding competitor towards teams classification
  Set the teams classification only to use the competitor that in the Ranking section of the settings dialog is set as the deciding competitor. This is useful for team time trials that should have every team only count once towards the teams classification.

Points and Bonus Schemes

For every single half stage you can configure the desired scheme for bonus seconds that counts towards the general classification and the desired points schemes for sprint, points and climbing classifications. For each of these four points and bonus schemes there exists an extra tab sheet in the Half stage settings dialog.

Configure All

Rather than configuring all half stage settings and schemes for one single half stage, you can choose Configure all in the Configure menu so that you can configure a single type of configuration data for all half stages at once, e.g. all half stage settings, or all bonus schemes, et cetera.