Competition Mode is for clubs, organisers and judges: an FCI tracking trial with many dogs, from entry to result list. Reach it via Competitions in the home screen's overflow menu. Competition data stays strictly apart from your training data — competition dogs don't appear in your dog list, competition tracks not in your track list, competition gradings not among your evaluations.
Three lenses
Inside an event the bottom bar switches between three views: Organizer, Judge and Results. This divides up the interface, but it is not access control — there is no sign-in and no restriction, and every lens is reachable at any time.
The division of labour is still noticeable, and it costs you a hunt if you don't know about it: the create buttons and the event's ⋮ menu exist only in the Organizer lens. Looking for New entry, Import start-list…, Share competition… or Finalize competition from the Judge lens will not find them — not because they are locked, but because they live in the Organizer lens; one tap on the bottom bar gets you there. Two things are deliberately exempt: Share standings and Export results (PDF) sit as their own icons at the top of the Results lens, and the Judge lens has Lock device there.
Creating an event
Tap New competition in the list. You record a name, a date or date range, a location, a judge as free text, an organiser block with club details, and notes. A multi-day trial is a date range on one event, not several objects.
There is no exam level on the event — the level belongs to the individual entry. One event can therefore mix IGP and IFH freely, and the standings group by level later on.
Entries
New entry captures dog, papers, team, trial and readiness. Under team you distinguish the owner from the handler, with a handled by the owner switch covering the usual case. Readiness records whether the scorebook and the rabies vaccination are on file and whether the fee is open, paid or waived; from that the entry reads as ready or not ready.
The list sits in start-number order and can be reordered by long-pressing and dragging. Competition dogs are a separate population — your own training dogs are never offered here.
That drag is not a view setting, and this is the part worth knowing: it reassigns the start numbers in the new order and stores them that way — it is a change to competition data, not to the screen. The track assigned to a dog is left untouched by it. On a finalised event the drag handle is not there.
Importing a start list
Rather than typing everything, import the entries. Import start-list… walks you through Save a template to fill in (as Excel (.xlsx) or CSV), choose a file, map columns — German and English headers are recognised automatically — a preview flagging each row, and a Who is who? step for resolving people.
Use the supplied template rather than a sheet of your own — there is a concrete reason for it: Excel destroys long numbers. Typed into an ordinary cell, a fifteen-digit chip number becomes 2,76098E+14 and the digits are gone for good; a postal code like 01067 loses its leading zero. That happens inside Excel before the file ever reaches the app, and no importer can undo it. Every cell in the template is therefore formatted as text, with dropdowns for each field that has a fixed vocabulary.
People and data protection
Personal data lives only in the people register: name, address, club, membership number. There you can search, filter for duplicates and merge two records. Under Settings → Retention of participant details you set a period after which KynoPlan automatically redacts handler and owner details. The person record itself remains and is marked redacted; free-text fields are left alone, so any names written there stay.
Planning the tracks
The Tracks tab has a Tracks | Designs switch. On one side are the numbered trial tracks with their number, a reserve flag, the layer, the design, ground conditions and weather; on the other, the event's design pool, into which you can copy or move designs. Create tracks from designs generates them in bulk, and Map overview puts every track of the event on one satellite map so you can check spacing.
Create tracks from designs is more than a shortcut: the app creates one track per design in the pool that no track uses yet, grouped by ruleset — so planning a whole trial's tracks is one operation rather than twenty. It asks first how many of each ruleset's tracks should be reserves; the numbers continue from the highest already issued in each series. The own-track levels IGP-1 and IFH-1 get no reserves, because every dog there works its own track anyway.
To have a track laid, send it to the layer as a QR code or a file on another device; the layer sends the recording back.
What happens in between is worth knowing, because it is what makes the split of work on the day hold together: on the layer's device the track arrives as a self-contained lay job — no event, no entries, no setup. They see only the shape to lay, with neighbouring tracks faint in the background while recording, and know nothing about the rest of the trial. When they are done they pick Send recording back, and on your device the recording attaches itself to the right track; you assign nothing. Delete lay job then clears the whole job from their device in one step. The Send to layer entry only exists while the event is open and the track has a planned design.
The draw
The draw assigns one track per run, grouped by ruleset and trial day. Three limits matter:
- Only runs marked drawn that have no track yet take part. Fixed assignments are left alone.
- Own-track levels — IGP-1, IFH-1 and FPr-1 — are never drawn, because the dog works its own track.
- Reserve tracks are held back; they exist for failures and are assigned by hand.
If there are fewer tracks than runs, the app reports the shortfall. Every draw is logged and shown as redrawn; you can run it again via Redraw, which is logged too.
On the trial day the draw runs dog by dog from the track chip, and the two gestures there are labelled nowhere. A tap on the chip of a dog that has not been drawn yet draws it — the result is fixed the instant you tap, and the card animation only performs it. A long press opens the manual picker instead: assign a specific track, change an assignment, or bring in a reserve track. So anyone meaning to assign by hand who taps out of habit has already drawn — which is why this is written down here.
The draw is not the running order. Auto-order on the Planning tab sets the order only and never touches the drawn track.
The trial day
The Judge lens runs through three tabs, and the app opens on whichever still has something outstanding:
- Roll-call — each dog's chip is checked against its number: OK or mismatch. It saves as you go and forces nothing. Papers and vaccination are not checked here — those are facts captured at registration.
- Draw — as above, day by day.
- Grade — tap a dog and grade it on the usual grading screen. An FCI-IGP-FH dog appears once per leg.
If you want to hand the device over, Lock device pins it to this view; there is no way out but Unlock. It is optional and has no password — grading on your own device needs none of it.
For dogs that do not finish there are Disqualify…, Withdraw… and Deregister…, each with a two-level FCI reason, and each reversible or amendable afterwards.
Results
The Results lens shows the live standings: placings by level with each dog's total and Prädikat, and for FCI-IGP-FH the sum of both legs. Dogs not yet placed sit below the ranking. Share standings sends the current state as plain text; Export results (PDF) produces the actual document: an event header, rankings per level, a sign-off block with the signature, and then a full grading sheet for each graded dog.
Finalising and reopening
Finalize competition puts the event into viewing mode. If dogs are still ungraded the app points that out and asks. A signature pad for the judge then opens — the signature is optional and the field may be left blank.
Afterwards the create buttons disappear, the editor becomes read-only, and the event carries a finalised badge. Reopen competition undoes that with a single tap and keeps the signature, so finalising again does not demand a new one. It replaces the previous Finalize competition in the ⋮ menu, and it is the only route back into a finalised event — for the grade handed in late, the sign-off made too early, the score that needs correcting. It does not ask: one tap is enough.
One limit worth knowing: "finalised" means no new entries, tracks or grades. Correcting a person's name or address, or merging two people or two dogs, does still reach into finalised events and their PDFs. That is deliberate — a typo should be fixable everywhere — and the app warns you first, naming the finalised events affected.
Handing an event to another device
Share competition… writes the whole event to a .dtevent file — entries, tracks, designs, laid recordings, gradings and signature — and offers it for sharing or saving. Its counterpart is Import competition… in the competition list.
If the event is already there, the app asks explicitly: Replace — discarding the local copy and its grading — or Import as copy. Nothing is merged silently.