How scoring works

Top studio awards: how a studio's score is built

A top-studio award ranks studios, not routines. Each studio's score is built from its best routine scores, then studios are ranked by total or by average.

How a studio's score is built

  1. The award defines one or more components, for example "solos" or "groups". Each component takes a studio's top N routine scores in that component.
  2. Those scores are added up, component by component, into the studio's total.
  3. Studios are ranked by that total, or by the average of the scores that went into it. Which one is the award's setting.
Example: top 3 solos + top 2 groups, ranked by total
StudioTop 3 solosTop 2 groupsTotalPlace
Studio A92.1 + 91.4 + 90.893.0 + 92.2459.51st
Studio B93.5 + 92.0 + 88.991.0 + 90.5455.92nd

Eligibility

An award can require a minimum number of routines, or a minimum number of group routines, before a studio is considered. A studio that brought two solos to an award built on three cannot fill the formula and is left out rather than scored on a partial set.

The formula is part of the competition's award settings in CompSync, alongside the overall award recipes, so the studio award uses the same averaged routine scores as everything else on the results sheet.

This is how CompSync tabulates.

Judges score on tablets, the averages, award levels, placements and overalls are worked out live, and the awards roll straight to the venue screens. Every rule on this page is a setting in your competition.

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More on scoring

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