Model Competition and Achievement TrackingPurpose
1.2. Ensures reliable, unbiased automated scoring and evaluation across categories and judges.
1.3. Automatically processes judges’ scores, aggregates points, detects tie-breaks, and updates leaderboards in real time.
1.4. Automated publishing of competition outcomes via multiple digital channels—website, email, SMS, and social media.
1.5. Supports archival and retrieval of competition histories and achievement logs in an automated system for legacy maintenance.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automation triggered by the scheduled end-time of the competition session.
2.3. Manual automated override by an authorized admin action (button or form submission).
2.4. Automates after event registration status changes to “closed.”
Platform Variants
3.1. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Configure Google Sheets “on change” trigger and Google Apps Script to automate score calculation and summary sheet updates.
3.2. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automate using Airtable Automations with “record updated” trigger, and run “Script Action” to aggregate/judge and update result tables.
3.3. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Set “When an Excel row is modified” automated flow, call Excel’s “calculate” function, automate push to Teams/Outlook.
3.4. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Use “New Spreadsheet Row in Google Sheets” to automate, then action chain “Webhooks” to trigger website/API updates.
3.5. Make (formerly Integromat)
• Feature/Setting: Automated scenario with trigger “Watch Rows” in databases, then automate action chain for notifications and publishing.
3.6. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Butler automation with “Card moved to ‘Scored’ list”, auto-calculate in custom fields, automate posting results to team board.
3.7. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Slack Workflow Builder automates real-time announcement of results; integrate with Google Sheets via Slack app to automate payload.
3.8. Discord
• Feature/Setting: Automate bot configuration to listen for result triggers, and publish formatted results using Discord webhooks.
3.9. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Twilio programmable SMS API automates message to participants with scores as soon as calculated.
3.10. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Use Marketing Campaigns API to automate batch publishing of result emails as results are confirmed.
3.11. Mailchimp
• Feature/Setting: Automated Journeys; triggers email campaign upon entry in competition results Google Sheet integrated via API.
3.12. Facebook Pages
• Feature/Setting: Facebook Graph API to automate posting competition results image/text as published post.
3.13. WordPress
• Feature/Setting: Use REST API, automate POST request to update competition result articles or leaderboard custom post type.
3.14. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Automate Notion API’s “Update Database” for a results page each event.
3.15. Eventbrite
• Feature/Setting: Automated webhook integration to mark event “results available” as soon as automated calculations are done.
3.16. Typeform
• Feature/Setting: Typeform Responses API, trigger automation on form submit (final score entries), push results automatically to an aggregator.
3.17. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automate with “When status changes” automation, summing fields and notifying via automatable message board update.
3.18. Jira
• Feature/Setting: Automation Rule “When issue transitioned”, custom script to aggregate judge feedback and publish conclusive scores.
3.19. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: Automated upload or update of competition results PDF to a shared “Results” folder.
3.20. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automated workflow to “Request an Update” and push calculated scores to stakeholders’ sheets.
Benefits
4.2. Drastically reduces admin workload by automating repetitive result processing and publishing.
4.3. Accelerates time-to-announcement with automated instant multi-channel notifications.
4.4. Ensures transparent, traceable, and auditable result automation for compliance and record-keeping.
4.5. Automating competitive records enriches club’s reputation and enhances participant experience.