TMContest Test

Checklist Templates

Checklist Templates (/templates) is Coordinator-only. It manages the district-wide templates that every new Area, Division or District contest starts from — see Creating a Contest, which snapshots whichever template is currently active for the chosen contest type.

Active template

Each contest type (Area, Division, District) has exactly one active template at a time. Activating a template deactivates whichever one held that spot before. A template with no tasks can't be activated — that would hand every new contest an empty checklist.

Creating a template

New template starts a template from scratch: give it a name, a contest type (Area, Division or District) and a season. The season is filled in from your newest template; change it if it's wrong. The name and season can't be changed after the template is created.

A new template starts empty and inactive. Open it, add at least one task, then activate it. Until a template for a contest type is active, contests of that type can't be created or rolled out.

There is no ready-made District template. Before the first District contest, a Coordinator creates one here with New template, adds its to-dos and activates it.

Cloning

Rather than editing an active template directly (which wouldn't affect contests already created from it), clone it to start a new version, make your changes, then activate the clone when it's ready.

Editing a template

Open a template to edit its tasks — organized into the same five sections as a contest's checklist (Working a Contest's Checklist). For each task you can set:

  • Section and an optional due offset (days before the contest date it's due).
  • Details and an action note.
  • A linked helper role — ties the task to a specific role (e.g. Chief Judge) for context.
  • One level of sub-tasks. A task with sub-tasks can't itself become a sub-task, and sub-tasks can't be nested further.

Reorder tasks within their section using the move up/down controls.

Editing a template only affects contests created from it afterward — contests already running keep their own snapshot and are unaffected.