A successful competition starts weeks before the date and finishes days after it. What usually spoils one is not weak students but an organisational fault: a group set to the wrong level, an insufficient time window, or results that arrive late and let the excitement cool. This guide follows the order that actually works.
Do not mix ages, and do not mix levels. Every group is defined by its level — stage, digit count and row count — and a child on "five friends" should never be ranked against a child on "ten friends". A fair contest is one where every child can believe winning is possible.
Do not open the whole competition at one moment. Set a start and end time per group. That spreads the load, lets you supervise group by group, and makes it possible to handle an individual case without disrupting everyone else.
This is where most mistakes happen. The platform lets you create the competition first and postpone generating the problems, and that is deliberate: if you generate problems and then change a group's permissions, the problems stay built on a level that is no longer correct.
So the practical rule is: generating the problems is the last step before the competition. After generating, do not edit permissions. And a day before, use print or preview to confirm every group actually has problems.
Set the time per problem and the display format for each group. If the competition uses flashcard, remember that operators appear as separate cards, so the image time must cover the full card count — not just the number count.
Ask students to sign in early enough to check their connection and device. And one practical lesson from experience: make sure the child's device clock is set to update automatically. A device with the wrong clock can show a child a completely different time for their own competition.
Results appear the moment a child finishes — no manual marking, no human intervention. Each group has its own ranking, and you can filter by accuracy, time or age. Transparency here is not a luxury: a parent who can see a clear criterion accepts the outcome even when their child did not win.
Certificates are issued from the platform in a design you choose, carrying your academy's logo, either individually or as one bundled file for the whole group. Finish this step quickly: a certificate that arrives a week later loses half its meaning to a child.
The right order: correct groups → time windows → generate problems last → verify the day before → supervise during → results and certificates immediately. Each step precedes the next for a reason, and skipping one is what turns a day of celebration into a day of troubleshooting.
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