Complete Comps
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From entry to encore
Online entries and event management for eisteddfods. Built with adjudicators and committee members at the table, so the people who actually run the weekend shaped how it works.
Complete Comps
Entrant sign in
Online entries and event management for eisteddfods. Built with adjudicators and committee members at the table, so the people who actually run the weekend shaped how it works.
A sample of what it does, all of it in use today running a full eisteddfod season from entries opening to results going out. The rest is better seen than described.
Solos, duos and trios, group sections and school or educational entries, each with its own rules. Parents and studios manage their own competitors and see what they have entered.
Your rules are applied while people enter, so an entry that your syllabus does not allow does not get made in the first place. Nobody arrives on the day in a section they were never eligible for, and nobody on the committee spends an evening unpicking it afterwards.
Entrants upload whatever their phone gave them and it is converted, checked against the section's time limit and stored ready for the day. They hear it back to confirm it is the right track, and late changes are tracked rather than lost. Nobody is emailing files around or carrying a USB stick.
Sections are built, split and ordered against your own scheduling rules, then published as a printable program. Changes flow through to the people affected.
Fees, late fees, credits and refunds are worked out per entry, and cards are taken online. The money lands in the eisteddfod's own account.
Adjudicators work from their own view, and scores and spoken critiques find their way to the right entrant without anyone shuffling files. Checked on the way, so nobody receives someone else's.
Where the day is up to, what is running late, and anything that needs a decision. One page instead of five people with five answers.
The whole event runs on a machine at the venue, in step with the website when there is a connection and entirely on its own when there is not. Venue wifi falling over is an inconvenience, not an emergency.
One withdrawal, and everything downstream of it keeps up on its own. No pencil through a page, and no section quietly running with someone who went home yesterday.
Wrong track, corrupted file, phone flat. It is sorted in about a minute with the entrant standing right there, and nobody leaves the sound desk. This one tends to raise eyebrows in a demo.
The whole team works from one live picture of the day, so nobody is on a printout that went stale two sections ago and nobody is shouting down a corridor to find out where things are up to.
Placings reach your Instagram and Facebook as finished graphics in your own branding, without anyone backstage making images on a laptop.
Competitors called for marshalling and backstage from the running order rather than someone watching a clipboard, and messages out to entrants and studios when something changes.
Placings, championships and the awards that depend on them are resolved as the event runs, so the presentation list is ready rather than assembled at eleven at night with a calculator.
Years of running real events have put a lot of small things in here that are hard to make sound interesting in a list and save hours once you are standing in a venue. Easier to show you than to write down.
The engraver and the treasurer end up working from the same numbers as the stage, without anyone retyping them.
Entrants see your branding, your sections and your rules, and Complete Comps sits behind it. No licence fee, no hardware to buy, and we would rather fit around how you already run things than ask you to change them.
No licence fee, and no bill before you have run anything. We take a share of what the event brings in, and it scales with your own entry and spectator ticket pricing, so it stays in proportion to what you charge rather than being a fixed cost you have to find.
A minimum spend applies. What it comes to is worked out with you before you commit, and depends on your event: how many sections, how involved your rules are, and how far we are travelling.
Your eisteddfod gets its own web address, with your colours, your logo and your footer.
Sections, age groups, levels, fees and entry rules are set up to match the syllabus you already publish.
The event needs equipment at the venue, and you do not have to buy any of it. We can lease you what you need for the weekend, so there is no capital spend sitting in front of a committee before they have run a single event with it.
Entries open and close on your dates, and last year's data carries forward so returning entrants are not starting again.
Complete Comps is built and run by Port Computing Solutions, an Australian team who have been looking after systems for local businesses and community organisations for over twenty years, and who are, frankly, perfectionists who do not give up on a problem until an eisteddfod runs the way it should. It is shaped by the people who use it: our dance director, the adjudicators who work our events, and the committee members and studio teachers who have provided invaluable feedback.
Wendy, our dance director, has shaped this from the start, and adjudicators who have worked our events keep telling us what helps and what gets in the way. Committee members and studio teachers have had the same direct line. What gets built comes from the problems they hit on the weekend, not from a roadmap.
This has carried whole eisteddfods from entries opening to presentation night, through the late changes, the withdrawals and the things that only go wrong at twenty past nine on a Saturday. Nothing here is waiting for its first real event to find out whether it holds up.
No ticket number, no queue, nobody reading from a script. On the day of your event you are talking to the people who built it, and they will stay with it until it is sorted.
We will walk you through a real event rather than a sales deck. Every eisteddfod runs differently, and we would rather bend the system around how yours works than ask you to change what already works for you. Happy to just talk it through if you are earlier than that.