How to use DiveDay

Go to diveday.in/register and enter your name, email and a password, or tap Continue with Google. One account does for the whole family: parents add their children as divers, and adult divers add themselves.

On Android you can do all of this in the DiveDay app too; on iPhone, put the website on your Home Screen.

We email you a link: open it and tap it. Can't find it? Look in Spam or Promotions, or tap Send the email again. Typed the address wrong? Change it and we send a new link.

Signed up with Continue with Google? Skip this step: Google has already confirmed your email.

On your account page, under Divers, tap Add a diver I look after (or Add my details if you dive yourself). Fill in the name, date of birth, whether they dive in men's/boys' or women's/girls' events, the club and the boards they dive.

The fields marked * are needed before the diver can be entered (their phone, district, an emergency contact and blood group); you can save and finish later. Emergency details are seen only by you and the organisers and referees of competitions the diver enters.

Tap Find events next to your diver. It lists only the events that fit them (gender, age group by their age on 31 December, and boards) with the entry and dive sheet deadlines. Tap Enter: the diver is entered and the dive sheet opens.

You can also open a competition from Competitions: its page has every event, the deadlines and the organiser's information. Tick Only events my divers can enter, then Enter, choose the diver and tap Enter and fill in the dive sheet.

Type each dive's number and position, like 101B, and choose the board: the DD and the dive's name fill in by themselves. Underneath, DiveDay checks the list against the event's rules (number of dives, groups, DD limits) and says what to change. Dived before? Use an earlier dive list copies one from another event.

Save draft keeps it to yourself. When it's ready, tick the declaration and tap Finalize and submit.

A submitted sheet waits for the Referee, who approves and locks it, or returns it with a note on what to correct: you get an email or a notification either way. Until the deadline you can still change it (each change is a new version).

Your account page lists every entry with its status, the deadline and Add to Google Calendar.

Open the synchro event's Enter page, choose your diver and tap Invite the partner's family. Send them the link (WhatsApp, email…): they choose their diver and the pair is entered. Either family can then fill in the dive sheet.

In your account, under Sign-in and reminders, tap Turn on notifications: reminders (dive sheets due, start lists, official results) and the organisers' messages then come to this phone or computer instead of by email. The Android app gets them too; on iPhone, add DiveDay to your Home Screen first. Your calendar puts every event and deadline in Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar.

On the competition's page, Today's running order shows when each event is expected to start. It follows the judging as it happens: if an event runs late or finishes early, the times after it move. They're estimates, so come early.

Tap a live event, or Live on its page: who's on the board now, each score as it's published, and the standings.

Once the organisers declare them official, the results are on the event's page, to print, save as PDF or download. Each diver's Results history keeps every competition's scores and personal bests. Only you (and the diver's other managers) see it, unless you choose to make a public profile.

Open Organise, fill in New competition (name, venue, city, first and last day) and tap Create competition. It starts as a draft that only you and its officials can see.

Events follow the World Aquatics rules, age groups A, B and C included. For local groups such as Group IV (10 and 11 years), make a gala rule set: Organise › Your gala rule sets › New rule set. For each event set the category, the ages on 31 December, the number of dives and how many groups they must come from (or start from a copy of a World Aquatics event). Dive sheets for these events are checked against your rules.

On the competition's Manage page, under Add an event: choose the rules (World Aquatics or your rule set), the event, when it starts and the number of judges, then Add event. Each event's Stages adds a preliminary and final; Merge… lets small events dive together.

Add the Referee (who checks and approves dive sheets) and any co-organisers with the email of their DiveDay account. Judges don't need an account: on the day each one signs in to their seat by scanning a QR code.

When the events are in, tap Publish: the competition appears on diveday.in and families can enter. The tabs along the top lead to everything else.

The Controls tab has every step in order, with each event's timeline. Edit a card to change it, for example Dive sheets: due 24 hours before each event (World Aquatics), late changes until 3 hours before, and a late-fee note. The other cards cover entries (when they open and lock, events per diver), the Referee's review, the draw, judges' phones or cards, and results.

The Programme tab has a column for each day. Drag the events into the order you'll run them (or use the arrows), move them to another day, Add a break, or Set a time for anything that mustn't start earlier. Each event starts when the one before is expected to end: divers × dives × minutes a dive, plus the changeover. Save programme sets the start times, and with them the entry and dive sheet deadlines.

On the Dive sheets tab the Referee (or an organiser) sees each event's sheets. Approve and lock a correct one, or write what needs correcting and Return for changes. Every diver needs an approved sheet before their event starts.

On an event's Start lists, tap Draw by lot: the order and its seed are recorded. Change order adjusts it and Print makes a copy for the notice board. The Controls page can also draw every event at a set time.

Open the event's Control room (Run on the Manage page). It checks that every dive sheet is approved; tap Start the final (or the preliminary).

Under Judges' seats, tap QR code for a seat, or Print codes for every seat. Each judge scans their code with their phone (no account, no app) and taps their award. Seats without a phone are typed in from the judges' cards.

The control room shows the diver on the board and each award as it arrives. When they're all in, tap Publish score: the scoreboard, live results and standings update at once. The Referee's buttons handle a failed dive, restarts and maximum awards, and Correct fixes a score afterwards.

Open Scoreboard on a laptop connected to a TV or projector: the last dive's awards and score, who's diving now, and the standings.

After the last dive, Finish the stage, check the results, and (after any protests) tap Declare results official. Families are told, and the scores and personal bests go into each diver's history.

On the Manage page, Send a message reaches everyone entered, or one event's divers, their parents and coaches: a notification on phones with DiveDay, otherwise an email. For warm-up times, delays, results.