Getting Started

Overview & Key Concepts

How GldComp is structured — series, seasons, classes, and the people who use it.

GldComp hosts a public website for every competition, plus a private admin area for the organizing team. Before diving into the individual screens, it helps to understand a few core concepts.

Series, seasons and classes

GldComp organizes everything into three levels:

  • Series — the long-running event brand (for example, Tcup). Each series has its own subdomain, e.g. tcup.gldcomp.com.
  • Season — one edition of the series, usually a year (e.g. Tcup 2024). A season has its own dates, location, registration window, competitors, tasks and results. Seasons are reached at …/s/<year>.
  • Class — a competition class within a season (e.g. Club, Standard, Open). Competitors, tasks, results and glider handicaps are all organized per class.

Who uses GldComp

AudienceWhat they doWhere
Pilots & visitorsRegister, view competitors, follow tasks/results, read news, upload IGC flights, watch live trackingThe public season website
OrganizersFull control of a season — competitors, classes, files, results sync, theme, emailThe season admin area
ReportersPublish news and announcements onlyThe season admin area (limited)
Series adminsCreate new seasons and manage who has accessThe series admin area

Roles at a glance

GldComp uses role-based access so you can safely share the workload:

  • Organizer — access to every admin tool for a season.
  • Reporter — restricted to news/announcements for a season.
  • Admin (series level) — can create seasons and assign roles across the whole series.

Roles are scoped: an Organizer or Reporter is tied to a specific season, while a series Admin spans all seasons in the series. See Series, Seasons & Team for how to invite people and assign roles.

Signing in

GldComp is passwordless. Pilots receive a one-time magic link by email; organizers use the same link-based sign-in and can register a passkey (Face ID / Touch ID / security key) for fast, secure future logins. There are no passwords to remember or leak.