Step 1: Contest settings

This is the first step to create a new Contest. Some fields are mandatory some are optional. You can check more about the Contests model in our API documentation Contests.

SETTINGS

EXAMPLES

Name	Required String	The Name of the Contest. The sample Javascript for the CompetitionLabs leaderboard shows this name.
Description	Optional String	The description of the Contest that can be used to explain the Contest to players.
Scoring strategy	Required Enum	Scoring strategies are used for the leaderboard to populate the leaderboard depending on what kind of competition you want to run. The basic one is "The sum of all the points a player scores during the contest (Cumulative)" - in short all the points of the participants will be summed up and populated in the leaderboard.
Ranking	Required Model	The Ranking can be from the smallest score to the biggest or the other way around. You can also make the ranking of the participants that have the same amount of points to be in the same rank or different rank depending on the time they sent the last event.
Metadata	Optional Array [Object]	Used for storing information relevant to your backend systems.

APP Example:

Name		Summer Contest!
Description		A contest to commemorate the end of summer!
Scoring strategy		The sum of all the points a player scores during the contest (Cumulative)
Ranking	Scores ranking order	Descending
	Time ranking order	Ascending
	Rank order by	Score first
	Discard time when ranking	No
	Discard score when ranking	No
Metadata	Key	Summer
Metadata	Value	2

API Example:

{
    "jsonClass": "Contest",
    ...
    "label": "Summer Contest",
    "description": "A contest to commemorate the end of summer!",
    "metadata": [
        {        
            "jsonClass": "Metadata",
                "key": "Summer",
                "value": "2"
            }
        ],

     "strategies": {
         "jsonClass": "Strategies",
         "strategyType": "TotalCumulative",
         "rankingStrategy": {
             "jsonClass": "RankingStrategy",
             "scoreDesc": true,
             "timeDesc": false,
             "scoreFirst": true,
             "ignoreTime": false,
             "ignoreScore": false
             },
         "scoringStrategy": {
             "jsonClass": "ScoringStrategy",
             "limitUpdatesTo": 0,
             "sumBestXOf": 0,
             "lastUpdateTimeStamp": 0,
             "recordTimeWhenSumReaches": 0.0
             }
         }

    ...
}

A full example of POST Contest can be found in the Contest APP API documentation here

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MISSING ENTRIES If any required information is missing, the field is shown in red as in the example below.

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