Results, points and rankings

Does this apply to you? Results apply to every event. Promotion points and rankings only apply if the event runs under a federation that uses them.

After you compete, three different things can happen with your result. They are updated at different times and by different people, which is why one can be visible while another is not.

	What it is	When it updates	Where you see it
Result	Your placement in the class at that competition.	When the organizer publishes the round.	The competition’s results on vote4dance.com and in the app.
Promotion points	Points that count towards moving up a class.	When the organizer closes the competition.	Your dancer page in the app, under your progression standing.
Ranking	Your position in a federation ranking list, built from several competitions.	When the federation recalculates the ranking: often every night, or when staff refresh it.	`Federation → Ranking` on vote4dance.com.

You do not create a ranking or apply for one. The federation sets rankings up. Your part is to compete in the right class, with the right licence, as the right couple or team.

1. Your result

The organizer publishes results round by round. Once the final is published, your placement is on the competition’s results page. If the competition is over and you see nothing, the results are not published yet.

2. Promotion points and your class

Promotion points are added when the organizer closes the competition, not when the results are published. Closing can happen days after the event.

Points belong to the couple or team, not to each dancer on their own.
When the couple reaches the class’s points limit, it moves up a class automatically. See Class transfer.
The couple is identified by the person numbers on the entry. A wrong person number can put your points on a second, duplicate couple. If your points look split, tell your federation.

The full mechanism is on Promotion points.

3. Rankings

A ranking is a list the federation publishes, for example “Season ranking, Adults Standard”. It is calculated from the results of several competitions.

How to find it: on vote4dance.com, open Federation, pick the federation, open Ranking, then pick the division and the ranking. See Public Rankings.

Each ranking has its own rules, set by the federation:

Which classes count. A ranking only includes the classes the federation has linked to it.
Which competitions count. For example the current season only, or your best three results.
How it scores. By placement, by points per placement, or by the judges’ scores.
Licence rules. Some rankings only include dancers with an active licence.

Many rankings are recalculated every night, so a result can take a day to appear even after the competition is closed.

If something is missing or looks wrong

Work down this list:

What you see	Most likely reason
No result at all	The organizer has not published it yet.
Result is there, but no promotion points	The competition is not closed yet.
Points are shared with a couple you do not recognise	A wrong person number on an entry created a duplicate couple. Tell your federation.
Result is there, but not in the ranking	The ranking has not been recalculated yet (wait a day), or that competition or class does not count for this ranking.
Your ranking position changed with no new competition	An older result left the time window, or federation staff made a correction.
You are not in the ranking at all	Your licence was not active, or you are looking in the wrong division.
An old result shows your name as text only, not linked to you	Claim it in the app, from the dancer page that opens when you tap the name. A result can only be claimed once the competition has closed. The claim joins the couple that already has the result, so its points and ranking follow. Once every place in the team is claimed, it is shown by its members’ names, unless someone chose a name for it; a group or formation keeps its own name.

If none of these explains it, contact your federation. Include the competition, the class and the name of the ranking.

Next step

Continue to Age transfer if you are about to move into a new age group.