
Use Member group eligibility to specify members who can or cannot participate in a Competition. The default is ALL members are eligible to participate, as shown in the screenshot above.
Member group eligibility content guide:
Member groups are NOT pre-created
To select other groups to be eligible to participate in a Competition, you can easily create Member Groups. Your creation options are:
| Option Nr. 1 |
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In the CompetitionLabs console, navigate to Members β Members List, where pre-created members can be updated with member groups via CSV file upload (you can read about Member update or creation from CSV file upload here) Or manually editing each member and adding a new group. After the step is completed then inΒ Competition creation β Step 2: Entrants in βMember group eligibilityβ field β once you start typing a suggestion of groups available to you will appear. |
| Option Nr. 2 |
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Add a new group in Competition creation β Step 2: Entrants in the Member group eligibility field. When you start typing, a list of suggested groups available in the Competition will appear. Add the new group with a rule of
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Member groups ARE pre-created
If you updated the members with groups then in the
Competition creation β Step 2: Entrants in βMember group eligibilityβ Once you start typing a suggestion of groups available to you will appear. You can select a ,Β
or aΒ
rule for each group here.
Member group eligibility guide
| Β Β MUST |
| The default βALLβ has aΒ OBJECTIVE: Only members in Test groups1 and 2 can participate in the Competition. Members in only one of these two groups cannot participate.
SITUATION: Three members in different member groups: Member_1 (groups:Β βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_2β) Member_2 (groups:Β βTest_group_1β) Member_3 (groups:Β Β βTest_group_2β) OUTCOME:Β Only Member 1 can participate in the competition because Members 2 and 3 do not meet the requirement of the |
| Β Β SHOULD |
| Adding aΒ OBJECTIVE: Only members in Test groups 1, 2 and 3 can participate in the Competition. As the value of Should match at least 1 has been set to 2, members in any two of the three groups can participate in the Competition.
SITUATION: Four members registered in different groups: Member_1 (groups:Β βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_2β, βTest_group_3β) Member_2 (groups:Β βTest_group_1β) Member_3 (groups:Β Β βTest_group_2β) Member_4 (groups:Β βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_3β) OUTCOME:Β Only Members 1 and 4 can participate in the Competition, as the others do not meet the |
| Β Β MUST-NOT |
| Use this rule when you do not want specific member groups to participate in a Competition.
OBJECTIVE: Members registered in Test group1 cannot participate.
SITUATION: Three members in different member groups: Member_1 (groups:Β βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_2β) Member_2 (groups:Β βTest_group_1β) Member_3 (groups:Β Β βTest_group_2β) OUTCOME:Β Only Member 3 can participate in the Competition, as Members 2 and 3 are in |
OBJECTIVE:Β
To create a Competition with member group eligibility rules that include β 1 , 3Β
and 1Β
. Seven members in pre-defined member groups will participate in the Competition. The results are as followed.
SITUATION:
Member creation and grouping β in the screenshot below, we created seven members in different member groups.

Member_1 : βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_2β, βTest_group_3β
Member_2 : βTest_group_1β
Member_3 : βTest_group_2β, βTest_group_3β
Member_4 : βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_2β, βTest_group_3β, βTest_group_4β, βTest_group_5β
Member_5 : βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_3β, βTest_group_4β
Member_6 : βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_2β, βTest_group_4β, βTest_group_5β
Member_7 : βTest_group_1β, βTest_group_2β, βTest_group_3β, βTest_group_4β
We have five member groups in a Competition, that can or cannot participate in it, according to the ,Β
andΒ
rules:

OUTCOME:
The rules define that participants must be members of a group, at least 2 out of 3
groups, and not in a
group. Only three of the seven members meet these criteria and are eligible to participate, i.e. Members 1, 5 and 7.:
| Members | Eligible to participate | Explanation |
| Member_1 | Yes | The member IS eligible because it is in βTest_group_1β that is a |
| Member_2 | No | Is NOT eligible because this member is only in oneΒ |
| Member_3 | No | Is NOT eligible because this member does not have theΒ |
| Member_4 | No | Is NOT eligible becauseΒ this member has aΒ βTest_group_5β group that is in aΒ |
| Member_5 | Yes | The member IS eligible because it is in βTest_group_1β that is a |
| Member_6 | No | Is NOT eligible because this memberΒ has aΒ βTest_group_5β group that is in aΒ |
| Member_7 | Yes | The member IS eligible becauseΒ it is in βTest_group_1β that is aΒ |


After creating the Competition and new member groups, you can now add members by navigating to Members β Members List. Existing members can be updated with member groups via CSV file upload (you can read about Member update or creation from CSV file upload 


