The Rules of the Road (and the Digital Experience Rules in the case of the Team Film Challenge) include the rules on what a team can spend on a solution and how to report it. Check the rules for a section called Team Budget and the Expense Report. In terms of describing your expenses in the Resource Area, think of…
A clarification is an opportunity to ask a question about your team challenge and receive an answer from an authoritative source, the International Challenge Masters for the challenge. These are folks that are managing your challenge for DI world-wide. Before asking the question, a few ground rules: Here are some tips you should follow in asking your question: What Takes Precedence? Sometimes it…
Many Team Challenges and the Team Film Challenge limit the amount of money your team can spend on their solution. This amount is listed in the Team Budget section of the challenge description. The Expense Report is where you list what your team spent on your solution. When creating an Expense Report, you might…
The My Clarifications page lists the clarifications asked by your teams. Your teams are the teams where you are: For more on clarifications check here. If you are looking at the current year, the dropdown list to the right of the Ask Clarification button lists the teams where the site believes you hold one of these roles. If you hold…
The My Tournaments page (Teams=>my tournaments) displays which tournaments your teams will attend. From this page your team: Here is a screen shot of the page as seen by one team manager who manages 2 teams. Common questions about this page Why are one or more of my teams are not listed on the My Tournaments page?…
Starting in the 2022 Tournament Season, teams supply their Expense Reports in online using a form. Teams access the online form from the My Tournaments page (Teams=>My Tournaments) as described here. A sample Expense Report is shown below. To add an item click the Add Expense button to add the item. A dialog box pops up to enter a new…
Starting in the DI 2021-22 season, DI is transitioning to online forms. What does this mean? DIHQ will no longer be creating single-sheet paper forms that teams fill out and bring to prep for the Prep Area Appraiser to review. Instead teams are asked to complete these forms in the Resource Area. Teams create these…
The Prep Process prepares a team to: The process for Team Challenge and Instant Challenge are typically quite different as you will see below, but in both cases the appraisers handling the process in general are: The emphasis of this discussion is the gathering of information (#1). For Instant Challenge, the information needed is covered…
The Team / Official Message Area supports Team Managers and Officials exchanging information. Team Managers access this Message Area from the My Tournaments page (Tournaments=>my tournaments) by clicking on theicon in the tc msg column. ic msg communicates with the Instant Challenge Officials while tc msg icon communicates with the Team Challenge Officials. Note that theicon typically…
Your team’s Tournament Data Form (TDF) supplies useful information to appraisers about your team’s solution to the Team Challenge you chose to solve. Each Team Challenge TDF requests different information much of which is unique to your Team Challenge. The actual challenge description usually highlight the parts of your solution you will be asked to describe in…