RULES & SCORING
Clear Rules. Fair Scoring. Better Competition.
Competition works best when everyone understands the task, the standards, the scoring, and what happens next. OCA develops practical resources to help organizers, officials, and discipline communities build competition systems that are transparent, defensible, and usable in the real world.
THE STANDARD
OCA Model Rules & Scoring
OCA Model Rules & Scoring is our institutional standard for developing discipline-specific competition rules where a mature, widely used rules framework does not already exist. It covers all of the following component and more:
- scope and definitions
- eligibility and divisions
- officials and conflicts
- judging criteria
- scoring and aggregation
- penalties and disqualification
- rounds and advancement
- tie procedures
- results and corrections
- auditability and recordkeeping
PRACTICAL GUIDE
Guide to Creating Competition Rules
The OCA Guide to Creating Competition Rules & Scoring walks organizers through the drafting process step by step, from defining the contest through scoring, penalties, ties, corrections, and publication.
The goal is not to make every rulebook enormous. The goal is to make every material decision understandable before competition begins.
FORMAT LIBRARY
There’s more than one way to build a competition.
The OCA Competitive Format Library provides a discipline-neutral vocabulary for designing stages, scoring systems, advancement methods, brackets, voting models, judging structures, tie procedures, and experimental formats.
MODEL RULESETS
Yes, we really wrote rules for these.
OCA Model Rulesets show what the framework looks like when applied to actual competitive concepts, including some delightfully unconventional ones.