Naginata competitions

Naginata competitions run on the same tools as kendo (pools, brackets, Swiss, and the scoring console), with naginata-specific rules the app handles for you. Naginata has two competition forms:

• Combat (shiai): armoured matches scored by ippon, with one extra target, Sune (a strike to the shin). Naginata divisions conventionally decide a single 3rd place with a bronze match instead of kendo's two joint 3rds. Refer to Third-place match for how that is set.
• Engi-kyogi: the kata form, in which a pair perform choreographed forms scored by referee flags rather than ippon.

You pick the form with two checkboxes on a competition's Settings tab, both locked once the draw is generated:

Checkbox	What it does	Available for
Naginata competition	Turns on the combat rules: the Sune ippon button	Individual and team
Engi (kata competition)	Selects the Engi-kyogi kata form: flag-count scoring	Individual only

The 3rd-place rule (joint vs. single) is a separate setting, shared with kendo competitions; refer to Third-place match.

Because Engi-kyogi is itself a naginata competition, a kata division usually has both on: Engi for the flag scoring and Naginata competition for the single 3rd place.

Sune ippon

Turn on Naginata competition and the score editor's waza buttons gain an S (Sune) alongside the kendo set, so the row reads M K D T S H. Award it the same way as any other waza:

• On screen: tap S under the side that scored.
• By keyboard: lowercase s awards Sune to Shiro (white, left), and Shift+S awards it to Aka (red, right). This mirrors the other waza keys, where a lowercase letter scores for Shiro and holding Shift scores for Aka.

Everything else about a naginata shiai bout (time, hikiwake, kiken, encho) works exactly as it does for kendo.

Third-place match

Whether a competition awards two joint 3rd places or decides a single one with a bronze match is its own setting: the Award two joint 3rd places checkbox on the competition's Settings tab. It is independent of the Naginata competition and Engi (kata competition) checkboxes. It applies to knockout, pools-then-knockout, and league competitions; it is not shown for Swiss, which has no bracket.

Kendo awards two equal 3rd places to the beaten semi-finalists and plays no bronze match; that is the default for every new competition. Naginata conventionally awards a single 3rd instead, so turning on Naginata competition also unticks Award two joint 3rd places for you. You can tick it back on afterwards if your event wants naginata to share 3rd place too. The same applies in reverse: a kendo (non-naginata) competition can turn the checkbox off to decide a single 3rd with a bronze match, for example for a selection event that needs exactly one bronze medal.

When a single 3rd place is in effect and both semi-finals are complete, the app adds the bronze match to the knockout bracket, labelled 3rd Place. By convention it runs on the same shiai-jo as the final and immediately before it, so it also appears in that court's queue. Score it like any other bout:

• The winner takes 3rd place.
• The loser finishes 4th and does not appear on the awards podium.

The public podium reflects this automatically. Refer to Awards and winners for the full podium behaviour, including how the same setting works for league standings.

Engi-kyogi (kata competition)

Engi-kyogi is the kata form of naginata competition. A pair of competitors perform a set of choreographed forms, judged by a panel of referees who each raise a flag for the side they judge superior. It is scored entirely differently from a combat (shiai) bout: there are no ippon, no time on the clock, and no draws.

Turn on Engi (kata competition) on an individual competition's Settings tab to switch its score editor to flag counting. Combine it with Naginata competition so the kata division also gets the single 3rd-place match.

Quick-score and overrides are off for Engi

Because every Engi result comes from the flag editor, the kendo shortcuts, quick-score, manual winner overrides, and daihyosen are disabled for Engi competitions.

Add Engi pairs

An Engi competitor is a pair: two people from the same dojo or team, scored together as one unit. There are no individual bouts inside a pair. Enter each pair as a single participant row with both member names combined in the name field, joined by a dash, and the shared dojo:

Name 1 - Name 2, Dojo

When the competition uses zekken names, the zekken column holds the pair's combined zekken the same way:

Name 1 - Name 2, ZEKKEN1 - ZEKKEN2, Dojo

The two names display stacked on one side of the match. The pair counts as one entry in the draw and one line in the standings.

Score with flags

The score editor becomes a flag counter with one column per side, Aka (red) and Shiro (white):

• Use the + / - buttons under each side, or the keyboard. a adds a flag to Aka and s adds a flag to Shiro (either key works with or without Shift). Backspace undoes the last flag you added, and Enter saves.
• A bout's flags must total 1, 3, or 5. The panel is always an odd size, so there is always a majority and a bout can never end in a draw. The editor flags any other total and does not let you save it.
• The side with more flags wins the bout.
• Save result (or Finish + Start Next) takes two taps, as Finish does in the kendo editor: the first tap changes the button to Tap again to save (or Tap again to finish when the button reads Finish + Start Next), and the second tap saves. A quick double tap only does the first. Enter saves at once.

Standings

In Engi pools, leagues, and Swiss competitions, pairs are ranked by the following criteria, in order:

1. Total wins.
2. Total flags accumulated across all bouts, as the tie-break when wins are equal.
3. Head-to-head (Swiss only): when two pairs are tied on wins and flags, the pair that won their direct bout ranks higher.
4. Name order (alphabetical by the pair's first listed member), when the first three criteria are all equal.

Both the winning and the losing side's flags count toward that side's own tally. A pair that loses by three flags to two still keeps its two flags.

Engi never holds a supplementary tie-break bout: no ippon-shobu, no daihyosen. A ranking still tied after wins and flags is settled by the head-to-head (in Swiss) and name-order fallbacks in this section.

Excel exports

Both Excel downloads on the competition page (refer to Export and print) understand Engi:

• Each pair is a single competitor throughout both workbooks. The data sheet lists the combined pair name under Player Name with the shared dojo. Every sheet that shows the pair (pool draw, match grids, standings, bracket pages, and the printable name sheets) shows both members together on one line as Member 1 - Member 2.
• Pool standings in both workbooks use the Engi columns: W (wins), Flags (total flags), and Rank. Losses are not recorded because ranking is determined by wins then accumulated own-side flags. The kendo points columns do not appear.
• The results workbook records each side's referee flag count in the score cells instead of ippon letters. A bout decided without flags (for example a kiken withdrawal) leaves the score cells blank with the decision marked in the centre column.