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elimination scheduling and recognition of the terminal phase." }, { "name": "Race phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Scheduled, started, elimination phase, terminal phase, interrupted, completed or abandoned", "why_it_matters": "The same observation can permit different actions in different phases." }, { "name": "Decision standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Provisional, confirmed, contested, corrected or annulled", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes observed race order from an authoritative elimination or result." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the applicable elimination format and expose unresolved rule choices.", "Derive upcoming elimination opportunities from the current phase and governing rules.", "Reconcile observations with official decisions to maintain the surviving field.", "Flag ambiguous identities, ties or missing evidence before asserting an elimination.", "Determine whether removal, continued participation or reinstatement is authorised.", "Explain a final classification through the elimination and adjudication history." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain the elimination format and its rules for a given competition.", "Track which competitors remain eligible from official timing or judges' decisions." ], "must_not": [ "Eliminate or reinstate a competitor in an official record without the judges' decision.", "Alter timing or lap data to change who is eliminated.", "Report a provisional elimination as final before the officials confirm it." ], "requires_human": [ "Resolving a disputed elimination decision." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Fair elimination depends on accurate timing and open rules applied equally.", "Bunched racing in elimination formats raises crash risk." ], "affected_parties": [ "Competitors", "Officials and judges", "Spectators" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The organizer and the sport's governing body for each competition.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "A field of track cyclists shrinks as eliminated riders leave the race after prescribed intermediate sprints.", "Officials communicate eliminations, while race signals and lap information help identify the race progression." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Crashes as competitors jostle to avoid last place.", "Disputes from close finishes at elimination points." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "UCI Track Cycling Regulations, Union Cycliste Internationale, which define the elimination race on the track." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "An elimination race is held on a cycling track, with riders progressively removed according to their position at designated elimination points.", "It appears as a standalone competition and as a component of combined track cycling events.", "Officials and timing systems use the race state to identify eliminated riders and determine which riders remain eligible to contest the result." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q779934: elimination race", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q779934", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Elimination race", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_race", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "format-and-rule-boundary", "name": "Format and rule boundary", "description": "Establish what elimination race means for this entry and which rules govern an instance.", "rationale": "Different uses of elimination terminology can imply different events, triggers and continuation rights.", "layers": [ { "id": "race-format-identity", "name": "Race format identity", "description": "Identify the elimination-specific addition to the wider concept of a race.", "findings": [ { "id": "progressive-removal-boundary", "name": "Progressive removal boundary", "description": "Record whether elimination occurs within one continuing race and how that boundary is justified.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this registry entry denote progressive removal within a race, qualification through separate heats, or a discipline-specific format?", "kind": "definition", "id": "progressive-removal-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this entry from a knockout tournament or an ordinary race with withdrawals?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "progressive-removal-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "applicable-rule-authority", "name": "Applicable rule authority", "description": "Connect elimination behaviour to the rule edition and event-specific provisions that authorise it.", "findings": [ { "id": "elimination-rule-selection", "name": "Elimination rule selection", "description": "Identify authoritative provisions and resolve which apply when descriptions conflict.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which published rule edition and event provisions define the elimination procedure for this race?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "elimination-rule-selection-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority resolves a conflict between the general format rules and an event-specific elimination instruction?", "kind": "action", "id": "elimination-rule-selection-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "elimination-mechanism", "name": "Elimination mechanism", "description": "Represent when elimination is triggered and how the competitors to be removed are selected.", "rationale": "An agent cannot infer an elimination merely from a competitor appearing last or falling behind.", "layers": [ { "id": "trigger-and-cadence", "name": "Trigger and cadence", "description": "Locate elimination opportunities within race progression.", "findings": [ { "id": "decisive-elimination-opportunity", "name": "Decisive elimination opportunity", "description": "Record the trigger, any protected opening period and changes in elimination frequency.", "questions": [ { "text": "What lap, elapsed time, location or other condition triggers each elimination opportunity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "decisive-elimination-opportunity-q01" }, { "text": "How are trigger counts or elapsed intervals measured, and when does their reference point begin?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decisive-elimination-opportunity-q02" }, { "text": "Do neutralisation, missed triggers or changes of phase alter the elimination schedule?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "decisive-elimination-opportunity-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "selection-and-ties", "name": "Selection and ties", "description": "Determine who is eliminated at a valid trigger.", "findings": [ { "id": "removal-selection-rule", "name": "Removal selection rule", "description": "Capture the decisive comparison, removal count and treatment of indistinguishable performances.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which comparison selects competitors for elimination, and how many are removed at this trigger?", "kind": "definition", "id": "removal-selection-rule-q01" }, { "text": "What exact crossing point, timing reference or performance observation determines that comparison?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "removal-selection-rule-q02" }, { "text": "What decision is authorised when competitors tie or the evidence cannot establish their order?", "kind": "action", "id": "removal-selection-rule-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "surviving-field", "name": "Surviving field", "description": "Track who may continue and how elimination changes the active contest.", "rationale": "Elimination races depend on a reliable surviving field even when removed competitors remain physically present.", "layers": [ { "id": "eligibility-transitions", "name": "Eligibility transitions", "description": "Separate physical participation from the right to remain in contention.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-removal", "name": "Effective removal", "description": "Establish the point at which a competitor ceases to be eligible and the reason for that transition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does elimination become effective at the decisive observation, the official decision or notification to the competitor?", "kind": "definition", "id": "effective-removal-q01" }, { "text": "How are elimination, withdrawal, disqualification and failure to start distinguished when counting survivors?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effective-removal-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-reconciliation", "name": "Field reconciliation", "description": "Account for every change to the surviving field before applying the next trigger.", "findings": [ { "id": "unexpected-field-reduction", "name": "Unexpected field reduction", "description": "Determine how removals outside the scheduled elimination mechanism affect later progression.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identified competitors remain eligible immediately before and after each elimination decision?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "unexpected-field-reduction-q01" }, { "text": "If a competitor withdraws or is disqualified between triggers, does the next scheduled elimination still occur?", "kind": "action", "id": "unexpected-field-reduction-q02" }, { "text": "How do the rules treat lapped, detached or otherwise displaced competitors when establishing the surviving field?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unexpected-field-reduction-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "elimination-evidence-and-control", "name": "Elimination evidence and control", "description": "Connect decisive observations to official calls, competitor instructions and corrections.", "rationale": "A mistaken or uncommunicated elimination can alter later competition and may require more than a result edit.", "layers": [ { "id": "observation-to-official-call", "name": "Observation to official call", "description": "Establish which evidence supports an elimination and who may confirm it.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-elimination-call", "name": "Traceable elimination call", "description": "Associate each call with a trigger, competitor identity, evidence and responsible official.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations support this elimination, and how is the affected competitor's identity established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-elimination-call-q01" }, { "text": "Who may confirm and communicate the call, and what must the competitor do after receiving it?", "kind": "action", "id": "traceable-elimination-call-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disruption-and-correction", "name": "Disruption and correction", "description": "Handle incidents that make the elimination sequence uncertain or invalid.", "findings": [ { "id": "valid-continuation-after-disruption", "name": "Valid continuation after disruption", "description": "Determine whether disputed or interrupted eliminations stand and which race state may be resumed.", "questions": [ { "text": "What happens to a pending elimination when the race is interrupted or neutralised?", "kind": "action", "id": "valid-continuation-after-disruption-q01" }, { "text": "Under what authority can an incorrect elimination be reversed, and how are subsequent eliminations affected?", "kind": "action", "id": "valid-continuation-after-disruption-q02" }, { "text": "Which evidence establishes the surviving field and trigger position used for a restart?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "valid-continuation-after-disruption-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "terminal-phase-and-classification", "name": "Terminal phase and classification", "description": "Determine how field reduction ends and how the race produces an authoritative outcome.", "rationale": "Surviving an elimination does not by itself establish a winner or the placing of previously removed competitors.", "layers": [ { "id": "end-of-eliminations", "name": "End of eliminations", "description": "Recognise the condition that changes or ends the elimination mechanism.", "findings": [ { "id": "terminal-transition-rule", "name": "Terminal transition rule", "description": "Identify whether the race ends with a survivor or proceeds to a distinct final contest.", "questions": [ { "text": "What remaining-field size or other condition ends scheduled eliminations?", "kind": "definition", "id": "terminal-transition-rule-q01" }, { "text": "How is the winner determined after that condition, including any change in distance, timing or comparison rule?", "kind": "definition", "id": "terminal-transition-rule-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-finality", "name": "Classification and finality", "description": "Translate elimination history and terminal performance into the published result.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-final-placing", "name": "Supported final placing", "description": "Explain each awarded placing and preserve unresolved outcomes where rules or evidence are insufficient.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do elimination order, simultaneous removals, withdrawals and disqualifications determine the classification?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-final-placing-q01" }, { "text": "Which official result and adjudication record establish that the classification is final?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-final-placing-q02" }, { "text": "What result may be declared if abandonment or unresolved elimination decisions prevent normal completion?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-final-placing-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead 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"evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Cycling Regulations, Part III: Track Races, includes rules for the elimination race." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of elimination race this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Contested as a track cycling event.", "Forms one of the events in the UCI track cycling omnium.", "Used in inline speed skating competitions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of elimination race this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Competitors remaining", "typical_range": "Decreases from the starting field toward the final contest; field size depends on the event.", "unit": "competitors" }, { "quantity": "Elimination interval", "typical_range": "Specified by the applicable event rules.", "unit": "laps" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of elimination race this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Crashes or contact during positioning for elimination checkpoints.", "Incorrect identification of the competitor to be eliminated.", "Failure to hear or follow an elimination instruction.", "Confusion about which laps count for elimination." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of elimination race this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Scratch race", "difference": "A scratch race is decided by finishing order over a set distance without scheduled elimination of the last competitor." }, { "name": "Points race", "difference": "A points race awards points at intermediate sprints; an elimination race removes competitors at prescribed checkpoints." }, { "name": "Knockout tournament", "difference": "A knockout tournament removes entrants between separate contests or rounds; an elimination race progressively removes competitors within a race." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of elimination race this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.elimination-race refer to a particular sporting discipline or to a format shared across disciplines?", "Which registry provenance or authoritative definition establishes whether separate knockout heats fall within this entry?", "Which elimination triggers, comparison criteria and terminal procedures are essential to the concept, and which belong only to specific variants?", "What authoritative provisions govern ties, incidental field reductions, mistaken calls and reinstatement in the intended discipline?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept, requiring the registry entry to link 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