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This dialog is used to create a new relay team.  It is available only when the Relay Team Assignments window is open.

Before clicking on the "Create" button, first enter a the team number for the new team, as well as the class or course that the team runs.  The team number identifies the team, so it must be unique for the event.

You can choose to create an Empty team, i.e. a team where no course variations are assigned to the team members, or you can let Condes Auto compose team, where a course variation is assigned to each team member..

For Auto composition of a team, Condes provides options for the strategy to assign course variations to the team:

•Minimize the number of used course variations
Check this box to use as few different course variations as possible.  When offset printing courses, this option could minimize the number of different course variations that need to be printed, in order to minimize printing costs.
For the second and subsequent teams on a course, Condes reuses the set of variations from the already existing teams, just shuffled in a different order.  Only when all permutations of this set are in use, Condes adds additional variations to the set.

•Overlapping
The options below allows you to control how much overlap is allowed between competitors on the same relay leg.  Ideally, all competitors on the same leg would use completely different course variations, using different branches in each fork.  However, when minimizing the number of used course variations, it is important to decide how much overlap is allowed while still preserving fairness.  Thus, you can select among these options

oNo overlap
If a course variation is already in use by an existing team on a given leg, then the new team will not use that variation on that leg.
This is possible only as long as there are no more teams than there are course variations.

oOne overlap
The new team may use the same course variation as another team - on ONE leg only.
On each leg, there may be another team that runs the same course variation, but not the same other team on more than one leg.

oUnique team
Multiple overlaps are allowed, but the team cannot be identical to another team, i.e. run the same course variation as another team on ALL legs.

oDuplicate team
Eventually, it is not possible to create any more unique teams, and this option allows the new team to be identical to another team.  Condes still tries to minimize the number of identical teams, so if, for example, two identical teams already exist, Condes will "duplicate" another team instead of creating a third identical team.