Organising

A community is how you run races on bdr. It owns your machines, seasons and races, and drivers find your events under its name. This page covers starting one and what running it involves.

Start a community

1. Sign in, then select Organise in the top bar.
2. Fill in Start a community:
   • Name: 2 to 80 characters. Drivers see this on your races.
   • URL slug (lowercase, dashes): the short name in your community's address, for example friday-gt3. Use 3 to 40 lowercase letters, digits and dashes, starting and ending with a letter or digit. Every slug is unique on the platform.
   • Description: optional.
3. Select Create.

bdr opens your community's page with a getting-started checklist that leads to the first race. See Community setup.

The Your communities list on the Organise page shows every community you belong to. Select one to open it.

What you do as an organiser

bdr runs the race day for you. You set things up:

1. Register a machine and start the host agent on it.
2. Create a season, add a series, pick a track for each week and generate the races.
3. Publish the season.

From then on, bdr handles each race on schedule:

• It opens signups 7 days before the race and closes them 60 seconds before the start.
• It splits the field by rating and gives each split a server with an entry list of its drivers.
• It starts an ACC server on your machine for each split, and stops it afterwards.
• It collects the result files and updates standings and ratings.

You can also step in by hand. On the season page you can open signups early, lock a race, cancel it, or upload a result file. See Seasons and series.

Where to find each task:

• Your community's page: the checklist, seasons, servers and what is running now. See Community setup.
• Hosts: the machines your races run on. See Machines.
• A season's page: series, tracks, races and results. See Seasons and series.
• New single event: one race on one evening. See Single events.
• A server's page: what a race server ran and how hard it worked. See Race servers.

Roles

Each member of a community has one of three roles:

Role	What it allows
Owner	Everything an admin can do. You become the owner of a community you create.
Admin	Manage the community: machines, servers, API keys, seasons, series, races and results.
Steward	Membership only. It does not open the organiser pages.

Only owners and admins can open a community's organiser page. Anyone else sees "You do not manage that community." Signup passwords, the invite link and Discord webhooks are only shown to owners and admins. There is no page for adding organisers yet. See Community setup.

Members

Your drivers can join your community, for example your clan or your league's regulars. A series set to Community members only takes signups from them and from your organisers, nobody else. Use it for a relaxed members' night next to your open series.

1. On your community's page, select Members.
2. Select Make an invite link, then Copy, and share the link, for example in your Discord.
3. A driver who opens the link and signs in through Steam selects Join. They appear on the roster.

Being a member changes nothing else for a driver. They can leave from the same link, and you can Remove anyone from the roster. Make a new link replaces the link: the old one stops working at once, so use it if the link was shared where it should not have been. Drivers who already joined stay members.

Ranked and unranked hosts

Your community's badge shows Ranked host or Unranked host. New communities start unranked. To become ranked, ask for it from the Ranked status card on your community's page; the platform team decides. See Ranked status.

A ranked host still chooses per series: each series is Ranked or Unranked under Ratings, so you can run a ranked league and an unranked fun night side by side. An unranked host's series are always unranked. When your community becomes ranked, its existing series stay unranked until you switch each one to Ranked.

	Unranked host, or an unranked series	Ranked series of a ranked host
Results and race pages	Yes	Yes
Season points and standings	Yes	Yes
Safety Rating changes	No	Yes
ELO changes	No	Yes, if at least 6 drivers took part

Drivers see unranked on your races, so they know whether a race affects their rating. See Ratings.