#Webinar

Webinar Schedule on UWW Event Management

By United World Wrestling Press

In November 2020, the United World Wrestling IT Department will hold a training series about its On Venue Result Management System, called "Arena."

Arena is used to help organize wrestling competitions with computed aided technology by automating the whole competition event lifecycle from the registrations through weigh-in, fights and final reports. Everything is running on computers and supporting the most recent rules. And more ...

The training is designed for new users, who would like to learn how to use Arena and implement this infrastructure in their country, but for existing Arena users may benefit as well by learning advanced techniques.

More about Arena @ arena.uww.io and arena.unitedworldwrestling.org.

Details of the webinars
 
Time: 14:00 - Zurich | 08:00 - New York (Check your local time)
Language: English
Subject level: from Beginner to Advanced
 
Meeting platform: Microsoft Teams
Join: click on the upcoming "Join from here" link below,
or visit https://unitedworldwrestling.org/webinars

Week #1

Chapter 1-2 – Overview & Install
10-Nov-2020 (Tue)
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  • High level overview on Arena features, infrastructure and components
  • How to install Arena, Scoreboard, LGTV applications
  • Hardware/software requirements

Chapter 3 – Running events
11-Nov-2020 (Wed)
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  • Introducing Arena interfaces (admin, referee, onvenue, etc)
  • Going through a complete event lifecycle

Week #2

Chapter 4 – Arena advanced features – Part I
17-Nov-2020 (Tue)
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  • Person management, how to import people
  • Blockchain drawing
  • Referee management

Chapter 4 – Arena advanced features – Part II
18-Nov-2020 (Wed)
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  • Synchronization
  • Administrative operation (upgrades, beta testing, customize setup, flags)
  • Non-Olympic style support

Week #3

Chapter 5 – Companion applications
24-Nov-2020 (Tue)
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  • How to use Scoreboard (UWWtiming)
  • How to use LGTV application

Chapter 6 –REST API for developers
25-Nov-2020 (Wed)
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  • How to integrate external applications with Arena via REST API


 

Development

Big step in women’s wrestling leadership with new members in UWW Bureau

By United World Wrestling Press

TIRANA, Albania (November 6) -- At the UWW 2024 Congress that took place in Tirana, Albania on the October 27, a historic milestone was achieved in women wrestling leadership.

There were seven female candidates for the UWW Bureau, the supreme body of wrestling, marking the highest-ever participation by women in the process.

Kuniko Tanioka (JPN), Annette Kure (NOR), Lise Legrand (FRA), Cholpon Sultanbekova (KGZ), Buyana Peljee (MGL), Nadine Pietschmann (SUI) and UWW Vice-President, Natalia Yariguina (RUS) took part in the race for the Bureau role.

This was the first time that Women Lead Sports alumni being elected to NF president positions and the highest registered female candidates for the Bureau in the history. Rodica Yaksi (TUR) was promoted to Vice-President and Ye Zhang (CHN) has two years left in her term.

A report on the progress made for women coaches and referees at the Paris Olympic Games through the various initiatives and programmes established by UWW Technical Assistance and Development Commission was shared with the national federations that attended the 2024 congress.

“From Tokyo to Paris, we made great strides to promote gender equality within our wrestling community. It is our duty to pave the way for our future generations for equal opportunities, no matter the gender, the religious beliefs, ethnicity, etc.,” UWW President Nenad Lalovic said. “We value and praise those who promote wrestling at all levels. We witnessed that by providing the right programmes and opportunities it strengthens our sport and our community worldwide.”