DI Scoring

Destination Imagination® Scoring

Welcome to Destination Imagination® Scoring and the DI Scoring Program for 2025-2026. This Help file is designed to guide you through the process of scoring a Destination Imagination tournament.

This Help file will be useful for everyone who will be using or supervising use of the DI Scoring Program, including Tournament Directors, Score Masters, score room staff, and appraisers.

Changes made for 2025-2026:

  • Advancement rules now default to “places” rather than “teams” on the Tournament Wizard Advancement tab. The difference between the two options is how they handle ties. More information about these two options can be found on the Tournament Wizard page.
  • “Other Deductions” have been renamed to “Conduct Deductions” to better convey their purpose.
  • Challenge and Challenge_level advancement rules are now supported when importing tournaments from the DI Resource Area.
  • Additional tournament validity checking has been added when importing tournaments from the DI Resource Area.
  • Fixed some bugs, and made usability enhancements in both the DI Scoring Program and the Check-In Program.
  • Updated documentation for the new year.
  • Updated the Team Challenges, of course!
  • Added information about the Import Scores tools and their relationship to the use of of electronic Team registration and Appraiser (Volunteer) registration through Register your Team (RyT). For this discussion, follow links to Import Scores, including those in the Index of Common Scoring Program Tasks lists.

This Help documentation includes the following sections.

  • DI Scoring Program
    The DI Scoring Program is a computer program that tracks teams, calculates scores in accordance with the rules established by Destination Imagination, and prints the results. This section provides a complete, detailed, step-by-step guide for using the DI Scoring Program to process your scores. For quick access to specific topics use the links below in the Index of Common Tasks.
  • Novice Guide for paper-based tournaments
    This is the starting point for someone who’s just been asked to run the scoreroom for a Regional or Affiliate Tournament that’s using paper rather than mobile scoring. It’s both here in the on-line documentation and also available as an Adobe Acrobat document that’s formatted for printing on either 8.5″ x 11″ or A4-sized paper.
  • Intermediate Guide for paper-based tournaments
    This section steps up to address the questions: “What are those other tools that might be more useful for the slightly larger tournament?” And “How and when can I take best advantage of them?”

    These tools include Merge, Cross Checking, and Multiple Sites for a Challenge Level.
  • System Requirements
    Here’s a list of the computer equipment and accessories required to use the DI Scoring Program for your tournaments.
  • Scoring Rules
    This section explains the rules used to score Destination Imagination tournaments. Destination Imagination offers these rules to its affiliates to use in running their tournaments. The DI Scoring Program implements these rules.
  • Scoring Procedures
    This section defines procedures that Destination Imagination believes would be useful in scoring a tournament. They are intended as a departure point or check list for Tournament Directors and Score Masters responsible for scoring any affiliate or regional tournament.
  • Index of Common DI Scoring Program Tasks
    This is a quick index of common tasks used in the course of running the DI Scoring Program for your tournament.
  • Glossary
    This is a glossary of terms used within the DI Scoring Program and common tournament tasks.

In Appreciation

Destination Imagination and all of its participants extend a warm greeting and sincere appreciation to the outstanding volunteers who make our tournaments possible. To all those who wander here, our thanks.

A special thank you to the very special volunteers who have spent hundreds of hours designing and developing this program and documentation.

Manny Alvarez
June Blender
Kent Covert
Steve Donley
Matthew Evins
Larry Gensch
Jim Manuell
Judi Roberts
Al Simons

and also to Steve Greenwood for the original concept.

Now we know what really happens when creative problem solvers grow up.

Feedback

Please send all questions and comments on the DI Scoring Program and its Help files via an email to [email protected] as soon as possible. We’ll try to provide the help you need.

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