Browsing the Stage Library

The Stage Library

The Stage Library is where every stage on the platform lives - your own designs, stages shared by your club, and the wider community pool. It is the starting point for finding inspiration, copying a stage to remix, or pulling stages into a match book.

Anonymous visitors see a public, read-only version of the library showing only Shared Stages. Logged-in subscribers get personal tabs, filters, ratings, pinning, and the ability to copy or edit stages.

Tabs

The library is split into tabs across the top. Which tabs you see depends on your account:

• My Stages - Every stage you own, including drafts and shared ones.
• Favorites - Stages you have pinned (see below). Floats your most-used designs to the top.
• Club Stages - Stages owned by other members of your club. Visible if you are a club member.
• Community - Every stage that has been marked shared by any user on the platform.
• Upcoming Match tabs - If you own a match (or are admin of a club that does) and the match is upcoming, a tab appears for each match showing the stages currently assigned to it. Useful for assembling a match book quickly.

The number badge next to each tab name shows how many stages are in that tab after the current filters are applied.

Filters

The filter bar at the top of the library narrows down whatever tab you are on. Filters apply across all tabs simultaneously, so switching tabs preserves your search criteria.

• Search - Free-text match against stage name and description.
• Scoring type - GPA, IDPA, USPSA.
• Club - Restrict to stages owned by a specific club.
• Match - Restrict to stages associated with a specific match.
• Concealment - Concealed, unconcealed, or either.
• Strings - Number of strings of fire.
• Targets / Rounds min - Minimum number of targets or rounds.
• GPA par max - Maximum calculated GPA par time, in seconds.
• Max width / length - Bay dimensions in yards. Useful if you have a specific bay size to design for.
• Max movement - Maximum total shooter movement, in feet, across all positions.
• Max shot distance - Longest shot in the stage, in feet.
• Max shot angle - Largest angle from straight downrange of any shot. 0 means shots straight ahead only; 90 allows shots up to perpendicular.

Sort Order

The sort dropdown sits next to the tabs and controls the order of stages in the current tab:

• Newest First (default) - Most recently modified at the top.
• Favorites First - Pinned stages float to the top, then by date.
• Oldest First - Reverse chronological.
• Name A-Z / Z-A - Alphabetical.
• Most / Fewest Targets - By target count.
• Most / Fewest Rounds - By round count.
• Most Steel - By steel target count.
• Highest / Lowest Rated - By community star rating.

Stage Cards

Each stage in the grid is a card showing the stage thumbnail (an SVG preview), name, scoring type, target/round counts, GPA par if calculated, average rating, and shooting position stats (number of positions, total movement, longest shot) when available.

If a stage is associated with one or more matches, small badges appear on the card. Hover a badge to see the match name, then click through to the match.

Cards in your own tabs include a pin icon. Click it to pin or unpin the stage to your Favorites tab.

Stage Detail Modal

Click any card to open the detail modal. The library loads a lightweight summary on page load and fetches the full stage data only when you open a card, so the library page stays fast even with thousands of stages in the community pool.

The modal includes:

• A larger SVG preview
• The full scenario, start position, and procedure text
• The stage's shooting position plan if one was saved
• The community rating and a 1-5 star widget you can use to rate it
• Lineage information - if the stage was copied from another stage, the original creator and chain of copies is shown
• Action buttons: Open in Editor, Copy to My Stages, Print, Add to Match

Pinning Favorites

The pin icon on cards in your My Stages tab toggles a stage into or out of your Favorites tab. This is useful for stages you reuse often or want quick access to during match planning. Pinning is private - only you see your favorites.

Switching the sort dropdown to Favorites First floats your pinned stages to the top of any tab, so you can keep a default sort like Newest First while still seeing your most-used stages first.

Sharing a Stage

Stages are private to you by default. Toggle the Shared setting on the Settings tab in the editor to make a stage visible in the Community tab. Shared stages can be viewed and copied by any logged-in user, and seen by anonymous visitors on the public library.

If you are a club member, your stages are also visible to other members of your club regardless of the Shared setting. Club members can additionally edit your stages if you allow it.

Copying a Stage

Use the Copy action in the detail modal to make your own copy of any stage you can see in the library. The copy lands in your My Stages tab as a new draft you can modify freely. Lineage tracking preserves the original creator's name in the new stage's history so credit is maintained as designs evolve.