### Participant roles
Event participants can belong to one or more roles. Each role has a different set of permissions, though some do overlap. It is not necessary to add a participant to more than one role if that role has the permissions it requires, though it is possible to do so.
Role
View event
Play in event
Judge event
Manage event & teams
Manager
true
false
false
true
Judge
true
false
true
false
Player
true
true
false
false
Spectator
true
false
false
false
SME *
true
false
false
false
Free Agent *
true
true
false
false
{% hint style="info" %}
\* Coming soon
{% endhint %}
To modify a participant's roles, select the pull-down under the Roles column of the Participants table. Select or de-select the role(s) for the selected participant, then click outside the dialog to set the participant's roles.
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