Selecting elite students out of a huge collective is a difficult task. The main problem is to provide automated processes to reduce human work. ECMS (Educational Contest Management System) is an online tool approach to help--fully or partly automated--with the task of selecting such elite students out of a mass of candidates. International tests like the PISA study revealed the need for such new methods in extracting better students out of collectives and to offer new online based tools for knowledge gaining processes.