2. RaceDay Scoring Updates
We know timing in person events hasn’t been at the forefront of
everyone’s thoughts the past couple of months, but races are
starting back up again and now is the time to dust off your timing
laptops and see what is new with RaceDay Scoring.
Some areas that we’ve been improving on which we’ll go through
today:
• Open-Ended Timing
• Better Participant Data Handling
• Easier Race Setup
• Better Scoring Experience
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3. RaceDay Scoring Updates
After the updates, I’ll try to leave some room to open it up to
questions - please type them out into the chat which Crisp is
monitoring.
He will bring up any questions that came up that weren’t answered
during the session, or if anything needed clarification.
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5. What is Open-Ended Timing?
Open-Ended Timing allows you to set up your Timing
Software to allow races to play out through the course of
hours or even days.
It will allow you to set up very long acceptable start and
finish time periods which can overlap if you are timing an
event that is allowing participants to start and finish
whenever they like instead of en masse.
We have added a few features in RaceDay Scoring and
The Race Director to make this easier to manage.
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6. Open-Ended Timing Updates
• In Timing Location Setup - Collect
Times until and starting filters now
can overlap.
• For open-ended Timing to work
in RaceDay Scoring, you must
use a common start/finish
location.
• If you have a few different
distances in your Race, we
recommend you set up a Timing
Location for each distance.
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7. Open-Ended Timing Updates
• That way you can specify a Gap
Factor for each distance you have.
• For instance:
• 5k may be 14 minutes
• 10k 30 minutes
• Half Marathon 1 hour, etc…
• RDS will select the first set of
reads for each participant within
the time range that is longer than
the Gap Factor.
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8. Open-Ended Timing Updates
• If there are multiple reads that get selected
for a participant, you can manually override
which one is to be used for scoring by
clicking the new Ambiguous Times button
in the Raw Reads View.
• This view will show all reads in this state
for a given Timing Location.
• From here you can pick a different set of
reads for a Participant.
• We show the Net Time so that you can
easily see which is the right set of reads to
use if you know what time they actually ran.
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9. Open-Ended Timing Updates
• You can now include the Start and
Finish Times of Day with or
without the Date of that read
included in Reports.
• This can be helpful to view in
result data for verification
purposes, and to see which date
the results came in on for multi-
day race setups.
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11. Participant Data Enhancements
• Team Names can now be imported
when importing participants from a
CSV spreadsheet. Groups will be
set up for them automatically if that
team name is not set up yet.
• Added support for Participant
Custom Fields. This allows you to
add in additional data fields that
you want to use for scoring, but
don’t need to have published to
RunSignup.
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12. Participant Data Enhancements
• Added support for RunSignup
Membership Numbers like USAT#,
USAC# and custom memberships
when pulling in a Race from
RunSignup.
• Added support for auto-mixed case
name formatting. This setting will
automatically properly capitalize
different names, and is smart
enough to handle last names like
McDonald.
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14. Easier Race Setup
• Race Segments can now be copied
from one Event to any number of
other Events - making Triathlons
much easier to set up.
• Added alert when the RunSignup
Event distance does not match the
distance set in RaceDay Scoring’s
Scored Event setup with a link to
view/edit the RunSignup Event
Distance if needed.
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15. Improved Auto-Saves
• RunSignup Auto-Saves are now much easier to set
up - all required fields are defaulted in with
suggestions so you just need to click add stream
then save to get them up and running.
• Auto-Saves now included in Race Exports so you
can set them up at home and all your Timer in the
field has to do is unpause them!
• Improved Auto-Save Status Panel to allow
pausing/unpausing all auto-saves at once. It also
will now give a top-level count of the number of
auto-saves you have set up in this Race.
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17. Performance Improvements
We constantly are working to improve the
performance of the software and have recently
updated the system to improve performance for large
Races and specifically for Races with a lot of Scored
Events (10+).
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18. Dynamic Race Status Fields
• Race Status Fields (DNS, DNF) are now set automatically as a Race progresses.
• When a new Race is created from now on, all Participants will be marked as Did
Not Start (DNS) and Did Not Finish (DNF).
• When a Start Read is recorded for a Participant, their DNS status will be lifted.
• When a Participant gets an overall Clock Time recorded, their DNF status will be
lifted.
• In the process of updating Reports to better reflect sorting of non-finishers by number of
completed segments then lowest time.
• Also working on a Race Progress Panel on the Dashboard to give stats and links to view
reports of each Race Status (DNF/DNS/DQ/DNQ) for all of some set of Events.
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