Or even better…Ór ;)
Its free too. I guess most clubs in Ireland use it, it was developed there and has a bunch of features to automate the post processing for Ireland but it can still be used anywhere. It has probably the best interfaces I’ve seen so far, very clean and intuitive. Scandis seem to have a strange idea of a proper GUI, but a lot of that probably comes down to personal preference. (It looks like Autodownload is only free for 20 competitors, not the number of courses. I haven't checked it out anyway yet, but I will)
- It runs standard point to point, score-O and Scatter course. (Also in development are relay events it seems.) See resent discussion on
Rogaine Software Suggestions. That topic goes on to discuss implementing a local database. The only issue with score-O is that it doesn’t secondary sort by time. So all runners with the same score tie for place and are listed in the order they registered. Apparently they don’t sort by time after over there.
- It behaves mostly the same as Jagge has described Eresults Lite, I could go on but just read the description
http://orienteering.ie/wiki/doku.php?id=or:index
- The coolest thing is the SI simulator. It lets you see how it will handle different situations without having to have the hardware. Give it to some juniors or anyone who knows a bit about using a computer and a few hours to play with the simulator and read the help files and they will have mastered it and show you how to handle different situations in no time. Its very simple to use, and it’s free so you can give it to anyone who wants to learn how to run the epunching.
For bigger events its probably better to use the a for cost software system for their added features but free software has been used for A meets. For local events just use the free software, it has all you need and is easier to show new people how to use.
Also I fail to see where the occasional CS needs to go anywhere near the results software?
The XML file for courses. Condes isn't the only course software that makes the XML course file.
In Ocad Course>Export>Courses (XML)
In Purple Pen File>Create E-Punch Interchange File
You also need this file for RouteGadget
But back to the OT, I think that O-scores (Shura) is looking for the description of how other club do it that TIL and Jagge gave.
From the procedures from start to finish:
-Pre-Event
-Registration
-Data Input
-Download
-Meet results
-Post Processing
-Online Results
I too would be interested in what other clubs do in detail to efficiently process competitors and get them out on the course and results posted, and what it all requires in time, money, number of volunteers. Something I would like to know is how other clubs might handle large numbers of regulars that rent SI-cards, how do you set up a database for regulars that do have their own SI so you don’t have to enter all their info each time?
O-score, maybe if you described what BAOC currently does and what has been pointed out as time and effort drains, people could make suggestions.