Cross Country Scoreboard Offers the Following Unique
Features
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Synchronized Timing and Scoring
Orchestration
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Automated
and Streaming Online Scoreboard
Two WIFI connected laptops (where one is the timer and the other records race bib numbers) work concurrently to provide timing and placement data to each other in real-time. No more having to wait until after the race is complete to copy and merge timing and bib data – and to correct discrepancies. With xcscoreboard, this is all done in naturally, in real-time, during the race. No more having to scramble to assemble results while racers and fans sit by anticipating the results. With or without a timing system, using the orchestration feature offers a good tool to correct and/or confirm bib placement order.
In cross country, a team's final, official, score cannot be determined until all runners have completed the race. Thus the history of waiting until the end until scores are published. But in this digital age, there is no reason we cannot provide a predictive score that can project team scores and placements.
Other scoring apps may provide a "during race" projected team score,
but only for teams whose first five runners have finished. Cross Country
Scoreboard, however, projects a team's score as soon as the first runner from a
team has crossed. The xcscoreboard app does this by
adding the individual score of team finishers with the best possible scores
that could be achieved by the remaining runners on the team.
For example, let's say we have 4 teams, Augusta High, Central High, Cherokee
High, and Midvale where 5 runners make up a full team. Furthermore, Midvale
doesn't have enough registered runners to make up a full team. Here is the
order in which the finishers place:
Place |
Team |
Points |
1 |
Augusta High |
1 |
2 |
Central High |
2 |
3 |
Augusta High |
3 |
4 |
Midvale |
- |
5 |
Cherokee High |
4 |
6 |
Cherokee High |
5 |
7 |
Augusta High |
6 |
8 |
Central High |
7 |
Following is the projected scoring that can be streamed to the online
scoreboard (if enabled) after each finisher. All projected constituent scores
are in RED. A team's "Projected Score"
is the sum of each of the "Finisher Positions":
· Scoreboard after 1st Finisher (from Augusta High):
Place |
Team Name |
Projected Score |
Finishers |
Finisher Positions |
1 |
Augusta High |
15 |
1 |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
· Scoreboard after 2nd Finisher (from Central High):
Place |
Team Name |
Projected Score |
Finishers |
Finisher Positions |
1 |
Augusta High |
19 |
1 |
1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
2 |
Central High |
20 |
1 |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
· Scoreboard after 3rd Finisher (from August High):
Place |
Team Name |
Projected Score |
Finishers |
Finisher Positions |
1 |
Augusta High |
19 |
2 |
1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
2 |
Central High |
24 |
1 |
2, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
· Scoreboard after 4th Finisher (from Midvale – not a full team):
Place |
Team Name |
Projected Score |
Finishers |
Finisher Positions |
1 |
Augusta High |
19 |
2 |
1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
2 |
Central High |
24 |
1 |
2, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
· Scoreboard after 5th Finisher (from Cherokee High):
Place |
Team Name |
Projected Score |
Finishers |
Finisher Positions |
1 |
Augusta High |
22 |
2 |
1, 3, 5, 6, 7 |
2 |
Central High |
28 |
1 |
2, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
3 |
Cherokee High |
30 |
1 |
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
· Scoreboard after 6th Finisher (from Cherokee High):
Place |
Team Name |
Projected Score |
Finishers |
Finisher Positions |
1 |
Augusta High |
25 |
2 |
1, 3, 6, 7, 8 |
2 |
Cherokee High |
30 |
2 |
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
3 |
Central High |
32 |
1 |
2, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
· Scoreboard after 7th Finisher (from Augusta High):
Place |
Team Name |
Projected Score |
Finishers |
Finisher Positions |
1 |
Augusta High |
25 |
3 |
1, 3, 6, 7, 8 |
2 |
Cherokee High |
33 |
2 |
4, 5, 7, 8, 9 |
3 |
Central High |
36 |
1 |
2, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
· Scoreboard after 8th Finisher (from Central High):
Place |
Team Name |
Projected Score |
Finishers |
Finisher Positions |
1 |
Augusta High |
27 |
3 |
1, 3, 6, 8, 9 |
2 |
Central High |
36 |
2 |
2, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
3 |
Cherokee High |
36 |
2 |
4, 5, 8, 9, 10 |
After the race is marked as complete, the scoreboard is calculated one last time using official scoring -- any red, projected, finishers are removed from the results.
For a small in-app purchase, you
can provide an on-line scoreboard to all of your fans (internet access at race
site is required). Simply direct your fans and spectators to point their browsers
to xcscoreboard.com where your event
will be listed. Once activated (purchased) simply connect to your scoreboard
(click of a button). All team and individual results will be automatically
streamed in real-time to your scoreboard allowing race fans to enjoy and watch
results stream by in real-time as your race is scored via the orchestrated
laptops.
Note that one of the fundamental principles of xcscoreboard
is to keep network traffic as low as possible. Even though internet is
essentially available everywhere with mobile networks, connectivity can be
unreliable and data costs can add up. The xcscoreboard
app was built so that it can stream results even in low bandwidth internet
connections. Since bandwidth is kept low, even a large race can be scored and
streamed using only a few megabytes of your data cap.
Personal note:
Currently I score my races using a T-Mobile hotspot that I purchased at a big
box store for $20. For each race, I activate it for that day only with a 500 MB
data cap costing only $5. If you have a hotspot capable mobile phone, you could
just use that device (make sure always keep your phone near the scoring table
during the race).
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Configurable scoring for customizing team size
requirements and tie-breaker rules.
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Ability to run multiple group races
simultaneously on the same timer.
e.g., to save time you may want to run JV boys/girls together -- xcscoreboard will score groups separately even if raced
together.
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Multiple timers (assigned to different races)
can be open and operating simultaneously and asynchronously.
This allows you to start the next race before the previous race has finished.
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Easy spreadsheet like navigation. If you know
how to traverse typical spreadsheet apps, you know how to use xcscoreboard. Moving field data is as easy and drag and
drop. Deleting and inserting rows is a simple swipe of the mouse.
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Import and export direct to Excel, Google
Spreadsheets, or csv.
· Error and Warning detection notifications/highlights.
v Duplicate entry highlights in red.
v Runners finishing a race before or after their registered race highlights yellow and blue.
v For
timing equipment assisted races, "close calls" (two runners finishing
within 0.2 seconds of each other) have their times highlighted light blue --
calling for added scrutiny by the finish line judge to verify correct order.
·
Built in High Resiliency -- during the race both
the timing system and scoring system modes can be reconfigured to do both jobs
in the rare event there is a computer crash or failure.
·
Team Sheet Output Capability. Provides for
printing (via browser) lists of registered runners separated by team for adding
to team folder.
· Award Sheet Output Capability. Provides for printing (via browser) an awards sheet for each group for announcing top races and top teams during awards ceremony.