How many entrants run at a typical event in your local
region, Mark?
Again, who would do all this in SFR? Is registration data entry a signup
work assignment? Or is there someone who is there at every event
early in the morning, dedicated to make this work? Who would you see
handling the merge of databases? Is your experience of database merge
that it typically just runs, no problem?
We used to handle our AYSO Soccer League registration with several
machines and an after-the-fact database merge. We were using a
professional database product, but even then there was invariably
some kind of hangup and I'd be up all night making one database out of
the several. Of course, SFR might have an easier time, but again, we'd
be under extreme time pressure, and the event would depend on
completion of the merge in the 10 minutes between start of the
drivers' meeting and beginning of run group 1 -- without failure.
And, online database update continuously during the day as new people
showed up and registered.
Sounds a lot tougher to me than it does to you!
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: Preregistration and computerized timing/scoring
> Howdy,
>
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Josh Sirota wrote:
> > 2) However, pre-registration is absolutely REQUIRED for any on-site
SCORING
> > software to work. There is no way to get on-site scoring done without
all
> > of the entrants IN THE COMPUTER SYSTEM before their run group starts.
This
> > is nearly impossible to accomplish with on-site registration.
>
> FWIW (not much) my local region sticks people in the computer as they
> register. Doesn't seem to slow anything up much. By the time the money
> taker is done, the computer entry person has entered in the car/driver
> info. This is made easier if the software has some idea of history, but
> isn't required.
>
> Heck, even if you had to have two folks doing computer entry and then a
> merge, seems like it'd be doable.
>
> Pre-registration would be a nice bonus of course.
>
> >From what I've heard about TS96, its not horribly user friendly. I seem
> to recall hearing about other software that was a little easier to use,
> etc, but I don't remember names. I'm sure a post to the evolution list
> would generate lots of good suggestions that would work with a JAC timer,
> etc.
>
> Mark
>
> (back to lurking)
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