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Just a quick note to let everybody know that the World Junior Cycling Championships just completed in Melbourne Australia were successfully run with the use of the Veloresults software. Being the first implementation of the system in Australia, it did take a little while to learn all the intricacies of the system, however the system
did show its worth in many ways. Particular features which we found to be great were: - its ability to print results as soon as the event is complete; - The advancements of the sprints and the reports showing the draws in a graphical form; - The commentator screen during the points race proved to be an absolute hit
with the commentators!

As always, new users always bring different ideas on how things can be improved even further. Excuse me in advance if any of the following is already in the program. To further improve on what is already a great system, I think that a qualifying round should be introduced into the pursuit and sprint functions, which could
lead into the first round (denoted as quarter final in the program - I think this may need changing as well). If the system could re-order the sprint results so that it shows 1/2/3 in sequential order on the scoreboard, that would be great as well. A function for scratch races, which could rotate the starting list on the board during the race and enter the finishing order at the end for results, would also be appreciated, so that the names need not be enetered manually into the Daktronics typewriter. Hope this helps.

Many thanks to both the Fred and James Broder for getting the Veloresults system down under and I look forward to using it again at a local meet down here again in the not too distant future.



Originally posted 26 Aug 2002 by George Proimos george.proimos@spr.gases.boc.com
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Bravo to George and his crew. They took the ball and ran with it. Veloresults is constantly being improved and we hope to have some new features for next season. We only hope that the UCI and National federations will help with issuing new rules in a timely fashion. We are currently in the middle of the US National Track
Championships here in Trexlertown. More comments to follow the event.


Originally posted 30 Aug 2002 by Fred Patton
George:

Happy to hear your event went well. The Junior Worlds were held at Vodaphone Arena, a remarkably well-designed stadium with an electric roof and hydraulic grandstands designed to accomodate velo, basketball, and tennis configurations. VA also has two permanent Daktronics full-matrix boards, which utilize LED technology so that they look kind of washed out with the roof open (for tennis) but wonderful with the roof closed (basketball, velo).

Vodaphone Arena and its big brother, Rod Laver Arena, also run Skunkware for the Australian Open tennis event each January. The stadiums were originally designed and built by Tennis Australia, and now the City of Melbourne manages the facilities, which also hosts Davis Cup, rock concerts, tractor pulls, and you-name-it.

When I see the clever job done by Tennis Australia with VA and RLA, it highlights the embarrassingly bad job the United States Tennis Association have done on Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. The USTA spent over 10 times the money and wound up with an obsolete stadium in the middle of a slum, which it contractually
is only entitled to use a few weeks a year. The USTA should hang its head in shame. Congratulations to the Aussies for building the two best tennis stadiums in the world.

Anyhow, back to Veloresults. Hopefully you used the Time Trial event classification to manage qualifying for your Pursuit and Sprint races. Since Pursuit and Sprint are seeded based on qualifying, this is the way we have chosen to handle this aspect in Veloresults. After qualifying has completed, you've got ranked results. We do not automatically place the qualifying riders into Sprint or Pursuit races, simply because there are many different variations in the way seedings and matchups are
done.

Scratch races are probably the next event we will tackle within Veloresults. There are a zillion ways to handle track cycling races, and we have so far tackled the most complex - points races, pursuit, TT, qualifying, omnium. There is also the "generic race" software, which takes care of pretty much everything else. Adding specific Scratch Race software is the next logical step, should The Fred decide to develop V2 further.



Originally posted 26 Aug 2002 by James Broder
james@skunkware.tv

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