Timing checks
The four rules every timed race is checked against, and their thresholds: the account's default, copied to each race.
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What it's for
The rules the Timing Desk checks a race against, written out, with the numbers you can change. They are the account's default; each race gets its own copy, which the race's settings can change on their own.
- 1. Backup check: every *HT, E or c start and finish time is compared with the same racer's System B time and the filed hand-tape time; pass when within the Hand time tolerance. No backup means "not checked" until one is filed.
- 2. Hand time: a waiting HT is calculated only with the FIS method (10 valid pairs, nearest racers first, pairs outside the tolerance skipped); fewer than 10 keeps waiting.
- 3. Possible missed impulse: a run time below or above a percentage of the field's average, per race and run, per group when results are grouped; checked only once enough racers have finished.
- 4. Outcome: every rule warns only and never blocks publishing; every check is logged in the checks record, and the timer can mark it reviewed.
Steps
- Open Settings › Race day › Timing checks.
The switch, the four rules, the thresholds - Leave Timing checks On, or switch it Off for the whole account.
- Under 1. BACKUP CHECK, set the Hand time tolerance in seconds (ships at 0.50).
- Under 3. POSSIBLE MISSED IMPULSE, set Below the average and Above the average in percent (ship at 75 and 150), and Missed impulse check starts after a number of finishers (ships at 3).
- Press Save.
What success looks like
The desk's tooltips and the checks record read the numbers you saved, and a race created from now on starts with them.
Related
- Previous: Timing & connector
- Next: Forerunner bibs
- How it fits: Timing devices, from the box to the desk
- In the workspace: Settings · Data Management
- What is never changed automatically
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