There are a number of tasks which must be completed before the meet can
start. First you have already decided the events therefore their names
and seed file names should entered well before the meet. Also records,
the official name and place of the meet can be entered.
Your next big task is to enter the athletes (after they have been assigned
a bib number, teams, and coaches in the meet. Once this is done you then
enter their seed times for each event they are entered in.
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Once all the
athletes have been entered, along with their seed times, you are ready
to produce a set of output forms associated with the day of the meet.
That is unless you have an "all comers" meet which is hairy at the best of times.
For clarity let's assume that this is a meet that has a closing date. Thus
you can print out
The announcers list of athletes, teams, and coaches
The programme of athletes, teams, and coaches which includes an alphabetic
listing of teams .... and inside each team ... an alphabetic listing of
women with their bib numbers followed by the men on each team.
If you have used the premeet seeding for heats facility you can also print
the start lists. NOtice I said the start lists not heat sheets. Now for
a liitle cardiac arrest "meet director". As the meet starts you marshall
the first race. You call each person .... how you do this is your choice
to see if they are in the race and you also add legal "missed" athletes.
NOW YOU PRODUCE HEAT SHEETS. No blank lanes, no scratches, so the
meet runs on time. This process goes on throughout the day. Check out
the seeding section.
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The process of seeding for a meet has two parts. One the first round of
heats and then the second part the progression of seeding through to the
finals. Actually over the years I have developed about 14 different
seeding possibilities. The first round is always random. The next rounds
are produced from the results parts of the system.
Because of the way heats can be combined one can take heats 1, 2, 3,...25
and crunch them together into a seeding file. Once that is done the
qualifiers for the next round can be selected and a new seed file set up.
A neat fact is the first place qualifier can have a time of 1 second,
the second 2 seconds and so on. That's a real time saver for the 10,000 metres.
Now the next round heat sheets can be
printed through timed heats, preferred lanes .... or whatever the rules
are. I print all heat sheets on 4 part paper. One for the marshall, one
for the seed table, one for the finish line and one for good luck!
