Creating a Cross Country Meet

Don Passenger posted on 11-20-2009 9:25 PM

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This is probably the most laborious part of the process, especially for historical meets ...

Thought you might like to see how I do it as that may help improve the process.

This particular one is complicated by the fact that there is another regional the same day and I start to use that and then have to back out ... I use the back button (of screen).

I also use the find function (of screen again control+f in firefox) to find the course.

Near the end I used the back button after showing that it jumps out of 2006 when I save the meet.  Faster to go back than to click on 2006 and then find the right meet.

My keyboarding is slowed/hampered by the screen capture, so that is a little rougher than it might be in real life, because I get a little hesitation/flicker.

Note that I delete both JV races ... I wish there was a duplicate meet function so that I could grab the Holly meet for D3, dupicate and rename the structure of the meet.

Anyway, for your enjoyment ...

Jing Thing - creating a cross country meet

Step two,

Assuming I have not used emmXC and thus cannot auto-upload my results, then after the meet I get results and get ready to upload results.  I can make the upload file in excel (most people do I think), however, I have written a little program to do the job for most meet formats.  Here it is in action:

http://www.screencast.com/users/Bestfoot/folders/Jing/media/4d7e6ba5-52c7-4e9b-87e4-0ae01ddbf6c0

Here is a video that shows the following:

1. the power of notetab ... I take a list like this:

[blockquote]

1. Anthony Wile, Birmingham Brother Rice, 15:54.1
2. Ben Miller, Warren deLaSalle, 15:60.0
3. Neal Duggan, Troy-Athens, 16:08.5
4. Chris Tassen, Troy-Athens, 16:12.2
5. Adam Haag, Warren deLaSalle, 16:15.2
6. Phil Fattore, Detroit U-D Jesuit, 16:26.7
7. Jeff Kuhl, Clarkston, 16:29.3
[/blockquote]

[blockquote]

DivId    Gender    Place    FirstName    LastName    School    Time
1    M    1    Anthony    Wile    Birmingham Brother Rice    15:54.1
1    M    2    Ben    Miller    Warren deLaSalle    15:60.0
1    M    3    Neal    Duggan    Troy-Athens    16:08.5
1    M    4    Chris    Tassen    Troy-Athens    16:12.2
1    M    5    Adam    Haag    Warren deLaSalle    16:15.2
1    M    6    Phil    Fattore    Detroit U-D Jesuit    16:26.7
1    M    7    Jeff    Kuhl    Clarkston    16:29.3
[/blockquote]

Ready for upload.

I then show how I upload --

I paste it vs a file,

I click next and match schools -- this is an especially bad set of matches so that takes a while to get right obviously

I click next and match athletes -- here is my point -- I would have to click on only like two of those ... the rest don't have matches, I just wasted moments of my life that I didn't have to

I click on next

I always go bottom to top