Here comes our mid-year traditional delivery. As usual, we're keeping you tuned with all the visible new things included.
G-Live
A major revamp finally goes live for your race results publications!
Adding to the wide capabilities of G-Live app, we're excited to provide a new graphical and functional layout as a landing page.
A picture worth thousand words:
This translates into new options in the event publication screen, mainly:
- a cover picture file, which can be an external URL or a relative path if you chose to upload it in the event folder
- whether the leader board view is activated
This remains optional, as for some events you may not get an appropriate leader board for example. Or you prefer keeping the light version of the app and care yourself about the surrounding.
The race logo picture will be used now for display on the landing page, and also on the athletes result form.
Note that we aim this also as a replacement for the external header, as there's now a place for race name and logo. We're aware though you'll still want to have your timing company branding somewhere so we keep looking for the ideal options making all that fit it naturally.
Other improvements
A new generic sharing button is now in place for an athlete result.
The behavior is let to the browser, for example on a smartphone it will provide a list of possibilities based on installed apps.
All what you need to do is to select the company in the Photos tab of the settings, and enter the event ID for it. Visitors of the results will see direct links for a bib number integrated in an athlete's result form.
Tournaments
A couple of useful enhancements when you're dealing with tournament events, i.e. competitions with many rounds from qualifications to final.
This time we made it more flexible to mix multiple races with their own set of rounds.
It means you can make some round assignment for races (on the race list), let's say because you have a Women competition with only 1 qualification round instead of 2. As a result the brackets setting and printout will properly skip the 2nd qualification round.
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On printout, you can also decide how many round levels you want to print. You may have qualifications shown or not for example.
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And you can also provide custom labels for heats. For instance if you have 2 final heats, main and small final, you can avoid having them titled heat 1/2.
Points
New features to enrich the list of scenarios in which points are granted on the main individual ranking:
- you can specify that point values are originating from the secondary classifications. These are classifications like mostly found in cycling, but available for a custom purpose. They can be made of sub-rankings like an intermediate sprint, or for points attribution on a given lap.
- now there's an option to allow for an automatic calculation of points. Just be aware it can have detrimental effects on performance depending on the volume of competitors and the kind of formula in place. Remember also you can deactivate it if you need to make some manual corrections at some point.
Rankings
Team rankings
The team ranking option for team splitting is now more powerful, compatible with all kinds of conditions set for the calculation.
How that works: let's say you have these athletes from the same team/club in the ranking and you're asking for teams of 3 with at least one feminine. The ranking will find 2 teams (or more) composed by priority:
| Pl. |
Name |
Sx |
| 3. |
Alan T. |
M |
| 8. |
Bob W. |
M |
| 12. |
William F. |
M |
| 23. |
Alexa U. |
F |
| 25. |
Jonnhy M. |
M |
| 38. |
Anna D. |
F |
Secondary classifications
Secondary classifications (Mountain/Points/Prize money/Custom...) are now fully compatible with a multi-race context.
That means each race can have its own grids for points/bonuses/primes and automatic allocations will happen for each of them individually.
Tie breaking
Still in the area of secondary classifications, we've added a possibility to manually decide how a tie situation is solved. Available as a safety net in case the rules of the competition are not covered by a combination of criteria offered by Wiclax.
Ranks by category (age group)
There's already an option to tell whether places in categories have to be presented as they are, or shifted by the overall winners.
Now this option is more widely taken into account, like on live displays and on exports.
And instead of a default 3 winners to consider it will look after the actual podiums settings, where you can specify a different number - race by race and by gender.
Ranking without timing
Some stages with a no timing setting can now be included in a stage race or in a tournament. No timing meaning you can simply order results without entering any finish time. Before the setting was global to the event, as well as not enabled for stage races.
Split points
We've introduced a new option for an intermediate split point, to allow integrating a split time on a participant regardless its assigned race.
This is to deal easily with scenarios when participants are allowed to chose their route after the start.
A split point 40km can be bound to race 55K, somebody initially belonging to race 20K or to no race at all won't see its passage rejected because he's not on the expected race. Then an automatic race assignment rule can be triggered (that says, if participant split time for 40km location is not blank then race is 50K).
Start order
The start times assignment tool (mostly used for time trial races) is now enriched to allow for working on a simple start order, keeping the individual starts untouched.
In this mode it will be working on the existing "Order" data field which can hold random numeric values. Only asking the first value to apply and to increment.
After setting the order you can decide to reassign bib numbers based on it, using the bib assignment tool.
Championships, trophies
In the Championship module, the possible duplicated individuals (when results are merged based on participant names) and possible data inconsistencies are now displayed aside the ranking grid for a better readability and usability.
Here is however an event configuration that we made manageable directly into Wiclax: it's the case of a trophy to be computed over multiple races of the same file. The requirement comes when for example you need a general ranking of participants having competed on the Saturday's 10K and the Sunday's 25K.
We'll solve it this way, using a secondary ranking for the purpose that we set as a multi-race trophy.
Obvious advantage in addition to having everything in the same program is that the rankings publication will happen naturally.
Participants won't have the same bib number for both races so the merging is done on their name + birth date.
And you're not limited to just 2 races, as well as you can define as many trophies as you wish.
Coming next would be giving more options on how this kind of general ranking is computed (could be on points rather than on sum of times).
Impressions
Team list printouts have been improved (including a direct switch between a classic mode and a thumbnail mode).
A tool for designing your own thumbnail templates is made available, for even more flexibility, for example for the precise selection of the data you want to appear:
Miscellaneous
Quick passing insertion
The tool you can invoke with Shift+F3 shortcut is now better suited for lap races, as you can specify the lap number for which you want to do the operation.
Import
The data import assistant is now able to deal with some simple JSON formatted data, as can be sometimes obtained from device logs. Those are limited to JSON objects in a single text line and without structure.
You can enable it by selecting json as the field separator.
Grid filtering
A new filter option is introduced on the result grid to spot participants having an apparently inconsistent start time. I.e. which is too far from his/her theoretical race start. 1mn diff by default, but you can enter your own value.
The grid search feature has 2 modes, one acting as a filter and leaving visible only the matching rows, and the second behaving as a regular find. Both are potentially useful so we've added this menu item as well to switch to the filtering mode. Default find happens if you just click the magnifier.
Variables
A new variable (#9021) can be used to display or export a total number of laps completed by all participants. Computed for the current race or global.
Third party
A new connection is in place to automate participant data import from
RunKing platform, Brazil.
