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Liza Dennehy - MCA Presentation 2019 7/30/2019 Finishlynx / Meet Manager Liza Dennehy Butte Track Club MCA 2019 1 Finishlynx / Meet Manager Agenda Couple Things: Meet Manager Finishlynx Using Technology & Running a 3-hour

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Finishlynx / Meet Manager

Liza Dennehy Butte Track Club MCA 2019 Finishlynx / Meet Manager

Agenda

  • Couple Things:
  • Meet Manager
  • Finishlynx
  • Using Technology & Running a 3-hour Track Meet

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Meet Manager

Meet Manager

  • Handout – Hy-tek Help Doc
  • Survival guide for those who have little or no knowledge of Meet Manager

If you get nothing else out of today’s presentation, maybe that will help come springtime…

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Meet Manager

Using Multiple Computers to Run a Meet

  • Strongly Recommend use 2 Meet Manager Computers
  • Field Event Computer
  • Running Event Computer
  • At a Minimum:
  • Network Running Event Computer with Finishlynx Computer
  • Hy-tek License Agreements
  • All MM licenses allow for software to be installed on multiple computers

Using Multiple Computers to Run a Meet

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Using Multiple Computers to Run a Meet

Finishlynx

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Finishlynx Set-up & Suggestions

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NFHS Rules

  • Enable all tool bar items
  • Fields – default is fine
  • Default Precision – set to

Thousandths

  • Round Method -- Up

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  • Data Source -- Files
  • Time Precision -- <on screen>
  • Input / Output Directory:
  • Directory location set for

Finishlynx File Sharing in Meet Manager

  • Write LIF File – On

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Meet Manager

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Technology & Running a 3-hour Track Meet

The Tuesday / Thursday

(or Monday or Friday or Saturday)

Meet Challenge

Unseeded – Numbers Only Meets No entries / Rolling schedule

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The Tuesday / Thursday

(or Monday or Friday or Saturday)

Meet Challenge

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Cardinal Rules:

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Cardinal Rules:
  • 1. Technology will fail – Have a Backup Plan A, B, C…
  • Technology personnel should be very nearly the 1st people at the venue
  • Set everything up and test it before the first bus pulls into the parking lot

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Cardinal Rules:
  • 1. Technology will fail – Have a Backup Plan A, B, C…
  • Technology personnel should be very nearly the 1st people at the venue
  • Set everything up and test it before the first bus pulls into the parking lot
  • 2. Start on Time

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Cardinal Rules:
  • 1. Technology will fail – Have a Backup Plan A, B, C…
  • Technology personnel should be very nearly the 1st people at the venue
  • Set everything up and test it before the first bus pulls into the parking lot
  • 2. Start on Time
  • 3. Keep it Moving
  • It is a very rare question that cannot wait until a break (hurdles, relays, 3200m,

etc.)

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Cardinal Rules:
  • 1. Technology will fail – Have a Backup Plan A, B, C…
  • Technology personnel should be very nearly the 1st people at the venue
  • Set everything up and test it before the first bus pulls into the parking lot
  • 2. Start on Time
  • 3. Keep it Moving
  • It is a very rare question that cannot wait until a break (hurdles, relays, 3200m,

etc.)

  • 4. Time yourself/your team
  • 100m Heats – gun to gun < 90 seconds

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Cardinal Rules:
  • 1. Technology will fail – Have a Backup Plan A, B, C…
  • Technology personnel should be very nearly the 1st people at the venue
  • Set everything up and test it before the first bus pulls into the parking lot
  • 2. Start on Time
  • 3. Keep it Moving
  • It is a very rare question that cannot wait until a break (hurdles, relays, 3200m, etc.)
  • 4. Time yourself/your team
  • 100m Heats – gun to gun < 90 seconds

*** Constantly be on the lookout for efficiencies…

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Minimum Set-up
  • 2 Meet Manager Computers – Running Events / Field Events
  • 1 Finishlynx Computer networked with MM Running Event

Computer

  • Pre-Meet Setup – Meet Manager
  • Create 2 Sessions – Running Events & Field Events
  • Running Events Session – Schedule Order
  • Interfaces > Photo Finish - Finishlynx . . . > Update Start Lists
  • Session List: Running Events
  • Number of Heats for Unseeded Events: ## > largest group

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Starting Line Protocol
  • Seeding on the fly…
  • Finish line protocol
  • Sprints
  • Distance Races
  • Relays

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Seeding on the Fly….

Starting Line Protocol

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Seeding on the Fly….
  • How we do it…
  • Bodies – Starter/Asst Starter, 2-4 Clerks
  • 2x Handheld Tablets – wireless update start lists to Finishlynx

Starting Line Protocol

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Grade School Track

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Seeding on the Fly….
  • How we do it…
  • Suggestions – what we have tried and discarded…

Starting Line Protocol

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Sprints….

Finish Line Protocol Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Sprints….
  • How we do it…
  • Bodies - Sprints
  • 1 Flagger w/stopwatch
  • 2-3 people working in Tower

Finish Line Protocol

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Sprints….
  • How we do it…
  • Bodies - Sprints
  • 1 Flagger w/stopwatch
  • 2-3 people working in Tower
  • Suggestions – what we have tried and discarded…

Finish Line Protocol Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Distance Races….

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Distance Races….
  • How we do it…
  • Chip Timing
  • Chip Assignments – required all distance runners be entered in 800m
  • Bodies
  • Flagger w/stopwatch – reads times
  • 1 clerk lapcounter w/radio

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Distance Races….
  • How we do it…
  • Chip Timing
  • Bodies
  • Flagger w/ stopwatch – reads times
  • 1 clerk lapcounter w/radio
  • Back-up Bodies
  • 2 clerks w/clipboard,
  • Remainder (sometimes whoever we can grab) keeping people in line

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet Running a 3-hour Track Meet

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Distance Races….
  • How we do it…
  • How we sometimes do it…

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Distance Races….
  • How we do it…
  • How we sometimes do it…
  • Bodies
  • Flagger w/ stopwatch – reads times
  • 1 clerk lapcounter w/radio
  • 2 clerks w/clipboard,
  • Remainder (sometimes whoever we can grab) keeping people in line
  • Process

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Step Back For a Minute
  • Interface Files – Meet Manager & Finishlynx
  • .ppl file – Competitors
  • .evt file – Schedule & Start lists
  • .sch file – Schedule only
  • - Above files written by MM for use in Finishlynx
  • - Create a MM Session so Session Order matches Meet Schedule
  • .lif files – Result files
  • - Written by Finishlynx for use in MM
  • All are text files and can be viewed and edited with Notepad
  • By default, .lif files are named Event #-round #-Heat #.lif

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • If Boys & Girls Run Together
  • In Finishlynx – capture the race in Event with most bodies
  • Evaluate & Save as per Process
  • Results saved to .lif file – Event #-round #-Heat #.lif
  • MM – Get Times for Event Captured
  • MM will check and filter by Gender
  • Edit .lif file with Notepad
  • File > Save As – Alternate Gender Event #
  • Edit line 1 – Alternate Gender Event #
  • Save
  • Get Times – Alternate Gender Event

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Distance Races….
  • How we do it…
  • How we sometimes do it…
  • Suggestions – what we have tried and discarded…

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Relays….

Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Relays….
  • How we do it…
  • MM add relays on the fly using Adjust (F8) Screen
  • Add all teams at the Starting Line
  • Fish them to appropriate lanes (4x100m Only)
  • Update Start Lists (Ctrl-U)

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Relays….
  • How we do it…
  • Suggestions – what we have tried and discarded…

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Running a 3-hour Track Meet

  • Cardinal Rules:
  • 1. Technology will fail – Have a Backup Plan A, B, C…
  • Technology personnel should be very nearly the 1st people at the venue
  • Set everything up and test it before the first bus pulls into the parking lot
  • 2. Start on Time
  • 3. Keep it Moving
  • It is a very rare question that cannot wait until a break (hurdles, relays, 3200m, etc.)
  • 4. Time yourself/your team
  • 100m Heats – gun to gun < 90 seconds

*** Constantly be on the lookout for efficiencies…

Finishlynx / Meet Manager

  • Questions….

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Finishlynx / Meet Manager

Liza Dennehy Butte Track Club

email: liza.dennehy@gmail.com

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