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Start

Starter is provided with a piece of paper which enables him to call out the names of the crews in each lane and to announce to them that the first n of this race will go to the final.

Display > Race Info, Style Form  (which is the same control sheet used at the finish) is used to proved the paper reports for the Start.

The role at the start is twofold - first to make sure the starter has up-to-date start information about the crews on the starting line, and second to record the start time of each race.

It may help to open two browser windows (or tabs) and toggle tetween them for each function.

Start Information

Before each race:

Use Display > Race Info, Style Races/Lanes Summary

It will highlight changes, specifically:

• Scatched crews (strike out)
• Crews who have not yet shown up (underlined) .

Then check Display > Starter Status

• for information about crew changes (more details about this report on the commentary page)

Then tell the Start Umpire

• verbally, or
• by marking their piece of paper, or by
• reprinting Display > Race Info, Style Form

Start Timing

For each race:

Use the supplied timing device to record the time at which the race starts. This device shows the time in hours minutes and seconds since all the timing devices were synchronised at the start of the day..

• Write it down.
• Results > enter results
• Select race
• Enter Start Time (see note below)
• Click on CONFIRM
• when the intermediate or finish times are entered use the STOPWATCH and REAL buttons to toggle between a display of the times entered from the timing device and the computed real race times.

Please enter the start time as soon as possible, and NO later than the end of the race, otherwise the actual race time cannot be computed.

Entering Times

Ignore the hour.
Formats accepted are mss, mmss, mssdd, mmssdd 
You can use separators m:ss, mm:ss, m:ss:dd, mm:ss:dd
Valid separators, in addition to the colon, are: fullstop, comma, semi-colon or slash(/)

Recommend that you enter six digits (mins, secs and hundredth of sec) without separators and with a leading zero if the minute is less than ten.

e.g. 422975 (42 mins 29 secs 75 hundredth)

Screen defaults to stopwatch time. When you CONFIRM it changes to race time, and checks that the numbers you have entered make sense. Green ticks are good. If you see a red cross then check the input.

Click the STOPWATCH button to enter more times, or correct existing ones. Click RACE TIMES to check, and CONFIRM to confirm.

Pressing NEXT or PREVIOUS will automatically CONFIRM your input, but make sure you have a full set of green ticks before moving away.