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Feature Updates Added the ability to save Data Check Reports. You can now create and save Data Check Reports to reference later. These reports will stick around when exporting/importing a Race. Added more options for filtering the Race List. Prior to this change you could only update the filter to not show passed Races. Now […]
New: RaceJoy Participant Split Export & Route Replay In response to participant requests, RaceJoy now offers the ability for finishers to export their finish data and view the route they completed. Previously, the data and route replay capabilities were only available for timers and race organizers on the backend of RaceJoy. Participants request their personalized […]
Timer Training with Aaron Crosby RFID timers are invited to watch this informative webinar on how to use RaceDay Scoring with RFID Race Timing Systems timing equipment. GiveSignup l RunSignup’s Matt Avery along with special guest Aaron Crosby, with The Race Time, provide an overview of how to integrate the two technologies. The focus of […]
As the industry continues to adapt to the challenges of Covid-19, timers have the opportunity to take a leadership role and help their events continue by offering a hybrid race experience. This includes a combination of race experience options, which may include scored on-site races with defined course paths, extended race dates, and virtual race […]
Individual and team fundraising pages now show a link to the individual or team’s results. This adds to last month’s release that gives events the option to display fundraising progress bars on results pages. Many nonprofit events have a broad range of participants. Some people are competitive and will share their results pages. Others are […]
RunSignup’s mobile app, RaceJoy, can now be used for distance-based challenge events and is fully integrated with RunSignup’s Challenge Platform. The recorded webinar below provides an overview on the features available for participants and for event organizers to help take their challenge events to the next level. RaceJoy offers an excellent way to provide an […]
You can now show individuals’ real-time fundraising progress on their results pages with a Donate call to action. This is a great feature for nonprofits where the focus of the event is on fundraising, encouraging fundraisers to hit their goals, and creating competition around who can raise the most. The fundraising progress meter is available […]
We have released a whole new generation of Team Results capabilities on RunSignup. We have an Open Team Results API that scoring platforms like The Race Director and RaceDay Scoring can use for posting more typical race and complex team scoring like Cross Country. We have also included Challenges to automatically produce Team Results when […]
We are happy to announce a whole new generation of Team Results on RunSignup. While it helps improve the previous team results capabilities tremendously, we are probably most excited by the support for Cross Country Results (probably because there are a bunch of cross country nerds working here at RunSignup). As covered in the Team […]
The foundation of our new Team Results, which is used for general Team Scoring and Cross Country as well as Virtual and Challenge events is our open Team Results API. Virtual Races and Challenges need to set up Groups/Teams for their participants to create and join. Once they do, the team results will appear in […]
RunSignup just rolled out more flexibility for virtual events wishing to deliver virtual results. Many events will have various registration options that don’t necessarily line up to the results needed. Or there may be unique situations where results need to be combined. Event organizers and timers can now create custom result set configurations to meet […]
Official Mobile Race Experience From Any Location We are incredibly excited to announce RaceJoy is now available for location independence events. Virtual event organizers can now offer RaceJoy for both location independent and defined course route race experiences for participants of running, walking, cycling, and water events. RaceJoy delivers an official interactive race experience that […]
We are excited to share that auto result submission for virtual events is now available in RunSignup’s race day app, RaceJoy. Those participants using RaceJoy for GPS tracking and cheer sending, will have their GPS-based results automatically submitted to the race as they cross the finish line. For events using RunSignup’s Virtual Results, this data […]
Did you miss the recent RaceDay Scoring software update for the month of October provided by Matt Avery? No worries, you can watch the recorded webinar here: The RaceDay team developers are churning out improvements. Some of October’s changes include the following feature updates. Feature Updates Added shut down confirmation dialogWe have had reports of […]
Become a RaceDay Certified Timer Want to be RaceDay Certified so you can offer RaceJoy and get hands-on RaceDay Scoring product training? Already certified and ready for advanced training and an update on the RaceDay Suite of products? Join us at RunSignup’s Winter Symposium this coming January in Orlando, Florida. Invite your race directors! This is an opportunity […]
For those of you who don’t know already, RaceDay Scoring is the future of The Race Director. We expect a surge of timers will migrate to RaceDay Scoring this winter. Roger Bradshaw, the creator of The Race Director, provides his guidance on the best way to transition to RaceDay Scoring. Roger is in the thick […]
We have made some nice little improvements in the Results display on RunSignup. First, we have added headers to make it easier to spot the options for showing different Divisions (showing real results from the Thunderclouds Austin Turkey Trot, timed by RunFAR Racing Services): This makes it more apparent that different views of the data […]
Virtual races are growing in popularity – either as stand alone events or as a way for remote participants to feel like part of a race. The new Virtual TXT service helps to bring more connectivity with your virtual participants. There are two general ways you can use the new TXT service. Virtual add-on to […]
Rhode Races & Events hosts a series of five race experiences in scenic view locations in the Rhode Island area. This event series provide a backdrop of water views framed by race management perfection. Each event offers a half marathon and three events also offer a full marathon and 5K. Participants have the option to […]
We have enhanced the Profile Results view to enable participants to download a CSV of all of their results.
We have made a nice little addition to the Results Widget, with the option to add a custom button at the bottom with a link. This is useful for timers who are moving to RunSignUp, but may have legacy results on another website or there may be another website with other results. Create a Widget […]
Todd Spears of Agape Timing has taking the Video Results in a new direction with 360 degree video cameras. Click on the “Video” link on one of the finishers for the Eagle Scholarship 5K. View it on a phone or iPad so you can get the 360 effect by moving your phone around at different angles. […]
We released this in a number of phases over the past month, but it is a good example of how we are committed to our User Experience Manifesto of making the best user experience for race directors and participants. The new main table is cleaner with new typography for easier reading/scanning and brings a fresh […]
We have improved the look and feel of the footer below the Results Table: Can you guess what is next? Yep, the Results Header will be updated pretty soon 🙂
We have released the new User Experience (UX) for viewing individual results: If the individual has a profile photo, then it will appear as well: (BTW, that photo is of Meredith Klein, our UX Engineer who designed this new page!) We have some more improvements coming on Results, so stay tuned! P.S. Just to remind […]
“Being able to share my race experience with my family and others with an improved level of detail via RaceJoy was pretty awesome.” Rob Gomez On May 14, Rob Gomez, placed first and won the Maine Coast Marathon with a finish time of 2:34 averaging 5:54 minute miles. Rob’s time would have been even less […]
We have improved the Results display on mobile phones to include a new drop-down for different result sets – like Overall and age groups. See the example below:
We have added the capability to upload results automatically via Dropbox. This enables timers to have their results automatically synced to RunSignUp every minute if changes have happened to the result file. The basic mechanism to implement this is: Connect your Dropbox account to RunSignUp in the RunSignUp Dashboard. This will create a special RunSignUp […]
The Race Director is one of the two leading scoring packages used by timers, along with RunScore. Both offer tight integration with RunSignUp – bi-directionally syncing participant information, posting results, sending TXT notifications of results, etc. One of the features we built in RaceDay Results (aka RunSignUp Results – the ones that show up as […]
This past weekend the Kensington Marathon in Milford, Michigan offered RaceJoy as part of its service for participants and spectators. Runners and supporting friends and family were treated to RaceJoy’s advanced GPS tracking, every mile progress alerts and cheers. In addition, the race delivered scored results through RaceJoy providing participants with quick and convenient access to […]
We have released a new capability to include RunSignUp’s RaceDay Results in the RaceJoy App automatically. This means any race where the timer is uploading results (either automatically from The Race Director or RunScore or Agee Timing or manually uploading CSV result files), the results will appear within seconds in runner and spectators RaceJoy apps. […]
The Shipyard Maine Coast Marathon will be held this weekend, Friday, May 13th through Sunday, May 15th, at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. The race offers a variety of course options, including a marathon, a half marathon, a half marathon relay and a back-to-back 39.3 Mile Challenge. Both are sold out with […]
RaceTec is an advanced race scoring and results platform developed by Graeme Vincent. It is widely used around the world for large and small races across many race types. It is known for many advanced features and instant web-based results. RaceTec has done an integration with RunSignUp so that timers can easily sync participant information. […]
Following up on our earlier post about licensing music for events, a number of timers and race directors use our Video Results. When they upload their video to YouTube, there is a chance that there is music in the background. In the past YouTube might shut down the video, but it looks like they have […]
Someone just pointed out that we did not have Event Name as a field on the Finisher Certificate. Now we do 🙂
We have added a button to the Results page to make it simpler for participants to get in touch with the race and timer: By default this will bring up a page to enter their bib number and their question. This email is sent to the Race Director and the Timer set in the first […]
This past weekend, the Alamo 13.1 in Texas and the Excalibur 10 Miler in Florida offered RaceJoy to their participants and supporting spectators. Participants and spectators at both events had access to RaceJoy’s advanced features: The Alamo 13.1 offered free live runner tracking along the course, GPS-based progress alerts at every mile, and cheers – […]
We found a nice Chrome Kiosk App that will allow timers to use Chrome as a web browser in a kiosk mode. This means any Chromebook or Netbook will be able to be in a secure and simplified kiosk mode instead of having the complexity of a full browser for users. Here is a demo […]
Finishing Breast Cancer and Connecting Family and Friends. RaceJoy’s live tracking and cheer experience was provided to all 26.2 with Donna race participants and their supporting families and friends courtesy of SpectraShield. An early adopter of the RaceJoy technology, the 26.2 with Donna helped fuel RaceJoy’s launch and continued growth to close to 200,000 downloads […]
We have added split times to the Results Kiosks app. This means timers who are uploading splits for longer or lap races will be able to show participants their splits along the way. You can see how to set up timing points in The Race Director here. The results will show up in the regular […]
We have released the Results Kiosk App on the Web. There are also versions available in the Apple and Android stores. Make sure to watch for updates and download them. This is a multi-platform App – meaning it runs as a native Apple, Android or Web application (http://results.runsignup.com). So you can mix and match Tablets […]
This last weekend’s Space Coast Marathon and Half Marathon in Cape Canaveral, Florida offered participants some serious medal bling, a fun venue and the latest in race day technology with RaceJoy. The Space Coast Marathon has been a long-standing local favorite and has grown in popularity as a destination race attracting people from across the […]
In its 38th year, the Cape Cod Marathon Weekend delivered an innovative race experience to race participants and their supporting fans with RaceJoy. Hosted by Falmouth Track Club, the race is put on by runners who know what runners truly want in a race experience. The race organizers provided RaceJoy’s full premium experience as a […]
This past weekend at the Prairie Fire Marathon was the first race in Kansas to offer RaceJoy’s mobile experience. Thanks to race organizers and Fidelity Bank, people were treated to a very unique race experience that included all RaceJoy’s bells and whistles! From official race timed alerts to live phone tracking and cheers, the Prairie […]
The Queen Bee Half Marathon, a women’s half marathon located in Cincinnati, Ohio, offered two ways to track runners at their race this weekend, including official race-timed alerts in their mobile app and GPS live tracking with progress alerts in RaceJoy’s mobile app. Race organizers are the same organizers of the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon […]
Live Leaderboards allow you to set up kiosks or Internet connected TV’s to display live leaderboards. This allows runners to see results quickly and conveniently. For example (yes, that is our CTO who finished 9th): As soon as results are fed to RunSignUp, they are available to be displayed on the Live Leaderboard. If your […]
At RunSignUp, we’re technology nerds. We love thinking of – and then creating – fancy new features and functionality, but in a vacuum that technology is useless. Andy Harris from Columbus Running Company gave a great presentation at the 2015 RunSignUp Race Director/Timer Symposium on harnessing technology options to make your race stand out. Topics covered […]
RunSignUp Partners with RaceJoy for GPS Runner Tracking Strategic Partnership for Next Generation Race Experience February 5, 2015 – Moorestown, NJ– RunSignUp, the leading industry innovator for race events, timing service providers, running stores and clubs, announces its strategic partnership with RaceJoy, the industry’s premium mobile and runner tracking solution. RunSignUp and RaceJoy have a […]
Alan Jones has updated the Age Grade Tables, and they have been approved by USATF. RunSignUp has updated these calculations in our system, so that future calculations will use this. Old results uploads will use the old tables. If you are not familiar with age grading, you should really look into it – your older runners will […]
Alan Jones made the following presentation at the ChronoTrack Conference in January, 2015. It reviews the new RunScore Results and other topics like enhancements to RunScore, additional integrations and most importantly the future of RunScore and the new advisory board. http://www.runscore.com/Downloads/RunScore2015.pdf
