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In addition to the big news that The Race Director has joined forces with RunSignUp, we are also excited to introduce a new offering for Race Director timers – Race Director Go, or RD Go. RD Go allows any Race Director (RD) timer to simply upload results to the web and provide finish notifications to runners and […]
We had a timer mistakenly upload a CSV of results that included the email addresses of participants yesterday. Not a good way to start the New Year! We’ve now added a check when uploading results and try to check if we see email addresses and give a warning. Hopefully this does not happen again!
Here is the latest from Alan Jones on RunScore Results Pre-Release advancements: The latest Version 8.0.0.0u Level 2014.12.21 can be downloaded from (assuming you already have a RunScore install): http://www.runscore.com/Downloads/Beta/RunScoreResultsUpdate.exe. What is working – I hope Have new RunScore Results icon/shortcut thanks to Andrew Sigwart. The main screen now is dark blue so the person […]
Steve Stone of Best Times Event Timing is kind enough to share his experience in setting up for video results. Camera Positioning I think we have final found a good GoPro camera position for filming finish line videos. From the attached picture, you can see that we set up our GoPro in the middle of the […]
We are pleased to announce that RunScore has licensed the RunSignUp Results technology platform to create a new offering for RunScore timers – RunScore Results. RunScore Results allows any RunScore timer to simply upload results to the web and provide finish notifications to runners and their friends without the usual complications. If you know how […]
Thanksgiving has become a big day for races. Just as we are seeing an increase in Thanksgiving Day Races, we believe runner demand for notifications is increasing. Turkey day was also a big day for us to gauge how our new Results 3.0 system is working for customers. A few quick facts: Total RunSignUp Registration for Thanksgiving Day: 184 […]
This Thanksgiving Ron Synup took his GoPro to the Lansing Turkey Trot and filmed the finish line. This is using RunSignUp’s Video Results capability. The top lessons learned: Do not film at super high resolutions and cut down the time that you film. The longer the video and the higher the resolution, the more time […]
We are expanding the Custom Results API to include a mechanism for providing notifications. The concept is that a list of participants can be uploaded to RunSignUp a week or two before a race and participants and their friends and families can then sign up for notifications. When race day comes, the timer will be […]
The Race Director is software many timers use for scoring and timing races. One of the challenges is syncing information from RunSignUp to The Race Director where there are incompatible fields and data. Timers will usually keep very short codes for Giveaways rather than the long descriptions that RunSignUp allows. The Race Director sync utility […]
With the release of RunSignUp Results 3.0, we will be introducing new pricing mechanisms. Races who use RunSignUp for registration will still get free results and notifications. The pricing is really meant to address our customers (especially timers who can not dictate registration providers) who use a mix of registration platforms and want to use […]
RunSignUp Results 3.0 is now released. There are a number of significant improvements over RunSignUp Results 2.0: Improved User Interface and Kiosk for faster Results viewing and searching. Quick Widget for embedding Results in Timer and Race websites. New Pricing to allow non-RunSignUp races to use RunSignUp Results. Improved API and integration with RunScore and […]
We have been doing extensive additions to our Results Posting API in advance of some partners who will be private labeling our results platform. This is especially useful for timers or software developers who are creating their own scoring or timing software. By reusing RunSignUp Results, you can take advantage of our scalable platform with […]
We have added an option to turn off Results Notifications. This is useful for testing results upload out before a race. The setting is in the Race Day -> Results -> SetUp menu page.
Here is a quick (7 minutes) video on how to upload results as well as link YouTube Results video as well. Video results are incredibly easy and inexpensive. You can buy a GoPro camera for as little as $129. Uploading to YouTube is simple and free – and GoPro has software that makes this incredibly […]
We have expanded the Custom Results API and the user interface for displaying custom results. The Custom Results API allows an application to upload results and do custom formatting and upload more generic data. Here is an example used to upload Age Group Results and other Awards from RunScore. There are two key upgrades: Setting Data […]
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This Ford Timing Case Study focuses on Integration with the Race Director, Widgets for existing Websites, and RunSignUp GO features. View the PDF Version of the Ford Timing Case Study […]
We have made a small update to the Race Series Scoring capability. The issue is when two users have been merged by mistake. Here is the scenario: 1. User A has results in Race 1 and Race 3. 2. User B has results in Race 2 and Race 3. 3. Director uploads results for Race […]
In the first weekend after releasing video results, we had at least 4 races use this new feature! For example and example and example. And we got some rave reports: “We added video to two of our results pages from the weekend: super easy to set up on the RSU end (YouTube is another story), and a […]
Time Zone Changes We have deployed an update today (Tuesday, August 19th) that will support Time Zones. This means you can now set the time zone when you create your race – previously, we had shown all times in Eastern Time, which caused confusion over things like registration in California ending at 9PM Pacific because it […]
Matthew Smeltzer of Competitive Timing in Montana gave us a great idea! Tie YouTube videos to your results. For example, upload a video of the finish line to YouTube. After you have uploaded results to RunSignUp, simply edit video settings of which YouTube video, the first person’s time in the video and the offset from the […]
We take pride in our our continual feature development, but it is still really overwhelming to hear our customers talk about how features have changed their workload and driven their businesses. The most amazing thing? Most of these customers also told us that they know they are only using a small percentage of the available features. Just […]
We had a great time over the weekend, collaborating with Race Directors and Timers at our first User Conference/Race Director & Timer Symposium. Everyone brought a huge wealth of knowledge and experience, and shared some really innovative and unique ideas. This is just a little teaser of what you can expect to see. We will be releasing all […]
Timers who use The Race Director can now easily post “preliminary” and “Final” results on RunSignUp. This allows runners to see results as soon as possible, but makes sure everyone knows that they are preliminary. When posting, just remember to click the checkbox on or off depending on what you will need. This is available […]
Want to know who you’ve been talking to or emailing with? We’ve been growing around here, and thought we’d put together a little video to introduce ourselves. In the words of Bob Bickel (If you don’t know who that is, you should probably watch the video), “It’s corny because we’re corny”.
RunSignUp Results has a flexible system for setting up and automatically calculating divisions. The most common type is Age Groups as shown on the right. We just added a Quick Age Group Setup capability (the button on right in the screen shot on the right). You set the lowest age and the highest age and […]
Once results are posted on RunSignUp, you can edit runners as well as add runners. To Delete a runner, simply click on the “X” next to the runner’s name. To Edit a runner, just click on the runner in the results table and you will be able to edit their system. To Add a Runner, […]
The Jersey Shore Grand Prix Series website has the RunSignUp Series Scoring widget right on their site. This makes the information available to their runners fast, and keeps people right on their own website. It also makes it easier for the timer (Elite Racing Systems) to upload results to one place.
Here is a detailed walk through on the race Series Scoring with full size screen shots and descriptions as well as a video. Click here for Race Series Overview. (As a warning, once this is setup and you upload results, it will do the matching and series scoring very quickly as if by magic.) Public […]
We have worked with the Jersey Shore Grand Prix and others to create a very powerful Series Scoring capability in RunSignUp. Here is a link to the video and a fuller explanation. Series Scoring allows race directors and timers to put together their own point system for scoring a series of races. For example, the […]
The Spring Lake 5 Miler launched the Memorial Day weekend “Down the Shore” in New Jersey. Over 10,000 people participated in this race that has been held since 1977. Spring Lake and their timer, Elite Racing Systems, used the RunSignUp Results engine to help deliver results to participants. If you click on Results, it takes you […]
We got some feedback from some timers who are using our Results Kiosk mode after a race so runners can lookup their own results online immediately after a race. We used to remember each person searched for and showed multiple results. We have made a change and if it is an iPad or larger device, […]
We created some new alternatives for the Finisher’s Certificate. Remember that you can upload your own template as well!
RunScore has a nice integration to post Age Group Results on RunSignUp as part of our integration. This is where there is a page that just shows, for example, the top 3 finishers in each age group. This video by Alan Jones shows how simple it is and how RunScore and RunSignUp are tightly integrated.
We have been collaborating with The Race Director and a number of timers to make sure this integration is easy to use and powerful. Chuck Block from Michigan Running Foundation was having an issue where when he chose to score a race by chip time and a runner did not have a chip time due […]
Over the past several weeks we have been improving the TXT and Email Notifications capability of our Results. These improvements make it possible for most races to use RunSignUp Results and Notifications to give their runners near real time result notifications, and are still available for free to races using RunSignUp for registration, but there […]
We’ve made a few changes on Mobile results based on feedback from some timers like Richard Littrell. Keep those suggestions coming! Here are some screen shots:
Jeff Huber of Huber Timing is also a developer. He had developed a Results system that fit his needs and his other software, but he really liked the Finisher Certificates we came up with. So he uploaded his Results to RunSignUp and then generated the Finisher Certificates by iterating thru each results with a program […]
We have started our integration plans with Athlinks. The first step is an easy way to link to the Athlinks results for your page. This is set up simply in the RunSignUp Go section of Results in the RunSignUp dashboard. All you need to do is find your race on Athlinks and enter the URL […]
Xact is one of the leading platforms for real time results reporting and notification. They are an important part of the RunSignUp Go strategy to help bring race day together since they provide a higher level of capabilities than the RunSignUp Results and Notifications system. Xact is well known as the results system behind large […]
RunSignUp Results now supports automatic generation of Finisher Certificates. We use a default certificate that automatically fills in the runner’s name, Race Name, Finish Time, Place, and the logo for the race that was uploaded. An example is on the right. There is no work for the race director to do other than assure the […]
RunSignUp Go Brings Race Day Together with open platform of over a dozen race software solution vendors RunSignup Results 2.0 – State of the Art Results and Notifications RunSignUp is pleased to announce the release of RunSignUp Go and RunSignUp Results 2.0. These advances are based on collaboration with over a dozen technology partners to […]
RunSignUp Go is a strategic effort to help bring race day together for race directors and timers. RunSignUp Go provides an open platform to connect the various parts of race day. This means existing tools and technologies can be tied together, and there is choice and freedom to add and change vendors – whether for […]
Custom URL’s allow you to specify your own web address without having to have your own website – like http://www.runsignup.com/MyRace. We now give you a way to go to specific pages beyond your custom URL. This gives you a nice short address to direct people right to registration or results. For example: https://runsignup.com/rotary8k/results
Alan Jones has written a new manual, complete with example scripts for RunScore users on how to integrate with RunSignUp. Download the RunScore and RunSignUp Integration Manual. This short and simple manual includes information on: Logging into RunSignUp from RunScore Download Event and Participant information from RunSignUp to RunScore Upload Participant information from RunScore to RunSignUp […]
RunSignUp and The Race Director Offer Timers Full Life-Cycle Participant and Result Management Download and Sync Participant Information between RunSignUp and The Race Director at the click of a button Upload Results Automatically to either My-Finish and/or RunSignUp Results Nov. 5, 2013 – Moorestown, NJ and Fremont, MI – RunSignUp and The Race Director are […]
Most race directors hire timers. And all timers have scoring software – most commonly RunScore and Race Director. Those packages are typically used to set up things like age groups so that the top 3 runners in an age group are called out in the results. The example on the right is how RunScore can […]
RunSignUp offers a full set of results posting and display capabilities. Auto-upload from Timer systems like RunScore and Race Director Beautiful, modern look and feel Powerful search Mobile ready Configurable Post on any website via Widget technology Videos: Uploading Pre-formatted Results Uploading and configuring CSV Results Uploading from RunScore Viewing Results Here is a powerpoint […]
We have been giving race directors the ability to add specific people to view different amounts of participant information. We just released an expanded capability that allows race directors to pick each field they want to share with the public, other participants and with Team Captains. This will determine how participants are displayed in the […]
Video replay of our February Webinar. Highlights: Timer – Race Director Collaboration Timing System integration with RunSignUp for Participants and Results Kiosk Race Listings on your Running Store and Club website
This will interest very few people in terms of the technical details, but it is another example of how software providers can use the Open API. We are currently working with a results software company and they want to upload Division Winners and Awards. A common (but complex) example is that the overall Male and […]
