I was very happy with ASUs change to deck seeding procedures at this years nationals. Allowing check in the day before and having heat sheets ready the next morning made for a much better meet (in my opinion). I spoke to quite a few others that liked it as well, anyone else have a different experience?
this may be a very silly suggestion, as I wasn't there, didn't do that, don't really have a picture in my head of what was going on... but here goes...
instead of having internet checkins and paper checkins why don't you just set up a computer (or two) at the meet and have everyone check in via the internet whether they are 3,000 miles away or 3 feet away. No need to try to 'merge' two different checkin systems.
an alternative to the "paper" checkin... use scanable documents at the meet (those things that you bubble in while taking tests) The sheets come in many standard configurations (cheapest way) or they could be designed and printed anyway the committee wants with the actual events printed on them. The scanner could scan the document and enter the data right into the computer data base. (As a graduate research assistant I use to work with NCS scanners and helped to design some custom documents)
Lainey
this may be a very silly suggestion, as I wasn't there, didn't do that, don't really have a picture in my head of what was going on... but here goes...
instead of having internet checkins and paper checkins why don't you just set up a computer (or two) at the meet and have everyone check in via the internet whether they are 3,000 miles away or 3 feet away. No need to try to 'merge' two different checkin systems.
an alternative to the "paper" checkin... use scanable documents at the meet (those things that you bubble in while taking tests) The sheets come in many standard configurations (cheapest way) or they could be designed and printed anyway the committee wants with the actual events printed on them. The scanner could scan the document and enter the data right into the computer data base. (As a graduate research assistant I use to work with NCS scanners and helped to design some custom documents)
Lainey
