OEHeats

Knockout Sprint using OEHeats

Using OEHeats V.12.1 you can organise Knockout Sprints now.
Knockout Sprint is an official IOF discipline now and part of the Sprint WOC. More and more countries introduce this format as a race of their national championships. Also other Knockout Sprint competitions are held to prepare the athletes for the WOC.
This year I was in contact with some organisers of KO sprints about how to do it best in OE12, with or without the help of OEHeats. Finally this was the motivation for me to implement this into OEHeats.
With OEHeats it is possible to combine both the “normal” Qualification/Final event type and the KO sprint. In some countries this is handled as following. The Elite classes (maybe not only W/M 21 but also 16, 18 and/or 20) have a qualification race and then the KO sprint. All other classes have the normal Qualification/Final mode with several final heats. OEHeats fulfils the standard KO format defined by the IOF, which means 36 competitors qualifiy for the KO quarter final. Then you have 6 heats in the quarter final, 3 heats in the semi final and a final race with the best 6 competitors. In addition to that, OEHeats offers more flexibility. This means that you can define for every class individually where the KO race should start. If there are less than 36 finishers in the qualification, a class can also start directly with the semi finals or even with the final, with any number of competitors.
OEHeats offers an easy-to-use management of the start times of the KO heats. It happens very often that the previously planned time table does not fit to the reality. In OEHeats you can change every heat start time with a single mouse click. The IOF has defined a special overall result format for KO sprints. This is implemented in OEHeats.

OEHeats will detect this update automatically. You can also use the Check for updates function to download the new setup. Updates or new licenses can be ordered through the Online shop or from the author directly.

Updates of OE12, OS12, OEScore, ChipReader and OEHeats

OE12 V.12.1 has been improved by many new features.
The SportIdent Center result web service is supported now. This is the results web portal of the SportIdent manufacturer. You can upload the results there. This portal offers enhanced features for split times analysis. The map and the courses can be uploaded directly out of OCAD and be displayed there. OE12 also supports the radio punches of the SportIdent LTE modems which can be downloaded into OE12 via the SportIdent Center.
The new option Time taking only, no code checking in the Event settings is designed to improve the support of non-O competitions. It disables the (orienteering) code checking in the Read chips function. There are also new report layouts to support these competitions which have much fewer intermediate times than an orienteering competition. Since at such competitions the chips do not need to be downloaded in the finish, because the intermediate times had already been sent by the radio controls, there is a new result report available which displays these radio times. This report can also be used for orienteering events.
A special improvement for WREs are the new introduced extra fields for the IOF rankings. This allows to presort for the start list draw by IOF and national rankings for different classes in the same event. More, the start list draw offers both sort orders (ascending or descending) for the presorting now.
The uploads to the Eventor web service have been adapted to recent internal changes of this service. Especially the uploads of WRE results to IOF Eventor have been improved.
With the Emit chip system, the new eScan2 device is supported now.
The Http access functions have been re-engineered. These are the functions which communicate directly with web servers out of the application. Examples are the Web functions (Eventor, ORIS, ol-events.ch, SICenter) and the Speaker Client Web (ROC, Emit, SICenter). The reliablilty and the performance have been improved a lot by this re-engineering.

Some minor bug fixes and small but important improvements with the UI have been done also.

 

OS12 V.12.1, OEScore V.12.1, ChipReader V.12.1 and OEHeats V.12.1 have been updated accordingly.

 

OE12, OS12, OEScore and OEHeats will detect this update automatically. You can also use the Check for updates function in all applications to download the new setup. Of course you could also click on the Downloads button to get it.
As usual, the download works as trial version as long as you don’t have a valid V12 license. Updates or new licenses can be ordered through the Online shop or from the author directly.

OEHeats V12 published

OEHeats is an add on for OE12 which helps you in organising events with qualification and final races. It supports both the “normal” way with two single-day competitions as well as the WMOC-model where the qualification consists of 2 stages. More, OEHeats allows to integrate the qualifications/finals completely into a multiday event.
Now OEHeats is available in V.12.1 which works together with the new OE12 V.12.1. This new version is just an update to the new user interface, the new data structure and some improved algorithms “below the surface” of the SportSoftware V12.

If you need more information about OEHeats, please look at the OEHeats page. You can also download the PDF handbook from the V12 download page.

Updates can be ordered through the Online shop or from the author directly.