[Dean]

While Scott is right, the complexity of Solo timing and scoring is non trivial, we really could use some help!

Using the software is actually not that hard if you can type, and not want to bash the keyboard to hard when it does something stupid.

If you want to understand why this topic brings the three of us to a boil so quickly, I encourage you to voulenteer for T&S duty.

Get to the event early, and get your name down next to timing computer, timing paper or cone count.

You want to go above and beyond, take the initiative, and come out and learn to set up the lights, PA and so forth.

The more people that know how to do this stuff, the easier it is on event days for all of us.

If you want to help out on coding the scoring software, you have to understand the timing system first, and then the "rules" for scoring. Take a look at our supplemental regulations if you want to get your hands dirty.

If we actually have some interest, I would be happy to teach a T&S "class" before one of our meets. Say 6PM at Bully's some week.

We really would like more people who can see, think, react, and type working in the bus. Right now during some run groups, it is a refuge for people who don't want to, or can't work the course, and have marginal abilities to do some of the above list, and it kills us when it comes time to produce results in a timely manner.

If we could get a core 10 or so people who actually knew the system, and could operate many if not all of it's real time features, many of our reruns, missed cones, and other BS in T&S would magically disappear, and we would make that position one that you had to be pre approved to sign up for, kind of like safety steward.

So, if you want to help out, Step Up. Otherwise, you got no rights to complain about how long it takes us to publish results.