The program is customisable. For a school carnival, schools enter all of their houses, races (athletics or swimming), points details, etc. They type these details once, and the events for the carnival call on them -- creating very efficient and quick data entry.
Student details can be imported from School Administration Systems or individually entered as desired. Students can be pre-entered into events or entered on-the-day as races are run. Times or distances are entered for competitors in each event, and places and points are automatically calculated (across heats if necessary). Generation of finalists (or semi-finalists) into seeded lanes is performed with a click of a button. Age and House champions are automatically calculated and can be viewed at any point of the carnival.
User definable points can
be awarded for each event, and participation points are
also catered for.
Navigation between events
and completion of event results is quick and easy.
The program displays
individual results and both age or date of birth entry
is catered for.
At the NSW Combined
Catholic Colleges State Athletic Carnivals where 150
events are contested by 1300 competitors, a single
Macintosh computer is used to produce a result booklet
distributed to each Diocese upon the Carnival's
completion, which includes event details, age champions
and the final Carnival results.
Holy Spirit College, Bellambi, Carnival Coordinator --
Jan Cleal, has been using the Sports Carnival Program
for both Athletics and Swimming Carnivals for a number
of years. "We import our student details from OASIS and
run a pre-entered carnival. This has been invaluable as
we are able to produce a full carnival program and
marshalling sheets which makes our Officials and House
Patrons very happy. As the sole operator of the
Macintosh computer during the carnival, we are able to
release more staff for other duties during the day.
However, the best feature is that we always present the
awards to our Age Champions and winning house and we
are able to give progressive point score updates during
the Carnival. The program automatically updates our
records and selects our representative team for the
Diocesan Carnival."
Competitors who would represent the school at the next
carnival are also automatically printed, viewed or
exported along with their event details and a letter is
available to each person (if required).
Records are flagged when broken or equalled and the
record information is updated after the carnival with
the click of a button.
Full carnival information can be printed (and/or
viewed). There are both pre and post carnival reports
which include a list of events, carnival booklet
(showing every competitor in every event), marshalling
sheets (completed for pre-entered carnivals and blank
otherwise), full results for every event, male and
female results, carnival results, representing
competitor details, etc.
