How the Pros Work
StageRace was specifically designed to cooperate with
electronical timing devices such as photo finish or
transponder systems in the administration of road cycling
events.
Set-Up
The diagram below illustrates how the timing of such
events would be set up in the case of a photo finish
system being used.
Photo Finish Processing
One work station (on the right) is dedicated to the
capturing of images from the finish camera(s) that
is/are aligned on the finish line.
The station also is responsible for the time base relating
captured images to the start time of the event with
the required accuracy.
Photo Finish Judgement
Acquired images are stored in a shared medium, allowing
a second work station (in the middle) to start judging
the finish film while it is still being under recording
by the first work station.
The second work station provides the ranking that results
from the judgement.
Classification Generation
The third work station (on the left) has processed
competitor names, signed out competitors and intermediate
sprints already long before it uses the ranking from
the second work station. At this point, only group
times and other jury decisions have to be applied after
which all publications are generated.
The jury is given a hard copy for them to examine the
outcome. If these papers are approved, they are autographed
by the jury member that is responsible on the site.
This autographed copy is held by the administration
staff or the signatory, to be handed to the president
of the jury, later.
Approved classifications are posted on a web server.
Also another hard copy is made, which will be provided
to the organiser of the event for multiplication and
distribution.
Work stations are being merged or added based on the
composition of the timekeeping staff and the type of
the event.
StageRace
The Classification generation work station mainly uses
the StageRace administration software. For the rest,
some small tools are available, of which some will
communicate with StageRace in real-time.
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