All of this is on the website, under Events. An event is the occasion as a whole; its races go inside it, and entries go into those.
Do it in this order. Each step needs the one above it to exist.
- The event
- Its races
- Wave starts — the guns
- Categories
- Timing points — which box is standing where
- Entrants
1. The event
Events, then New event. It wants a name, and optionally a venue. The two date boxes are when the event opens and closes.
Every time in Podium is the local wall clock the readers are on, never UTC. That is what a chip read carries, so that is what everything is judged against. The zone is on the event header and it is worth checking before anything else — an event judged in the wrong zone is wrong by hours with nothing on the page to show it.
Pick the age basis now. age on race day or age at 31 December. It decides how age categories are worked out and it is a property of the event.
Press Create.
2. Races
On Race setup, the Races card. Name it, optionally give it a distance in metres, and set the window it runs in.
The race window is not the gun. It is the span the race could possibly be timed in. Only reads inside it are scored, and a finisher arriving after it closes is discarded as though the box never reported. Leave it generous.
Click a race to open it and choose how it is scored:
- Standard — first over the finish. This is most races.
- Laps to a count — first to complete a set number of laps.
- Laps in a time — most laps inside a set period. A twelve hour event is
12:00.
Ranked on decides what the placings are worked out on — gun time, chip time, adjusted time for a handicap, order across the line, or points. Leave it on Default for the format unless you want something specific.
A criterium is Standard. Laps there are counted so you can see who was lapped, but the placings are still finish times.
3. Wave starts
See Wave starts — the gun. Nothing is timed until a race has a gun.
4. Categories
See Categories.
5. Timing points
See Timing points. Until a box is standing somewhere, every read it takes is just a chip that went past something.
6. Entrants
See Entrants, numbers and chips.
Before the gun
The Not ready card on Race setup is the check that matters. It lists the two ways somebody silently gets no result at all: no chip, and no number. Clear both before the start.
A number can be given at any time and the race scored again. A chip belongs on the person before they start.
"I made an event and cannot find it on the public site"
Look at the state beside it in the event list. no races means there is nothing in it. not public means it has races but every one has had public unticked — races are public from the start, so that was done on purpose. An event with no public race is deliberately absent from the public results rather than listed and empty. See Results and publishing.
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