Originally Posted by
Surefire
Absolutely a great contest!
Yeah, sure, you only say that because you came in first! :-)
Originally Posted by
Surefire
Many thanks to the Woodland -Davis club and Larry our CD who kept it all moving smoothly.
Indeed! A really awesome contest and I can't think of a 6 round contest where I was able to leave after awards, packing up, etc. by 1:03pm!
Originally Posted by
Surefire
Peter Vogel's scoring system is working better and better as he refines it. I only heard two cries of "Peter!" all weekend!
Thanks! I was very pleased with how the system worked this time around, the new controllers are much better and actually charge the iPhone while they, themselves are charging, a huge improvement over the other ones I was using. Not as flexible in terms of giving me extra buttons for advanced features (like marking box violations) but I hadn't figured out how to bubble that out to the score print out anyway. There were NO app crashes this time around, the only issues were:
1 -- if you swipe down from the very top of the screen (i.e. on the contestant selector screen) it invokes the Apple system notification center (with stock prices, etc.) and there's no way for me to suppress that. One judge ran into it once causing a minor delay between two pilots.
2 -- if you accidentally push the home button and then resume the patternscoring app I lose some of the db connection data that the app gets when it first starts up and things get confused. This generally requires me to reboot to be sure the app is fully closed out and then restart the app to get the connection data back. No scores are harmed in this process but it does cause an annoying delay. I'll spend some time on that between now and the next contest.
When I set out on this path, I said I'd know I'd achieved success if I could judge a round while also serving as scorekeeper without letting the scoring get behind. This contest, I judged two rounds!
Peter+