Product Summary

Rally Scoring© is a computer software running in Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.  It is used to compile results of car rallies using an intelligent "user friendly" interface to speed up results output and minimize errors. An expert system also helps finding hidden errors.

Results can be printed in many formats anytime during a rally using simple's menus. They can be shown on a screen, published on the Web and printed in small typeface so many cars and stages can figure on the same page, or in larger typeface to allow for easy reading from a distance when posted on walls.

For more details on the various types of result forms available, click on: Generic report, FIA report, USA specific and Graph.  A database format (CSV) and Excel is available for most of the report.  Look at the Excel spreadsheet with the Speed Factor.

To be able to output detailed reports, check point times must be entered on specific form that have been created to suit the time cards used by the different organization. Click here to see the various forms.

Time can also be import from various electronic clock files.  Validation is applied on those values to remove errors.  Many different formats are supported.  At the moment code is ready for Alpha, ECM clock, South Africa clocks grid and others but other kind of data files can be added.

In order to achieve fast and efficient output, the software "knows" the features of rally scoring.  An "artificial intelligence" has been added to the software but certain parameters still need to be set up.  Click here to look at the set-up.

Many different reports and listings have to be made to help running efficiently the rally.  Click here to look at them.  You can also look at some current results to see the actual output on the web.

Many different listings have to be made to create start orders. Click here to see the tools.

Here are some of the main features of the software:

• Software computes ALL timing data: road penalties, maximum times, early times and others. There is absolutely no hand calculation. Data can be fed directly through time devices.
• The data entry interface looks like the "time cards" used by competitors. It is type selectable for USA, FIA, Canada, Targa and TSD events (FIA Alternative Energies Cup), and makes data entry a lot less error prone since card and screen look the same. The operator just needs to "match" what he sees on a card.
• Time is entered in the original format, i.e. "arrival time", "start time" and "end time". In fact, the only data that needs to be entered is the "end time" since the software already has an "intelligent knowledge" of the two other times. The expected time is shown on the screen and the operator only has to press "." to confirm it.
• The software can differentiate between 1:03 and 10:30 using active data entry recognition.  This means that only three keys need to be pressed most of the time.
• The data entry interface immediately shows road penalties and stage times as they are calculated. An error message appears when the data entered does not match the supposed time.  A pop-up window immediately tells when the operator enters a start time identical as somebody else’s, or when a time entry is less than the previous one.
• With this kind of efficient data entry, there is not need to have times radioed in advance to get quick results. Data entered directly from the time cards are less error prone. As soon as the data for the first 10 cars are in, the operator can press a button to get the winner. The software also works very well at headquarters when times are sent often by time control
• The program read many different electronic clock format.  Those files containing many times or a single check point data (check point number, car number and time) can be sent by email, upload on FTP or simply place on a USB key.  No need to type anything.  The program still do validation for the data same as the manual process.
• The software has been adapted to the various timing systems: US (hundredths of minute), FIA (tenths of second), Canada (seconds) and Barbados (hundredths of second).
• The software checks for unusual results like: a 10th place car that is suddenly winning a stage, or a stage winner that is 10% faster than the second fastest, etc.
• One FIA, one National and two Regional/Club championships are supported in the same "file". There is no need to output separate results. You just click to select the championship you want. The regional championship can be stop and restart in the middle of the rally while the National continue and the instant result still work. 
• Most computers can be used for data entry and there is no need for a server as the software uses a synchronization process to merge the data. Thus, nobody is dependent on anybody else.  And if all computers ever crash except one, you can continue on that one without loosing any time. That is real redundancy.
• As well, most computers can show instant results to the press, competitors, officials and the public. Results can be presented in FIA format or in Rally Scoring© format and they are identical as the organizer’s official results.
• The software supports multiple route books. A rally can thus head in four different directions.
• A Graph can be produced for position changes, which is an easy way to visualize changes from one stage to the other. You do not have to analyze the numbers because the graph will tell at a glance. Other graphs show position changes with differences in percentiles or using "Speed factor".
• Automatic Internet uploading and downloading is also possible meaning that computers anywhere in the world can show and print the same results as the headquarters.
• Automatic live updating on the Web can be done without a webmaster’s help. The software creates both main page and progressive results in HTML and downloads to the web every minute.
• Support 160 cars and 150 check points.
• Compile TSD rally with mix of stages.
• Compile Targa Rally with 40 different base times, 40 different trophy times, 60 stages and 160 cars.

Rally Scoring© software is the only one in the world providing live results on screen, on paper and on the Internet even with all the limitations imposed in North America. Here is a rally situation where the software performed with great success:

• 126 cars.

• Three different championships.
• There was no time transmission by radio or phone.
• Scoring done at service stops using competitor's time cards
• Only four persons used to:
  • pick-up time cards
  • enter times
  • validate and file time cards and log sheets
• Results printed for the board, posted on the web and distributed to competitors
• Direct response to time enquiries from competitors
• Numerous setups of computer equipment
• Updating results on the Web
• Full results books produced as soon as they became official
• Work done outside on two picnic tables

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Need help with your scoring ?

• Rally Scoring Service can assist  you with the scoring of your rally
• You can use the Rally Scoring program for $80.00 US
  • Valid only for 1 event.
  • Full support for 2 weeks before the event (phone and / or remote assistance using program as TeamViewer)
  • Need to practice with dry run before the event.  Use for the first time while the rally is going need to be supervised by me.  It can be done easily with a remote acces program like Teamviewer.

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