Starts and the race clock

The Starts panel shows the selected event’s waves. They can come ready from the web admin (Starts (waves)) or be created here.

Creating or editing a start

1. In the Starts panel, click + (Create new start) — or Create first start if there is none.
2. In the New Start window, fill in Name (for example, “Start 1”) and Order.
3. Leave Start time empty to fire it with the button on the spot. To record a start that already happened, type the time (HH:MM:SS) or use Now, −10s, −30s, −60s or −5 min.
4. If the event has a time limit, fill in Time limit (minutes).
5. Tick the Linked age groups for this start.
6. Click Create Start (or Save Changes when editing).

On the start’s row, the pencil (Edit start) reopens the window and the trash icon (Delete start) removes it.

Firing and stopping

• Click the start’s play button (Start) at the gun. The clock starts running and the event becomes Racing.
• Started: and the time appear next to it. Double-click the time to clear the start.
• When everyone has finished, click Stop.
• Starting again a start that was already started asks for confirmation: the clock restarts from zero.

Caution

Each athlete’s time is counted from their own start’s time. Firing the wrong wave or clicking late changes the time of everyone in that wave. If it happens, fix the Start time under Edit start.

Time limit (OTL)

With a time limit, the start shows the window (Limit: X after 1st or Limit: X of racing) and the countdown: waiting for start, waiting for 1st, … left and, at the end, TIME LIMIT REACHED.

• A finish recorded after the limit is saved as OTL, with the message Time recorded OVER the limit — saved as OTL.
• Once the limit is reached, the Mark N pending as OTL button closes everyone still in the water at once. Only pending entries in this start are affected — DNS, DSQ and withdrawals stay as they are.

Starts cannot be created, edited or deleted while the event is official.