FreestyleResults
FreestyleResults.com is FREE service to organize freestyle kayaking competitions. It includes all required features to run the competition. Just create competition, add events to the competition, accept registrations, and input scores. Results are publishes automatically in various formats: live results online, pdf documents, optimized for video streaming.
Contact information
Kari Nykänen
Email: k_nykanen @ hotmail.com
Software updates:
08.09.2024 - Bug fix: Upload of athletes has been fixed. New feature: score calculator is available at home page for learning purposes.
31.08.2024 - New feature: start lists for live video stream.
20.04.2024 - Bug fix. Live results were showing empty for the run (total was ok) if the first run was 0 points.
03.03.2024 - This is major upgrade. Core engine is still the same reliable score calculator,
but now we have number of new features that help to run the competition.
Known bugs 31.08.2024:
If you assign all bibs at the same time (menu opton: Assign BIB numbers to athletes) before you shuffled the run order, then the 'Next' button results error when you input results. I'll fix this after 15.9.2024
Features
Technical requirements for competition organizer to use the service
Best effort has been made to optimize the user interface for mobile phones (Android, iPhone), so tablets and personal computers work for sure. However, some interfaces, especially for competition organizer, are best with tablet or PC. Live scoring has been optimized only for tablets.
It is recommended to use latest version of the Chrome, as it has been used during the developments and testing. User interface 'should' work with other browsers, but better to test first. Your browser settings must allow coockies if you are organizer, scribe, or judge of the competition.
Features:- Availabe free of charge. Currently hosting fee is paid by volunteers from Finland.
- The service is available 24/7. No changes are made just before and during scheduled competitions.
- Mobile optimized - works really well on a mobile phone.
- You can create a competition and maintain its information.
- Athletes can use registration form to enter to the competition.
- Organizer can add and remove athletes.
- Adding a sports club.
- Draw competition numbers
- Divide competitors into groups.
- Enter competition results (1-3 judges/scribes).
- Score calculation according to the ICF rules in the different stages of the competition (preliminaries, 1/4 semifinals, quarterfinals and final).
- Score calculator in various formats: list of moves, layout used by Kayak Freestle App, and tablet optimized live scoring
- During the competition, results are published in real-time. 'Live Results' button is automatically acivated for the competition.
- Publishing the results in the FreestyleResults service.
- Results as PDF files.
- You can attach an image to the front page of the PDF printouts, e.g. the logos of the association, club or sponsors.
- Real-time results for video streaming with green and transparent background.
- Support for multiple languages. Currently English and Finnish, easy to add a new language.
- Create series of of competitions (e.g. cup) and calculate points for athletes (still work in progress to improve functionality)
- Share organizer rights to another user.
- Organizer can login with Google account or create own account.
- Scribe and judge can login with the access key created by the organizer of the competition.
- Upload athletes and events from CSV file
- Installing and using the service from a local computer and synchronizing registrations and results with FreestyleResults.com (still work in progress to improve functionality)
- For the live streaming you have start lists and results
Credits
Hosting fee for the year 2024 has been paid by organizers of the Suomi Cup competitions.
This software has been used in nine national competitions during 2022-2023 in Finland, including Finnish Championchips. I have got valuable feedback from competition organizers (and also using it myself to organise competitions), scrips and judges. This has been tremendous help to develop current version of the service. Hope you like, and feedback is always welcome.
This service would be very different without open source software which is available free of charge. Following open source software components have been used to offer the service: