2014 Race Report
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:45 am
Just a quick note.. Thanks to some excellent software support, we had a new build of the software sent to us just 12 hours before our race start time.. working the midnight oil..
This year's race was NEARLY flawless.. Every heat was captured by RaceReplay V3.. RaceReplay never locked up. I compiled a quick video of all of our heats.. In case anyone is interested, here is the link: http://youtu.be/yByoR3fvwvc.
Unlike RRv2 and GPRMv12, race replay didn't crash at all this year!
I did run into two different issues, however. On 3 or 4 occasions, a heat was simply not captured.. the Timer was set (yellow), the start gate was pulled, the cars finished, but GPRM and thusly RaceReplay did nothing.. I just left things alone and we put the same cars back up at the start gate after we reset the start gate, and ran it again.. then everything registered just fine.. I can't point fingers at the cause of the issue; but I can say that it seemed to happen around the same time I started getting antsy and clicking the "next heat" button while the results were still showing from the previous heat (but after racereplay did its thing).. it didn't happen each time I did that.. nor am I sure it only happened after I manually advanced the heats.. but I can say for sure that once I stopped tinkering w/ that button, the problem didn't happen again throughout the remainder of the race events.. In case it isn't obvious, we had the "auto heat advance" feature activated.. Another note on this: I imagine my race replay recordings probably captured these mishaps on tape.. if I dig through my extra long videos, I bet I'd find those heats that ran twice in a row on the same recording.. Not sure what information can be gleamed from that, though.. Let me know if you're interested in seeing those clips.
The other issue was human error.. I forgot to click "passed" on one of the kids that was actually present during the registration process... he got left out of Round 1.. which was a shame.. I could not figure out how to do a "late add" without totally cancelling out my schedule and starting over.. I'm sure this has been discussed before.. unfortunately, the school's guest wifi blocked derbytalk.com.. maybe they thought it was dirtytalk.com or something.. Thus, I couldn't look up a way to fix my issue mid-race.. I ended up just throwing that kid in the finals as an automatic seed.. and I think he ran his car in place of his sibling's during round one.. What is the best way to handle that situation, afterall?
Thanks again!
This year's race was NEARLY flawless.. Every heat was captured by RaceReplay V3.. RaceReplay never locked up. I compiled a quick video of all of our heats.. In case anyone is interested, here is the link: http://youtu.be/yByoR3fvwvc.
Unlike RRv2 and GPRMv12, race replay didn't crash at all this year!
I did run into two different issues, however. On 3 or 4 occasions, a heat was simply not captured.. the Timer was set (yellow), the start gate was pulled, the cars finished, but GPRM and thusly RaceReplay did nothing.. I just left things alone and we put the same cars back up at the start gate after we reset the start gate, and ran it again.. then everything registered just fine.. I can't point fingers at the cause of the issue; but I can say that it seemed to happen around the same time I started getting antsy and clicking the "next heat" button while the results were still showing from the previous heat (but after racereplay did its thing).. it didn't happen each time I did that.. nor am I sure it only happened after I manually advanced the heats.. but I can say for sure that once I stopped tinkering w/ that button, the problem didn't happen again throughout the remainder of the race events.. In case it isn't obvious, we had the "auto heat advance" feature activated.. Another note on this: I imagine my race replay recordings probably captured these mishaps on tape.. if I dig through my extra long videos, I bet I'd find those heats that ran twice in a row on the same recording.. Not sure what information can be gleamed from that, though.. Let me know if you're interested in seeing those clips.
The other issue was human error.. I forgot to click "passed" on one of the kids that was actually present during the registration process... he got left out of Round 1.. which was a shame.. I could not figure out how to do a "late add" without totally cancelling out my schedule and starting over.. I'm sure this has been discussed before.. unfortunately, the school's guest wifi blocked derbytalk.com.. maybe they thought it was dirtytalk.com or something.. Thus, I couldn't look up a way to fix my issue mid-race.. I ended up just throwing that kid in the finals as an automatic seed.. and I think he ran his car in place of his sibling's during round one.. What is the best way to handle that situation, afterall?
Thanks again!