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Good afternoon everyone,
What a weird month it has been. I hope everyone is staying safe and making the best of this
crazy situation. I have good days and bad days. Going for a run helps. So does digging into
code and building new features. Everything will be back to normal at some point, and the key
is to be as prepared as possible when the restart comes.
To help with your own preparation for the resumption of our sport, we will be offering a
series of "Learn AthleticLIVE" webinars that explain how to use all of AthleticLIVE's
features. Join us on Wednesday evenings starting on April 29 at 8PM ET.
We'll start with the basics, then head into our deep featureset
to show all the cool extras you can offer your meets in addition to standard entries and
results. Webinars will last around an hour, give or take 15 minutes.
Here are the dates and topics of the first 4 webinars. More details are available in the body
of this email. We will be adding more webinars in the near future.
If you have a topic you'd like us to cover, please let me know.
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April 29, 8PM ET - Track and Field Basics: Create an AthleticLIVE Meet and connect HyTek and FinishLynx
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May 6, 8PM ET - FinishLynx Fun: Splits, Live Standings, and Qualifiers
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May 13, 8PM ET - Advanced Features: Protest Management, Athletic.net Data, Timer Top 3 Tweets, and more
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May 20, 8PM ET - Automatically export finish line images from FinishLynx as you mark times
I hope to see you at an upcoming webinar. Stay safe!
As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please contact me at
ben@athletic.net.
- Ben
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April 29, 8PM ET - Track and Field Basics
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Learn the basics of uploading meet management data and real-time finish results
to AthleticLIVE. After this webinar, you should be able to provide
amazing live results to your meets.
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Create a meet on AthleticLIVE. Review all of the options timers have when
creating AthleticLIVE meets. We'll run through the entire Create a Meet
form and explain each feature. You'll use some every meet, and
you'll only use others once in a blue moon.
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Upload live results from HyTek. Upload teams, a schedule, and entries
before your meet. Upload results during your meet. If you're not using
FinishLynx, we'll show how you can upload heat-by-heat results for a
more real-time feel.
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Upload real-time results from FinishLynx.
As you mark results in FinishLynx, watch them instantly appear on the live scoreboard.
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May 6, 8PM ET - Real-time FinishLynx Fun
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Learn how to get the most out of FinishLynx and provide true real-time
results to your meets.
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Splits: We'll give a brief overview of how to do splits in FinishLynx
and how they look on the AthleticLIVE real-time scoreboard. We'll also give
tips on how to program your mouse to collect splits more efficiently.
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Compiled results: When you have multi-heat events, show unofficial
results while the event is in progress.
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Real-time qualifiers with bubble time: When you're on a qualifying
event, give everyone up-to-the-second information about current qualifiers
and what an athlete must do to reach qualifying position
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May 13, 8PM ET - Advanced Live Results Features
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There's more to live results than just results. It's about communicating the
current state of every event in your meet. We'll review a few features to
help you bring your live results game to the next level.
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Connect your AthleticLIVE and Athletic.net meets: Show team logos,
athlete PRs/SRs, and relay SRs.
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Protest Management: For large meets, start a protest period when
results are uploaded. If a protest is lodged, change the event status to
"Under Protest". When the protest is resolved, remove the protest status.
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Top 3 Result Tweets: When new results get uploaded, tweet top 3
results to your Twitter account. Allow authorized third-parties to receive
these tweets as well (e.g. meet directors, school athletic accounts).
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Custom Notes: Add a custom note to the meet homepage or any event
page.
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Score Spreadsheets: Get a breakdown of how a team scored its points.
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Records and Record Breakers: View a meet's records and anyone who
broke a record.
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May 20, 8PM ET - Automatically export finish line images
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Show athletes what they looked like the exact millisecond that they crossed the
line! Increase transparency and engagement with finish line images.
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Download AthleticLIVE Local: Our middleware program, AthleticLIVE
Local, must be installed on one of your timing computers.
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Review Settings: We'll explain how to configure your image export
settings to create the perfect image.
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Generate test images: Before turning on image export, make sure
everything is connected correctly.
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Watch it happen: See your images appear on-screen. View athlete
and event finish lines photos after uploading final results.
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Why should I show finish line images?: Many timers are hesitant to
show these images without prior review. We'll explain why you should put
that hesitation to rest.
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