Check Start Times vs. Contest is a helpful tool to find participants who started in a contest other than the one they registered for. In particular when using Raw Data Mode, these may have no times in their results at all because all raw data detections are filtered due to the wrong contest. In consequence it would be difficult without this tool to find these participants.

Preconditions

Please consider the following preconditions for the tool to work:

• The timing system is running on time of day
• Start times will be kept
• The result that holds the start time is selected as Start Result in the Contest Settings.

What you see

• Underneath the headline with the name of the contest, those participants are listed that are registered for that contest, but started probably in another contest.
• The area with gray background color shows the time span the majority of participants needed to complete the proposed contest.
• The red bar, on the contrary, shows the time span of the contest the participant is actually registered for.
• The vertical lines show the participants' chip reads. The legend at the bottom of the screen shows which color belongs to which timing point.
• If there are many reads of the same chip with only small gaps in between, the reads may appear like a bar.

Making changes

You can either change the contest of the participant or change the status (for example to DSQ). When clicking on the bib number, the Participants Window shows on the right side of the screen and you can check the Raw Data in detail before making any changes.