The race catalogue

The race catalogue is a shared list of race formats — a name, a distance, a track, a number of athletes per heat — delivered to every computer with the shared data. It is a starting point for creating a race of the event, which you then complete in its form. It contains no rules: no heat formation, no seeding, no points.

1. “From the race catalogue”: the shared list, for the event's sport and discipline.
2. The catalogue rows, from the shortest distance to the longest.
3. Add creates the event's race.
4. The race created: name, distance, track and heat size come from the catalogue; no gender, no point table, and the “Mode” is the catalogue's until you choose a model in the form.

Where an event's races come from

Each event has its own races. They are created in three ways, in the Races tab, Add bar:

When an event is created, the Create the races of the template box of its form creates all the race types of the chosen template at once.

Where the catalogue comes from

The catalogue is part of the shared data, like the countries, the clubs, the categories or the federations' templates. ChronoFEED keeps it up to date and sends it to every computer in a signed package; your computer receives it:

• at start-up, if Check the common data over the internet at start-up is ticked (Settings › Database);
• when you ask for it: HelpUpdate shared data… menu.

EVENT only reads the catalogue: there is no screen to change it, and what you change in a race of the event never changes it.

What a row contains

Name

The name offered in the list and given to the race created (“1000 m”).

Sport, discipline

To offer only the event's rows (see below).

Race mode

Shown in the Mode column as long as the race has no model.

Distance

The distance of the race created.

Track length, start line

Default values, as a last resort (see “What you can change”).

Number of laps

Shown when neither the distance nor the track allows it to be computed.

Athletes per heat (minimum, maximum)

The heat size of the race created.

Which rows the list offers

Only the rows of the event's sport and discipline (event form) are offered, plus the rows that do not specify them. An event with neither sport nor discipline sees the whole catalogue. The list is sorted by distance, then by name.

What “Add” does

• the row's name, made unique within the event (“1000 m”, otherwise “1000 m (2)”);
• the distance and the formula variable (“t1000”);
• the heat size (minimum and maximum);
• a link to the catalogue row, which still gives default values as long as the form has none;
• no gender, no category, no model, no point table: the race is open to everyone and the template's seeding applies.

The addition is written to the event log.

What you can change

Everything, in the race form (the name, the distance and the approximate time also directly in the list). What you type in the race always takes precedence over the catalogue:

Examples

Invented data: the Coupe des Érables, speed skating, long track.

1. A standard distance

The catalogue offers, among others:

You choose “1000 m”, then Add: the race “1000 m” appears, distance 1000, heat 2, track · start 400 · 200. In its form, you choose the gender Women, the category Senior, the model Pairs and the point table Cup, and you rename it “1000 m Women Senior”.

2. The same distance twice

You add “1000 m” again: the new race is called “1000 m (2)”. You rename it directly in the list “1000 m Men Senior” and give it the gender Men in its form.

3. Another track

The Club Vitesse Aurore races on a 333.33 m oval. You add “1500 m” (track 400, line 300 in the catalogue) and type 333.33 in Track length (m): the catalogue's line, meant for 400 m, is no longer used; it is computed (166.68 m) and the preview under the oval says so.

4. A distance missing from the catalogue

The catalogue has no 700 m. Take Empty race, type 700 in the distance: the track comes from the context, the start line is computed and the suggested approximate time is 2:00.