Competition Management
1 Introduction
OpenTrack’s Competition Management System (CMS) is a robust solution for athletics competitions that allows meeting organisers to manage events of any discipline, from small-scale open meetings to major national and international championships.
At OpenTrack, we understand that the sport never stops developing, and so neither does our CMS. Fully documented, and developed with user experience and simplicity in mind, there is no better solution for delivering top-tier competitions.
Key benefits:
- Entry payments are handled automatically and centrally — no chasing late payments!
- Extensive integrations simplify exchanging data with chip timing providers, statistics databases, or photofinish or field results software.
- Volunteers and organisers spend less time on admin, and more time on making competitions happen.
- Anyone can view results quickly and in a convenient format, with results APIs to enable developers to build on top of OpenTrack.
The CMS is a combination of our Results Capture, Entry System and much more.
2 CMS Features in OpenTrack
2.1 Entries
Payments management + customisable pricing
OpenTrack takes care of all the entry payments for you.
You can customise the pricing per event or per club, as well as adding in the option for charity donations or additional purchase such as event t-shirts.
Bulk/team entries
Team managers can make use of the team entry feature and enter many athletes at once across several events with one easy group payment.
Entry restrictions
Entry restrictions can be automatically applied such as the need for a national federation licence, or restricting the entries to only from certain clubs/athletes.
The athlete entry journey can also be customised to include requests for PB/SB performances for seeding and agreements to your competition’s covid restrictions.
2.2 Event customisation
All types of events are covered - from track and field, to relays, to multi-events, to cross country, to road running, even to indoor sports hall or your own custom events!
It’s all taken care of by the OpenTrack events grid.
2.3 Numbering/seeding
Numbering and seeding is all automated for you, with the ability to customise the process and manually override with any changes you want.
2.4 Results capture
Live results
OpenTrack displays results live on the web immediately after they are available. No more waiting around by the noticeboards for paper printouts!
Track races and chip-timed road/cross country races can have their timing files uploaded automatically with photo-finish integration. Field events or manually recorded road/cross country races can be input directly into our system from your mobile phone - available for the public to view immediately!
Chip timing and photo-finish integration
OpenTrack currently has integrations available for the following chip timing and photo-finish systems:
Alge, FinishLynx, Seiko, Swiss Timing, MacFinish / Timetronics, RaceResults, RaceTec
Don’t see your system here? Let us know and we’ll work on implementing it.
Team and combined events scoring
You name it - we’ve coded it! With more than 40 preconfigured team scoring methods and combined events scoring tables readily available in our database, as well as the ability to implement your own custom points scoring formulae, we’ve got you covered.
2.5 Downloadable/printable reports
Powered by our partner company ReportLab, OpenTrack has a vast array of easily accessible download options for all the competition data you might need.
Custom excel spreadsheets, paid entries and financials, start lists, complete results, even field cards for officials.
For our UK users, we also offer a simple xls download ready to go for upload to Power of 10.
2.6 Mailing competitors
Communicate with your entrants directly through the OpenTrack system! All emailing features are included with any competition.