ContestManager
ContestManager is a standalone application designed to aid Contest Directors in
keeping track of points at a
National Association of Rocketry (NAR) contest.
The major goal of this project is to relieve many of the tedious
computational tasks such as altitude data reduction and NAR points tabulation.
It is currently available for Windows (95 or later), Solaris, Linux, and any other
platform that supports Java 1.6. Java can be downloaded separately
here.
The National
Contest Board has approved ContestManager files as official results. What this
means to Contest Directors is that you no longer need to mail flight cards to
your Regional Contest Board Chair. You still need to send in the Points Award
Sheet and CB-170 forms, however, to get all of the official signatures.
Features
Altitude data reduction by Vertical Midpoint or Geodesic methods, using 2, 3, or 4 tracking stations
Percent error calculations for precision events
Calculates the NARAM Contest Factor automatically based on the chosen events
Calculates NAR points, combining divisions as needed
Identifies flights that are possible new US Records
View by results summary, NAR points summary, event standings, meet champions,
NARAM points, and national champions
Save data as tab-delimited text file or as an HTML table
Online version of the 2011 Pink Book included for field reference
Sound interesting? Check out some
screen shots
Download
The current version is 2.4.2 and includes the following changes:
- Fixed bug where FAI contests always combined junior and senior divisions
- Fixed array out of bounds on contestants dialog for FAI contest
- Fixed bug where Research and Development places were not being skipped in the event of a tie
- Fixed bug with importing flight data not matching section numbers for IND
- Removed restrictions on contestant address/phone/email needing to match for importing flight data
- Updated Pink Book to 2011 edition
- Ignore case when sorting contestants by name
- Add flight group to S8E/P standings
- Craftsmanship events sort by static points instead of alphabetically if no flight
Version 2.4.1 included the following changes:
- Fixed bug where changing section number doesn't recalculate section point totals
- Fixed bug with importing flight data not matching section numbers for IND
- Added filename to title bar
- Added underlying division to combined division label on standings view
- Updated help files and screenshots
Version 2.4.0 included the following changes:
- Fix bug with importing flight data for NARAM
- Fixed bug where places would not get recalculated on removing a flight
- Fixed altitude labels not being removed properly on flight dialog
- Fix bugs with TARC scoring top 20
- Show altitude on payload and egg events, even for no-return
- Precision altitude/duration events show %error and actual altitude/duration
- Add support for altimeter records
- Add support for TARC 2010 scoring and layout changes
- Remove DQ/return/etc labels from static flight
- Updated Pink Book to July 2010 edition
- Right-justify totals on meet, NARAM, national champions views
- S7 rule change for flight points from 200 to 300
- Add support for point award sheet
- Change craftsmanship events to save score as float
- Add support for egg id
- Standings view shows total scores properly (no longer multiplied by 10 or 100 on some events)
- Moved Proxy and RC checkboxes to bottom of flight dialog
- Add support for team age divisions
- Revise logic for combining divisions to better support teams
- Standings view shows combined divisions
- New icons for menu items
- Renamed SFFScale ConceptScale
Available installers:
Current Records file can
now be found on the NAR website
Download this file and save it in your ContestManager folder to keep current
with records.
Shareware Notice
ContestManager is shareware, but there is no registration fee. If you find it
useful, all that I ask is that you send me email. Bug reports, feature
requests, and general comments are welcome.
ContestManager may be distributed freely, as long as it is not modified from the
original package.
ContestManager is copyright © 1998-2011 by Christopher Kidwell. All rights
reserved.