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 (95/98/NT), Solaris, Linux, and any other platform that supports Java 1.2.

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 2004 Pink Book included for field reference

Sound interesting? Check out some screen shots

Download

The current version is 2.2.0 and includes the following changes:

Add new fields for Contest Director, and Sanction Number
Add support for National Meet with 8 Contest Factors
Add support for randomly generating target altitude/duration for Random Altitude/Duration events
Remember current directory when opening/saving files
Fix overlap of Project and Place labels on R&D flight dialog
Change minimum allowed azimuth from -180 to -360
Fix error messages on azimuth and elevation
Add formal support for Team America
Fix bug where export raw data was not exporting all altitude data
On Super-Roc events, when length > max, save as max instead of giving error
Show altitudes on Scale Altitude, Set Altitude, Random Altitude standings
Show durations on Set Duration and Random duration standings
Show target altitude/duration on Set/Random Altitude/Duration
Don't show duplicate new records by the same person
Update to 2007 edition of Pink Book

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.