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

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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.