All-Star Event Results

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crazycheermom

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The link I had is now blank. Is there a place or can one be created for event results? Maybe like a wiki link? All the searching around different sites takes a lot of time. Today I was looking for UCA results from TN this weekend.
 
I think @BlueCat was trying to make a database for all event results. It's obviously an awesome idea, that would be VERY helpful in many situations, but it would take a LOT of work to prepare and maintain.
 
I think @BlueCat was trying to make a database for all event results. It's obviously an awesome idea, that would be VERY helpful in many situations, but it would take a LOT of work to prepare and maintain.
It was an incredible amount of work to try to keep up with. Much more so than I anticipated. The difficult part was simply getting all of the information. It would be dramatically easier if event producers would provide results in an easier-to-use format.
 
It was an incredible amount of work to try to keep up with. Much more so than I anticipated. The difficult part was simply getting all of the information. It would be dramatically easier if event producers would provide results in an easier-to-use format.

What format would you like them in?
 
What format would you like them in?
Realistically, a spreadsheet (google doc, excel, etc) would be dramatically easier to deal with than PDFs or listings on a web page. Those can pretty easily be imported into nearly any database program. Plus, in those formats, anyone with even a basic understanding of spreadsheets can easily sort through and look at the information they want to see.

I would think I had died and gone to heaven if EPs would put every result (including category/execution averages, deductions, etc.) in a public google doc for every team soon after awards. (Public access, non-editable) It would be free and incredibly easy to do from their side and provide a fantastic service for the coaches, athletes, and parents.

(PDFs have their uses, but they are often VERY difficult to copy information from. The tables and columns formats most results are printed in just don't translate well when you cut/paste them. You often have to re-type everything or do relatively extensive find-replace functions to the data into a usable form.)

Also, I am sure that there are any number of folks out there who would provide a basic database structure to better enter/calculate/post results. Some would probably do it for free. The ones that I have seen EPs use have generally been awful. How most don't seem to have automatic checks for out-of-range scoring is astonishing to me.

Now that I review scoresheets and enter scores in after every event, it is unusual when we come home from an event and don't find at least one obvious scoring error on at least one scoresheet (I found 3 from our first event.) I don't mean "I think we should have scored higher in the range", I mean "why didn't they add these two numbers correctly" or "why didn't someone catch that this box was left completely blank where a category score was supposed to be." Those kind of things anger me - especially when you combine that with how secretive EPs can be with their judging. If I see that many mistakes on our scores, how do we know that there weren't mistakes on other teams'?
 
It would also be helpful if there were official, unique names for every gym/program. Oh, and standard abbreviations/names for each division.

In theory, USASF could provide this service. However, I think they have bigger fish to fry on the database side than this.
 
Realistically, a spreadsheet (google doc, excel, etc) would be dramatically easier to deal with than PDFs or listings on a web page. Those can pretty easily be imported into nearly any database program. Plus, in those formats, anyone with even a basic understanding of spreadsheets can easily sort through and look at the information they want to see.

I would think I had died and gone to heaven if EPs would put every result (including category/execution averages, deductions, etc.) in a public google doc for every team soon after awards. (Public access, non-editable) It would be free and incredibly easy to do from their side and provide a fantastic service for the coaches, athletes, and parents.

(PDFs have their uses, but they are often VERY difficult to copy information from. The tables and columns formats most results are printed in just don't translate well when you cut/paste them. You often have to re-type everything or do relatively extensive find-replace functions to the data into a usable form.)

Also, I am sure that there are any number of folks out there who would provide a basic database structure to better enter/calculate/post results. Some would probably do it for free. The ones that I have seen EPs use have generally been awful. How most don't seem to have automatic checks for out-of-range scoring is astonishing to me.

Now that I review scoresheets and enter scores in after every event, it is unusual when we come home from an event and don't find at least one obvious scoring error on at least one scoresheet (I found 3 from our first event.) I don't mean "I think we should have scored higher in the range", I mean "why didn't they add these two numbers correctly" or "why didn't someone catch that this box was left completely blank where a category score was supposed to be." Those kind of things anger me - especially when you combine that with how secretive EPs can be with their judging. If I see that many mistakes on our scores, how do we know that there weren't mistakes on other teams'?

Thank you.
 
I hope this isn't a double post. I tried sending from my phone, but it didn't work.
Even if we don't have anything "official" I am sure there are people who write down scores/placements for all divisions. If there was even just a link under competitions for people to post results from the ones they have, that would be better than having to search for results.
But on the other hand, I agree that if asked, there would be plenty of people who would input scores on a weekly basis.
 

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