Ken N.

I prefer routers because some phones limit the number of connections, say to 5 or 10 devices. We do use smartphone hot spots from time to time. The other downside is that if you want to synch to a non-club device, they need your hotspot access password, which isn't secure to do. Routers are cheap, longer range, are faster, and can handle hundreds of devices. My travel kit always has one, plus an inverter, to power it from any 12 volt DC source. Ken N.

The link is the same, private just means it isn't listed in the practiscore match list. So you would have to publish it, either in an email or website of your own. I usually use private just to test, then open it up, because once you share it with somebody, you have to assume everybody has it. Ken N.

We generate activity report and results webfile as well. But Post to PractiScore too (just one button and done!). (-:

I run a very active club and haven't used ezWinScore in over 3 years, including for Area matches, and Nationals. The iOS version generates every report you can supply to the USPSA that ezWinScore does. We are working on having this generated from the PractiScore website too (after posting results). The engineer just started on it today. Both Android and iOS will grab classification updates and update either a match or your database of shooters (or both). I'm thinking of adding that to the website too so that you can have a little more accurate view of categories and classes for trophy buying earlier, as well as notify people their membership has expired before they arrive at a L2/3 match. In terms of using ezWinScore to register. clubs.practiscore.com has online registration, inluding online payments if desired, and online squadding. When I first got that going I found I liked it because I could do it anywhere I could hit a website, not requiring to bring a PC along. Since I only had a PC for ezWinScore (I'm a mac fellow), that was a big plus for me. Regards, Ken N.

Slings not required for shotgun this year. They are optional, for instance, a trooper might find a use for it in a stage plan. But nothing required. We found it didn't help us speed staging and it probably slowed down stage times without good reason (thus impacting match schedule). So with no gain, and it being a hassle for competitors, decision was not require this year. Ken N.

Recommended. It's what we think folks will shoot to get the match accomplished. Some will do more, some less. And the mix of shotgun / pistol will vary with shooter due to option choices.

PractiScore never pushes changes to scoring tablets (for security and also to maximize control), so in the network connection scenario you would have to pull the additions in. At our Tuesday Night Steel match, we register on a master that is always on (and plugged in). If they don't see shooters on the stage device they pull. Usually it's already been done by a squad ahead of them. We are planning, in the near term, a registration push (not scores, but registration) to better support this. In practice, it would be a pull, in that we don't know when the stage devices will be up on the network. So the master will flag that it has new registrations, and the stage devices will check it periodically (and each time on awaking from sleep). For security, this will be a mode you enter, and reg changes will only come from the master at that point. Sound okay?

and in the very near future, the match tablet will have a code (like the registration pin code) that will permit you to delete it yourself. Ken N.

Ty.. I initially had a layout like this but it wasn't well received. Folks wanted to "do the math". What may be needed is a special match with scoring for the classifier, which has a lot more hits per paper than typical. And then a per target thing as you describe. Are you up for creating a Google doc and sharing it with me and then we can spec it out? Basically: - per target scoring, with each required hit accounted for (like USPSA and iCore) - describe hits, not do math. I'm driving today, this will likely be my last contribution til later in the afternoon. Ken N.

The menu on the right hand side: Edit Club settings then same location menu "Access" CLick on "Invite user to Manage", you will need to know the email address associated with their club. Ken N.

Peter, Send the details to support@practiscore.com and attention Russ. He will sort it out for you. Ken N.

We just discovered this. It will be fixed ASAP. Sorry for the trouble! it is related to the web upgrade. Ken N.

Send note to support@practiscore.com, we have a series module we can get you to do this automatically. It's sort of in beta but it did successfully do the Tennesse Multigun Series as our first big test (8 matches a few hundred competitors). Beyond that, you can scrape the results, and the new results going live this Tue (finally!) will have a CSV download per competitor. Ken N.

Eugene is correct, in the forthcoming web 2.0 results there is a button to give you a spreadsheet result for a shooters data. Ken N.

Yes - and sorry for slow response. Glad you sorted it out.

This is very very near. We almost released it this Tuesday but we decided to add one more thing since it was close. The big changes are entirely new web results viewing, with summary individual views and competitor comparisons - in a mobile friendly viewing system, and a club page with open matches and match results for any club (across disciplines), and the same for competitors. Under the hood, most of it is rewritten, and it's the basis for a lot of improvements we will add in weekly going forward. Near enhancements include videos for stage scores, (see videos of runs directly in results) and a sponsor advertising system so that clubs can route their sponsor information thru their match results (to up the value of match sponsoring). Ken N.

At a typical pistol IPSC / USPSA stage you will use about 5% to 10% battery per squad on a 7" tablet with conventional battery life - if using it judiciously. We see a lot of inefficient use, which means tablets won't make the day without a battery. It can also vary in cold or hot weather (physics at work). What we did at Nationals, for instance, last year was measure that and provide a battery to the stages. The closest to 100% at the end of the middle day of the match won a pretty decent prize. We had numerous stages return iPads with 100% battery life. They were smart in their usage, and also had it on a battery when not in use. There is a LOT of down time, for instance between squads, during walk thrus, and during lunch breaks if one is scheduled. Even just plugging it in at an RO work station (i.e. a barrel) while competitors do their sometimes lengthy pre-buzzer routine will add far more juice than scoring that shooter will take. If it comes to it, you can hot swap a spare iPad (my preference), or provide a battery that you tape to the back of the tablet, or put in their pocket. I buy batteries that are about 5000mAh or bigger. Regards, Ken N.

Any hotel by the highway will be plenty close. The closest hotel to the range is the Holiday Inn Express in Washington, UT. As a crow flies, maybe a mile. Driving, about 3. If calling them, use Purgatory Clays as the group code. That was initially setup by our trap and skeet club and the hotel prefers we use that group block. Ken N.

MD Ken Nelson here... I'm approving people in order of registration and past attendance at the match. But I know the number of slots we have and we have enough for all that have registered. So over the next 2-3 days everybody will be approved into the match. The delay was basically me - I traveled to Europe for a long time, and then I kept double checking the schedule to make sure I liked it. Regards, Ken N.

Agreed. The entire thing is changing very very soon. I'm testing the replacement over last couple weeks, finding issues, fixing them. Meeting tomorrow AM to finalize roll out, which I expect is days. It's taken a lot longer than I wanted, but web projects seem to do that to me. Load on that page will be substantially reduced to a minimum amount, with searching finding rest. As clubs adapt they will also put match results more with their own page in the system, so you will just go to the club to see their results.

The individual results will be common in android and iOS in a week or two, with a complete redo of results viewing. Penalties and bonuses can be edited but not after scoring or synching.

To reiterate what Russell (who is lead programmer for the iOS version) said. I was running a large match when I saw this, but I did reach out to all three engineers that work on the app side of PS with instructions to prioritize sorting this out. They first discovered that it is isolated to the Kindle Fire, which runs a cloned Amazon specific version of Android. As I understand it, their version of Android is being very aggressive about just killing an app that exceeds a pretty small memory footprint. This is okay, we get signals to "shut down" all the time. And we save, and then when we are reloaded, everything is fine. In this case a 3rd party library we use, Crashalytics, that reports crash data to us, also was killed by Amazons version of Android. That killed where we save the data. I instructed them to: - fix this particular issue asap, and to then - make it so that no matter what an operating system does, score writing is atomic to our app, and our code. This means that we have a persistent record of every tap, increment, decrement, number you enter. If it isn't written, we know it on reload, and we write it. - Also, I asked the Android team to prioritize adding in the automatic backup system that backs up the match after every significant action. Under the hood on iOS we have hundreds of complete backups, for a typical larger match. All accessible from a simple backup manager. I've never had to use them, but in this case, it would have been useful. As to using Kindle Fires.... I'd been recommending them and the Samsung and Google tablets. Personally, though, now that I see how what they do with Android, and what their long term plan is (tight store integration, less general use platform), I'd avoid them. There are plenty of other good options. Regards, Ken N.

This almost appears to be that they are identical match unique ids - so stemming from the same creation of a match, but with different scores in them. How was each created? Any time you create a match it gets a new unique id. That id is used when synching, or when posting results, to know what match to synch into (or post over). And Eugene is right - sending the match export from the sync page for both matches will be the best way to get a quick answer/resolution. Regards, Ken N.

The match is the 2nd weekend of April. 2 day format. 18 stages. All steel. $100 match fee. You will shoot all day Saturday, most of Sunday and also have shoot-offs. 6 stages of Steel Challenge. Not necessarily the official stages, but 4 to 5 strings of 5 shots on static steel, with worst thrown out. We may mix in some of the new stuff from West Coast Steel or some of our own design to fit bay sizes. 6 stages of action steel. 32 rounds. This is what Rio or us do on our Tuesday Night Steel matches, only bigger than the usual stages we have. Consider it IPSC with only steel. 6 stages of par-time steel (some call this style "pro-am" stages. Basically, up to 40 targets out there, go get what you can in the time allowed. A squad melee stage where squads compete for fun, pride and prizes on a mother of all steel stages, all shoot at the same time, stage. Register at: https://clubs.practiscore.com/2015-berrys-steel-op…/register Divisions include the usual + PCC and a new division we are trying - "Limited Optics". Facebook page, including photos/videos from last year: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Berrys-Steel-Open/275102949314064

It was a pleasure working with 3GN on this match. They put a lot of trust in us. I'll address some questions, admittedly a bit late (I was busy!): - 150 yard slug shot was on 3 18x24 plates as single target. It seemed like side of a car! I upped the size so people wouldn't think it would be better to skip it due to light long range penalties in the 3GN rulebook. - slings... seem to me to be a practical part of carbine usage. From a match designer perspective, they also give me latitude in where my option targets are, and significantly speed up stage reset due to one less gun staging. That gives me more time to have you do what you came to do - run and gun. I also like unloaded, no mag inserted, pistol starts for that reason. If I don't stage any guns, or have a big I'll rehearse the stage in my head make ready, then we have more time for actual fun. - longest shot was 325 yards, at the end of a brisk run and gun stage. It had to be done off a barricade, which some didn't like. I had prone elsewhere, although not many people used it. And there really isn't a big difference in how people run this stuff, the diff is how they feel when they arrive. - Hard as Hell... I wrote about this on FB. But it's really not even in the region of HaH. 620 seconds for the winner. 1300 to 1400 for winner of HaH, 65% more rounds, spinners, 600+ yard shots, with enhanced long range penalties. And Walls of Doom, fast ropes, heavy dummies, eggs, HaHbstacle courses. To me this was a western outlaw style 3 gun, toned down a bit so people wouldn't skip targets due to light penalties. And I'm not complaining at all about that, it was fun, and very challenging. As designers, we had a rule book and we had to push right to the edge of it. Which we did. - spinner - we took it out mainly cause there is no good provision for it in the 3GN rulebook. That plus for a lot of shooters, 30 seconds to try, 30 seconds penalty, would have put them at stage max of 250, which seemed unpleasant. Instead we replaced it with 7 small KDs. - Defining stage. Some say it was the trench stage (1). But the match was lost on stage 3, by the 15+ second leader losing his shotgun ammo on run to the next stage. Things happen. - If I had to do something over again, I'd probably put the side matches in the off schedule and have the classifier we shot plus a 9th stage classifier that was a bit bigger, something to add a little meat in the scoring to that time period. - I'm vey appreciative to Royal Arms for providing flash bangs and breachers. That was fun, and about every 5 minutes we had this resounding "BOOM" echoing all over the range. - On knowing when to stop on long range... My general rule is if I know what's happening, I can adjust, keep trying because I can use that on subsequent targets and pick up time. So it's not a target by target thing. If I'm not getting information, and thus have no adjustment, move on. - When Chuck refers to "mediocre positions" it wasn't a negative thing, it's just they were partially supported, or oddly structured. As targets get closer, at my matches anyway, positions get hinkier. (-: - I was rangemaster for this one. I have a list of rule adjustments recommendations and holes we found. So I'd expect some adjustments, perhaps not right away, but before next year. Anyway, that's all I have time for now. I'm pretty sure that Texas and the other matches will be different, but very good. I don't get the impression that the 3GN folks will accept sub-par stuff. They are shooters and they know what good is. So have fun! I'm sure I'll see you at some of them. Ken N.