Practiscore Per Stage vs Per Squad

[Graham Smith]

When we started using Practicscore last year, I opted to do one Nook for each stage. To be honest, I can't recall exactly why I decided on that other than the fact that it was what was being recommended at the time.

My question now is, has anything changed that would make it more efficient to do one Nook per squad instead?

Just exactly what are the pros and cons of each setup?

[jcwren]

The major advantage is that if people aren't maintaining backup score sheets and regular syncing isn't being done, if you lose a device, you only throw out a stage instead of one or more of the shooters complete match.

The only advantage I see from allowing the squad to carry the device with them is maintaining a shooting a order.

But given the risk of damage to equipment by moving NOOKs around in the hands of people carrying shooting bags, coolers, etc, it's just not worth it. We enforce the device per stage model.

[Graham Smith]

The major advantage is that if people aren't maintaining backup score sheets and regular syncing isn't being done, if you lose a device, you only throw out a stage instead of one or more of the shooters complete match.

As things would have it, I had just remembered that and was just coming back to say so. Brains just too full of non-shooting stuff right now.

[Ken N.]

If your stages and squads are equal, by stage is good model. If you have 4 squads, 6 stages, I worry about it being unattended. But some sort of physical control process can be worked out.

I don't do paper backups for club matches, haven't since 2nd match with PS. No troubles, ever.

[LilBunniFuFu]

Our local club does one per squad, our range is pretty small so the risk of damaging equipment isn't too bad. Also we usually shoot when it is pretty dark so the risk of loosing the nooks is easier when you leave it at a stage. We self RO in our squads.

[Graham Smith]

We do paper totals as a backup, just in case. It also acts as a double check on the scores as the person writing them down is likely to catch obvious errors - which has happened at least once to my knowledge (150 vs 15 seconds)

[jdphotoguy]

We tried just having a Nook for each stage, but found folks were just tossing the Nook anywhere when their squad was finished shooting and I mean anywhere. Now we exclusively have the Nooks stay with the squads, as now a squad is responsible for the care of the Nook, so they tend to treat it better.

To limit the risk of data lose in the event a Nook were to die, I have a Ubiquiti PicoStation setup to give four of our six bays Wi-Fi and I periodically sync using my iPhone or Nexus 7.