!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — Combined finish: the wave board on top, the plate box, and the combined finish feed below with overall and per-race places.
Turning it on
1
Open Timer setup on the timing screen
The button below the rider lists.
2
Go to 'How I am timing'
On a multi-race event this section leads with the question outright —
Timing 5 races — how?
3
Pick 'One shared chute'
The other option is One race at a time, which is the default. Save.
!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — Timer setup → How I am timing, with both finish-style options.
Dual slalom races are unaffected
An event can mix the two. Combined finish covers your ordinary races; any dual slalom race keeps its own two-lane screen and is reached from the race tabs, which stay on screen for exactly that reason. Those races are also kept out of the combined wave board and finish feed — they’re bracket-scored, so they don’t belong in a shared chute.Finish style showing as locked? That only happens on a timer originally set
up for dual slalom, before per-race formats existed. The whole dialog is also
unavailable after you finalize, or for volunteers whose timing link doesn’t
include admin.
Getting back to per-race. The combined screen replaces the standard one, so
the Timer setup button on the timing screen goes with it. Reach the panel
from More actions → Timer setup and switch back to One race at a time.
What changes
Scoring stays per race. This changes how you capture, not how anyone is placed.
Which races come through your chute
The selector collapses — it’s a set-up decision, and it starts closed so the screen leads with the chute rather than its own configuration. By default every race in the event resolves on your screen. If your chute only takes some of them — juniors finish on the field, the road race finishes on the hill — tick just those at the top of the screen. It’s per device, like your recording point, so two operators covering different chutes each narrow their own screen without affecting the other. Bibs from races you haven’t selected won’t resolve, which is the point: a rider who was never coming past you can’t be recorded by you. Races are grouped by discipline, with a one-tap all / none per group. That matters because a category name isn’t unique — a weekend routinely has a Cat A downhill, a Cat A mass start, and a Cat A dual, and picking between three identical chips is guesswork. For the same reason, every place this screen names a race shows the discipline with it — the resolve preview, the finish feed, the start-time dialogs, and the prompt that asks which race a shared bib belongs to.!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The “Races through my chute” selector with two of four races selected.
Where you’re standing
A shared chute isn’t only a finish line. The same crew works a shared start/finish on a criterium, and a marshal on a multi-race course stands at one split with every category coming past. So this screen has the same This device is timing the… control as the per-race one — start line, any timing point, the finish, or both ends at once. Whatever you select is what an entry records. Type a bib or tap a rider and it does that job:
Checking a rider in starts the race gun if nobody has, and releases their
wave if they’re in one — otherwise they’d be on course with no clock to be timed
against, and their splits would record as nothing. It says so when it does, so
you can correct the gun if the field went earlier.
Finishing and recording splits don’t auto-start anything: firing the gun at the
moment somebody finishes would hand the whole field a time of about zero. Those
tell you the race hasn’t started and point you at the race guns.
The submit button changes with it — CHECK IN, SPLIT, FINISH, or
OUT / IN — and so does the race sheet, so nothing ever claims to finish a
rider who hasn’t started.
Timing points are matched by name across races. Each race owns its own
points, so “Halfway” is a separate record in every category — you pick the name
once and each rider’s split lands on their own race’s point. A race with no
point of that name says so rather than recording something else.
Three ways to record
Stamping is a finish-line tool, so it’s hidden at a start line or a timing point
where a bib-less crossing wouldn’t mean anything.
Blind capture
The feature that makes a busy chute survivable. Riders arrive faster than you can read numbers, so stamp the crossing without a bib. Press the capture button each time someone crosses; you get a timestamped slot with no rider attached. Afterwards — minutes later, or after the race — work through the queue of unassigned times and attach a bib to each. The time never moves; you’re only saying who it belonged to.Typing a bib across races
The plate box searches every race at once. When it finds someone, it shows their name, their race, and their wave so you can confirm before committing. If two riders in different races share a bib number, it asks which one you mean rather than guessing.The race sheet
Every rider, one row each, a column per timing point — the shape a timing crew already reads on paper.- Split columns run left to right in course order — the order you listed the points in during setup. A row therefore reads as that rider’s progress round the course.
- A blank cell is a point that rider hasn’t reached. Deliberately blank rather than a dash — a column of times with holes in it is exactly what you’re scanning for.
- Riders still out are tinted and show a running time in the Time column.
- Finished riders show their finishing time and place, and
N in racenext to their name. - Search by name or bib, and filter to Out / In / Not started, one race, or everything.
- The header row stays put while you scroll.
Rows stay put
The sheet is in bib order and stays in bib order. Nothing reshuffles while you’re using it. This matters because tapping a row is how you record a rider whose bib you can’t read. A sheet that re-sorts itself as times land is a sheet where the row under your finger changes between looking and tapping — you reach for #114 and record #237, and neither rider finds out until results are published.Progress order is still available from the sort control, and the option
says what it does — rows move. It’s the right choice when you’re watching the
race rather than recording it: riders still out sort first, furthest round
first, then finishers in placing order, so the top of the sheet is the road and
the bottom is the result.Switch back to bib order before you start tapping rows.
Every pass, not just one
Where a rider crosses the same point more than once — every lap of a criterium past the same marshal — the cell lists each pass, numbered by lap:Tap a row to record
The sheet is also how you record somebody whose bib you can’t read. Tapping a row does whatever your recording point does — checks them in, records their split, records a lap, or finishes them. The recording-point buttons sit in the sheet header too, so a marshal working down the sheet can see and change what their taps do without scrolling back to the bib box. It’s the same setting in both places — change it in one and the other follows. Rows that can’t be actioned (a rider already finished, when you’re at the finish) simply aren’t tappable.Correcting one rider
Every rider with a recorded time carries a ⋮ button at the end of their row. Right-click the row does the same thing, and on a tablet so does a long-press. It opens the same corrections sheet the per-race screen uses:
Riders with no time recorded at all have no menu — there’s nothing yet to
correct. Record them first, then fix the time.
Editing splits
Edit splits gives you one field per timing point, and in a lap race one field per point per lap — so you can correct the rider’s lap-3 time at Halfway without touching lap 1 and lap 2.
It warns, without blocking you, if the times you’ve entered don’t increase down
the course — the usual sign of a lap or a point typed into the wrong row.
Lap races
If any race in your chute is in lap mode or is a relay, the sheet grows a Lap column (3/5) and a Lap times column
listing every lap, and a crossing recorded for one of those riders is a lap,
not a finish. Riders are finished on the lap that hits the target, and the
confirmation says that’s what happened.
Riders in ordinary races on the same screen are unaffected — what a crossing
means is read from the rider’s race, not from a control you have to remember to
flip.
Riders who missed a timing point
Tick Every rider must pass here on a point in setup, and a rider who gets past it without a time there is flagged: the cell turns amber, their name picks up a missed badge naming the points, and a Missed a point filter appears in the header. They’re only flagged once they’ve demonstrably gone past — they finished, or they have a time at a later point. Nobody is flagged for a point they simply haven’t reached yet.Rearranging the screen
Nobody uses all six panels at once. The person working the chute wants the bib box and the sheet; whoever is releasing waves wants the start board at the top and doesn’t care about the RFID importer. Panels, at the top right, lists every panel with arrows to move it and a switch to hide it:
Per device, like everything else on this screen that describes how one
person works — moving yours doesn’t move anyone else’s. Reset puts them
back. The Panels button itself never moves or hides, so you can always get back
even if you switch everything off.
RFID
The RFID watcher is on this screen too — a chip-timed shared chute is the commonest place to be running a pad. It follows your chute selection: only the races you’ve ticked are offered as targets, and only their riders are matched against incoming reads. → Timing with an RFID padWaves fit naturally here
Combined finish and waves are usually used together: the wave board releases each group in turn, and net time keeps everyone comparable even though they didn’t start at the same moment. The start board also lists every race’s gun underneath the waves, whether or not that race uses them. The gun is what gun time is measured from, and for any rider who isn’t in a wave it’s what their net time is measured from too — so each race row says how many riders are timed from it. Both rows carry the same clock button: press it to set a start that already happened. See forgetting to start.Next
Waves
Releasing start groups and how net time works.
Bibs
Assigning one number per rider across the event.