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A timing crew is spread around a course: someone at the start chute, someone at the halfway split, someone on the line. Rather than giving each of them a different little form, each device says where it is standing once, and the one big input does that job. Same keystrokes, same chips, same digit pad. Only the meaning of Enter changes.
!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The recording-point button row above the plate input, with “Halfway” selected.

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Two places to set it

Both do the same thing. The settings one is the reliable place to look, because it’s always there.
!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — Timer setup → This device, showing both ends selected.

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You can pick more than one

A criterium’s start and finish are the same line on the tarmac. The person standing there checks riders out and takes their finishes, and shouldn’t have to flip a control between the two on every pass. So tap both ends and the screen stops asking. Each plate is resolved by the rider, not by you: It’s the same rule an RFID mat at a shared start/finish already follows.
A split can’t be combined with anything. It’s a mid-course point where a plate read means exactly one thing — mixing it in would leave the rider’s state choosing between two records that are both plausible. Tapping a split replaces whatever else was selected.

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The buttons

Showing only the points that exist for this race: If a race only has a finish line, no buttons appear — there’s nothing to choose.

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It’s per device, and it sticks

Your choice is remembered on your device only. Two laptops on the same timer are normally standing in two different places, so this is deliberately not shared — setting yours doesn’t move anyone else.

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When you switch races

You choose what happens, under Timer setup → This device → When I switch races: Either way a split never carries over. Split names belong to one race, so carrying one to the next would name a point that doesn’t exist there — splits are always remembered against their own race. Your choice also survives a reload, so a refresh mid-race doesn’t quietly put you back on the finish line. The inline row appears as soon as you open the race — you don’t have to wait for the start — so a marshal walking to their post can set it while there’s still time to read the screen.
Set it once when you get to your post, then don’t think about it again. The submit button and the hint text both name what you’re recording, so a glance confirms you’re still pointed at the right place.

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Setting up split points

Splits are defined per race by whoever runs timing: Timer setup → Races, pick the race — or several at once — then add timing points.
Editing timing points across several races replaces them on all of the selected races with the set you build. If the selected races currently differ, the section says so and makes you opt in before it lets you edit, rather than quietly loading one race’s points and writing them over the rest.
Give each split a short name your marshals will recognise — “Top of the climb”, “Halfway”, “Bell lap”. Those names become the buttons, and the column headings in results. If you use RFID, each split can also be tied to a specific mat so reads from that mat land on that split automatically.

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List them in the order riders reach them

The order of the list is the running order — use the arrows beside each one to move it. There’s no separate “order” field to keep in step with the list. That order is what makes the race sheet readable: split columns run left to right in course order, so a rider’s row reads as their progress round the course, and a gap in the middle of it is visible at a glance.

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”Every rider must pass here”

Tick this on a point you’re actually staffing, and any rider who gets past it without a time there is flagged: The warning at the finish is the one that matters: it’s the only moment the rider is still standing in front of you to ask. In a lap race it fires on the lap that finishes them, not every lap. A rider is only flagged once they’ve demonstrably gone past: they finished, or they have a time at a later point. Riders who simply haven’t reached it yet are not flagged, because on a long course most of the field is between two points at any moment.
A missed point never changes anybody’s result. Their finish stands, their place stands, and publishing is unaffected.It is a prompt to go and look, not a verdict. A blank cell is far more often a post that went unstaffed, a marshal who missed a number, or a radio that dropped than it is a rider cutting the course. If you investigate and conclude they did cut it, DQ them yourself — corrections.
Leave it unticked for a point you’re not sure you’ll staff all day, and for anything genuinely optional. Points that already existed before you touched this stay unticked, so turning it on can’t make an event that was running fine start throwing warnings at you.

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Mass start vs check-in

Also set per race, in the same Timer setup → Races section:
  • Mass start — the whole roster goes on course the moment you press START. Right for road races, XC, criteriums.
  • Check riders in — nobody is on course until someone records them at the start line. Right for rolling starts and staged chutes, where knowing who actually left matters.
Either way, elapsed time is measured from the gun (or from that rider’s wave), so a late check-in never shortens somebody’s run.
Checking somebody in starts the clock if nobody has. Because elapsed runs from the gun and not from the check-in, a rider checked in before the gun would otherwise have nothing to be timed against — and every split recorded for them afterwards would compute to nothing.So the first check-in fires the race gun, and releases that rider’s wave if they’re in one. It tells you it has, because it’s guessing at when the field actually went — if they left earlier, correct it with Correct the start time.

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A worked example

A 50 km gravel race with a timing point at the halfway aid station: Both use the same screen, and both just type numbers. The results end up with a halfway split and a finish time per rider, and you never told either person to use a different control.

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Waves

Staggered starts within one race.

Laps & primes

Lap racing, target lap counts, and mid-race primes.