yeah I used that when I was over at the Gee- Bee cup.
The ones i used were in a different package and used an RF link to communicate to the judges tools.
they had a computer that feed all the judges tablets (excel) with the name of the competitor and the maneuver that was next.
it worked very well unless the system was out of sequence.
The scores were sent at the end of each flight back to the computer.
before you sent it back, you could check your scores before you sent them.
Igor Burger probably has the details.
Hi Dave, that system which you used on Gbcup was simplified version of larger system used in Hradec Kralove already 2 or 3 years. That larger system shows ONLINE all points given by judges. REALLY online, you can see every click, also if he comes back to some maneuver after flight finished, before he “sends” point to PC. It is on large table and visible during whole contest.
This system on picture used now in France dos not show anything and it is pity that organizers keep points secret, I do not understand it too much. Points should be public, we pay for that in fees, so I do not know why not to show them. I fully agree with Jose.
The advantage to that from Hradec Kralove is printer, so the judge has paper which he can sign.
For Brett: the paper shows % deviation for every judge. So in case that you can see (as Jose wrote only in case that someone will show you as it is kept secret) you can see if the same judge is still 10% “under” or not “accidentally” 10% on “his” flyer. However since top 3 are from countries not having their judges, I cannot tell I saw such tricks.
And if there is a tool to see judger bias – well yes, there are usually after-champ analysis showing how judger performed. The best tool is results by single judges compared to final results. It can tell lot. I also remember one judge pushed “his” country to top 3. I do not recall who it was and which country. However there still can be case when only one judge can really see and there are 5 blind, but I do not think such case has some significant probability :- ))))
The problem of posting results after finals was program mistake in summing. The program summed all 3 flights and did not discard lowest score. Looks like noone tested it before :- ))))))))))))))))))