electronic scoring for USPSA

[les snyder]

shot my first electronically scored outdoor match today...the club has used it for the indoor mini match, but today was the first outdoor, with multiple bays .... there didn't seem to be any problems, and once more shooters get a chance to work the hand held unit as score keepers, it should run smoother.... a little hard to see the LCD screen in the sunlight, and not sure how the electronics will hold up in the Fla heat this summer but a good start... stage information as to number and types of targets are pre entered....tip of the hat to Jay and Keith

[MikeBjerum]

Will be interested in hearing how it goes.  I heard it was coming in our Region a while back, but life got in the way, and I haven't witnessed it yet.  Hoping to get back into it more this year and enjoy the changes.

[alfsauve]

Les,

Started to ask about the setup and such, but realized you probably meant "score keeping" as opposed to "scoring"?  Still using cardboard targets, but recording the score on tablets. You weren't talking about the Olympic style bullet detection where you?

Practiscore?   https://practiscore.com/   

The local USPSA club, Gwinnett Practical Shooting Leagure, GPSL (one of the longest continually operating USPSA clubs and probably the one with the most matches ever) has been using Practiscore for over a year.  Considering the complications of computing the final scores it makes perfect sense.

[les snyder]

Alf... yes, just recording scores on a hand held tablet....I wasn't paying attention when the program name was given...

[alfsauve]

Besides the tablets, ranges have setup dedicated WiFI networks just for the scoring.  As soon as the last shooter is entered the results are available.   Plus it does away with all the "errors" of hand writing, then transferring the scores.

I haven't actually shot in a match with it yet, but have followed its development through a couple of geek friends who have spearheaded the use in GA.

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[Tyler Durden]

I had previously mentioned this idea over at Caleb's website.

I kinda put two and two together to come up with this idea.

The first was seeing these iPhone like contraptions in use by the employees at Home Depot.  It has a built in bar code scanner so the employee can scan whatever the customer phones in about, and then can respond with whatever quantity is in stock on the phone's display.

My mom was in the hospital right around Thanksgiving Day 2013.  Nobody even touched her with out first scanning her wristband and asking her for her birthday.

So my idea was to give the regular USPSA competitors a similar wristband at the start of the shooting season.  When they show up to a club  match, they put on the wristband (or clip a key fob to their hat or belt) and walk up to the stats shack.  Inside the shack is a bar code scanner which scans the wristband.  On the big touch screen, it asks:

"Are you Tyler Durden?"

And you press "yes" or "no"

Then it asks "Is your USPSA member number A12345?"

"yes" or "no"

"Which division are you shooting today?"

"open"

"limited"

"limited 10"

So on and so forth.

Then it asks you your class.

Then it asks you which squad do you want to be.

Then it populates all this data to that squad's hand held scorekeeping device.

When you get ready to shoot the stage, when you step up to the line, the ( scorekeeping ) RO scans your wristband.

This also has a built in timer.  It goes BEEP!  Then after unload and show clear it saves your time automatically.  Then you go forward to score.  Meanwhile all this data is continuously being uploaded via WiFi to the "mother computer" in the stats shack.  In fact for larger/major matches, you could have a larger flatscreen displaying the scores, a leader board essentially, in real time.

EDIT:  I used to be a match director, so I know how much it sucked punching in scores by hand into EZWinScore.