24hr race with 3-person teams scoring

[Larry Wilkinson]

I am timing a 6hr,12hr,24hr with 3-person teams in the 24hr.  This is not a relay format.  the 3-person team members are also in the 24hr as individuals. so they can be on the loop at the same time.  they can cross the lap finish together on each loop  

I tried the team scoring feature but because this is a lap based event -scoring by points per place does not rank the teams correctly.

My solution is to double chip team members. example: Team number 1 would have the following chips on their 300 series bibs (301and01, 302and02, 303and03). 301 would record the individual time/lap and 01 would count for team time/lap.  I would have to enter each team member into the data base twice once with 301 and no team name and once with 01 and a team name.  

I thought I had figured out how to score this race using flexible relay format.  it worked fine when manually testing.  now that I am testing with the chip reader it doesnt work because of the "do not detect chip" setting.  obviously you have to set that to 10 min or so to avoid multiple reads from the same chip.  however, I found out that that also applies to team members chips.   so it will read their individual numbers 301,302,303 but it will only read the first team chip detected leaving me to enter the other 2 numbers manually.

I can t figure out a work around. and I am in the final hours so Ill probably just have to do it this way unless there is something simple I am missing.

[Vesa Suomalainen]

You can set the “Do not redetect same chip after lap for” to say 2 seconds which will prevent the same rider’s chip from getting picked up again, but allows a team member’s chip to be detected 2 seconds later. So the only scenario where this would not work if two team members are drafting each other at high speed - which could possibly be somehow restricted.

Double-chipping team members won’t work. The timeout label is a bit misleading, it should probably say:

Individual race: Do not redetect same racer after lap for...
Flexible relay: Do not redetect same team after lap for...

[Larry Wilkinson]

ok thank you,  I will probably have to be very attentive and do a lot of manual entries for the teams.  this is a trail run an there will be many walking through the lap. thankfully there are only 10 3-person teams  and 80 total on a 2.65 mile lap, which will spread people out.   

[Vesa Suomalainen]

For walkers, you probably want to set the timeout to 5 secs.