James Joy
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to Webscorer Users Group, Vesa Suomalainen, Webscorer Users Group, G P Ashe
I help manage the Metropolitan Cross Country League (
https://metleague.run/) that sounds very similar in terms of number of races, etc.
We have been using barcode scanning over the past few years, and after some changes we made to the size and position of the barcode, we have zero read/scan issues across all 5 fixtures, 8 races per fixtures and almost 1,000 runners per fixture, even when they have been crumpled up. Therefore, I suggest going down this route rather than handheld RFID.
We now have a large barcode down the side rather than a standard-size barcode, and this is why we don't have any issues. We are using Inateck barcode scanners that can be corrected to the phone via Bluetooth.

We currently don't use WebScorer for the results for this league, but I do use it for other events, where we also use barcodes for the finishers.
James