Combining Events then publishing results to RunSignup

[Nick Mullen]

I've got an event that has three races setup in RunSignup for the same distance- run, walk, and ruck. This event has 13 total races in RunSignup and I know I won't have enough room on my public display to show all distances, so I'd like to consolidate. There are several distances that have multiple athlete types but are set up as complete separate races. 

My question is, does this then mess up the publish results function? 

If three RunSignup events become one in the ART how does it function when pushing results to RunSignup that still has three races?

Thanks!

[blueridgetiming]

https://help.runsignup.com/support/solutions/articles/17000062837-add-event-grouping-and-configure-super-sub-events

[Nick Mullen]

Thanks. I was under the assumption that creating an event group or a super event only streamlines/cleans up registration, but ART will still pull in those individual events, not a single event. I'll have to play around with it at some point but probably won't be able to prior to this event on Saturday. I appreciate the link!

[Brian Agee]

I know what you mean, I've got a few events like that where they have a bunch of registration options set up as separate events on RunSignUp but in reality most of 'races' on RunSignUp are all the same distance and start the same time, but they simply want the results to break things out by Athlete Type or Division.

One example is the Beast of Burden race I time (see here). You'll see that they have a lot of registration options, but if you view the Results page and click on the dropdown box that "Overall Results" you'll see that I only have three "Overall Results" result sets (indicating that I set up only 3 races in ART), and all of the other result sets that were created on RunSignUp are created by checking "Include Division Results" under the Publish Results link in the Action Key tab of the timing screen.

In this race they did not have race day registration, they actually cut off registration a few days before the event. After registration was cut off, I pulled all teams in and used only one of the 'races' that was linked up to RunSignUp to host all participants in ART. Of course I set up Athlete Types and Divisions so that ART can break everything out correctly. Here is what the end result looked like:

[Nick Mullen]

Thanks Brian! That makes a lot of sense. 

So overall results are tied to only three of those events in RunSignup... one of which is endurance, one ultra, and one solo? This race director (my wife) has registration open until the event starts, can't blame her, it's a new race that costs more then it makes and she wants maximum participation. 

I'll have to play around with this and will definitely probably go this same route in the future.

Thanks!