Setting up the contest.doc

Setting up the contest

Setting up the Contest

We are by no means offering a plug and play tool - your input is required as well. There is hundreds of regulations for thousands of contests. SeeYou competition CAN fulfill ALL your needs provided that you use an adequate scoring script and that output XSL files are shaped to meet your needs.

This sounded like a disclaimer, so let's get started.

Prerequisites are at least Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher and SeeYou 1.83 or higher.

Create an empty file with a .cuc extension e.g. 'open.cuc' or 'class1.cuc'. To do that you should:

Run Windows Explorer. Navigate to a folder where you will create a folder that will store all the contest data, say your "My Contests" folder. If you don't have a My Contests folder in My Documents, create it by highlighting My Documents in the Explorer Bar, right clicking the right hand window, click New, click Folder, type My Contests, press Enter. Highlight My Contests folder in the Explorer Bar. Right click the right hand window, click New, click Folder, type the name of your contest, press enter. This is the folder where you will store the files related to this contest.
For example: "My Documents\2007nats"

Highlight your contest name in the Explorer Bar. Right click the right hand window, click New, click Text File, type in a file name that stands for the contest and end it with the ".cuc" extension, for example: 'open.cuc' or 'class1.cuc'. Press Enter.

Click or double click this file. SeeYou will now start.

Select Edit->Contest properties from the main menu. Enter the most basic of settings under the Logo: Contest title, Contest Site, Contest Period, Class,Takeoff altitude.

There's a couple of important settings here.

Under Flight search folders enter the folders where SeeYou will be looking for flights. They can either be local folders (like c:\egc2002\flights) or network folders (\\myserver\filser e.g.) There's no limit for the number of these, just enter one folder in each row. This feature proved very useful at European Gliding championships in Bekescsaba, where 113 loggers were downloaded each day and this was done from several computers on a network.

There's a couple of very nice features too. By checking the Automatically save scored flights, every flight will be saved in a daily folder. The flight's header will consist of the correct pilot name, airplane and task for the day.
By saving the contest file every x minutes, you will make sure the changes are not lost and html files will automatically be created.

And the most important thing - The Scoring Script

It is a Pascal script and anyone with at least some knowledge of Pascal will be able to read it.
SeeYou lets the script use a TPilot record, where all relevant data is provided to the script, such as takeoff time, start time, finish time, landing time, speed, distance etc. The script has no idea whose data is being evaluated, hence no manipulation is possible.

The script goes through available data and essentially returns Points for a flight. We're not going to get technical here. Anyone who is interested in the script will have a good look at the available ones. This is the essential part of the scoring software, so debugging before the contest starts is a very good idea. Scripts for various contests round the world are available through the SeeYou Competition Support forum

You are now ready to enter the competitors.