Archive for November, 2009

We had several folks report that their Racer profiles weren’t showing up on the Racers page. We finally got to the bottom of the problem and just rolled out a fix.

In order to receive points for any Checkpoint Tracker Event your Team MUST create a Team profile at CheckpointTracker.com and add that Event to your Team Schedule BEFORE the official Start time as listed on the Event’s Checkpoint Tracker profile.

If you have not created a Team profile and added a given Event that your Team is competing in before that Event starts…your Team WILL NOT be granted points for that Event.

You will not be allowed to add an Event to your Team Schedule after the Event has started and we will not make adjustments to the distribution of points after the Event Promoter has entered final results into Checkpoint Tracker.

More information coming soon

In the sprint leading up to launching the site and in the weeks since we’ve been focusing on site functionality, including the soon to be released Event Registration module, and have not done as good a job as we would have liked explaining such things as:

• How many Racers can be on a Team?
• How are points allocated if my Team competes in more then one Division?
• Exactly how does a Team qualify for the Checkpoint Tracker National Championship?

These and myriad other questions will be answered in detail when we post the final Rules which we are working hard to finalize now.

For the time being you should focus on what we’ve stated above:

In order to receive points for any Checkpoint Tracker Event your Team MUST create a Team profile and add that Event to your Team Schedule BEFORE the official Start time as listed on the Event’s Checkpoint Tracker profile.

If you have a burning question that can’t wait until the final Rules are published please feel free to email us at admin@checkpointtracker.com at any time…we’d love to hear from you and we’ll do our best to give you whatever information we can.

Thanks again for you interest in our efforts to revolutionize competitive adventure racing in the United States. We look forward to seeing you at Nationals next November.

We’re still 63 days away from the North Georgia Adventure Race, the first event in the 2010 Checkpoint Tracker adventure racing season, and nearly 300 racers have signed up and created more than 100 Team profiles.

What makes a good Team profile?

1. A team logo or photo
2. Your teammates’ Racer profiles
3. A completed Team Schedule
4. A Twitter widget
5. An RSS feed of your Team blog

Many of you are already using it. Many more are thinking you should or are planning to. Well, we’re going to be leveraging it extensively in 2010…even more than we already are…so you might want to give it a serious look.

Right now we’re displaying Twitter feeds for Teams and Promoters:

We’ve just created a Checkpoint Tracker Twitter List that pulls together all Checkpoint Tracker Promoters and Sponsors:

We’ll have more on our plans for using Twitter when we roll out the next big update to the site.