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Race Central and the Leaderboard debuted at the North Georgia Adventure Race this past weekend.

Here are the numbers on fans who watched from home:

• 1,623 unique visitors
• 4,060 visits
• 35,429 pageviews
• 9 page views per visit

Here are a few comments we pulled from the blog or were sent via email after the race:

Loving the live coverage! Great work guys!

You all are doing a great job. The Live Coverage is awesome. Thank you!!!

This live coverage and communication is the COOLEST…THING…EVER!!!

To race staff and volunteers…fantastic, timely reporting…I’m on the edge of my seat.

This is pretty cool to follow online…wish I was there.

This site is GREAT…thanks YAK!

Thanks for all the info and updates. Great job.

To Beth and the rest of the update team. You guys have done a great job! It was nice to get up this morning and see that Chris and them had dropped and to also know why! The first few years of web updates either had very few updates, or only updates of people dropping with no explanation. This stuff has come a long way and you guys are really doing a great job this year. Thanks!

You’re doing great with the updates…THANKS!!!

All volunteers…you are doing a wonderful job. The new system is is great for info before, during and after the race. You did it up royal Yak.

I have never been on the edge of my seat watching paint dry like these last 30 hours. What a great way to watch AR across the country. I think the refresh button on my leaderboard is worn out. Thank you to all the people who made this possible. This has been a great way to begin the AR year.

Great event coverage…best I’ve seen yet…good job getting so many
folks linked and communicating…pics, Tweets, etc…Fun to watch.

The new version of Race Central will be unveiled this weekend during the North Georgia Adventure Race, the first Checkpoint Tracker event of 2010. The new version features a micro-blog, polls, news alerts, photos and a leaderboard.

Checkpoint Zero is sending two squads to compete and the rest of us will be working a TA on the course. We’ll be posting updates to Race Central via Twitter, serving hot soup and doing our best to stay warm.

Coverage begins during Check In on Friday afternoon:

http://www.checkpointtracker.com/events/5/race_central

When you add an Event to your Team Schedule a Squad is created. The Squad is associated with the Event and your Team. A Team may send more than one Squad to an Event. Each Squad has a unique name and competes in one Division.

By default the Registration Status of every new Squad created is set to “Pending”. Once you have completed registering for the Event…via an off-site process or through Checkpoint Tracker (when this feature is deployed)…the Event Promoter will log into the site and set the Registration Status for your Squad to “Confirmed”.

If you have completed registration and paid for your entry, but your Squad’s Registration Status remains set on “Pending” then the Event Promoter has not updated Checkpoint Tracker to “Confirm” your registration.

Checkpoint Tracker’s ranking system depends on the accuracy of underlying data about Racers, Teams and Events. For this reason only Teams that have been setup in advance of an Event, added that Event to their Team Schedule, and had their Registration Status marked “Confirmed” by the Event Promoter can be granted points or be ranked.

While each is simple, there are several steps required to get your Team ready to race and be ranked in 2010:

1. Sign Up
2. Complete your Racer Profile
3. Create a Team
4. Get team-mates to Sign Up and complete their Racer profiles
5. Add team-mates to your Team
6. Add Events to your Team Schedule
7. Add Racers from your Team Roster to each Squad for each Event

Whether you ultimately register (and pay) for an Event through Checkpoint Tracker (this feature will launch next week) or off-site, we will track the Registration Status of each Squad your Team is sending to each Event as a way of confirming, via both parties (the Team and the Promoter), that your Team is in fact competing at a given Event.

By default, when you add an Event to your Team Schedule the Registration Status of the Squad that is created is set to “Pending”. The Event Promoter can edit this value and change it to “Confirmed” when they’ve received payment for your entry.

We’ll be continuing to provide detailed information about new features and requirements as they’re finalized, implemented and rolled out.

In the meantime the important thing for you to be focusing on is getting your Team set up and getting your Team Schedule dialed in.

If you have questions, suggestions, smart remarks or recipes…please feel free to contact us at admin@checkpointtracker.com.