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DiveMeets
is the most advanced and comprehensive Diving Management
System in the world. DiveMeets is the system other programs
try to copy. While imitation may be the most sincere form
of flattery, we want you to know there is only one DiveMeets.
We will continue to lead the way. We are always moving forward
creating new, exciting and often revolutionary concepts
for the diving community.
The
DiveMeets philosophy:
- Always
put the Divers first
- Never
say can't
- Always
listen
We listen
to you the divers, the coaches, the meet managers, the parents,
the spectators and the governing bodies. You are the sport
of Diving. Your needs are DiveMeets priorities. Many elements
found in DiveMeets have come directly from your request
and suggestions. We consider you valued partners. Together
we have broken many old molds and introduced new concepts
into diving, still there is much more to do. We want to
make attending meets more fun, we want to encourage new
divers to join the sport. We want current divers to be proud
of the sport, stay in the sport, practice and improve. We
are providing parents unprecedented real-time interactive
information to follow their divers progress. You can not
keep kids in the sport if the parents are left out of the
sport. Looking to the future DiveMeets will continue to
refine, improve and innovate.
DiveMeets
was created to improve:
- The
Pre Meet Experience
- The
Actual Meet Experience
- The
Post Meet Experience
Ways
DiveMeets Has Improved The Pre Meet Experience:
The
DiveMeets system is unique. DiveMeets pre meet innovations
are too many to list but here are a few:
- Generate
an interactive
online list of upcoming DiveMeets
- Allow
divers to click on an upcoming meet and register for the
meet online in real-time.
- Automatically
check age eligibility in real-time,
- Automatically
check gender
eligibility in real-time
- Automatically
check dive sheets for rules compliance in real-time
- Automatically
check the divers current membership status for organizations
including United States Diving and AAU Diving in real-time
- Provide
secure real-time online entry fee payment for meets with
entry fees
- Filter
to allow only eligible divers to enter meets that do not
have entry fees (example NCAA meets)
- Instantly
show the divers name and dive sheet online as soon as
the diver enters a meet
- Accept
electronic signatures for drug testing and registration
forms for selected Meets
When
the DiveMeets online registration was unveiled in it was
so revolutionary, we were told it would not work. Most of
the diving establishment at the time said people will never
enter meets online. That is hard to believe today.
Ways
DiveMeets Has Improved The Actual Meet Experience:
Prior
to DiveMeets, meets were run in so many ways it was impossible
to know what to expect until you arrived at the pool. Everything
from the check-in table process to adding the dive scores
was a patch work of different procedures. There were some
clubs with strong parent support groups who ran excellent
meets. There were also clubs who would literally pull parents
out of the stands to run the score tables regardless of
the parents knowledge of the sport, math abilities or attention
span. Dive changes were often not checked for rules violations,
age eligibility was not always checked. Even current memberships
were not always verified.
Addition
and DD calculations errors were common. Divers sometimes
went home with wrong place awards. Divers sometimes advanced
to higher level meets based on sheets with adding errors.
Conversely some divers stayed at home for meets they actually
should have qualified for. It was not uncommon to see as
many as 7 people working together at a score table passing
sheets back and forth calculating scores every 30 seconds
for events that may take hours to complete. Of course mistakes
were made.
Prior
to DiveMeets even meets using computers were capable of
errors. Some of the early computer score calculations were
done using a parents homemade excel sheet. Other meets used
basic meet scoring software distributed on CD. Some of these
programs are only updated one time per year when a new CD
was released. In the meantime If an incorrect DD value was
programed into the program the resulting scores would be
wrong. If program permitted a diver to do a illegal dive
the scores were wrong. If the program contained a code glitch
the program would crash. These programs were also labor
intensive. Dive sheets had to be manually transcribed from
hand written dives sheets, this process could take many
hours to complete and resulted in numerous dive sheet errors.
.
Divers
were sent home with hand written score sheets. Unless there
was a scoreboard in use during the meet, it was difficult
or impossible for the divers, coaches and spectators to
know who was winning. When events did finish it was not
uncommon for the results to be withheld for extended periods
of time. What kind of a sport does not tell anyone who is
wining until after the contest has concluded?
DiveMeets
decided to take on all of these issues. The DiveMeets Meet
Control Software has never been distributed on CD. Our software
is downloaded from DiveMeets.com. After each meet our software
is UN-installed . If a upgrade is made in our software today,
it will be included in a meet we run tomorrow. We update
rules changes from diving organizations as soon as they
are announced. Getting the rules right is our business.
During
events DiveMeets offers a complete leader board to be shown
on a second Monitor. This monitor should be placed for divers
and coaches to see during a competition. It displays where
each diver is at all time during a event, where they finished
at the end of the preceding round, where they are in the
current round, and how many points they need to catch up.
When an event is over the divers immediately know where
they placed.
If there
is not a scoreboard in use during the meet, DiveMeets encourages
meets directors to provide additional leader board monitors
for the spectators or project the information at indoor
pools. If the pool has an Internet connection scores can
be sent live to DiveMeets.Com to be seen around the world.
Because
divers register for DiveMeets online, no one transcribes
their dive sheets into our software. After our online registration
close, the meet is downloaded into DiveMeets Meet Control
software ready to run. All list reports and results are
printed at the score table. Divers are not asked to read
or save anything hand written.
DiveMeets
Meet Control interfaces with the sports most used electronic
judge pads and scoreboards including unprecedented ease
of operation with Daktronics and Colorado Time systems.
This reduces the number people needed at a score table to
2. Any meet can be run with an announcer who ( has a printed
announcers list available) announces directly from the DiveMeets
computer and a paper back up person. The paper back up person
does not do any adding, they just write the judge awards
6, 5.5, 6 etc. In the unlikely event a computer is lost,
the event would continue. At the end of the event the paper
back up scores would be entered into another DiveMeets computer
to be calculated.
Ways
DiveMeets Has Improved The Post Meet Experience:
Prior
to DiveMeets there was no standard for saving meet data.
The vast majority of meets did not care about saving the
data at all. When a meet was over it was over. Divers got
their awards and everyone went home. For large meets the
results and sometimes the actual judge scores were saved
but not in a uniform format. Even when meet data was saved
it was limited in the amount of data collected. Detailed
data for meets run without DiveMeets can be difficult or
impossible to find on the Internet.
DiveMeets
was the first to say data from all meets is very important
and must be saved. DiveMeets starts saving data as soon
as we get a meet and continues until the last score is entered.
This is some of the data captured by DiveMeets:
- The
name of the meet
- The
date of the meet
- The
location of the meet
- The
name of the meet director
- Contact
information for the meet director (hidden in secure data
base)
- The
name of the host club
- The
name of the coach of the host club
- The
team name of the host club
- The
meet schedule
- The
meet rules
- The
sanctioning organization
- The
divers whom entered the meet
- The
divers contact information (hidden in secure data base)
- The
divers age at the time of the meet
- The
divers birthday (hidden is secure data base)
- The
divers year in High School if still in HS
- The
divers team affiliation
- The
divers nationality affiliation
- The
divers attending coach
- The
divers coach contact information (hidden in secure data
base)
- List
of all scheduled events
- List
of all divers whom scratched from an event
- List
of all divers who switched events
- List
of all teams to attend the meet
- List
of all coaches to attend the meet
- List
of all coaches who judged in the meet
- List
of all judges in the meet who are also registered with
DiveMeets as divers
- List
of all judge panels with the judges names and seat positions
- List
of all scores awarded by each judge
- Number
of events each judge judged
- Number
of scores each judge gave
- List
of all divers per event
- List
of dives changed prior to an event and the name of the
new dive (including the DD for both dives)
- List
of dives changed during an event and the name of the new
dive (including the DD for both dives)
- Scores
awarded to each diver for every dive
- List
of balk dives for each diver
- List
of failed dives for each diver
- List
of hit board dives (this is for an accident prevention
database we are building)
- The
divers final score
- The
divers final placement
- The
points needed for each diver to catch every diver in front
of them
- The
average time per dive by event
The
list above is a partial list of data collected by DiveMeets
for every meet. With this data it is possible to produce
an almost infinite number of reports, rankings, comparisons,
graphs and more. These reports can provide information from
a single meet or multiple meets. Data from even the smallest
meets is important. DiveMeets can graph a divers progress
starting with their first novice meet. This data can be
of great value. Not only can a single divers progress be
graphed, multiple divers progress can be compared in a graph.
DiveMeets reports are a diverse as the imagination of the
person requesting them. (Customized reports are created
on request. Contact DiveMeets for Details)
DiveMeets.com
currently invites you to use our free real-time Diver
Rankings. Divers can be ranked based on the criteria
you select for the ranking. This is the first real-time
online diver ranking system in the world. We also provide
detailed drill down information for every DiveMeets meet.
Viewers can select any meet, event, diver, dive, judge,
coach, team or score to see more detailed information. Another
DiveMeets original is our real-time interactive List
Of All Dives. The list shows all possible dives and
how many times each dive has been performed in a DiveMeets
meet. To make the list even better we show the average scores
the dive receives and the highest score the dive has ever
received. You can even see when and where the dives have
been done and the divers names. This is as fun as it is
informative.
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