Unidentified Chips

Managing unidentified chips

In a race it is possible to receive readings from chips that are not assigned to any participant and that have generated readings at some location.

This may happen, for example, because an athlete has been misassigned a chip or has not been assigned a chip at all. In this case, this athlete will not appear either in the live or in the rankings.

You can view all unassigned chips in a race in the raws menu.

You can access the raws menu on on the left hand side. 

All of the timing devices have a drop down menu to see the status of singularly-read chips by way of an arrow on the right. 

The information available here will include chips read by the device at the timing point, grouped into the following categories:

• Chips associated with an athlete in an event. 
• Unassigned chips that are within the configured sequencing of the race. 
• Unassigned chips that are outside of the configured sequencing of the race. 

By clicking on an unassigned chip you can see all of the reads it generated in each timing point, as well as create or assign an athlete to it. 

Also, you have the option to create a series of pseudo athletes in order to retrieve readings from the unassociated chips. 

Follow these steps:

1. Select the icon “Creation of tags without data”, situated on the right hand side bar under the raws section. 

2. The “Creation of tags without data” will show all of the unassigned chips inside and outside of the configured race sequencing. In the next image only shows out of the range 

3. A few things can be chosen: 
   • You can select a event to create. For excample, if you know that a certain chip range belongs to an event, select that event to create the participants in that event.
   • You can select only a few chips.
   • And you can also change the prefix you want to use to create the “unassigned bibs/chips” in the field "name pattern for created participants". In this example prefix "TAG".

Normally you will only use the chips that sit inside the configured race sequence.

Copernico will open the participants menu where we can continue working with the new information from these tags. 

For example we can assign a chip to an event, sex, category and a wave if there is more than one. 

After the tags have been created, they will have rankings just like any other participant.