Automatic detection of participants in a different wave (Waves Detector)

The Waves Detector helps you time events with several waves. Some participants often start in an earlier or later wave than the one they are assigned to. Copernico compares each participant's start time with the start time of their assigned wave, detects those who started in a different wave (earlier or later) and lets you move them, all at once, to the wave they actually started in.

Detection is based on the participant's start time. If a participant has no start time, it is not possible to tell whether they are in the correct wave.

1. How to use the Waves Detector

1. Go to Participants and select the event in the header selector. With All events selected, nothing is detected.
2. In the right side bar, click the warning icon (triangle) Waves Detector. It is only available in Copernico for timers, not in the organizer access.

Only waves that have already started are proposed. If no participant started in a different wave, the panel shows the message “Everything seems to be fine! Good job!” and there is nothing to reassign. Otherwise, follow these steps:

3. The panel groups the proposed changes: each block shows the original wave (From) and the detected wave (To), the maximum difference (Max gap, + if they started later, − if earlier) and the number of participants (click it to open Participants filtered by them). Expand a block to see each participant: bib, name and difference from their wave's start time. Use the search box to find a participant by bib or name.
4. All proposed participants are selected. Clear the ones you do not want to change, one by one or with the block check box.
5. Click Reassign. Copernico moves the selected participants to the detected wave.

The selected participants are now in the wave they actually started in.

Related articles: Multiple waves · Starting a wave from Copernico · Start time mode.

2. Video transcript

The video for this article is only available in the Spanish version; this is a translation of its narration.

Hello. Sometimes our race will be set up with multiple waves. In these cases it is common to have participants who, despite being assigned to a specific wave, end up starting later or earlier when the time comes. With the wave selector [today, the Waves Detector button in Participants] we will let Copernico analyze the participants' waves and the times of their start reads, and suggest some changes.

After opening the selector [today, the Waves Detector panel] we will see that we have several lines. At the top we have a menu to search by bib [today, a search box by bib or name]. Each line shows the changes from the wave the participant is assigned to, to the one Copernico thinks they should be in. We have an indicator of the maximum difference from the corresponding wave [Max gap] and the number of participants we will be able to make this change for.

If we expand it, we will see the details of the participants included in this calculation. We can select all the participants or some of them and, simply by clicking reassign [Reassign button], we will move them from one wave to the next.

As a recommendation, if you want to keep track of the changes you make in the race issues, we would recommend making the wave changes one at a time: simply select the wave you want to change, from 9:00 to 9:05, and reassign it; then you can go back to the menu, let it analyze again and make the next one. This lets us have the wave changes in different issues, which can be deleted if necessary, although there is no problem in selecting them all and reassigning them at once. With this, we see that the participants change waves and will be in the corresponding wave.