Eskilstuna International Open 2008 is over, we had a great farewell party, pilots were satisfied... all is good!

Soaringspot worked really well, except some availability problems ("user ... has already maximum connections"/"invalid registration key" or something) and the annoying thing that in retrospect cancelled days look like nobody has ever flown them, when in fact all pilots were up in the air, produced and uploaded igc files, but only 25% or less managed to fly 100km (handicapped)...

And we never got the hang of folders in the picture gallery. Whenever we tried to create a directory using a template, we got an error message. So we created folder without templates, which are invisable to users. So we had to use a Q&D fix...

We at Ekeby airfield in Eskilstuna used to create our own xsl-termplates for SeeYou Competition as well as manage our own webserver etc... but this typically required >2 people for a larger competition. This time, I was doing the job alone and managed to handle 40 pilots without any bigger problems. For redundancy, we rigged a computer and a LCD projector in our cafeteria, directly displaying the html resultfiles produces by CUC. This avoids internet traffic and proved to be great those times when soaringspot was down or very laggy. Also, result upload to soaringspot is a manual operation (requires the scorer to press a button or use one of these), but using auto evaluation the scorer can actually sit in the restaurant hand have a cup of coffee while igc files are uploaded, processed, verified and results calculated and published completely automatically.

What I want to say with this is that I would like to have an "auto upload to soaringspot" option with a time interval of my choosing (x minutes or whenever a new result is in).

So, as always SeeYou was a great help. We couldn't have done it without, and also this year's premiere for soaringspot was a success. Looking forward to using it again!

/Reno