Rizal Philippines
March 7, 2016
The bedlam and confusion at the finish line, and the cheating that goes on can be minimized by having RFID timing system.
Better system organization needed
While there are plenty of staff, more training and observance of processes to ensure fairness and sportsmanship is needed. Many riders took advantage of the loophole:
1. Lack of scrutineering of bikes. While the application form specified tire size of not lower than 2.0, there were many bikes which had narrower, lighter tires. Unfair.
2. More system needed in monitoring loops completed . There should be 2 recorders of per rider who passed by all ready. This was done at the loop finish, but there should be another one at the diversion because he could have picked up the ribbons on the road, dropped by other riders and made a short cut. And then the number of ribbons should have been checked at the finish line, even at random, and checked vs the written record.
An RFID monitoring system (but this would be expensive to have the transponder (meron bang for rent) and a race monitoring software should be made available. This post said that the reusable RFID chip cost only $5 each. This would reduce need for manpower, reduce confusion and bedlam, protest at finish line, anwarding
From Webscorer - Recommended Set Up for Chip Timing
Webscorer version2.1
Rfid Timing (list of suppliers)
PDF low cost RFID timing device for bike race
