Import Competitors from FinishLynx File Format

Competitors from FinishLynx^® can be imported in StageRace so they can be used as an arrival.

Note that you can also export files for FinishLynx^®.

Introduction

Lynx System Developers, Inc. from Massachusetts, U.S.A., is a privately-owned company that supplies the latest results generation and handling technologies to the sporting industry. The company employs software and hardware engineers and has its own production division to meet the growing worldwide demand for the Lynx range of digital sports data generation tools.

FinishLynx^® is their popular photo finish and timing system. For instance, various of these systems are used at le Tour de France for intermediate timing as well as for the finishes.

The StageRace program has been made capable to import files from FinishLynx^®.

Importing

Classifications made in FinishLynx^® are available automatically in comma-delimited text format (when using the default settings).

This data can be found in a .lif file of which the name is equal to the one of the event (.evn) that is the subject.

Within StageRace, the Arrival tab provides file import. In the Import classification file dialog the text file that contains the classification data can be picked. Additionally, the file type in this dialog should be set to Lynx FinishLynx Results so that StageRace can retrieve the appropriate settings for the advanced Control import classification dialog.

Since time precision is dependent on software settings, the layout of the .lif files is slightly varying and so they have to be imported through the Control import classification dialog.

For FinishLynx^® operation, please refer to the appropriate documentation.