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Monitoring Competition Status (Controls & Standings)

Alongside safety monitoring, the Live Console lets you track punches at each control (spot) and view live provisional standings by category.

1. Monitoring Movement on the Live Map​

The live map on the middle-left displays real-time positions for all runners, course lines, controls, and play area boundaries.

Marker Display Rules​

  • 🔵 Blue: Actively running on course
  • ⚪ White (blue border): Signal lost (no update for 10+ minutes)
  • 🔴 Red (red halo + badge): Active SOS, or inside restricted area / out of bounds
  • ⚪ Gray: Finished runners (hidden by default; check Show finished in the top-right of the map to display)
Individual rendering without clustering

Even with large fields, the Live Console renders every participant as an individual dot rather than clustering markers into numbered circles. This preserves exact course density and runner distribution.

2. "Controls" Tab and Punch Timeline​

The Controls tab at the bottom lists every control on course alongside total punch count and time of last visit.

Control Punch Timeline​

Clicking any control row switches the right panel to the Visitors panel.

  • Participants who punched the control appear in reverse chronological order (most recent first).
  • Clicking a runner navigates directly to their Participant Detail Panel.
  • Selecting the start control shows start order; selecting the finish control shows finish order (including DNFs).
Detecting missed or problematic controls

If a control shows zero punches well into the competition, it provides early warning of issues like missing flag markers or routing confusion on course.

3. Using the "Standings" Tab​

The Standings tab at the bottom displays live standings calculated for each category in real time.

  • Score Courses: Provisional scores reflect total punched points minus automatic overtime penalty deductions. Overtime deductions update in real time as running time elapses. Current Location button penalties and time additions (the totals the participant's app writes to the record) are also included, so the score matches the one in the participant's app. Replay scores do not include them, because the time they were used is not recorded.
  • Straight Courses: Standings rank runners by total controls punched followed by elapsed time.
  • Final vs. Provisional: Finished runners display a Final badge; runners still on course show a Provisional badge.
  • Location-sharing events: Participants do not compete, so they appear in neither the standings nor the scores.
  • Ranked by score or by controls punched: This depends on the category settings (course type).
  • Runners with several runs: If someone ran the same category more than once, the standings use their best run among the records shown (live: the last 48 hours plus runners on course; a past day: that day's records). This is not always the latest run. Even if their latest run is a DNF, an earlier finished run still appears in the standings. The Participants tab, the map and the alerts show the run they started most recently.
  • Shared Entry Numbers: When different participants use the same Entry Number, only the best of them is ranked; the others appear below the table as Unofficial Results, without a rank.
  • Differences from the results list in the participant app: Runners with the same result get consecutive ranks (1, 2, 3; the app shows 1, 1, 3). Runners with a DNF do not appear in the standings (the app lists them last as DNF). The elapsed time of runners on course is counted from the time the participant's app writes to the record, so it matches the app.