WPC LEADERBOARD 2015: RE-WRITING HISTORY
When it works ... Leading the way, the Bassmaster Classic in the USA is the benchmark in angling tournament technology
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A few days ago I watched a TV quiz show. During the small introduction talk the quizmaster asked one of the competitors about his hobbies, for instance if he liked history. The competitor answered “no”, which I found strange.
Surely, isn’t 99% of quiz questions about
history, things in the past? But what does this have to do with the leaderboard? Well, the good thing about history is that we can learn things from it. For last year’s World Predator Classic and
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World Carp Classic the leaderboard app was introduced. Unfortunately it became clear that mobile network providers were not able to do what they promised in their advertisements. Although they claimed to offer complete coverage, internet was not usable at all time. No internet means no insertion of catches, which means no
CHANGE
leaderboard. At least, the leaderboard was not always up to date like we wanted. Since the introduction of the leaderboard
app, we received several requests to make it available for tournaments by third parties. Last year it would have been possible technically, but the app was not exactly user-friendly, mainly because the developer (i.e. me) was the support system. The dependence of both internet and
support was Achilles’ both heels. The easiest solution was to rebuild the whole leaderboard app, which is exactly what we did. The app is now able to work in a worst case scenario: no internet! Jarno de Vries (
mygpstracker.nl) re-created the app in a way that it now can be used in places where there is no internet. Front- and back- end screens have been rebuilt completely, which enables use by third parties. Another issue that appeared last year
was the variety of phones. Contestants needed to use their own phone which was not always compatible with the app. To solve that problem, the organisation simply decided to provide all the phones. As you probably understand by now, the app will deliver the same data, perhaps
In a perfect world…WPC’s resident techno guru, Ron Van Den Burgh, tells us how we’re taking the lead in European event technology...
in a slightly different form. The significant changes are mainly in the field of technique. Not very visible, but very important. Every caught fish must be inserted into
the app, it will then appear immediately in the personal caught-fish-list. The app will send the fish automatically to the server, if that is successful, it will be visible in the caught-fish list. If there should be any disturbance on the internet, the app makes sure it will try every minute to send the data as long as necessary. During this whole process the contestants can keep fishing. If they catch another fish, that one can be inserted, even though the previous catch has not been confirmed yet. The back office will check the data they
receive. When the data has been approved and confirmed, the catch will be visible on the leaderboard. In the worst-case scenario of “no internet
at all” inserted catches can be downloaded by using a USB-cable. This way the back office will receive all data as inserted in the first place, no data will be lost. History told us to make some
changes....... and we did! RON VAN DEN BERGH
WORLDPREDATORCLASSIC.COM
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