On-Line Race Entry

[De Rosa]

I believe the future for grass roots type events, that require pre-entry due to the circuit only being able to handle a certain amount of riders, lies in on-line entry.

Would you be prepared to enter a race on-line if it only accepted entries in this way and did not take postal entries. It is much easier for the organiser and we have enough organisational challenges already!

I stress that I am talking about grass-roots races and not major events that have issues such as seeding of riders/points etc to take into account.

[Adman_Rob]

I've used RiderHQ in the past and would love to enter all my races that way. Then I can finally retire the cheque book (entries is all I use the thing for).

Our bikes are all cutting edge but our admin is old fashioned...
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[Richard]

As an event organiser I'd love to have online entries for my open '10'. No more cheques that need paying in once the closing date has gone past, just get cash deposited in an account. No more would we get half the cheques made payable to the organiser and the other half made payable to the organising club which creates enough headaches on it's own.
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[IainW]

At CDNW on-line entry would not add any benefits to our grass roots events at the moment. For the RR league each rider is registered and has a number. We have a master spreadsheet with all the riders details, each event is a workbook of sign on sheets with a results sheet at the back. When an entry is recieved the reg number is input on a sign on sheet and look-up tables populates the rest of the data. After the race the riders race numbers are input to the Result sheet and the same info is auto populated to be sent to BC.

A trip to the bank is not saved by on-line entry as we also run weekly crits which are EOL so the RR league money is banked along with that. The results sheet for the crits are also produced from a master table of riders as they also register with the crit league.

[AlbertHerring]

System would be fine for me but as far as the poll goes, you're biasing your sample a lot by running it on-line, aren't you?

[De Rosa]

[De Rosa]

[Stuart]

I've sent my answer in the post.
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[De Rosa]

[IainW]

De Rosa
The first two words that you have highlighted are key, you have to do it, all on-line is doing for you is taking and banking the money!

I think riders prefer EOL for mid week events. Getting to the event after work can be a bit of a sqeze for some and any hold ups in rush hour traffic can cause the start to be missed. Also todays riders are bit soft and if it raining they may be tempted to give it a miss.

[Des]

[IainW]

There is a point of personal data and what it's used for. An on-line entry company may or may not sell your personal details, they are also able to sell stats that they have x number of cyclists, runners and triathletes using their site and push advertising in that way. All of which may be of benefit to a rider.

The costs of online entry goes to the rider, and whilst these are relatively small now, if it all goes that way, then they've got you and costs will rise.

[IainW]

[Billynobrakes]

I voted yes, as for me this is probably a preferable way of entering races.

That said if you make entries on-line only you do run the risk of alienating or even excluding certain rider.

I know in this day and age the majority of people do have computers and internet access, but not everybody does, and some of those that do don't have a clue how to use it
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[Des]