After timing some slalom races and a surf ski race, CloudTimer added another paddle sports discipline to the list: The first downriver race was timed this weekend. The venue was the Viking Venlo Club and the race was the Dutch Downriver Classic. A downriver race is a lot easier to time with CloudTimer then a […]
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Dutch and Belgian Championships
Last weekend a major step was taken for the CloudTimer team: the first officially timed national championships. The organisation was executed by a group of volunteers of both the Dutch and Belgian national canoe federations. The venue of this event was the Royal Mava Club Sauheid near the Belgian town of Liège. The Royal Mava […]
Bollen Boys Dutch Coast Race 2016
Last Saturday the Dutch Coast Race was held and timed with the latest version of CloudTimer. The Dutch Coast Race is an international surfski event, organised by Surfski Holland. About a hundred competitors from fifteen countries paddled from Castricum to Schoorl, a distance of about 22 KM. It took the winner, Sean Rice from South Africa, […]
MTB mini downhill cup
Last weekend we visited the MTB mini downhill cup in Wijchen (NL). This race is held on an artificial ski slope and is the second race in a series of 5 races in The Netherlands. The best way to get to know the MTB Downhill sport is to do a real time test along with […]
Holland Cup 3: Alge Timy vs CloudTimer
Last weekend, during Holland Cup 3 in the Netherlands, we did an important parallel test between the Alge Timy with start/finish beams and CloudTimer in manual timing mode. After a lot of lab & field testing, and development iterations we achieved great results in this competition. The competition setup The Holland Cup is a Dutch national race […]
Timing accuracy vs system accuracy
At CloudTimer we are doing a lot of lab and field tests to test & prove the accuracy of our sports timing app. While doing so we felt the need to clarify what this means: accuracy. Because a system can be extremely accurate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the timing of an athlete will […]
Holland Cup 2: Step by step
Our ambition with CloudTimer is to make race organisation/timing easy, but man, that’s hard! Last weekend we did the Holland Cup 2 at the Volmolence Kano Club in Waalre (Netherlands). With about 100 participants divided over the sprint, slalom and downriver it was again a nice step up from the last race. The Holland Cup […]
CloudTimer goes official at Holland Cup
CloudTimer isn’t yet officially available in the app stores, but we timed our first official race! Canoe slalom Holland Cup 1 near Utrecht, the Netherlands was the decor for this milestone event. The Holland Cup is a Dutch race series governed by the national canoe federation. Holland Cup Canoe Slalom Utrecht With almost 40 participants and two runs during […]
Timing accuracy of RaceGorilla
RaceGorilla is developed to make sports timing as easy as possible without the need to invest in expensive hardware. To do so, we chose an everyday device aka smartphones to fulfil the timing and scoring need. But since a smartphone is not a professional real time timing device the question was raised if the timing […]
