New CCC Competition Model

Zone4 has been recieving several requests about support in the Race Timing Program for the new Compeition Model introduced by CCC. The new model and category structure does not require any new changes in Zone4 and is completely supported with existing concepts. The new competition model can be easily implemented using the existing Combined Category feature in Zone4. In the past, for Open Categories, you would quite often have a Parent and Sub category structure such as:

Open Men
   Junior Men
   Senior Men
Open Women
   Junior Women
   Senior Women

With the new model, you just apply the same type of parent/sub category logic to your younger categories as well so you may have a structure such as:

Atom Girls
   Age 5 (2004) A1G
   Age 6 (2003) A2G
   Age 7 (2002) A3G
   Age 8 (2001) A4G
Pee-wee Girls
   Age 8 (2001) P1G
   Age 9 (2000) P2G
   Age 10 (1999) P3G
   Age 11 (1998) P4G
Midget Girls
   Age 11 (1998) M1G
   Age 12 (1997) M2G
   Age 13 (1996) M3G
Juvenile Girls
   Age 13 (1996) JV1G
   Age 14 (1995) JV2G
   Age 15 (1994) JV3G
etc, etc

All you have to do is to create Parent and Sub categories that match the new competition model and athletes can register for their appropriate categories like they always have. Keep in mind that the Category names are simply text descriptors, they don't necessarily have to correlate to any real age or data point, they can be whatever you need them to be in order to get the athletes grouped properly for their startlist and results. Using the above Combined Category structure will provide combined results which include both the overall rank among each Parent category as well as racers sub-rank within their own Age sub category so it works perfectly for this scenario.