RAT Race Timing 
Saturday, October 26th, 2013
Feel like you’re being chased by ghosts, vampires, super heroes or even pumpkins? Run fast at the 1st Annual Daisy 5k family run/walk & kids fun run (with costume contest!) to raise money for Daisy Ingraham Elementary School’s PTO.
RAT Race Timing is able to offer a unique race day registration system that is FREE of additional entry fees, secure, paperless and quick.
Having to fill out a paper registration form on race day in order that prompt accurate results are generated and the statutory liability waiver is acknowledged, can be a time consuming process that has few checks built in to prevent errors. Incorrectly spelt names, missing age or gender details, can delay the timely publication of results and in order to prevent a delayed start, the data entry process needs enough volunteers with good typing skills to handle demand. While many participants may have elected to register in advance on-line, smaller events will often rely on race day entries for a significant proportion of their entrants and revenue. Alternative registration systems that utilize touch screen terminals are still only as fast as the registering participant can type, while the hardware can also be a significant overhead for the race organizer or timer who provides them. As an alternative these problems, RAT Race Timing has developed a windows PC based application together with a secure web service that enables entrants to generate machine readable QR codes that can be displayed either in hard copy or on their smart phone. By presenting their QR code at the registration desk, their entry information and liability waiver can be verified in seconds in a format instantly available for export to any timing system and race management database.
