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DiveMeets is the most advanced
and comprehensive Diving Management System in the world. DiveMeets is the system
other programs try to copy. While imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery,
we want you to know there is only one DiveMeets. We will continue to lead the
way. We are always moving forward creating new, exciting and often revolutionary
concepts for the diving community. The
DiveMeets philosophy: - Always
put the Divers first
- Never
say can't
- Always
listen
We
listen to you the divers, the coaches, the meet managers, the parents, the spectators
and the governing bodies. You are the sport of Diving. Your needs are DiveMeets
priorities. Many elements found in DiveMeets have come directly from your request
and suggestions. We consider you valued partners. Together we have broken many
old molds and introduced new concepts into diving, still there is much more to
do. We want to make attending meets more fun, we want to encourage new divers
to join the sport. We want current divers to be proud of the sport, stay in the
sport, practice and improve. We are providing parents unprecedented real-time
interactive information to follow their divers progress. You can not keep kids
in the sport if the parents are left out of the sport. Looking to the future DiveMeets
will continue to refine, improve and innovate. DiveMeets
was created to improve: - The
Pre Meet Experience
- The
Actual Meet Experience
- The
Post Meet Experience
Ways DiveMeets Has Improved The Pre Meet Experience: The
DiveMeets system is unique. DiveMeets pre meet innovations are too many to list
but here are a few: - Generate
an interactive
online list of upcoming DiveMeets
- Allow
divers to click on an upcoming meet and register for the meet online in real-time.
- Automatically
check age eligibility in real-time,
- Automatically
check gender eligibility in
real-time
- Automatically
check dive sheets for rules compliance in real-time
- Automatically
check the divers current membership status for organizations including United
States Diving and AAU Diving in real-time
- Provide
secure real-time online entry fee payment for meets with entry fees
- Filter
to allow only eligible divers to enter meets that do not have entry fees (example
NCAA meets)
- Instantly
show the divers name and dive sheet online as soon as the diver enters a meet
- Accept
electronic signatures for drug testing and registration forms for selected Meets
When
the DiveMeets online registration was unveiled in it was so revolutionary, we
were told it would not work. Most of the diving establishment at the time said
people will never enter meets online. That is hard to believe today. Ways
DiveMeets Has Improved The Actual Meet Experience: Prior
to DiveMeets, meets were run in so many ways it was impossible to know what to
expect until you arrived at the pool. Everything from the check-in table process
to adding the dive scores was a patch work of different procedures. There were
some clubs with strong parent support groups who ran excellent meets. There were
also clubs who would literally pull parents out of the stands to run the score
tables regardless of the parents knowledge of the sport, math abilities or attention
span. Dive changes were often not checked for rules violations, age eligibility
was not always checked. Even current memberships were not always verified. Addition
and DD calculations errors were common. Divers sometimes went home with wrong
place awards. Divers sometimes advanced to higher level meets based on sheets
with adding errors. Conversely some divers stayed at home for meets they actually
should have qualified for. It was not uncommon to see as many as 7 people working
together at a score table passing sheets back and forth calculating scores every
30 seconds for events that may take hours to complete. Of course mistakes were
made. Prior to
DiveMeets even meets using computers were capable of errors. Some of the early
computer score calculations were done using a parents homemade excel sheet. Other
meets used basic meet scoring software distributed on CD. Some of these programs
are only updated one time per year when a new CD was released. In the meantime
If an incorrect DD value was programed into the program the resulting scores would
be wrong. If program permitted a diver to do a illegal dive the scores were wrong.
If the program contained a code glitch the program would crash. These programs
were also labor intensive. Dive sheets had to be manually transcribed from hand
written dives sheets, this process could take many hours to complete and resulted
in numerous dive sheet errors. . Divers
were sent home with hand written score sheets. Unless there was a scoreboard in
use during the meet, it was difficult or impossible for the divers, coaches and
spectators to know who was winning. When events did finish it was not uncommon
for the results to be withheld for extended periods of time. What kind of a sport
does not tell anyone who is wining until after the contest has concluded?
DiveMeets decided to take on all of these issues. The DiveMeets Meet Control Software
has never been distributed on CD. Our software is downloaded from DiveMeets.com.
After each meet our software is Uninstalled . If a upgrade is made in our software
today, it will be included in a meet we run tomorrow. We update rules changes
from diving organizations as soon as they are announced. Getting the rules right
is our business. During
events DiveMeets offers a complete leader board to be shown on a second Monitor.
This monitor should be placed for divers and coaches to see during a competition.
It displays where each diver is at all time during a event, where they finished
at the end of the preceding round, where they are in the current round, and how
many points they need to catch up. When an event is over the divers immediately
know where they placed. If
there is not a scoreboard in use during the meet, DiveMeets encourages meets directors
to provide additional leader board monitors for the spectators or project the
information at indoor pools. If the pool has an Internet connection scores can
be sent live to DiveMeets.Com to be seen around the world. Because
divers register for DiveMeets online, no one transcribes their dive sheets into
our software. After our online registration close, the meet is downloaded into
DiveMeets Meet Control software ready to run. All list reports and results are
printed at the score table. Divers are not asked to read or save anything hand
written. DiveMeets
Meet Control interfaces with the sports most used electronic judge pads and scoreboards
including unprecedented ease of operation with Daktronics and Colorado Time systems.
This reduces the number people needed at a score table to 2. Any meet can be run
with an announcer who ( has a printed announcers list available) announces directly
from the DiveMeets computer and a paper back up person. The paper back up person
does not do any adding, they just write the judge awards 6, 5.5, 6 etc. In the
unlikely event a computer is lost, the event would continue. At the end of the
event the paper back up scores would be entered into another DiveMeets computer
to be calculated. Ways
DiveMeets Has Improved The Post Meet Experience: Prior
to DiveMeets there was no standard for saving meet data. The vast majority of
meets did not care about saving the data at all. When a meet was over it was over.
Divers got their awards and everyone went home. For large meets the results and
sometimes the actual judge scores were saved but not in a uniform format. Even
when meet data was saved it was limited in the amount of data collected. Detailed
data for meets run without DiveMeets can be difficult or impossible to find on
the Internet.
DiveMeets was the first to say data from all meets is very important and must
be saved. DiveMeets starts saving data as soon as we get a meet and continues
until the last score is entered. This is some of the data captured by DiveMeets:
- The name of the meet
- The
date of the meet
- The
location of the meet
- The
name of the meet director
- Contact
information for the meet director (hidden in secure data base)
- The
name of the host club
- The
name of the coach of the host club
- The
team name of the host club
- The
meet schedule
- The
meet rules
- The
sanctioning organization
- The
divers whom entered the meet
- The
divers contact information (hidden in secure data base)
- The
divers age at the time of the meet
- The
divers birthday (hidden is secure data base)
- The
divers year in High School if still in HS
- The
divers team affiliation
- The
divers nationality affiliation
- The
divers attending coach
- The
divers coach contact information (hidden in secure data base)
- List
of all scheduled events
- List
of all divers whom scratched from an event
- List
of all divers who switched events
- List
of all teams to attend the meet
- List
of all coaches to attend the meet
- List
of all coaches who judged in the meet
- List
of all judges in the meet who are also registered with DiveMeets as divers
- List
of all judge panels with the judges names and seat positions
- List
of all scores awarded by each judge
- Number
of events each judge judged
- Number
of scores each judge gave
- List
of all divers per event
- List
of dives changed prior to an event and the name of the new dive (including the
DD for both dives)
- List
of dives changed during an event and the name of the new dive (including the DD
for both dives)
- Scores
awarded to each diver for every dive
- List
of balk dives for each diver
- List
of failed dives for each diver
- List
of hit board dives (this is for an accident prevention database we are building)
- The
divers final score
- The
divers final placement
- The
points needed for each diver to catch every diver in front of them
- The
average time per dive by event
The
list above is a partial list of data collected by DiveMeets for every meet. With
this data it is possible to produce an almost infinite number of reports, rankings,
comparisons, graphs and more. These reports can provide information from a single
meet or multiple meets. Data from even the smallest meets is important. DiveMeets
can graph a divers progress starting with their first novice meet. This data can
be of great value. Not only can a single divers progress be graphed, multiple
divers progress can be compared in a graph. DiveMeets reports are a diverse as
the imagination of the person requesting them. (Customized reports are created
on request. Contact DiveMeets for Details) DiveMeets.com
currently invites you to use our free real-time Diver
Rankings. Divers can be ranked based on the criteria you select for the ranking.
This is the first real-time online diver ranking system in the world. We also
provide detailed drill down information for every DiveMeets meet. Viewers can
select any meet, event, diver, dive, judge, coach, team or score to see more detailed
information. Another DiveMeets original is our real-time interactive List
Of All Dives. The list shows all possible dives and how many times
each dive has been performed in a DiveMeets meet. To make the list even better
we show the average scores the dive receives and the highest score the dive has
ever received. You can even see when and where the dives have been done and the
divers names. This is as fun as it is informative.
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