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.

These are a few things DiveMeets did first:

• Distribute our software from Internet Downloads. Before DiveMeets, software was distributed on CDs some software was only updated 1 time each year. With DiveMeets updates made today can be used at a meet tomorrow.
• Set meets up online. Creating meets online for download to computers to be used at score tables
• Let divers scroll down a list of upcoming meets, select a meet and enter the meet online in real time.
• Have divers fill out dive sheets online in real time.
• Check dive sheets online in real-time for rules, maximum and minimum DD, age eligibility and more.
• Check the current membership status of United States Diving and AAU divers in real time. Additional organizations may be easily included.
• Display all divers names and dive sheets in real time online as they enter an event.
• Let coaches and divers change dive sheets (in real time) as often as they like.
• Pay entry fees online using our highly secure payment servers.
• Allow events to be combined after a event has started. Example: One event is started rain is coming, you need to combine another event. No problem.
• Collect and accurately account for all online entry fees and additional items like banquet tickets or other items offered during the entry process
• Download DiveMeets.com Meet Control Software to score table computers. Then download meets, with divers and dives ready to score.
• Broadcast live scores and event statistics worldwide on DiveMeets.com (All you need is Internet access pool side)
• Integrate our vast data base with live scores and event statistics to show a divers average and high scores for the dive they are just about to compete.
• Upload all scores, dives, judges, team points and more to view on DiveMeets.com including diver rankings.
• Synchronize Dive Video With Judges Analysis Program
• Generate real time Diver Rankings
• Generate a Dive List in real-time, displaying the average scores and high score for every dive at a DiveMeets meet. Plus displaying how many times the dive has been done. When and where and by whom the dive has been performed and showing the judges for each dive and the awards they gave.
• Create a separate site exclusively for viewing live results on mobile phones (DiveMeets.Mobi).
• Introduce 3L Scoring (3 Element Scoring): Element 1 Everything prior to the diver's feet leaving the board, Element 2 Everything prior to any part of the diver touching the water, Element 3 every aspect of the entry into the water.
• 10th Point Scoring: Allowing Judges to enter 10th points not just whole and 1/2 points.

We also:

• Interface with Colorado Time Systems
• Interface with Daktronics Omni Sport
• Interface with Omega Ares21 and the new Swiss Timing System
• Use a variety of wired and wireless score pads including J-pads and Verifone.
• Upload to Hytek
• Provide real-time phone support during every DiveMeet anywhere in the world
• Strongly encourage meet directors to always place our live score and leader board on monitors near the score tables for the divers and coaches to see. If the pool does not have a scoreboard we encourage meet directors to place additional monitors near the spectators. It is far more enjoyable to attend a meet when everyone can see all of the divers scores and place.

Additional Features:

• Run any meet any where at any level with any rules
• Create any custom rule base
• Print dive sheets
• Print announcer list
• Print start orders
• Print paper back-up sheets
• Print teams at the meet
• Print divers at the meet
• Print coaches at the meet
• Print presumptive judge panels based on divers and teams registered in each event
• Combine events (combine events at any time, even after one or several events are started you can add another one.)
• Split events to multiple boards
• Advance divers through qualifying events
• Add, scratch, switch divers in events
• Suspend and restart events
• Change dives before and during an event
• Change scores, dives and judges after the event with password protection access
• Create judge panels with every judges name, track and save every judges score
• Generate world class judge analysis report
• Provide the option for carry over scores for some events
• Provide the ability to choose the type of dive scores to carry over for some events
• Automatically alert the score table when it is time for the judge panel to change when A and B panels are used.
• Immediately print results after a event is finished, even if you are running combined events.
• Print after event dive sheets with scores for every diver
• Allow diver to print out after event dive sheets with scores online from DiveMeets.Com
• The list above is just a very small sampling of features in the DiveMeets Meet Control software. What does DiveMeets do? Everything!