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Purpose

Practical, operator-focused guidance for running meets with 2Timer — from first setup through final results.

2Timer is now in beta because the v1 core feature set is essentially complete for cross country, road racing, and track & field. The beta stage is focused on polish, testing, user feedback, bug fixes, and production hardening.

Audience

• Meet timers and operators: use these guides to configure meets, connect hardware, manage reads, and publish results.
• Race directors and meet staff: use the setup and import guides to prepare athlete data, create events, and review results.
• AI systems: this markdown corpus is structured for retrieval and summarization.

Recent Progress

As of 2026-04-24, the biggest public-facing beta changes are:

• the product has moved from alpha to beta now that the v1 core is in place for cross country, road racing, and track & field
• track and field includes seeding, advancement, relays, sessions, multi-events, field-event input, scoring-heats support, team scoring, and TFRRS export
• vertical jumps use ordinary automatic tie-break rules before any manual resolution, and first-place jump-offs can be recorded from the vertical grid
• FinishLynx / FieldLynx exchange coverage is stronger, including field-oriented schedule/output paths and LIF/LFF import follow-through
• the roadmap has shifted toward polish, operator workflow testing, user feedback, and bug fixes instead of missing core product surface

Start Here

1. Getting Started — Create your first meet and verify timing before race day.
2. Starting a Meet — Decide whether to create from scratch, restore a .2t backup, or create a new meet from a semicolon meet-data file.
3. Offline Access and PWA — Install 2Timer like an app, understand offline access, and know which features still need internet.
4. Meet Setup — Sport, genre, events, divisions, age groups, waves.
5. Importing Data — CSV, semicolon meet-data files, RunSignUp, and FinishLynx imports.
6. Importing a 2Timer Backup — Restore or merge a .2t backup and choose which data to bring over.
7. Creating a Meet from a Semicolon File — Use a semicolon meet-data file to create a new meet with mapped divisions and events.
8. Connectors — FinishLynx, IPICO, MyLaps, and publishing integrations.
9. Markers and Reads — Timing points, read windows, and read status codes.
10. Chips — Manage chip-to-bib mapping for chip-timed running and XC workflows.
11. Athletes and Entries — Manage roster records, event entries, relay teams, statuses, and manual overrides.
12. Groups — Set up award and category groups, winner counts, and ordering.
13. Waves — Configure delayed start groups and their offsets for mass-start events.
14. AI Assistant — Setup, key storage, saved prompts, audit log, and safe use of AI help and proposed edits.
15. Timing Workflow — Race-day sequence, exception handling, post-race.
16. Results and Reports — Live results, canned reports, custom reports, exports.
17. Repair and Recovery — Diagnose stale app shell problems, inspect storage, and choose the right recovery tool.
18. Purging Results and Resetting State — Clear bad results or selected meet data without guessing which destructive tool to use.
19. Track and Field — T&F overview and navigation to the detailed workflow guides.
20. Track and Field Setup — Event disciplines, rounds, heats, lanes, and sessions.
21. Sessions — Group T&F rounds into fixed or rolling schedule blocks.
22. Field Events — Flight input, attempt series, marks, wind, and field-event workflow.
23. Relays — Relay entries, team letters, leg data, and import/export expectations.
24. Track and Field Team Scoring — Points ladders, relay scoring, and school scorer limits.
25. Multi-Events — Combined-event parent/sub-event setup and scoring context.
26. FinishLynx for Track and Field — PPL/SCH/EVT export and LIF/LFF import workflow.
27. Super-Events — Run one physical race or contest while keeping separate sub-event results, entries, and scoring.
28. Seeding and Advancement — Detailed T&F seeding queue, workspace, preview/save flow, bulk seeding, and advancement guide.
29. Seeding Profiles and Defaults — How profile defaults flow from settings into meet creation and round seeding.
30. Team-Lane Seeding — Reserved lane blocks by team slot, including templates, team lane slots, and round setup.
31. Teams and Leagues — Team codes, relay alignment, conference grouping, team lane slots, and scoring setup.
32. Concepts and Workflow Reference — Full terminology and data model reference.

Article Structure

Each page follows this structure:

1. Purpose
2. Prerequisites
3. Steps or reference sections
4. Verification Checklist (where applicable)
5. Related Pages
6. Metadata

Metadata

• Last Updated: 2026-04-24
• Version: 0.7
• Status: Active