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Track and Field

Purpose

Provide a practical map of track and field workflows in 2Timer, with emphasis on the parts of the UI that are distinct to this product.

What is distinct in 2Timer

2Timer’s track and field workflow is built around a few meet-wide defaults that carry through the rest of setup and race day:

  • a Seeding profile can be chosen as part of new-meet setup
  • the event-selection wizard lets you choose preset events by discipline and set round counts before the meet is created
  • track venue defaults such as Track length, Track shape, Oval lane count, and Straight lane count live on the meet settings page
  • field-event units are controlled by Measurement system
  • team scoring can use separate place-point ladders for individuals and relays
  • team scoring can also cap how many individual finishers or relay squads per school can score

This means a lot of T&F behavior is driven from meet settings and wizard defaults rather than being configured one event at a time from scratch.

Start here

If you are creating or checking a T&F meet before race day, start with:

If you are working on a specific race-day task, go directly to:

Common T&F workflow in 2Timer

  1. Create the meet as Track & Field Indoor or Track & Field Outdoor.
  2. In the new-meet wizard, choose a Seeding profile if you want discipline-based defaults from the start.
  3. Build the event list from the event matrices for timed events, field events, and relays.
  4. Set round counts in the wizard for events that need prelims, semis, or finals.
  5. Add any custom timed, field, or relay events that are not covered by the preset catalog.
  6. Import athletes and entries.
  7. Review meet settings such as venue, lane counts, field units, scoring ladders, and scorer caps.
  8. Seed heats, lanes, or flights.
  9. Run results entry for track, field, and relay events.
  10. Review reports, team scores, exports, and publishing outputs.

Meet-level settings worth checking

On the T&F meet settings page, there are several controls that are easy to overlook but affect downstream workflows:

  • Track length
  • Track shape for indoor meets
  • Oval lane count
  • Straight lane count
  • Measurement system
  • Seeding profile
  • Assign overall place by
  • Assign group place by
  • Individual place points
  • Relay place points
  • Individual scorers per school
  • Relay squads per school

These settings are part of what makes 2Timer distinct: the app lets you define general meet behavior once, then override more narrowly only when needed.

Event setup in 2Timer

The new-meet T&F flow is not just a blank event list.

2Timer starts with separate sections for:

  • Track Events
  • Field Events
  • Relay events

Inside those sections, preset events are grouped by discipline and shown in a matrix with:

  • girls / boys selection
  • a Both option
  • a Rounds control per event

You can also add:

  • + Other timed event
  • + Other field event
  • + Other relay event

That makes it practical to start from a standard catalog while still supporting nonstandard or local events.

Scoring behavior that is easy to miss

2Timer can score T&F with separate rules for individuals and relays.

At the meet level, you can define:

  • an individual place-points ladder
  • a relay place-points ladder
  • a cap on individual scorers per school
  • a cap on relay squads per school

If the relay ladder is left blank, relays fall back to the individual ladder. If scorer-cap fields are blank or 0, scoring is unlimited for that category.

This is a meaningful distinction from simpler setups that only support one shared ladder for everything.

Which guide should I use?

Use Track and Field Setup if you are still building the meet structure.

Use Seeding and Advancement if you are assigning heats or moving athletes between rounds.

Use Seeding Profiles and Defaults if you want new meets and rounds to inherit smarter seeding defaults.

Use Team-Lane Seeding if lanes need to stay associated with teams in lane-start events.

Use Field Events if you are entering attempts, passes, heights, fouls, wind, or full flights.

Use Relays if you are working with relay squads, school letters, or relay composition.

Use Track and Field Team Scoring if you are configuring place ladders, scorer caps, or scoring rules.

Use Multi-Events if one combined event is made of several component events.

Use FinishLynx for Track and Field if your workflow depends on Lynx exchange files or LIF/LFF imports.

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