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Written by Josh Forester
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 12:40 |
Live Coverage Website:
http://www.RDBoard.com
After the race begins, a link will appear both on the race website and the RDBoard.com home page to the Atomic AR RDBoard.
Rank on the RDBoard Leaderboard will be displayed on the Leaderboard top to bottom. The team who gets all of the checkpoints in the least amount of time with the full team intact wins. Teams that miss/skip checkpoints will be assessed time penalties. Because this is a stage race, teams will be ranked according to their total time. After the ROC Gear Stage (Stage 1), teams will be assessed a penalty proportional to the amount of time behind the lead team. All teams will restart together at the beginning of the Reality Bikes Stage (Stage 2). So a 2nd place team after the ROC Gear Stage who is 10 minutes behind the 1st place team will have time added to their total time, since they restart all together at midnight (Saturday, 15th Night/Sunday 16th Morning).
Here are some of the menu items:
* Events shows various events covered by RDBoard, including the Atomic Adventure Race.
* Leaderboard is the live tabular view of the race and each team's progress. The right-side "Leaderboard Updates" panel is an automatically-reloading panel that polls to see if there have been any updates to the leaderboard and what the effect was on team ranking. The bottom "Live Chat" panel allows for viewers to interact with Race Management during the race by posting live comments. There are 3 tabs to the Leaderboard:
1. Leaderboard - shows data about the teams and their progress throughout the course. Details about the Teams and their status/stats, the Control Points and their locations and viewpoints from their locations, and time of arrival times/departure times/penalties associated with teams' visits to checkpoints. Click around to expand the panels.
2. Course Description - An overview of the course. It will have all the maps that teams will be plotting and following. Thus, you'll see the cheat sheet, race-director view of the course.
3. Legend - An explanation of icons used throughout the software.
* Course Map shows a more Control Point-centric view of the race. The right-side "View CP Details" panel that offers a summary view of the Control Points and allows one to see a more detailed view of a Control Point by clicking in it. The bottom "Live Chat" panel functions the same as with the Leaderboard menu item above. There are 3 tabs to the Course Menu:
1. Course Map - A Google Maps implementation showing all control points, the teams that have reached them, and the teams that haven't. Allows for terrain, street, satellite, Google earth, and even a Mytopo.com topographical view of the course.
2. Course Description - Same as above, here as well for convenience.
3. Legend - Same as above, here as well for convenience.
* Updates is an aggregation point for all of the race updates. There are 6 tabs in race updates:
1. All Feeds - This shows all the below, sorted by date. It also includes blogs from the race website.
2. Blogs - This shows textual updates to the race.
3. Photos - This shows photographs uploaded from the field.
4. Videos - This shows videos uploaded from the field.
5. Audio - This will show audio blogs, interviews, and audio from-team-to-fan/family shout-outs.
6. Leaderboard - This is similar to the right-side "Leaderboard Updates" panel in the Leaderboard view above, but it shows a longer history.
* Competitor Map has a view of where all the teams are from.
If for any reason, the RDBoard website is down or functioning improperly, folks interested may fall back to the following RSS feed to provide race coverage:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtomicAdventureRaceFeedMix
Most browsers will display it as a webpage, but if they do not applications like Google Reader will. Go ahead and try the feed out now to make sure you are good to go.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:20 |
