Announcer Results Zone4 Announcer View, often referred to as a Commentator Information System (CIS), is an interface that allows a race commentator...
Timing a Hill Climb or Descent If your race includes a “King of the Mountain” segment, timed descents, or any other sort of race within a...
Time Factors (for Paralympic or Paranordic races) If you are timing a race format where racers’ total time is corrected by some factor, you can use the...
Creating a Race Registration Before creating your registration, it’s useful to understand the relationship between registrations and races in Zone4. Although you can create a...
Scrolling Results on a TV (4 large scrolling tv displays at the Canadian Birkebeiner.) Paper results are time consuming to print and post, and need...
Assign Chips to Racers Assigning GoChips Zone4 GoChips are numbered with a letter-number scheme. Each rack of chips has a letter, and the chips...
Displaying Time of Day on Results All times in Zone4 are stored as a time of day (including a date) and normally race results are displayed...
Creating Multiple Results Sets For most races, Zone4 Timing will automatically create three default sets of results for you: age group, overall, and gender...
Introducing Zone4 Event Pages What are Event Pages? An Event Page is a public homepage for your event where you can post your registration...
How to Publish a Start List Publishing a Start List In some sports it is necessary to print and or publish start list before an event...
Race Photographer Tools Accessing the Photographer Tools Race administrators can access the photographer tools from Racer Reports & Tools link on the race overview:...
Setting Custom Text in a Racer’s Finish Time or Status Field Race results contain two primary fields that are calculated automatically based on recorded times: the rank, in the left-most column, and...
Racer Pages Racer pages are displayed publicly when a viewer of the results clicks on a racer’s name on the results. They...
Using a Zone4 Test Kit Follow this guide to set up a timing point with your test kit and get a feel for how Zone4...
Optimizing Package Pickup The goal of package pickup is to get the right race package to the right person as quickly as possible....
Timing a Cyclo-Cross Race A cyclocross race is a sort of combination between a standard multi-lap race, and a time-limit race. The number of...
Monitoring or Recording Start Times In an time trial or interval start race, it is critical that each racer has an accurate recorded start time. ...
Using Photocell times with Chip times or Summit data Photocells FIS sanctioned races require that a photocell be used as the primary timing device. Photocells are accurate however they...
Applying Time Penalties, Sanctions, or Jury Decisions Applying a Time Penalty (or Bonus) On the main race settings page, turn on the “Time Penalty” field. Once this...