Custom sorting on Marking Sheets

 

It's now possible to rank competitors on individual assessment marks. The sorting options will only be visible if the marking sheet contains assessment groups.

CHI Al Shaqab - The perfect arena setup

 

Last week we had the pleasure to join In2strides and Starck Enterprises at the CHI Al Shaqab event in Doha. This is the second year they are using our software at this five star event in dressage and jumping.

Al Shaqab is an amazing venue with its arena built only for the equestrian sport.

To setup a show in an arena is always different. Most of the times there's a lot prepared, which will make the setup a lot easier. You should only need a small amount of equipment to handle results and graphics in such a place. In this blog post we will walk you through Al Shaqab and show you all the different places where Equipe is being used, and how the setup is done.

In the show office the riders make their declaration at the iPads. There are also two TVs showing our info screens from both the jumping and the dressage.

All around the arena you can find TVs with our info screens. One for dressage and one for jumping. The signal to them are being distributed from two Raspberry Pi's running Chromium.

In the riders lounge, one TV is also displaying the video signal with a graphic overlay from Equipe.

Also at the warmup arena there is a LED screen with start and results list.

TV graphics are being controlled by Adam inside the judge's box, and then sent to the OB van through a fiber connection. Most of the equipment in the picture belongs to the TV production, only a Macbook with an external Decklink card is needed to produce the graphics. The graphics can also simultaneous be controlled by multiple operators, handling different parts.

Using the vMix software, the graphics from Equipe is put as an overlay on the video signal for the big screen. Only a laptop with an external SDI card is being used for this.

Moving on to the dressage, all marks are entered on Macbook Airs at the judge's positions.

To supply the judges positions with power and network, it's just to open the hatch in the wall. Makes Tobias work easy!

Down at the arena, small LED displays are showing the open scoring, with running marks of each rider. The signal is sent from a laptop running Chrome.

The big LED screen is displaying full screen graphics at the dressage arena.

Up in the speaker box, all marks are being checked. The system is reading the marks which make the control very quick and simple.

And that's it! No more equipment is needed to run an arena show like this. CHI Al Shaqab is really an amazing event, and we hope you enjoyed this walkthrough.

MET Oliva

 

Mediterranean Equestrian Tour in Oliva, Spain, is the world's largest equestrian organizer. Last year they decided to go with Equipe as their full service solution for timekeeping, results, declaration, economy, big screen graphics and livestream graphics.

They are currently running their second spring show, MET II, and we would like to present the setup being used to take full advantage of our system.

Each week of the show, a lot of horses will make their starts in one of the three arenas.

The riders declare their starts on iPads in the show office.

At each warmup arena there's a TV displaying our info screen.

This is the view displayed at the warmup monitors. This one is also used for the screens in the jury box.

Each arena have a LED screen with motion picture and graphic overlay from Equipe.

Livestream is available from all three arenas, also with graphics generated from Equipe.

In the restaurants and the show office you can follow the results on TV monitors.

The TV-monitors will keep everyone up to date with the results from each arena simultaneously.

Timekeeping is managed by in2strides, using the brand new ATU-X timekeeping sets, directly integrated with Equipe.

It's hard to miss where to find the results. Even at the toilets, there are notes about the Equipe app.

In the show office, the riders and grooms will order shavings, straw, carrots and much more. All of it is put into the system and then paid in the accounting office before departure.

This is a show that really takes full advantage of all parts of the system, and because of this they have heavily reduced the amount of administrative work.

Great to have you on board, MET!