Quick start

For brand-new officials. Get from "I have the app installed" to "I'm ready for the race briefing" in about five minutes.

The longer guides (Signing in, Joining an event, Practice mode, Penalties, Incidents) cover edge cases. Read this one first to see the whole loop end-to-end.

1. Sign in

Open RaceRanger → enter the email + password your federation or organisation gave you → Sign In. Acknowledge the Location Tracking modal each time you sign in (this is required, not just on first install).

If you don't have an account yet, ask the technical delegate to add you to the event — once you're added, they'll send the credentials straight from the web admin.

2. Pick the event

The events list shows every event you're assigned to. Tap the one labelled with today's race name. You'll land in the event workspace with the race list and bottom tabs (Races, Documents, Chat, Users).

3. Open the race in race mode

Tap the race tile you'll be officiating, then Enter to start race mode. The cyan header reads Race Mode Active, and a 6-tile grid appears:

• Penalty Box — athletes currently serving time penalties.
• Incidents — open and closed incidents in the race.
• Penalties — in-race list of every submitted penalty.
• Voice Report (if enabled) — hands-free penalty reporting.
• Report Penalty — start a new penalty submission.
• Report Incident — start a new incident submission.

That's the home screen for everything you'll do during the race.

Tap through sign-in to race mode:

The penalty box

The Penalty Box tile shows every athlete currently serving a time penalty, each with a countdown. Tap Start when an athlete checks in to run their timer; it counts down to zero. Tap Served when the athlete leaves the box. Stop just pauses the timer (e.g. if they move off before serving the full time).

4. Practice before the race starts

Use demo mode to run through the penalty and incident submission flows without affecting real data. Every event has a Demo Mode race; entries there are flagged as practice and never appear in reports or notifications.

If the technical delegate has stopped every real race in the event (which is normal between races, and what the team should do before the briefing), demo mode gives you the full experience — submission, review, approval, follow-up. While a real race is Active, the demo mode disables Penalties and Voice Report to keep practice data from bleeding into the live queue.

5. Cheat sheets

When the race actually starts, refer to:

• Quick penalty — the abbreviated steps to report a penalty.
• Quick incident — the abbreviated steps to report an incident.

Keep them open in another tab on your phone or print them out for the briefing.