Surely it's not August already! It feels like only a short while ago I was giving out the May update It is always busy here at RC-Clubs.com central and we have made many changes to try and improve your RC-Club experience. Alot of these updates have been released and have been here for sometime, but it's good to go through them.
Race Metrics RC Intergration
https://app.racemetricsrc.com/ "A performance-tracking app for RC car racers. We pull lap times and results from the major RC timing services so you can see your races, your driver profile, your achievements, and how you stack up, all in one place."
We now allow for Clubs to provide their results over public API so clubs and drivers can see their racing stats. For example, have a look at https://app.racemetricsrc.com/?venue=1036074 which is pulling data from RC-Clubs.com.
Clubs can enable this feature by going to Club Edit and checking the "Allow race data to be scraped via API" option - something I recommend for all public clubs. If you're interested in using our API then please get in contact!
https://playrc.app/ Embedding
PlayRC.app is an awesome track design tool that lets you simulate your track with an real controller. Tracks can now be embedded directly in event pages so racers can see what the layout will be :)
I have to say it is very satisfying working with some other amazing RC tools that benefit the community
Seasons and Interclub Challenges (Experimental)
Clubs can now set up racing seasons where drivers can gain points for final positions and attendence. While interclub Challenges allow different clubs to coordinate on a common track (great for MINI-Z clubs) with a common set of classes and race against each other.
Race Day Playlist Improvements
Completely rewrote the playlist handling to be automatic and less error prone. This is a significant improvement with the pop-out recieiving many updates to make it display actually useful information
General improvements
- Racer Profiles Added (WIP)
- Add Race Practice with Class and group filtering
- Improvements to the display of race data (thanks to Chris from Tassie MiniZ)
- Easier connections of Timing Systems (less pop-ups)
- User merging (please contact me if you need this)
- Site spam protections... grrr
- mobile display fixes (always ongoing)
- internal data restructuring cleanups
- many many bug fixes :P