ForScore has been designed to simplify the scoring of matches conducted under IDPA rules.

This software, however, is not supplied by, approved by, or supported by the International Defensive Pistol Association®.  In this documentation are screen shots of reports and web pages containing the IDPA logo.  These are intended to be illustrative of reports which authorized IDPA affiliates can produce.  No other rights to that logo or its usage are implied.

Please note that any match results shown in screen shots may well be fictitious and/or altered to illustrate features in the software.

 

I wrote this software. And since I'm a person and not a conglomerate, the tone of this documentation will be somewhat casual and in the first person.

 

I wrote ForScore after being asked to be the statistician for the 2003 California State Championship match.  I used it during that match.

We had 30 staff shoot on Friday.

On Saturday, 113 of the 120 non-staff who had registered shot.  The match consisted of 9 stages.  I did all the data entry, although the program now supports data entry from multiple computers networked together.

The shooting stopped shortly after 5PM, and full results were posted on our web site by 10:30 that evening.

 

Since that match, I've increased the efficiency of entering scores enormously.

The first year ForScore was used for IDPA Nationals (2006), scores were coming off the printer within two minutes of the final shot.

 

I'd like to thank the many fearless dudes who served as Beta testers over the years and made numerous suggestions for improvement.

 

I'd particularly like to thank Dru Nichols.  Working with her preparing for eight Nationals matches has been an invaluable education.  As I've told her, "I steal from the best!"

 

 

Jane Fleming

 

 

rev 8/21/2015