Getting shooters to put the correct label on score sheets has been a challenge.  Some matches, including Nationals, had in frustration begun assessing a procedural for the wrong stage label.

The 2013 rulebook specifically forbids that recourse.

 

This new system came out of a question Tammy asked Dru... which Dru asked me... which I'd never thought of.

"Can you make the barcodes for the stage part of the score sheet?  So the shooter label just has the shooter number?"

 

Duh!

 

This means that you have to scan two barcodes whilst entering scores.  But within five minutes, that becomes second nature.  With the barcode scanner sitting to the left of the keyboard, a left-to-right or right-to-left swipe of the score sheet winds up with both barcodes scanned.  It doesn't matter which order you scan them.

BUT THIS WILL ONLY WORK CORRECTLY WITH

•barcodes printed WITHOUT carriage returns

•barcode scanner adding carriage returns

 

 

The "narrow" score sheets are designed to have the stage number barcode printed on them.  They work best with the barcode printed on the right.

 

 

The score sheets will look like this:

 

 

Be sure you print "split" barcode labels.

 

 

Swipe the sheet under the scanner so that you wind up scanning both barcodes.