The document describes a corral management system for organizing race participants at the starting line. The system allows event directors to manually or automatically group participants into corrals based on estimated finish times, registration date, or number of participants. It provides tools for setting up corrals with details like name, start time, and maximum capacity. Participants can be assigned corrals during registration based on their estimated finish time or manually via CSV import. The system also includes tools to estimate total corral size needs and recommend corral time limits.

1. Corral Management System

2. Concept
A corral is a sectioned area at a race's starting line, where
race participants are grouped according to their expected
finishing time. The fastest runners are usually in the first
corrals and the slowest runners are in the corrals at the
back. The runners' race bibs usually indicate which corral
they're assigned to. There are usually race officials checking
race participants as they enter the corrals to make sure
they're going to the correct corral.
Allow event directors to manually or
automatically group participants into corral
based on:
Estimated Finish Times
Registration Date
Number of Participants

3. Corral Setup

4. Corral Setup
Corral Name or Number
Usually a color or number
Corral Start Time
Corral Info/Settings
Corral Description
Max Number of Participants (High level)

5. Applicable Event/Corral Details
Min/Max Estimated
Finish Times
Allows time limitations for a
corral on a per-event basis
Max Number of
Participants
This will limit the amount of
entrants from an event in a
corral

6. Event Settings
Estimated Finish Times
Question
This will add a step in the
registration process that
will prompt the participant
to enter an estimated finish
time
It is a good idea to set a
min/max for each event
Fast Times Verification
There is an option that will
force participants to link to
their results if they claim
their estimated finish time
is faster than what you
have defined here

7. Corral Assignment During Registration

8. Corral Assignment

9. Corral Assignment
By Estimated Finish Times
Event Restriction
Reassign already assigned corrals
Ignore Corral Size
Assignment Order
Default Corral
Manually (via CSV)
Import corral assignments
from a CSV file that
includes the Registration
ID and Corral Name that
this participant should be
assigned to.

10. Corral Size Estimator Tool

11. Corral Size
Estimator
A tool to estimate the total size of all of your
corrals, based on your current registration
data, and how many participants you expect
in a single event.

13. Corral Time Builder
A tool to estimate the recommended corral
time limits based on current registration
data and how large you are expecting your
corrals to be.