Sure! Someone recently pointed me in the right direction on this, as it's a little bit hidden. The general hi-level steps are more or less as follows:
Basically you need to 1) have a PractiScore account, and 2) set up a 'club' that you manage. After that, you can create an event, set the dates and times for sign-up, create as much (or as little) of a registration form as you want, somewhere in there you get an event code that you can take to the PractiScore app, which you install on your phone or tablet like any other app.
On the mobile device, you can either create the event from scratch (if you're not using all the signup and registration features of the web dashboard) or use the event code to pull the info from the PractiScore site. At this point, you have an event, but not much more.
You'll have to go through and pick what kind of event, and what kind of targets. This is the part that is (for me) non-intuitive, as apparently 'we' (HP/F-class/Smallbore) are lumped under 'NRA Action', and under *that*, if you look in the right menu, you'll find the right targets to use for scoring NRA decimal targets vs. the hit/miss used for reactive targets (steel plates, etc.). You also set up what categories you want i.e. F-class, Conventional Prone (Sling), Field/Tactical, etc., and what classes (HM, MA, etc.) along with special categories (Senior, Grand Senior, Junior, Sub Junior, Woman, LEO, Military, etc.).
Next you create the 'stages', which for the sake of example, are like each stage or 'match' of a 3x600. You can include the stage briefing in the stage config for playback, if you so desire. At this point, we start getting into where PractiScore is more designed for action events, where they have either hit/miss scoring, or the # of hits per zone (A-zone, etc.). The NRA targets are set up for X, 10, 9, 8, etc. already, with the corresponding point values, and you have to set up how many shots you want - i.e. 20 shot string.
Then you assign shooters to 'squads' i.e. 'relays. You can move them around, or add 'walk-ons' as needed (if you have people show up that didn't pre-register, or people that DNF'd and left early).
I'm sure I'm missing more than a few details here, but the good news is that once you have all this set up the way *you* want for *your* matches, you can just 'clone' the match the next time you want to run another match, or set it up as a 'template' with certain default values, etc. You can also import shooters from one event to another, so you don't have to type everyone in *again*.
The scoring is a little wonky, in that instead of entering the scores as a string total i.e. 199-6X, or in the order they occurred (for tie breaking) i.e. X, 10, X, 9, 10, etc. it has you key in how many X's, how many 10's, how many 9's, how many 8's... As you key in the scores for each shooter on each squad, PractiScore will take them and tabulate the results accordingly. They can be broken out by stage (i.e. Match #1, Match #2, Match #3) or total, by class, category or combined, etc.
When it's all said and done, you can sync the tablet to the website, and it'll upload the scores there... and people can see the results about as fast as you approve and publish them. In the action disciplines where they might have 10+ stages going at once, each RO has a tablet and the scores get sync'd at the end of the day (if not sooner, depending on site wifi coverage). For HP/F-class matches, that's kind of a moot point, as the people back in the stat shack do the data entry. Though in theory, you could have multiple people entering scores in parallel for the bigger events.
There are a few more quirks... the scores are displayed in columns, as '199.00' and another for the X-count, and then percentage... but it puts the stage winner as '100%' and everyone else is relative to *that*, not the way we calculate percentages for our discipline. And the X-count is not displayed properly on Android, without importing and re-exporting the match thru an iOS device. As with most things, there are ways around that too...
Long story short... it works... mostly. It could be better. Definitely a case of square-peg/round-hole, but most other current options are either one-off home-brew solutions, or worse.
That's the hope here, is to get PractiScore and the NRA working together to roll out a version that is more tailored to what we need.
