BBQRace.com

Let's cut the poor devs some slack here. After all, this is a free service that isn't charging us anything for their efforts. Sure it's not perfect, but as someone who's worked in IT for over 25 years I can assure you Version 1.0 of anything never is.
 
Let's see here. Average weekend in BBQ season. Maybe 20 - 25 contests per weekend.( often time a lot more ) CHECK Each contest average 30 - 50 teams. CHECK each team 4 catagory scores plus over all scores to enter CHECK Plus debugging program for badges and all the behind the scenes techi stuff. GREAT JOB A lot of effort so everyone can see where the stand. Thanks again:clap: :clap::clap::clap:
 
Heath Hall said:
Your two names 4 Smokin Butts and Four Smokin Butts are in the merge file now. Once we do a merge update they should be merged. Let me know in a couple days if it looks like you are still missing comps.
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the one that was misspelled,actual team name 4 smokin'butts,windsor mo ,labor day wknd,has us listed as 4 smoke butt
 
Heath Hall said:
What are the names that need to be merged? Let me know the master name you want the other name(s) merged under and I'll get it in the system.

Thanks for the heads up. Still working out some bugs.
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Getting basted
Getting' basted
Gettin basted
all need to be merged with Gettin' basted

I love the Site and sent an email a couple of weeks ago but got no response.
 
The "West Coast BBQ Classic" contest out here in Long Beach, CA (5/12/12) is a bit skewed.
All the Pork and Brisket scores are bunched up with Ribs.
Any chance of getting it fixed?

Thanks for the site by the way, it's awesome!
 
JerryA said:
The "West Coast BBQ Classic" contest out here in Long Beach, CA (5/12/12) is a bit skewed.
All the Pork and Brisket scores are bunched up with Ribs.
Any chance of getting it fixed?

Thanks for the site by the way, it's awesome!
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I asked about that a couple of time via email and PM. In addition, the two contests held over the New Year's weekend do not show up as 2012 TOY events. Teams such as Slap Yo Daddy and Tippy Canoe have different point totals if the top 10 contests are used on this site (added up) vs. copying the point total from the KCBS site. I'm sure they will get it corrected, even it means just changing the contest dates to reflect 2012 dates.
 
Thanks. I got the email and all is good. Thanks for all the hard work and effort you put into this. I know it's a monumental task. Keep up the good work.
 
I think the premise of this site is great, but if they can't correct glaring errors such as having the chicken and rib score doubled up under the overall results (I have 3 overall results for the Polar Bear challenge) thus no results for these categories - especially after e-mail notification and posting on this forum. It isn't worth a hoot. Hopefully they can take it serious next year or just shut it down. The legitimacy and accuracy are really questionable. Longing for the good old days when Paul with the Pickled Pig kept track of the results.
 
fnbish said:
So you are saying you don't think they are taking their new web site seriously at all?
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When they ask for feedback on issues with the site and receive comments about errors then tell people you'll fix the problems and months pass without making the fixes, sure seems like they aren't too interested in taking feedback seriously.

When the Pickled Pig ran a similar ranking system, Paul responded to issues damn near immediately. As we all know maintaining these rankings is very time consuming, especially during the middle of the season, but they need to make the fixes when pointed out to them.

Love the concept, but right now the rankings are unreliable due to unresolved issues starting with a contest last February. There were quite a few top 25 teams there and the rankings don't accurately reflect their scores.
 
HarleyEarl said:
When they ask for feedback on issues with the site and receive comments about errors then tell people you'll fix the problems and months pass without making the fixes, sure seems like they aren't too interested in taking feedback seriously.

When the Pickled Pig ran a similar ranking system, Paul responded to issues damn near immediately. As we all know maintaining these rankings is very time consuming, especially during the middle of the season, but they need to make the fixes when pointed out to them.

Love the concept, but right now the rankings are unreliable due to unresolved issues starting with a contest last February. There were quite a few top 25 teams there and the rankings don't accurately reflect their scores.
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Thanks for the clarification
 
just to remind everyone I am sure that bbqrace.com is run as a hobby. It seems kinda rude to tell someone that they are not doing a good job at their hobby and they should get better or quit.

Without it I wouldn't have any idea where my team is in the KCBS TOY until next year. Its a neat tool and provides a lot of great information.
 
Well said Dawg. Additionally you can see Heath's quote below that their intention is to get everything fixed up by next year. Heath is probably the most busy guy in barbecue and one of the best. He'll get it done, but it will take some time. My understanding specifically with the Polar Bear challenge is that it is a bug that is in the programming language, so it is not a simple fix.

Heath Hall said:
As I've already mentioned we know there are still bugs to fix and that is what we are working on clearing up over the next 3 months so we have a clean start when 2013 arrives.
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DawgPhan said:
just to remind everyone I am sure that bbqrace.com is run as a hobby. It seems kinda rude to tell someone that they are not doing a good job at their hobby and they should get better or quit.

Without it I wouldn't have any idea where my team is in the KCBS TOY until next year. Its a neat tool and provides a lot of great information.
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Great point . Seems a pretty big swing at someone to publicly call them out on the forum for not taking it seriously. Especially when they have said a fix is coming in a few months. Not easy what they are doing.
 
This site is great. As was mentioned above, for those of us who don't compete in many events each year (3 to 5) it would be fun to see a per event average ranking to get a feeling of where we stack up against the teams competing more than 20 times per year. But then, maybe that isn't the point of the site.
 
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