EzWinScore^® Support

PLEASE NOTE: Effective August 10th, the USPSA Match Results and Classification Upload system will NOT accept any data from any version of EzWinScore prior to 4.03. This is necessary to lay the framework for support of some new website functionality that USPSA has planned.

Sorry, you can't. EzWinScore will only run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

Part of the project of creating 3.0 and 4.0 was to upgrade USPSA's copy of the language in which EzWinScore is written, Powerbuilder, to the latest version. We had previously been running a 12-year old copy of Powerbuilder that was issued just as the first version of Windows 95 came out, and frankly we're surprised it continued to run as long as it did. To have access to any sort of vendor support for the development environment, and honestly to make sure Powerbuilder and its generated applications like EzWinScore would keep running as operating systems continued to be improved, we were logically compelled to upgrade to a current version. That meant the generated compiled code was targeted for modern computers with Unicode-enabled operating systems. Most modern software compilers no longer create programs for older operating systems because of the shift to Unicode-enabled operating systems and you will find less and less commercial products on the shelf that run on any of the Win9X/ME machines.

And honestly, if you're running Windows 9x, you're backleveled 4 to 6 full versions of the operating system and are REALLY missing out on what Windows can do for you now.

No, it can't. Significant record layout changes have been made to the match files and also the masternames.db file in 4.0 and as a result, they are not backward compatibile with EzWinScore 2.29 and before. The database server used in EzWinScore 4.0 is also different than that used in 2.x and represents an additional reason why legacy EzWinScore's can't read 4.0 files.

Not really. A match file created with EzWinScore 2.x is converted automatically converted to 4.0 the first time you open it. You ARE offered the opportunity to retain a copy of legacy version of the file, in which case it is called something like <yourfilename>OLD.db.

If the masternames.db file is from 2.x when you first launch EzWinScore 4.0, a conversion dialog will come up as shown and wait for you to press the "convert" cmdbutton to start the conversion process. An "old" copy of the file is not retained in this particular case.

No, it doesn't. It gets renamed to matchold.db, just in case you happened to have an actual scored match therein. Honestly, however, it's a bad practice to score your matches in the default match.db file. That's not what it is for. The match.db file is intended as a template file that contains your default club information (name and clubcode) and is used by the "File.New Match" menu pulldown function or the "Create a new (empty) match database" toolbar icon to set up your match file in a location of your choosing, preferably somewhere other than where the program itself resides. The match.db file should NEVER be used to actually score a match.

A much better practice to get into is to open up the "My Documents" folder on your computer and create a "My Matches" folder within that. Then, as illustrated here, you can subdivide that as you like based on your needs (different clubs, different major matches, etc) and even when you install or upgrade a later release of EzWinScore, your now-segregated match data remains unaffected. It's also more convenient to share match files this way rather than having to remember to copy/rename match.db. Match.db should really be considered a systems file that should not be modified. Also, if you happened to rename your match.db file instead of making a copy of it, EzWinScore would not come up the next time as it wouldn't be able to find it's default match file.

that's not really how re-entrants are intended to work. EzWinScore has full programmatic support built in for classifier and/or Level 1 match reshoots including showing them on stage results and overall results, and it's very simple to use.

To re-register a competitor for a classifier reshoot (very common for special classifier matches) or to reshoot the entire match with a second gun (Level 1 matches only), first register the competitor in his chosen division for official match score. Then register him again with the same name and USPSA number, either in the same division or a different division. You'll get a pop-up question asking if this competitor is intended to be a re-entry. Click on the "Yes" cmdbutton as illustrated above, and your competitor will show up as a re-entry highlighted in yellow on your various screens.

Now enter scores for the re-entrant for as many stages as the actual competitor decides to reshoot. (By the rulebook, a competitor's first attempt on any given stage must be with the registered "for match score" division gun.)

When it comes time to produce stage and overall results listings on a match with re-entrants registered, be aware that by default EzWinScore does not display these; you have to turn on an option instead to have them appear. Go to the "Match Results" window and click on the "include reentries" checkbox that appears just below the list of divisions as illustrated. The system will automatically recalculate match results to allow for the re-entries. Please note you do not have to click the "include reentries" checkbox to have your classifier reshoots included in your USPSA activity credit upload or reporting.

Re-entries will appears in both stage results and overall results. On stage results (shown here to the left), the re-entry will be placed in the standings where he would have placed had he been shooting the match for score in that division or attempt. The placement number will be prefixed with a "R" (such as "R8") to denote that this was a re-entry reshoot. On overall final results (shown here to the right), the re-entry again will appear where he would have placed had he been shooting the match for score in that division or attempt, and his USPSA number will be replaced with the literal "REENTRY". (Showing re-entries in the overall standings is pretty meaningless for someone who just does a single classifier reshoot at a Level 1 match, as the system will treat the other stages that he did not fire as zeroed, and his reshoot entry will appear near the bottom of the list.)

So as we've seen, re-entries that are properly registered as such will be clearly denoted in the match results, and other procedures like naming the re-entrant "Joe Shooter (2nd Gun)" are neither necessary nor desirable. Manually registering a re-entrant in any way other than as intended by the system can also result in classifier reshoot attempts not being reported correctly in the activity upload and are not supported.

We see this, too, on our systems. The "Adaptive Server Anywhere Network Server" is trying to connect to your network, ostensibly for the purpose of servicing database requests from other computers you may have connected, and Windows Firewall is asking about it. I clicked "Unblock" because I'm also hiding behind a hardware firewall. Clicking on "Keep Blocking" doesn't hurt functionality of EzWinScore, however. There is no networking capability in EzWinScore (that is, you can't update a single match file from multiple networked computers), so it really doesn't matter from ezws' standpoint whether you allow Windows Firewall to block or unblock this communication.

EzWinScore changed as did Microsoft Windows. The Microsoft™ Windows™ operating system limits the length of ODBC Data Source Names to 32 characters. Because EzWinScore uses the file name you enter as the internal Data Source Name, you should limit the length of file names to 29 characters.

Starting with version 3.0 EzWinScore will no longer let this happen, as illustrated above, but it is possible that you might have issues opening a legacy match file with a really long filename. If you do (and you probably will), try renaming the filename to something shorter and then try again.

You can now! They're available under the Reports->Labels pulldown menu beginning with EzWinScore 3.0. Simply select "Generic" under the "Select label type" control group and put in how many labels you want for each competitor, and there you are.

You can also fine-tune your labels as to how you want them printed out.

• Selecting either "Left to Right" or "Top to Bottom" controls whether your labels will be arranged left-to-right (as shown here) or vertically in columns. If you're running less than 10 stages, you might consider printing "Top to Bottom" and selecting 10 labels. The forms used for these labels are typically perforated vertically by columns, so you can just tear off a vertical strip of 10 labels for each shooter in your match. if you're running 10-15 stages, however, you're probably better off printing "Left to Right" and selecting 15 labels so that you'll have a half page of labels for each person.
• The "names directory style" checkbox controls whether the names appear in the format "last name", "first name" or not.
• The "sort by last name" checkbox can be really useful for a large match. Here you would print labels arranged alphabetically and then just peel one off to stick on the envelope of each competitor's shooter packet. Then they'll already be sorted and ready to just lay out on the registration tables for competitors to pick up as they go through the check-in process at the match, just like the Nationals.

One other useful benefit of the generic labels is that you use them for a 3-gun tournament, that is, a shooting event made up of 3 separate matches (rifle, pistol, and shotgun) where the final scores are determined off of the aggregate results. The regular competitor stage labels have been useless for this type of event, as they only printed for the individual stages and wouldn't print all three sets of match labels together. Now you can just tell EzWinScore to print "x" number of generic labels for your 3-gun tournament and be done with it!

Good! We're ready for you. Documentation has been added here on setting up to score a match using Palm™ devices as input to EzWinScore. Written by Scott Chapman of Green Mountain Practical Shooters, it is a step-by-step list of how to set up your central computer and the Palm™ devices to score a match. Click here.

A Special Classifier is a different type of match than a regular Level 1 local match. To fix this, start EzWinScore (unless it is already running) and go to Setup->Match Information as illustrated here. Change Match Type from 'Level I' to 'Level I Special,' then reprint your reports or recreate the upload file. If you have already uploaded the file, send an email to USPSA so the erroneous file can be deleted from the list.

USPSA rule 6.2.4 reads, "Subject to the prior approval of the Match Director, a competitor may enter a match in more than one Division. However, the competitor may compete for match score in only one Division, and that must be the first attempt in all cases. Any subsequent attempts in another Division will not count for match recognition."

In 2004, the USPSA board of directors voted to create an exception to rule 6.2.4. This is Rule 6.2.4.1 which says "Level I matches may allow competitors to enter multiple Divisions for match recognition." Beginning way back with EzWinScore version 2.25, match directors have the option to show multiple entries in match results by placing a check mark in the "Include reentries" check box on the Calculate Results form, as shown here. Note that a single person may not enter multiple divisions in a Level 2 or higher match or tournament.

Regardless of the "Include reentries" check box, all classifiers score at all level matches will be included on classifier summary sheets and in the classifier upload file.

Please click here for an additional FAQ on competitor re-entries.