A US soaring contest scoring system available for the 2008 season
About Winscore:
Winscore is a robust and easy to use Windows based scoring program for soaring contests in the US. The Winscore system consists of two programs, the scoring program, and the contest viewer.
The scoring program is used at soaring contests to calculate contestant speeds, distances, scores, and to generate score sheets. The scoring program also can generate .zip files which contains the GPS flight traces (.igc files) and scoring information (.xml) for each contestant. These .zip files can then be put on a web page where Internet users can view a replay of the contestant's flights for that day.
The scoring program and the viewer can be downloaded free of charge from this web site.
Download Winscore:
Winscore Programs (Windows 2000 -sp4, XP-sp2; Vista ):
- Scoring Program - Version: 2008-Rev 1 (4MB) July 21, 2008
- Contest Viewer - Version 1.52 (3MB) Feb 1, 2004
Special Downloads
Note: The Cambridge Aero Explorer Plus is the version of the program with many advanced features. Cambridge did not want to include these features in the their released version because they did not want to support those features. Now that Cambridge is no longer supporting the program at all, I see no reason why these features should not be made available.
Winscore Version History:
Contest Scoring Program:
Rev 1 - 27/June/08
- Fixed incorrect points calculation when no contestant finished the task.
- Fixed incorrect distance calculation when the contestant never left the finish cylinder.
Rev 0 - 7/March/08
- Updated for 2008 Rules
Winscore Source Code:
The source code for all Winscore programs can be obtained here.
Winscore Support:
Support of the scoring and viewing programs is provided by the author, Guy Byars.
The best way to contact him is via email: In your initial mail message to Guy, please include a complete description of your problem and also attach the Winscore data file (.wsc) to the email. If you are having problem with the evaluation of a flight log, you should also attach the IGC file for the flight in question. Including this information with your initial email will speed up your support.
Note, some email programs have problems with attachments that have a .wsc extension. To avoid this problem, you can send the contest data in .xml format. To do this from Winscore, simply go to File->Export->Entire Contest in XML... and export an .xml file, then attach it to your email along with any .igc files that are causing problems.
Page last updated Monday July 21, 2008
