If you raced today and were waiting around for awards afterwards, you can blame me for the delay :) The error has largely been rectified now and I don't have any screenshots, but total times and resulting places were computed on when you crossed the mat to enter the water. For those that didn't race today, this is significant because Lifetime Chicago uses wave starts: your wave gets into the water, you tread water for two minutes or so, and then the gun goes off and you start. Logically, everyone in the same wave should have the same start time. Prior to Lifetime correcting the mistake, the times were such that if you were one of the first people in your wave to cross the timing mat to get into the water you were essentially penalized relative to the last person to cross the mat.
I caught this error when I was reviewing my results today and noticed some strange inconsistencies with regards to the times of people in my wave. The scary part is that almost nobody in the timing tent could understand what I was explaining to them. I was finally referred to the "Head Timer" and after explaining the error about three times he finally understood at which point you could see despair come across his face as they had to correct the start times manually for every competitor.
I caught this error when I was reviewing my results today and noticed some strange inconsistencies with regards to the times of people in my wave. The scary part is that almost nobody in the timing tent could understand what I was explaining to them. I was finally referred to the "Head Timer" and after explaining the error about three times he finally understood at which point you could see despair come across his face as they had to correct the start times manually for every competitor.