{"id":280,"date":"2024-02-28T20:30:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2024-02-28T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:30:51","slug":"update-february-2024-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/update-february-2024-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Update &#8211; February 2024 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick Vote Entry for Pre-counting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The February release of Club Vote Count introduces a new streamlined way for entering votes for clubs or associations who prefer to pre-count votes, especially those with awards for several grades or sections and many votes to count or complicated voting setups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you have a straight forward 3, 2, &amp; 1 vote from a single judge, or multiple judges casting 5 or more votes, or even completely Freeform voting with a very lose structure, this new screen will make vote entry quick and easy for pre-counting your votes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new screen shows &#8220;vote cards&#8221; for all rounds, for each section that qualifies for the award on one screen. It is designed for quick vote entry, not presentation like the &#8220;Live Vote Count&#8221; screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, when combined with the new <strong>&#8220;Multiple Judge&#8221;<\/strong> feature introduced in January, the new screen will greatly improve the experience if you have multiple judges (or vote cards) per round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, if you have 5 judges, casting votes from 5 down to one, for many junior sides, you have a lot of votes to enter, and such a scenario doesn&#8217;t lend itself for a live count (not a very exciting one anyway).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Quick-Vote-Entry-Screen-5x5-1-1024x809.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284\" style=\"width:789px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In this case the new pre-count vote entry screen will be your best friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open the pre-count screen for your award and enter votes for each judge, for each round. <strong>You can even do this gradually over the course of the season to avoid one big job at the end<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the same player lookup, add player functions and even progressive leaderboard are still available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pre-count vote entry screen also caters for the new &#8220;Freeform voting&#8221; method also introduced in January.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Quick-Vote-Entry-Screen-Freeform-1024x726.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\" style=\"width:790px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Once all your votes are entered, you simply &#8220;Finalise&#8221; the count, and it&#8217;s ready to &#8220;Replay&#8221; (or present) on Vote Count Night.<\/strong> Remember too, if you have multiple judges casting votes, the totals can be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">combined<\/span> for each round to help the vote count run smoothly. To really speed things up for very large clubs, while presenting, you can also jump to a later round, show the leaderboard at that point and continue the unveiling from there&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Combine-Vote-Count-Replay-1024x721.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287\" style=\"width:812px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The new screen also interacts seemlessly with the original Live Vote Count screen. So any votes entered in a pre-count will appear if you load the Live Count screen, and vice versa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This facilitates the situation where you wish to pre-count a large portion of the season, then use the Live Count to enter the final few rounds of each award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award panels on your dashboard have also been rearranged slightly to better reflect your likely workflow for each award, and highlighting the difference between a Live Vote Count and a precounts vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Watch out for the next release which will add multiple users to Club Vote Count &#8211; letting you invite new users to your organisation and assign them &#8220;Sections&#8221; (grades\/divisions) to take care of.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Vote Entry for Pre-counting The February release of Club Vote Count introduces a new streamlined way for entering votes for clubs or associations who prefer to pre-count votes, especially &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-release-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubvotecount.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}