Originally Posted by
gtrob
With chips you get instant results though. To use your phone example a spectator could not just look for numbers, but see the race in real time if its passing a timer (ie a crit or circuit course). Your example assumes a number is published to the name somewhere, which around here it isn't. A chip you just go on sportstats/mylaps and you get results immediately.
But they may or may not represent the actual order of finish in a photo finish.
I know officials who've done major races that used chips for the TTs and it was a mess. I have yet to see good documentation of reliable order of finish for multiple riders in a close "photo finish", and that includes directly asking the mylaps people for it when they were trying to tell me I should consider their system for a venue where I was promoting a lot of races. Given the size of the sensor loop, I'm skeptical.