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Now Accepting Nominations for Timer of the Year Award

We are now accepting nominations for the Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award. In recognition of the remarkable efforts of race timers, this award honors those who have made a substantial and continued impact on the endurance race industry. Named after the industry’s…

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13 Fang-tastic Halloween Races

It’s the most boo-tiful time of the year, and our customers are leaning into the Halloween spirit. From polished Website V2 pages to RaceJoy live tracking, timely results, and photo galleries, these 13 events show how RunSignup features inform participants and drive…

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RunSignup Q3 2025 Update

The Quick Summary: Our employee owned company shares our high level numbers and thoughts on the market and technology advances on a quarterly and yearly basis – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Q1 and Q2 of 2025. Q2 Numbers Another solid quarter overall. Growing market share in endurance,…

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Buy It in ChatGPT

OpenAI made a big announcement yesterday about a new capability they are rolling out to allow buying within ChatGPT, called the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP). This comes on top of Google’s recent announcement of the Agent Payment Protocol (AP2). This is exactly…

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New AI Chatbot Features Released

As we get closer to opening the AI Chatbot beta to all customers, we’re continuing to roll out exciting new functionality. These updates give you more control over the chatbot experience and make it easier to ensure the bot reflects your race’s…

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RaceJoy’s New Predictive Tracking

RaceJoy recently introduced predictive map positioning, giving timers a powerful new way to deliver a “big marathon” style experience. With this feature, spectators can now see every participant on the course—even those not carrying phones—by combining chip timing data streamed from RaceDay Scoring with…

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Custom Reply to for Volunteer Emails

You can now set a custom reply to for Volunteer Emails. This allows volunteers to email with an address that is not the main race contact. There is an overall setting to apply to all Volunteer emails. In addition, you can override…

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Simple MFA Coming to Send Email and Payment Account Editing

As part of our infrastructure upgrades to prevent the “bad apples” we discussed with the Email Upgrades blog, we will be adding Simple Multi Factor Authentication to the pages where fraudulent behavior can happen. This initial release will be for sending emails…

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Email Infrastructure Upgrades

We apologize for the inconvenient email maintenance that required us to take the sending of emails offline over this past weekend. We had seen a rise in abuse of our email system. Note there was no effect on processing signups and transactions….

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