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 Barrel Horse World News
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We need some volunteers.
Go to: www.BarrelDraw.com
and fill out the form like you were entered into the race given. Make up a draw number. That's it.
Barrel Draw sends alert text messages to your phone with the last draw number called so you won't miss a run. Draw Alerts start before the race. Your alerts stop after your draw number is called.
This is what we need.
General feedback, suggestions
Time delay
Text problems like truncation or split messages
About every 10 minutes, usually during a drag, a text message will go out to the next 20-30 contestants in line. The message will include the last draw number called, your draw number, and the time to beat.
Example alert
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Test Event
Cur Draw 38
Your Draw 76
Win 15.89
Enter “Stop” to Quit
Enter number to change draw
At any time you can Enter ? for a new update.
Thanks!!!!!
We will let you know how it goes.
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I think it's a great idea! |
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Veteran
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| Pretty cool!  |
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| Race starts Wed at 10:30 AM CST.
Pick a draw number from 1 - 300, doesn't matter. Some alerts will go to all draw numbers while regular alerts only go to the next 20 in line. At any time reply with a question mark ? and you will receive the last alert. Once your draw number is past you no longer get alerts.
Some alerts will be a message with the current time.. We want to know what the delay is if it's more than a minute and what your phone service provider is.
Thanks for signing up.
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 Extreme Veteran
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| LOVE THIS IDEA! |
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 Elite Veteran
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| i signed up. draw # 123. i have ATT and got the "opt in" message immediately. |
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 Elite Veteran
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Location: Arkansas | I'm number 161
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Location: Central Texas | My carrier, Straight Talk, is not listed. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I tried signing up twice for draw 237 with US Cellular, but I never received any type of opt in messages. I waited five minutes after my first attempt before tying again, but still nothing after second time. |
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| Thanks to all that signed up. We have discovered two glitches. ATT customers are receiving text but the server is not receiving their replies. US Cellular customers are not receiving anything. We are working on it. That's what the test is for. I am going to opt in everyone and start the test soon.
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | I tried yesterday, signed up, but never received a text. I am with AT&T. |
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 Straight Shooter
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Location: SW North Dakota | I have verizon and it's working great! how cool! |
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Elite Veteran
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| I signed up 116 on ATT. Got opt in message, replied Yes. Nothing else so far. |
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Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | cranky B4 10am - 2016-02-03 10:54 AM I tried yesterday, signed up, but never received a text. I am with AT&T.
Ok, just got a txt with my draw#, current draw# and winning time. Just never got the initial text. |
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| Race is going well. Only the next 50 in line receive alerts. We are on draw #50 now. For those on ATT, you will receive alerts but any replies will not work at this time. US Cellular will not receive any alerts. We will be fixing that tonight.
Now I am going to speed up the race. Anyone that just landed here can still join the fun at http://BarrelDraw.com
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | This is seriously the coolest thing! I love the 'injury delay' text and the fact that you have the fast time in each text! LOVE IT! I put myself at draw# 49
ETA: I'm adding that I have trouble hearing and I'm too dang scared to go to the Dr. Being able to have an alert to my phone would make races SO much less stressful and I wouldn't have to mount my horse way to early and get him too tired. I really really hope this service works and it is adopted by many organizations! I really dread having to ask 30 + times in a day what draw are they on because I can't hear the loud speakers.
Edited by Crowned Image 2016-02-03 12:15 PM
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Administrator - 2016-02-03 12:02 PM
Race is going well. Only the next 50 in line receive alerts. We are on draw #50 now. For those on ATT, you will receive alerts but any replies will not work at this time. US Cellular will not receive any alerts. We will be fixing that tonight.
Now I am going to speed up the race. Anyone that just landed here can still join the fun at http://BarrelDraw.comAdmin
Thanks!!  |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I have Verizon and it's working great! Love this idea. Sure beats running back and forth trying to find out what # they are on. |
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 Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | just got the first text...using sprint |
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 Popped
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | i signed up as draw 123 also with ATT and i think it ended up being 279 or something... but the opt in email was immediate. |
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 Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | I just did this. I'm with ATT, I got initial text so far. |
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Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | luluwhit - 2016-02-03 12:15 PM i signed up as draw 123 also with ATT and i think it ended up being 279 or something... but the opt in email was immediate.
I signed up with 208 and gave me draw 279 also.  |
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Elite Veteran
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| I got my info!
I think the page asked for feed back. I got one message, but it came through saying that it was 1 of 2 and 2 of 2, but the way it came through (the way it displayed on my phone) it looked like I was supposed to enter my draw number to continue. Took me a bit to realize it was saying message 2 of 2 because it came in as one message. |
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Veteran
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| This morning this thing has been going crazy. I have texted "stop" and "quit" but now it keeps sending updates
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Popped
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | hey steve just a thought..... if im draw 123 and they are already up to draw 150 i sure would have liked a text as to what time i ran because after going 9-0 around three barrels im out of breath, trying to stop a fire breathing dragon and never heard a dang thing the annoucer said after "draw 123 lu......". so if that is an option that it would text me my time after a run i want that!!!  |
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Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | I just got a new text with correct draw number that I initially put in, current draw number and time winning. |
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Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | i havent received anything after the initial text. it has been an hour.
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Worked great for me. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I'm with US Cellular and I finally got my draw updates about thirty minutes ago! :) |
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Veteran
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| It finally stopped |
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| Thanks again for all 60 of you that signed up.
I had to opt in all ATT and US Cell accounts manually. The program had a bug where manual opt-ins could not Stop or opt out - fixed.
ATT and US Cell accounts could not reply to the server, maybe some other smaller carriers as well - for this we have signed up to a professional text aggregation service. This will solve that two way communication problem and the messages should be immediate.
At a real barrel race the messages will go out during every drag or two. The stats person at the race will be the primary person to send the alerts. Only the next 50 numbers get the alerts.
We will be having another short test soon. You will see it here in the forum.
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Elite Veteran
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| Thanks! This would be a fantastic service! How would this work? Will this be an app or a website that promoters can rent/or subscribe to in order to offer this? |
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Elite Veteran
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| Also, I'm not sure if this is because it's in the testing stage, but would it be possible to make the texts all come from the same number? Mine came through with the same first few digits, but with each addition text, the last number changed. So, my phone didn't string them together in one conversation? It was only 3-4 today, but if this was really used in a show with 1500 entries, and someone ran 4 horses, that would be a lot of messages coming through that the phones interpret to be different sources.
If someone was at a huge race, running multiple horses, it may be difficult to keep track of the last known fastest time, which draw, etc. |
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Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | i never got another notification after the first |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | OutlawsLastDance - 2016-02-03 3:21 PM Also, I'm not sure if this is because it's in the testing stage, but would it be possible to make the texts all come from the same number? Mine came through with the same first few digits, but with each addition text, the last number changed. So, my phone didn't string them together in one conversation? It was only 3-4 today, but if this was really used in a show with 1500 entries, and someone ran 4 horses, that would be a lot of messages coming through that the phones interpret to be different sources. If someone was at a huge race, running multiple horses, it may be difficult to keep track of the last known fastest time, which draw, etc.
Mine all came from the same number. |
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Expert
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | I am with US Celllular and mine finally worked after 1:30 pm today. It would be nice if your time would also be shown to you after you run also. |
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Extreme Veteran
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| I have T-Mobile and all of the texts came from seperate numbers (970-6, 370-0, 960-3,950-4,950-5, ect) and I was draw 127 and recieved draw 110 and then Im guessing it was "my turn" and recieved one more text after saying the winning time. Would be nice if they wern't seperate but it went well. I didn't text any "?" in though |
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We need some volunteers to test a new service