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Starting a Meet

Purpose

Help operators choose the right starting path from the 2Timer home screen.

What you see on the home screen

The home screen opens with a Create New Meet panel followed by an Existing Meets list.

The Create New Meet panel is a grid of cards. There is no separate New or Import menu — every starting path is one card in that grid.

Four cards create a fresh meet, one per sport:

  • Running / Road Race
  • Cross Country
  • Indoor Track & Field
  • Outdoor Track & Field

Two more cards build the meet from a file you already have:

  • From .2T File
  • Import HyTek File

Path 1: Create a meet from scratch

Click the card for the sport you are running.

2Timer opens the new-meet wizard for that sport, which walks through basics, location, divisions, events, and a review step before the meet is created.

This is the best path when:

  • the meet is brand new
  • you want to choose the sport, genre, dates, and venue yourself
  • you want 2Timer to create the event structure from its built-in preset catalog
  • you plan to import athletes or results later

This is usually the most flexible option.

Path 2: Create a meet from a file

The two file cards both create a meet from imported data, but they suit different situations.

From .2T File

Click From .2T File when you already have a .2t backup from 2Timer. The card opens a file picker; choose the backup and 2Timer takes you into the .2t workflow.

This is the right choice when you want to:

  • restore a meet from another machine
  • recover from a backup
  • reuse a prior meet as the starting point for a new one
  • effectively clone last season’s setup before making edits

This is the closest thing to a “clone meet” workflow on the home screen. If you exported a previous meet to .2t, importing that backup is the fastest way to bring its structure and data forward into a new working copy.

See Importing a 2Timer Backup.

Import HyTek File

Click Import HyTek File when your source of truth is a Hy-Tek meet file and you want 2Timer to build the meet around it. The card opens the Hy-Tek meet file workflow, which accepts .hy3, semicolon-delimited .txt, and the recognised comma-delimited record .csv form.

This is a strong fit when:

  • registration or meet-management software already produced the meet file
  • the source file already defines much of the meet structure
  • you want to start from imported meet data instead of entering basics manually

The semicolon format in particular is often used as a general interchange format by more than one system, so this path is useful well beyond Hy-Tek itself.

See Creating a Meet from a Hy-Tek Meet File.

Which path should I choose?

Choose a sport card if you want to create the meet from scratch in 2Timer.

Choose From .2T File if you want to restore, reuse, or clone a previous 2Timer meet.

Choose Import HyTek File if your meet already exists as a Hy-Tek meet export and you want to create the meet from that import.

Practical recommendation

If you ran this meet in 2Timer before, start from From .2T File.

If another system already has the meet structure and can export Hy-Tek meet data, start from Import HyTek File.

If neither of those is true, start with the sport card.

Metadata

  • Last Updated: 2026-09-09
  • Document Version: 0.3
  • Status: Active