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Solve the Scoring Problem First

Solve the Scoring Problem First
At Scopus we have a singular mission, “use technology to turn shooting into a spectator sport.” When I began studying this problem over a decade ago, I realized an initial and necessary step would be to solve the scoring problem. The scoring problem is summarized as the following. We must make scoring shots fast, accurate, and affordable.  ...
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Creating One-Click Training Matches

Creating One-Click Training Matches
This how to article will show coaches how to create a practice match in one click using Orion. Spending less than 5 minutes of scoring and printing out results for your athletes for each training session. ...
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Scopos on Social Media

Scopos on Social Media
Did you know you can follow Scopos on social media? We have accounts on Facebook LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Instragram. By following us on our social media accounts, you can stay up-to-date with all the latest announcements, how tos and competition news. You'll even see the occasional sneak peak of upcoming enhancements.  ...
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What's the Difference Between the NC100 and NC200

What's the Difference Between the NC100 and NC200
One of the most common questions we get is, "what is the difference between the Athena NC100 and NC200?" Let's take a moment to explore their differences.The SimularitiesBoth the NC100 and NC200 are part of Athena's family of Electronic Scoring Targets (ESTs). Both scores shots within .1mm, both use ...
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2000 Athena Targets and Counting

2000 Athena Targets and Counting
This past week Scopos reached a milestone and manufactured our 2000th Athena Target. An important milestone in our commitment to modernize the sport. In my career I have talked to thousands of people who shared with me their desire to make shooting more appealing and to let it grow. I am proud to ...
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Orion Version 2.16.4: Steps Towards Resilience

A common theme you will notice the first half of this year is almost all of our updates for Orion and Athena are resilience updates. This means we are improving the software to better handle unexpected events. In this release we emphasized three such unexpected events, power loss, internet loss, and ...
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Introduction to Decimal Scoring

This newsletter was first published in September 2019.Many coaches, athletes and spectators may not be familiar with ‘decimal scoring.’ Decimal scoring after all is relatively new to the shooting sports. It is when the scoring rings on a target are further divided down into 10 sub-rings. Instead ...
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Orion Release version 2.16

Orion Release version 2.16
Every software company, with every release, tries to highlight the most impactful feature. If we tried this strategy with this release many of you would be underwhelmed. This is because the big enhancement is not within the feature set of the user interface, but rather the backend that “allows us ...
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Developing a New Paper Target for Orion

Developing a New Paper Target for Orion
This past year the Civilian Marksmanship Program and Shooter’s Tech teamed up to develop a new paper target for the Orion Scoring System. The newly developed “300m Rifle reduced for 100yd. Target” (commonly called the 100yd. International target) was used in the National Matches over the ...
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An Argument for Decimal Scoring: An EST Perspective

An Argument for Decimal Scoring: An EST Perspective
AbstractThis article seeks to describe the “EST Error Effect” and the consequence it has when scoring in integer versus decimal. The Electronic Scoring Target (EST) Error Effect means that every shot scored by an EST has some small error that comes with it and that these small errors will have ...
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