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  • Automatic ballot checking and warnings are built right in. At matching time this will tell you exactly what problems a panel has (not enough judges, school conflicts, etc.). At finals time this will tell you which ballots are missing or have not been recorded yet, and also which competitors are missing scores.
  • easy-to-use double-flighting features
  • On-screen preview feature for every printable document.
  • Print any and all documents to file instead of to the printer, in plain text or RTF format!
  • Many advancement/breaking options are available. NFC rules can be selected with a single click. You can also set the rank/rate scoring range where you want it and it will be indicated on every ballot.
  • Many striking options are readily available, allowing you to block a judge for certain competitors, a competitor for certain judges, whole schools for certain judges, etc. Judges can also be made available/unavailable for any particular events or types of events (Novice only, no Interp, etc).
  • Rooms can be defined as “Easy Access”, “Nearby”, “Large”, etc.  Judges, Competitors and Events have their own array of attributes that you may assign or ignore. This means that when the Mesmer panels Extemporaneous speaking as a “nearby” event, the program knows to put it in a nearby room. Likewise it knows which competitors and judges need easy access rooms, etc.
  • Creating information packets and double-check lists is easy. A comprehensive set of choices for Who's Who lists is available, showing entrants by school, by event or both. You can print all schools or events or just the ones you select.
  • You can print room, event and judge schedules with up-to-date information at any time. This is useful for paying hired judges, seeing what rooms are still available, locating a judge or competitor, etc.
  • The Drone: Mesmer IE Edition indicates double and triple entries on postings and ballots.
  • You can assign school codes rather than numbers as you prefer. In other words, you can have LCC or UofW rather than school 34 or school 11.
  • And much more….
 
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