Checking registration data for existing names

[SAuroux]

While WCA live is working great overall, WRT is experiencing more potential false newcomers compared to cubecomps times. A likely reason for this is that cubecomps used to have a way to check for existing names before or during a competition that allowed delegates and organizers to clarify possible matches right at the competition. But with WCA live, this check only happens during result submission when it is too late to simply approach people at the competition.

One way to improve this situation (at least for competitions with WCA registration) is enabling delegates and organizers to perform existing name checks on the registration data of their competitions.

[timreyn]

One other factor that contributes is that, when you determine that someone has competed before, the process to add their ID is somewhat slow. You have to:

• assign the ID to their account (hopefully they don't already have an account with their ID)
• re-sync to WCA live
• re-export to scramble matcher
• re-match scrambles (hopefully you didn't make too many manual changes that you have to redo)
• re-import to upload page

[Jambrose777]

Marked as high priority as this was a feature that we lost with Cubecomps being deprecated, and the manual process for Delegates is quite tedious as Tim mentioned.

[coder13]

Could this come in the form of a warning symbol next to registrations that would be flagged for the same reasons they get flagged on upload of results?

Is there a good way to communicate to the WRT from this point that a delegate already confirmed that a first-timer is a unique first-timer?

[coder13]

Wasn't some progress made in this area? Are we able to apply arbitrary checks to registration data?

[jonatanklosko]

@dunkOnIT I think this belongs to the main repo. The name check makes more sense in the registration system, so it can be addressed early. I don't think there's anything actionable on WCA Live side.

re-sync to WCA live

@timreyn I don't think syncing in WCA Live is necessary, because the results don't change. Let me know if I miss something. Obviously I agree that it is too many steps, eventually we should automate the whole results upload, since we effectively control all the related tooling.

[dunkOnIT]

From what I understand, the requirement here is: A feature that allows organizers to see whether a given newcomer registration may be a duplicate profile of an existing account with a WCA ID?

[jonatanklosko]

@dunkOnIT yes, I believe this is it.