Observation re remote starts

[HOCOLITE]

Day 2 JK red start was a good distance from the assembly. I believe the clear station was at the start. One competitor from our club, taking part on his first JK I believe, dropped his hired ecard on the way to the start. When he realised he tried to search to no avail. He continued to the start, I think he started on his time, completed the course punching his map. Obviously did not get a finish time so is shown as mispunched. This is one unhappy person, fairly new to the sport, he doesn't get an overall result either. We ought to be able to cater for this, it's not a lost card on the course.
1. Surely he could have been given a finish time at download, to give him some result.
2. With remote starts and clears wouldn't it be a good idea for the start team to have a handful of Hire cards to resolve this possibility, after all the ecard no. can be changed by the SI team at download.

[Mr timE]

Standard practice at all SCOA pre-entered events to have spare EMIT cards at the start, we just tell the individual to mention it when they get to download, even then some forget and just download and they then comes up as unknown runner, so you find their original entry and switch card download to that. Simple, the reason we introduced it was people turning up to an EMIT event start with their Si card. Nearly did it myself the other day in reverse when I grabbed my Emit card and set off for start and suddenly noticed everyone else had Si cards. Oops!