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27th October 2025

End of Season Review

All,

ResultsNet has brought you quick and easy access to results for Highland Games and Border Games for the last two seasons. For the 2025 season all results are in except for one (see later); that's 54 Highland Games and eight Border Games.

We pride ourselves in publishing results as quickly as possible - ideally by the day after they are available. Let's see how we did, and let's also see how timely the Games were in getting their results published on their governing body's internet presence. We will also touch on some of our additional selling points and take a glimpse at the future.

Border Games

Seven out of the eight Border Games saw their results published on the Border Athletics (BA) Facebook (FB) page the day they were held - a testament to the speed and efficiency of Craig Dunbar who compiled and submitted most, if not all, of the results. Only Jedburgh, with its bigger programme, took until the next day to be published. ResultsNet published results for five of the eight Games the day after the Games were held, with those for the other three Games published on the day of the Games. So that's our target not just met, but beaten. Border Games results are all published by BA in spreadsheets with a similar look and feel, making them relatively straight forward to digest, but they get hidden away down the FB page's timeline. The online form at ResultsNet makes it a breeze to find and display results of any Games and they are displayed in the same, consistent format.

Highland Games

It's a different story when it comes to the promptness of Highland Games results being displayed on the RSHGA website. Whilst a little more than a third go up in two days or less, another third are up within a week, but the final third take two weeks or longer to be published. The vast majority of the results displayed in under two days actually go up the same day and they are displayed in the same format as the BA spreadsheet, so a sneaking suspicion is that the quick fingers of Craig are at play, but that's pure speculation. So what about ResultsNet - how rapidly are we working? Well, two thirds of results were displayed the day after they go on the RSHGA website, with only one Games' results missing that target. The remaining (almost) one third of the results beat the target, being available the same day as displayed at RSHGA. RSHGA spreadsheets are of varying formats, often containing many empty rows, making them tricky to navigate and take in. The order of events can vary and the names of performances units are not consistent. Whilst this menu of variation might be quaint and quirky, it doesn't make for readability. At ResultsNet, the results format is predictable and easy to absorb. Events are displayed in a consistent order - athletics, cycling, heavy, dancing then piping - and performance unit names are standardised.

Missing Results

Results for Strathardle Highland Gathering are now over two months late. We've emailed them a couple of times but not yet heard anything. If you can help get the results to us, it would be very much appreciated. Please email admin@resultsnet.uk, and look out for a response from a different address. The full set of the season's results would then be available for all to see.

Better than the Original

You might think that results published by the governing bodies will be the epitome of accuracy and that when duplicated elsewhere they might be subject to errors. Well, neither is actually the case. At ResultsNet, we use a bespoke software process to convert the official results into a format suitable for use on our website, thereby eliminating the likelihood of errors arising from human input. A critical eye is cast over the results and corrections are sometimes made to the original data. These can be typos in the names of competitors or their towns, placings (there can't be a third place if there was a winner and two tying for second place), performances (no one has jumped 17.2m yet, but they have jumped 17.2 feet) or simply missing town information. These corrections are made as and when noticed, so it's certainly not the case that all mistakes/omissions in the official results are corrected. Nevertheless you can see how the results at ResultsNet can actually be better than the official data.

Competitor Search

At the start of this season, the brand new Competitor Search tool was launched. This gives the placings and performances of anyone who featured in Highland Games results since 2023 and Border Games results since 2018. This has to be a uniquely valuable search facility. Our records show that the tool is not used as often as it might be, so if you haven't tried out Competitor Search yet, please do so, and hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised.

New Search Tool

A new search tool capable of "cutting the data" in a different way is planned for next season. More details in due course...

Historical Results

A reminder that results at ResultsNet go back further than this season. For Highland Games, results go back to 2023 (with 2022 a possibility in due course), while Border Games results go back all the way to 2018.

Comments of Suggestions

If you have any comments or questions on anything at ResultsNet, or suggestions for new features, please email admin@resultsnet.uk and look out for a response from a different address.

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David, on behalf of ResultsNet.

P.S. ResultsNet is about more than summer Games; look out for results of the New Year Sprint meeting in early January 2026.

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