Thanks, Goran, Dave, and others!
As for awards, Dave - yes, it is in works too. Well, the AIDA system is not yet quite so far, but I guess it will indeed happen. At AIDA, the priority is now getting the registrations automated. As you heard, the proposal to use temporarily Freedive Central opposes important resistance, so the development of own system must be now priority. The user interface is less important, since there are actually two of them quite fine - besides mine, also the original Result Register which already runs on AIDA's server. Using my system directly on AIDA's server wouldn't be straightforward - there are some technical and logistic barriers. I will open my source code, but since it is written in a little known programming language, AIDA may not want to use it, since finding other developers for making changes, or maintenance in case of my unavailability would be quite complicated. Porting it to PHP, Java, or Python would be certainly possible since I offer the code, but it would be a rather long and complicated job. The easiest and quickest would be embedding the output from my server on AIDA's pages, but when discussing the Freedive Central issue, I was told the policy is that AIDA cannot connect itself with private "commercial" initiatives, so that will be probably not possible either. So currently it looks like that at least in the first stage AIDA will use the current Result Register system, and APNEA.cz will feed it with data (at least until AIDA's registration system is working).
However, as Sebastian told, this is still all in the phase of discussions, and no specific decision was taken.
I will announce APNEA.cz awards pretty soon (including all performances in the database, even those non-ranking, and non-AIDA). And I will announce awards also retrospectively for all years, back to 1999. I just need to buy all those cups and Suunto watches that I will have to mail to the winners!
In the meantime, for those who do not like it complicated and too sophisticated, I created a
simple ranking with no menu. It's just a single table with the athletes with the highest combination points for all competition disciplines. It shows nothing else than names, nationalities, and the combination points. The default table is global (all time, all countries, all federations) and you can access it directly with this link:
http://apnea.cz/ranking.html?simple
But you can also append the country, region, club, gender, federation, or year to the URL in the way I described in one of my previous posts, to get a more specific ranking. (note: I think the federation switch does not work right now in this mode, but I will fix it later too)
Some examples:
http://apnea.cz/ranking.html?simple+10 - all time Top Ten
http://apnea.cz/ranking.html?simple+2009+EU - European ranking for 2009
http://apnea.cz/ranking.html?simple+M - male-only table
http://apnea.cz/ranking.html?simple+FR - French all time ranking