Did they finish?
Someone has shown you a certificate. Enter the name printed on it and the event it names, and Laurel will tell you whether that person is on the finisher list.
Current events are still inside their lookup window. Laurel holds the finisher list, so a name is enough to check.
Past events have closed. Their finisher lists are deleted 30 days afterwards and we keep no copy, so there is nothing left to check a name against — scan the code on the certificate instead. It still works.
If the event is not listed
Laurel deletes each event’s finisher list 30 days after its window closes, so older events cannot be checked by name. We keep no copy to search.
The certificate itself is unaffected. Every one carries its own signed proof in the code printed on it, so scanning that still works years later — long after this page has forgotten the event existed.