Performance evaluation equipment, systems and related methods

A virtual competition comprising:

• (a) loading a same digitally formatted performance template into a memory of a plurality of hand held targets at multiple locations, wherein a hand held target of said plurality of hand held targets comprises:
• a data port in communication with a memory configured to receive and store a digitally formatted performance template;
• a trainer user interface designed and configured to present trainer instructions to a trainer holding the target in accord with said digitally formatted performance template;
• a trainee interface to provide trainee cues in accordance with said digitally formatted performance template;
• at least one wave guide configured to conduct light from a light source to said trainee interface;
• and
• an animation engine configured to formulate animation instructions, which are applied to a digital graphic representation of the trainee based upon actual performance data;
• (b) gathering performance data from individual competitors performing said same digitally formatted template at said multiple locations during a discrete time interval;
• and
• (c) presenting said performance data of at least some of said individual competitors at said multiple locations on a common display.