Derby Talk

Nooby - you summed it up. All packs should just adopt the district rules. I had several packs e-mail me that they had done just that. I would agree totally. This is my first year as cubmaster and running the Derby. I did a full Pack Meeting seminar on the Pinewood Derby and handed out the district ...

Mike, I know that you have purchased GPRM, but I hope you realize it will not run that type of elimination race. The only form of elimination supported is if you wish to run additional rounds of racing where you can then advance the best performing cars. Also, I am not one to recommend displaying s...

Would you allow that triple elimination or quadruple elimination are comparably intuitive for an 8-year old? Same underlying concept, but more racing! Although I have never seen a chart for either one of those and not sure how much time it would take to run, I would agree that it would be in very g...

Great! Thanks so much for your time Stan! This is my first year running the race and I wanted to make sure it was as accurate as could be with the points method.

Mike

Yes we just do it as a total pack race even though we keep track with the software as to who goes the farthest in each den. We have a 4-lane track this year, I always thought going with 8 finalist would work but you are saying to get better results we should go with maybe 7 or 13.

Thanks, Mike

I was thinking along the same lines - to keep it at an even number so all 4 lanes would be racing.

Thanks, Mike

We only have 23 scouts and that's if they all race. We are doing point this year with a preliminary and a finals. We will give away 4 trophies. How many should we advance to the finals - 8? Using the gprm software. By the way, we do ours as a full pack race and then award medals to the scout in each...

If you start thinking like an 8 year old, instead of an adult and if you agree with me that, "The purpose of the Pinewood Derby is to provide a positive experience for the organization, the parents and the child (with the emphasis on the child).", then Time wins over Points any day. Just ...