For points racing, the chart used in finals should be of the PN or CPN variety. On a 3 or 4-lane track this is 3 or 4 or 7 or 13 racers.derbyspeed wrote: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.
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But I am still a little confused on how many to send to the finals, any help is appreciated.
Pick the number that give you good confidence that those deserving a trophy make the finals even if they get a worse draw during the preliminaries. Usually about twice as many finalists as trophies gets them all in. For 4 trophies, I'd run 7 finalists.
If your preliminaries are den by den instead of one big competition, then the picture is different. You have to go deeper into each den to have the same assurance.