Late than never - Districts
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:07 pm
My Webelos I and Wolf both made it to districts last year. Both boys were racing at the same time on two different tracks. The Webelos races were quite close, with no less than 9 dead heats - two winning cars tying to the thousandth of a second! There were jokes about what would happen if there was a tie at the end. Well... you guessed it, as they counted down the 5 fastest elapsed times they got to second place and paused. They then announced that there was a tie for first, to the thousandth of a second over three races. One was my son (proud papa!). They then announced that my son would be awarded second place because the other racer's fastest time was 1/1000th of a second faster than my son's fastest. I watched as my son walked up to the podium to receive his trophy. When he turned around, he congratulated the other boy with a smile on his face (prouder papa!)
As this was occurring, My other son's races were starting. They ran all the first heats and announced the beginning of the second heat races, but my son's car never ran! I walked up to the stager and pointed this out and he looked down at the cars in the pit and said "you're right! I would have remembered that car." They checked the computer and found his number was skipped right over! The only remedy they could come up with was to run the car solo on each lane at the end and manually score it. When they did that, my son's car placed second!
So both of my sons walked out of the gym with second place trophies and pride in their cars.
As this was occurring, My other son's races were starting. They ran all the first heats and announced the beginning of the second heat races, but my son's car never ran! I walked up to the stager and pointed this out and he looked down at the cars in the pit and said "you're right! I would have remembered that car." They checked the computer and found his number was skipped right over! The only remedy they could come up with was to run the car solo on each lane at the end and manually score it. When they did that, my son's car placed second!
So both of my sons walked out of the gym with second place trophies and pride in their cars.