These are the documents I used back in the day, pre-2010. Since then I've tried to simplify. The biggest thing
is the electronic timing system, which eliminates the troublesome brackets. There is useful stuff in here, and
as long as I put so much time into it I thought someone could benefit . . .
plus it bulks up the website . . . so, there's that.
This really cool bracket spreadsheet automatically runs the race for you on a laptop at the track.
You just type in the roster on one side, then choose Win/Loss from the little pull-down menu for each race
and it automatically advances everyone as the races proceeds. Easy peasy.
Trouble is that is doesn't solve any of the difficulties of brackets--early match-ups that
may unfairly relegate a racer to the loser bracket, waiting for cars, needing a specific number of competitors,
calling the winner of a close race . . .
I had one guy go ballistic when his kid didn't win. Mansplained to me about the science of brackets
and his degree in Recreation. Holy crap, if there were some authority he could have reported me to he would have.
Assault with a doody bracket.
I felt bad. Nobody wants a child to feel like he's been cheated.
So this really cool spreadsheet has been completely obsoleted by the electronic timing system.
No matching up racers, no bracket complexities, no byes, no waiting for cars to get up the track
to race against a prescribed competitor . . .
But if you need to run a bracket, this is a slick way to do it.
