Pinewood Derby Bracket Sheets

Double elimination chart advance preparation.

Pinewood derby bracket sheets. Tips and other resources. I suggest organizing a committee at the first pack meeting of the year and drafting as many parents as possible to help. 16 car double elimination race chart for pinewood derby race. Each scout builds a race car out of a block of wood.

At a den meeting the cars are raced on a downhill track often with 3 or 4 lanes. Similar race events include raingutter regatta kub kar rally shape n race. For this reason race brackets can be set up so that each scout only competes with others of his age group. Algorithms programs submitted will be listed with references and appropriate credits.

We re pleased to make this available to cub scout packs to help them hold a better pinewood derby this spreadsheet handle up to 15 cars in three lanes or four lanes. Then add a second chance bracket of 16 whose survivor will race against the survivor of the second chance bracket of 8. Photocopy enlarge onto an overhead projection transparency. Print the above chart.

You may use and distribute these files freely for non commercial use. Each car races three or four times once in each lane. Pinewood derby scoring spreadsheet. See the challenge in stearns method critique.

It seems the best way to do this is with a pinewood derby committee. Getting started the most exciting pinewood derbies require lots of planning and lots of volunteers to help with the event. Scoutdb has developed a microsoft excel spreadsheets to automate pinewood derby scoring. The annual pinewood derby race is a favorite activity for most cub scouts moms and dads too.

Stearns method software may be obtained from the us scouting service project on the pinewood derby reference materials page. Tigers race tigers wolves race wolves and so forth. Pinewood derby score keeping spreadsheet. See also pinewood derby race method evaluation.