About 350 scouts were registered. A small handfull entered only one of the two design events, but most were entered for racing, and some of those brought second (and third) cars to compete in design events.
Adults from 5 of our district's packs accepted the challenge to run one of the grade tracks. ExtremePWD was among these intrepid people, undertaking his first forey into the world of leading a no-chart, quintuple elimination event for our district. Thanks, Bill! Another first-timer led the Bear track. Returning volunteers chaired the Tiger, Wolf, and Webelos I tracks.
In the end, the boys did a lot of racing. Most (about 88%) registered at least one heat win against two other cars in this prestigious event. The five trophy winners in each age group were pretty convincing!
The race of champions brought the winner from each age-group track together. These five cars put on an incredible show for us. Aside from the close races, the aspect that really impressed me was the care with which these five youngsters (first through fifth grade youngsters) staged their cars for each heat. They didn't take a lot of time to do it, but each carefully aligned the car and set the wheels to prepare for the hoped-for win.
When the young boys were finished racing and were carrying home their race and show trophies, ten big boys (and girls) brought out their cars. The cars followed the size and weight, etc. limits as for the boy's cars, but wheel and axle "rules" allowed a lot of creativity. ExtremePWD took home the trophy, barely, in this event, running on ... well, I should let him describe the wheels. Aside from being very fast, I thought that the wheels might look very good as coat buttons!
One car, built in the competitor's youth and brought to show in the Classic Car's division, was accepted for racing by the group. It still looked good going down the track, but had a hard time standing up to the level of the competition.
