How Tournament works?
Hello everyone. I'm new to the world of diecast racing, although I've been collecting Hot wheels for a while. This can be a silly question, but I would like to know, how do tournaments work? How many cars I should put in the track? How many rounds?
thank you all in advance :)
Discussion
If you head over to the Calendar you'll see a list of all the tournaments people are hosting. Some of them are mail-in, some of them are not, you'll have to check.
But like TinyTracks said, every host has different rules and entry restrictions, there's no real standard - so you just have to find a race that sounds fun to you and see what the rules are. But usually it's 1 or 2 cars at most for an entry.
And welcome to the world of diecast racing and Redline Derby. Keep posting to ask questions and don't forget to check out the Archive for various topics and tags to help you learn and get started.
Totally depends what you want to do. Are you talking mail in or just from your collection? We've done just about everything at the canyon (apart from a drag race) - head to head, one and done, 4, 6 and 8 cars ata. time and the overall number of entrants in a tournament usually comes down to what breaks down evenly.
For example, for our current NASCARNAGE series, we are racing 8 cars at a time, four groups so 32 cars in total. Top 4 from each round move to the next.
For the Canyon Outlaws, they are head to head, one and done races. For the actual list races, then the winner goes to challenge the person above them on the list and repeats till you get to the top racer.
Our rally series was head to head, two groups of 16 cars. There were five different tracks, so each driver only raced one other car on each track and points accumulated across all tracks.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, make it however you want and what works for you :)
I do mail in tournament 1st place get a prizes, for my next one you are welcome to particpate , this is my track.
To Chaos' point, do what you can manage and handle to start, especially if you're doing a mail-in. It's easy to go big because you want to make a splash but managing everything can be very overwhelming when you start out. Better to start small and get your system in place, then scale up.
- I'm proof of this advice. I built a track but felt unsure of the whole managing experience, so I bought my own cars (24 Honda Civics) and learned how to create my channel for Season 1. Season 2 had a few mail-ins, but I did not advertise. I'm on Season 3 and I'm ready to manage and organize 32 mail-in entries, but I should have been more bold and tried something like this for Season 1. — GravityThrottleRacing
As a track host?
The beauty of this hobby/sport is.... you can do anything you want and set up your tournament however you'd like.
I think the most common format is 16 or 32 cars. 4 cars in each group. Here is a photo below of our most recent Hot Tamale Tournament. We run 16 car tournaments.
Most important thing is.. HAVE FUN!!!