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jeffpiazza / derbynet

Open-source Pinewood Derby race management, built around a web server and database
MIT License
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Feature Request - Limit Number of Lanes Raced #290

Open jtemple967 opened 10 months ago

jtemple967 commented 10 months ago

Our church denomination has a district wide racing day and sometimes we can have as many as 50 kids in one age group that need to race together. We also have a 6 lane track with timer. If we have each kid race every lane on the track that can make for a VERY long race and as you know...kid's attention spans don't last very long. :)

Is it possible (or would it be possible) to have, in addition to setting number of times each race should appear in each lane, could we also set a maximum number of appearances? For example, 6 lanes, each racer can race a maximum of 3 times?

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chunter2 commented 9 months ago

We sort of have the opposite problem. We have a three lane track and timer but 3 runs each is too short a race but 6 is too long. I'd be nice to be able to choose 4 and have each racers last run a random lane.

anwright commented 8 months ago

Echoing @jtemple967's request: limiting to 2-3 runs per car would be slightly less fair, but would keep events from stretching out past kids' attention spans. Double elimination would be a nice to have as well.