MC Bracket Road Racing

[Trip]

If you're choosing the bracket time, wouldn't that make it open for people to be douchebags and choose slow bracket times and ride faster? Kinda like advanced riders riding in intermediate to make themselves feel better...

[smileyman]

Originally Posted by Trip

If you're choosing the bracket time, wouldn't that make it open for people to be douchebags and choose slow bracket times and ride faster? Kinda like advanced riders riding in intermediate to make themselves feel better...

There would be a breakout like in drag racing. You pick a time to "dial in" and then you have a over under margin. IE, I can complete these 10 laps at 1 min 30 per lap or 15 minutes total elasped time. You have to run it as you called it to win. Any faster than you predict you break out, any slower than your prediction will get you beat by a rider who guessed their time by a smaller margin.

[shmike]

Originally Posted by Trip

If you're choosing the bracket time, wouldn't that make it open for people to be douchebags and choose slow bracket times and ride faster? Kinda like advanced riders riding in intermediate to make themselves feel better...

The "bracket" you choose is the time you expect to complete the race in.

Ex: 5 lap race, you choose 10 minutes as your time.

If you complete the race in 8 minutes, you beat your time.

Someone else chooses 12 minutes as their bracket. They finish in 13 minutes.

Person #2 is the winner, as they came closer to their chosen bracket.

If it works like drag racing, you (Example #1) would actually have been automatically DQ'd for "breaking out" of your bracket. It is actually better to run slower than your expected time than faster.

[Trip]

ah ok, so you would want to finish in the time you guess, I am guessing they would ban lap timers for events like this.