How are prizes awarded?
Since winning and being successful in the league championships is its own reward, we’ve opted to use a typical lottery type algorithm to award prizes, rather than giving out prizes to the seasonal champions. This gives everyone an opportunity to participate in the prize system, and to have a reasonable expectation of (eventually) winning a prize. The lottery algorithm is as follows: • Every driver who contributes the season ‘fee’ ($5) is entered into the seasonal drawing, and is given 15 lottery points. • For every league event in which a driver participates (even partially), they are awarded an additional lottery point. Note that ‘participation’ consists of completing at least one of the races in an event (any of the sprints or the feature race). For events using the teaching format, participation will be probably be registered via our timesheets mechanism. • At the end of the season, each driver’s lottery point total is converted to virtual lottery tickets in that driver’s name, and