What is a TSD Rally?
In a Time-Speed-Distance Rally, teams of two (driver and navigator) work together to follow route instructions and in some cases, complete puzzles or answer questions along the way at designated checkpoints. Speed are always legal, and often are below the posted speed limit. A TSD rally is a competition of precision driving: it is NOT a race. The goal of a rally team is twofold: to stay on the prescribed course, and to dirve at exactly the given speed. The perfect team would be on course and on time at any given point along the route. To score teams against this goal, checkpoints are sprinkled throughout the course. Each team receives a score based on its time for that portion, or leg, of the course. For each fraction of a minute early or late, the team is given points. The team with the lowest total score for all the legs wins. Each leg is independant: time late or early on one leg can not be “made up” on subsequent legs.
