Organising a tractor pulling event: the steps in order
Organising a tractor pulling event is fun work, but there is more to it than the track and the tractors. Anyone who has done it a few times knows that the preparation and the admin make the difference between a smooth day and a day full of loose ends. Below we put the steps in order, in the order you meet them.
1. Decide on your classes and rules
Start with the set-up. Which classes are pulling, such as Sport, Super Sport or Modified, and which weight classes belong to them? Set the rules before registration opens, because they determine how participants sign up and how you build the start lists later.
2. Open registration
Once the classes are set, participants can sign up. Online registration saves a huge amount of retyping. Participants pick their class, fill in the tractor details and get a start number automatically. You keep track of who is taking part in your dashboard, without scattered spreadsheets.
3. Sort out entry and tickets
Is there an audience? Then you want entry to run smoothly. With online tickets visitors pay in advance with iDEAL or WERO and you scan a QR code at the gate. That avoids queues and hassle with cash, and you know roughly how many people to expect.
4. Build the start lists
Just before the event day you build the start lists per class. If the registrations already come in digitally, this is a matter of sorting and setting the pull order. Need to change something on the day itself? That is fine, as long as you have a single source of truth.
5. During the event: enter and show
On the day it is all about speed. The jury enters the distance at the sledge, and the live ranking on the big screen shows the new standing immediately. You register weighing and power test in the same system, so the result is correct from start to finish.
6. Afterwards: share the results
When the last class has pulled, the results are already online. Participants and the audience view them on their phone and you can keep them as a PDF. No evening at the computer to work everything out.
Everything in one system
It brings peace of mind when registration, tickets, start lists and the ranking sit in the same system. Then nobody retypes anything and you always see the same standing, whether you are at the track or behind your laptop. PullPilot is built exactly for that. Try it for free with your own event.