Randy Lewis

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY AWARD BACKGROUND

The National Geographic Diversity Award was first established in 2003.  The NGDA is meant to recognize trackchasers who excel on two fronts.  Points are awarded based upon a trackchaser's state ranking in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia.  For trackchasers to do well in this analysis they must see racing in a large number of states AND rank high in each state's trackchasing standings.

If a trackchaser has seen the most tracks of anyone as reported by www.trackchaser.net in an individual state, they will receive a score of "1" for that state.  The second place finisher gets a "2", third place finisher gets a "3", etc.  Anyone finishing outside of the top 10 in an individual state receives a score of 15 in that state.  The National Geographic Diversity scoring scale is like golf.  The low score wins.

Each year there are two National Geographic Diversity awards.  The first is for lifetime results and the second is for annual results.  Since 2003 was the first year of this award, both the lifetime and 2003 (annual) results were the same.  During 2003, the results were limited to the top 20 worldwide trackchasers.  In subsequent years, any trackchaser listed in a state's top 10 will be eligible for the award.

All results are tabulated by the National Geographic Diversity Institute located in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Results are certified to be accurate based upon data submitted by each trackchaser and accumulated by trackchaser commissioner, Will White.

Randy Lewis - 2007 Lifetime National Geographic Award Winner

2007 LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY AWARD RESULTS

For the first time in the five years of the National Geographic Diversity championships, we have a winner who comes from west of the Mississippi.  Randy Lewis of San Clemente, California is the new lifetime leader with a record score of  6.37.  In one of the most hard fought battles in the history of trackchasing Randy defeated Gordon  Killian of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania.  Mr. Killian's score of 6.59 also beat all previous NGD scores achieved to date.

Randy's eleven first place state finishes, 22 top threes and 33 top fives helped overcome 12 worst than 10th place finishes on the way to victory.

In the women's division, Nancy Brown edged past Pat Eckel winning her second women's division championship with a score of 12.16 (14th rank overall) to Pat's 12.63.  Carol Lewis and Pam Smith finished on the lead lap with scores of 12.86 and 12.96 respectively.

By the way, just ONE POSITION IN ONE STATE equates to .02 points.  You can see just how close some of these contests were.

The NGD lifetime leader may hold the most presitigious position in all of trackchasing, at least in the United States.  This leadership position signifiies a dominance in BOTH states visited and tracks seen within all of those states.

Special congratulations go out to John Moore, Bing Metz, Paul Weisel, Guy Smith, Pam Smith, Randy Lewis, Ed Esser, Gary Jacob, Allan Brown, Pappy Hough, Roger Ferrell, Rick Schneider, Jack Erdmann, Paul Weidman, and Norm Wagner.  They all led the lifetime state standings in one state or more.

The standings below show the lifetime scores since the contest began in 2003.  You can see who is going "backward" and who is "coming on."  As mentioned, each position in each state equates to .02 points in the lifetime NGD score.