Concours Scoring Calculator

No -- this reproduces the general 100-point, deduction-based judging convention used at many concours d'elegance and club shows, in the style of organizations like CCCA and AACA, but every club and event publishes its own specific judging manual with its own category weights and deduction rules. Treat this calculator as a practice/planning tool for understanding roughly how your car might score, not as the official scoresheet for any particular event.

Exterior paint & body carries the largest point allocation of the six categories (25 of 100 possible points, versus 10 each for chrome and operational correctness), which reflects how heavily this style of judging weights visible finish and body presentation. A one-point improvement in your exterior score moves the total the same amount as a one-point improvement anywhere else, but the exterior category simply has more total points available to gain or lose.

Raw category scores aren't directly comparable because the categories have different point ceilings -- a 9 out of 10 in Chrome and an 18 out of 20 in Interior are both 90%, even though the raw numbers differ. Weakest area score % converts every category to the same percentage-of-maximum scale first, then picks the lowest, so it correctly identifies which category needs the most relative improvement rather than which one happens to have the smallest raw number.

It shows how many additional points your total score needs to cross into the next award tier up (Participant to Bronze at 88, Bronze to Silver at 93, Silver to Gold at 97, or Gold to Perfect at 100). It resets to a larger number every time you cross a tier boundary, since it's always measuring the gap to the NEXT threshold above your current score, not counting down toward a single fixed goal.