Speedway Children’s Charities sets 2026 cornhole tournament at EchoPark Speedway

Speedway Children’s Charities parked its 2026 cornhole tournament inside EchoPark Speedway’s Fan Zone on Saturday, July 11, giving race-day fans a simple entry point: $40 online for a two-person team or $50 on site. The event was hosted by the American Cornhole League and sponsored by Renasant Bank, with the Focused Health 250 and a Fan Zone opening at 10:30 a.m. already giving the speedway a packed Saturday calendar in Hampton, Georgia.

That setup mattered because it was built to catch casual foot traffic, not just dedicated cornhole regulars. The tournament sat inside a Fan Zone that also featured Kids’ Zone attractions, carnival rides, a helicopter display, axe throwing, racing simulators and food vendors, which made cornhole one more stop in a bigger entertainment circuit. In that kind of space, the sport works as a low-friction draw: spectators can walk up, enter a bracket, and turn a race-day outing into a donation.

The charity side is not window dressing. Speedway Children’s Charities Atlanta says it has operated since 1994 and has granted more than $4 million to local children’s causes across Metro Atlanta. The chapter distributed $100,000 to 35 local nonprofits in December 2024 and said it distributed another $100,000 to local organizations in 2025. Nationwide, Speedway Children’s Charities said its 2024 giving totaled $4,088,951.

The event also fit the larger Speedway Motorsports charitable structure. Speedway Children’s Charities was founded in 1982 by O. Bruton Smith in memory of his son, Bruton Cameron Smith, and the Atlanta chapter has kept that pipeline active through race-week programming and community grants. Putting cornhole in the middle of a speedway Fan Zone was the practical move here: it gave the league a branded competition space, gave the charity a new pool of participants, and gave the venue another way to turn race-day energy into direct support for children’s organizations in Georgia.