The Super Laser Racer Online Championship

[King Rob]

Well, please is all you can say as there is no way to completely control or punish it...

Thats not true.....he could break out the:

[Alex Reeves]

Bumping and deliberately 'killing' whoever you please should be mandatory!
But, how would we profit from online tournaments? They're good for one-off's but not for weekly play, unless, online tournaments would exist - in that case we could have a championship consisting of several tournaments - which would be awesome.

Totally agree. I think a points series of several weekly online tournaments could work really well. The other potentially interesting idea could be an online "ranked match" setup, a la Trackmania. TM really got online racing right in so many ways, there's a lot to be learnt from that system.

[Cookie Monster]

How do TM matches work? I haven't played it in a while, nor do I have it installed.

[Alex Reeves]

TM has an online ranking system, so that when you play online "official" races you get a ranking against the other players. These rankings determine points scoring.

In the earlier TM games (ie. TM Sunrise), these rankings were worked out based on comparative rankings of all competitors, and you could lose ranking points. The later TM just allows you to gain points relative to the people you beat. I preferred the older system, although convincing the higher ranked players to play you officially was occasionally difficult....

[Sida79]

Trackmania ranking is weird... you do get more points for beating higher ranked opponent but the most important part is: you get points for beating anyone so it all comes down to how often you play. If you play for hours every day you'll climb to 2000 smth position even if you're just mediocre. If you play once a week you can be awesome and you'll end up 20000 smth at best

[Alex Reeves]

That's why I preferred TM Sunrise system, not the current one. It worked more like a chess ranking ie. you could lose points as well as gain them. Agreed that the current TM system favours people who play it ots, rather than play it well.

[Zomgman]

NAME: Merlin Lefebvre (im not lying)
STEAM ID: evildude2000
NATIONALITY: Canada
SPACESHIP: krait
NATION'S GMT: im not sure... but its in the Quebec area
MSN/YAHOO EMAIL: merlin.bean@hotmail.com

[Sida79]

C'mon, it's time to update this page and think about getting this show on the road.

[Cookie Monster]

Yes. Updated now! We do need to arrange a time though.

[King Rob]

I'm up for this dudes and dudettes.

NAME: Rob Frost
STEAM ID: BlackCapedMan
NATIONALITY: Englandia
SPACESHIP: Fedz
NATION'S GMT:
MSN/YAHOO EMAIL: robmustdie@hotmail.com

[Cookie Monster]

welcome aboard my dear Canada loving sir

[Tachyon]

NAME: Tahseen Sheik
STEAM ID: tachyon1986
NATIONALITY: India
SPACESHIP: Gecko
NATION'S GMT: +5:30 GMT
MSN/YAHOO EMAIL: tahseen166@hotmail.com

@King Rob,

Is "BlackCapedMan" really your steam ID ? I can't find any user by that name. Your steam account ID is displayed at the top right of the steam client.

Also, I've added everyone mentioned on the first post to my Steam friend's list.

[Sida79]

GMT-5 Zomgman
GMT+0 Cookie Monster
GMT+0 King Rob
GMT+1 Sida79
GMT+2 raknet
GMT+5.30 Tachyon

What this means is the usual "we're screwed" routine, based on the 10.30 difference between Zomgman and Tachyon. Assuming we'll be driving on weekends so everyone can make it more easily and those two having to sleep etc. (my apologies in advance if sleep is against your religion/way of life or anything!) we have these choices:

7.00 Zomgman - 17.30 Tachyon (12,13,14 others)
8.00 Zomgman - 18.30 Tachyon (13,14,15 others)
9.00 Zomgman - 19.30 Tachyon (14,15,16 others)
10.00 Zomgman - 20.30 Tachyon (15,16,17 others)
11.00 Zomgman - 21.30 Tachyon (16,17,18 others)
12.00 Zomgman - 22.30 Tachyon (17,18,19 others)

Choose your poison...

[Cookie Monster]

I choose poison number 11.00 because I have classes Saturday morning!

[Alex Reeves]

Well I'll make it even worse when I apply, as I'll be GMT +11....