-Altitude Race Championship-

[tomato man]

Altitude Race Championship



Type: Race

20 participants


---RULES---

4 weeks of group racing, plus 1 championship race for group winners.

2 map/circuit per week. Each race will have a pre-defined plane which all players must use. Races take between 2 and 5 minutes. Players will be allowed to gather and practice before the race. Races will always begin so that they have completed within 30 minutes of the scheduled start time. If a player is so late that the race must start without them, they will receive 0 points for that race.

The 20 players are split in 5 groups of 4 players. Groups will be made to optimize ping and time zone, the groups are:

Group    Region     Description                Players                       
-----    --------   -----------------------    ----------------------------                   
  I      EU         (Saturday UTC 20:00/8PM)   Jonus, Toma, Neophyten, Omni. 
 II      Americas   (Saturday UTC 21:00/9PM)   Biell, Soneji, Brutal, Ufo.    
III      EU         (Sunday UTC 18:00/6PM)     Reddragon, Evel, Stam, Smile.  
 IV      Americas   (Sunday UTC 21:00/9PM)     Fart, Slender, Woofy, Oyster. 
  V      APac       (Sunday UTC 11:00/11AM)    Paiza, Unlock, Demu, Moon.

Participants, please provide your country and for large countries (Russia, US, Canada) please also provide your time zone. Every attempt will be made to organize this event so that race times are convenient for people from all countries and regions.

The Winners of each group by points after 8 races will proceed to a single, final race where placement defines overall rank. The winner of the final race is the ARC winner! Laps times will be compared to the 100th of a second for precise results.



Game order is :

Week   Plane      Map                           Date
----   -------    ------------------------      ---------  
  1    Loopy      ball_race_silverstone         23-24 Jan
  1    Randa      ball_race_eastern_creek       23-24 Jan  
  2    Biplane    ball_race_gauntlet            30-31 Jan
  2    Whale      ball_race_balloon             30-31 Jan
  
  3    Randa      ball_race_mayhem              6-7 Feb
  3    Loopy      ball_race_forest              6-7 Feb
  3    TBD        ball_race_YoshiDesert         6-7 Feb
  3    TBD        ball_race_ShyGuyBeach         6-7 Feb

Final  Any        ball_race_asteroids           TBD

TBD = To Be Determined.

Race maps are available on the Team+ server for practice. European races will take place on "ARC 1". North/Central American races will take place on "ARC 2".
East Asian races will take place on "ARC 3". Also, in ARC players will always be assigned to the same team to ensure randa warping and whale remote detonation cannot affect other players.



Points System

Place   Points
-----   ------
 1st      4
 2nd      3
 3rd      2
 4th      1

You receive 0 points for a missed race. Points will be awarded inside each group to determine the winner of that group after 6 weeks. The winners of each group proceed to the finals. The final race should be the only one where the start time may be inconvenient. The time of the final race will be chosen after consultation with the participants.



Participants

Group     Player 
-----     -----------
  I       Toma
  I       Jonus
  I       Neo
  I       Omni
 II       Biell
 II       Soneji
 II       Brutal
 II       Ufo
III       Reddragon
III       Evel
III       Stam
III       Smile
 IV       Fart
 IV       Slender
 IV       Oyster
 IV       Woofy
  V       Paiza
  V       Demu
  V       Unlock
  V       Moon

Admins

Biell
Paiza
Toma
Brutal

We need 1 reliable admin more.


AWARDS

1st 200 cp
2nd 150 cp
3rd 100 cp



Results:

ball_race_silverstone - Winners: Jonus, Biell, Moon, Dvd, Woof.
ball_race_eastern_creek - Winners: Jonus, Biell, Moon, Dvd, Woof.
ball_race_gauntlet - Winners: Toma, Biell, Moon, Dvd, TBK.
ball_race_balloon - Winners: Jonus, Biell, Moon, Dvd, TBK.

-ARC Creators: Biell,Paiza,Toma. Please contact any of us with questions or suggestions.

[tomato man]

UPDATE


LAST WEEK OF RACING. The groups are:




EU (Saturday UTC 20:00/8PM) Jonus, Toma, Neophyten, Omni.

USA (Saturday UTC 21:00/9PM) Biell, Soneji, Brutal, Ufo

EU (Sunday UTC 18:00/6PM) Reddragon, Evel, Stam, Smile

USA (Sunday UTC 21:00/9PM) Fart, Slender, Woofy, Oyster

APac (Sunday UTC 11:00/11AM) Paiza, Unlock, Demu, Moon.


European races will take place on "ARC 1".
North/Central American races will take place on "ARC 2".
East Asian races will take place on "ARC 3".

All three servers have ball_race_mayhem and ball_race_forest. These servers are configured for these two maps, with their league lap counts (league races will have more laps).
Players will be forced into randa on mayhem, and loopy on forest. We havn't decided yet the planes for Yoshidesert and Skyguy.


-please come on the forums occasionally to check for the confirmed timings for each week!

[Kafka]

I'd love to play!

US - Mountain time zone

[Fartface]

Put me in I'm US EST

[Slender]

hay

central america

[Neophyten]

In for this, EU

[Stam]

Please add me and smile!
EU

[ufo]

I'm down! US East.

[Slender]

Few things I saw around:

1. Groups II and V are the exact same
2. First half of group IV could be already in group I
3. Remaining half of this^ could be just Europe as group IV

[tomato man]

Originally Posted by Slender

Few things I saw around:

1. Groups II and V are the exact same
2. First half of group IV could be already in group I
3. Remaining half of this^ could be just Europe as group IV

Groups will be made to optimize ping and time zone.


I was thinking to have:

2 USA groups
1 EU group
1 Asia group
1 EU+USA group

groups will be made when sign ups are closed so that we know all participants time zones.

[REDDRAGON]

yes

i have liut nevr lost an alti race in my life
do i get cps for winning

[Mango777]

Cool, good luck everyone!

[Kafka]

Originally Posted by REDDRAGON

yes

i have liut nevr lost an alti race in my life
do i get cps for winning

[tomato man]

Originally Posted by REDDRAGON

yes

i have liut nevr lost an alti race in my life
do i get cps for winning

I thought the same before racing vs jonus.
Ill see if we can involve cps into this. Will let u know

[Moon]

I'd like to participate.
Japan.

[REDDRAGON]

sign me
eu but usa at heart

[Soneji]

This appeals to my interests. USA, Central Time

[Oyster]

I'm in! Sounds like a blast

[tomato man]

Im happy to let you know that the Awesome Karl will give an award to the best 3!

1st 200 CP

2nd 150 CP

3rd 100 CP

[Brutal]

I can be one of the admins if you need me.

[Woofy]

I would play if there's a spot. US Middle

[tomato man]

Woof, sadly there arent free-spots left.
The amount of interest was much higher than expected.
If all goes well, the next 1 will be organized without a players limit and with a different format.

Now that sign ups are closed, we can work on making the groups.

[Woofy]

That's alright! I'll still show up and watch, maybe hop in for a no-show!

[Kafka]

Any idea when you want to hold this tourney? Before/during/after Eleffie?

[paiza]

We haven't really decided yet, It'll probably take place both before and during Eleffie

[paiza]

UPDATE

A rather important update so please listen up!

In case you haven't seen Toma's post earlier, admission is CLOSED. Yep, in about 3 days, we were able to fill up all the spots. We didn't expect this much interest in the ARC and we're sorry about all those others that are unable to enter. However, we're likely to hold one more of this in the future, and will probably be able to hold and ARC without a player limit, or at least a higher player limit. We'll also be able to implement more ways to improve the way the league is organised, after listening to feedback from you guys.

More importantly, we've changed the format for the group stages. We've made it such that we'll be having 2 races per day/week, instead of one. This will mean that we're racing 8 tracks in total, over 4 weeks. We'll let you guys know soon about the planes that are going to be used, as well as the tracks. Hope you guys are fine with this!

See you on the track!

[biell]

Originally Posted by Woofy

That's alright! I'll still show up and watch, maybe hop in for a no-show!

Woofy, you can have my spot.

[Woofy]

Thanks man. If you show up you can have it

[paiza]

UPDATE

The qualifiers for the race will be starting NEXT WEEKEND(24 Jan). The groups are:
EU Saturday --- Jonus, Toma, Neophyten, Omni.

USA Saturday-- Biell, Soneji, Kafka, Ufo

EU Sunday-- Reddragon, Evel, Stam, Smile

USA Sunday--Fart, Slender, Woofy, Oyster

ASIA-- Paiza, Unlock, Demu, Moon.

Timings are:

EU Saturday(Saturday UTC 20:00/8PM)
USA Saturday (Saturday UTC 21:00/9PM)
EU Sunday(Sunday UTC 18:00/6PM)
USA Sunday (Sunday UTC 21:00/9PM)
Asia (Sunday UTC 11:00/11AM)

Timings may change for each seperate weekend, so please come on the forums occasionally to check for the confirmed timings for each week!

[Fartface]

Hi is there any chance you could split the pools into mouse and non-mouse? If not I predict a resounding mouse victory

[Mango777]

Great idea Fartface, but what if players decide to cheat by joining the nonmouse group, and still use mouse? I guess they will be disqualified...

[Fartface]

Possible in theory, I suppose, but I don't know of any kb players who are also any good with mouse

[paiza]

You should probably have asked us about this earlier lol

It's too late now to change the groups, we probably could implement this idea in the next championship though(this championship is our first so we're trying some things out)

[tomato man]

Don't know if unlock,dyke and moon use mouse. But for the rest, they should be all kb players.

Fart, Slender, Woofy, Oyster.
Your group is 100% kb players.

[XX1]

Originally Posted by Fartface

I predict a resounding mouse victory

Wait why
Can you explain for the slower people why mouse is better than kb for this?

[Moon]

I'm using mouse/kb hybrid and they saw me do "OK" on a few race maps. Now, I have only used kb for a very, and i want to emphasise 'very' short period of time, so I can't speak from a kb users perspective, but I am of an opinion that mouse+kb is a superior control scheme and any motion to prove it as such (like establishing different groups for this tourny) I am in favour of.

Bow down to the hybrid master race.

On a more serious note... I definitely see an advantage in terms of maximising travel distance to the next corner of the race track that mouse has. I can make a b-line towards the next turn assuming I can see it on the screen by simply placing my mouse pointer on it. KB users would have to estimate whether they are traveling on a straight line towards the turn. Hence a slight advantage on every single stretch which could add up over the course of the race.
Another thing about traversing in straight lines... On ShyGuyBeach the left most 'tunnel' part of the map is extremely easy with a mouse since I can make a straight line through it. On the other hand I've seen a bunch of players crash there when I played them earlier in the day. Might me something to take a closer look at if the conversation on this topic continues.

<-this is where another point would have went but I realised that im rambling too much->
終わり

[biell]

Regional servers are created.

European races will take place on "ARC 1".
North/Central American races will take place on "ARC 2".
East Asian races will take place on "ARC 3".

All three servers have ball_race_silverstone and ball_race_eastern_creek. These servers are configured for these two maps, with their league lap counts (league races will have more laps). Players will be forced into loopy on silverstone, and randa on eastern_creek. Please practice with these planes during the week to prepare for the next weekend.

We will update the race table this week with the newer 2 races per weekend schedule.

[Kafka]

Anyone reading this who didn't get a chance to sign up (from US preferably - so you don't lag in the USA group), post on here.

After actually trying out a few of the race maps, I'm not a huge fan of the game mode. I'd rather someone who'd have more fun be able to participate.

=============================================
Toma if you still need help on the admin side of things, I can do that

[Oyster]

I'd agree that mouse is better and should be in a different class, but it is not impossible for a keyboard user to win. Keyboarders just have to put up a flawless round, whereas mousers just have to not crash.

[biell]

Thanks Kafka, for letting us know.

Brutal agreed to help out as an admin, but we didn't have a spot for him. Brutal will take your spot in the Saturday Americas race.

Thanks.