I’m glad to inform you about the 4th edition of the
International Stunts Master!
Like the past edition, ISM 2010 will be an
open event which will start
next December with a
Qualify session in order to establish the list of drivers (max 8 drivers) admitted to the Race. The formula will be very similar to the last year (three simultaneous race) but with a
different criteria to determine the winner.
In every single track, drivers will get a standard score as they would get in a normal race (8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1). The best sum of points will find out the winner. Leading Time Bonus rules will be the same of the past edition, but due to the different criteria aforesaid, for every new leading time, a driver will obtain a bonus pair to 0,2 points (instead of 0,05 seconds as it was last year). Bonus Points will be obviously added at the three scores, concurring so to determine the best sum of points.
Before to recap all the rules highlighting the modifies, I want to explain
why the criteria has changed. Well, I think that there are good points for both systems, but I guess that rewarding the best sum of points instead to the best sum of times, permits to obtain almost three important targets:
1) Avoiding that a big and lucky bug in a single track could affect remarkably the final result of the event, twisting a more balanced and right ranking.
2) Keeping hot the Race until the end, not being drivers dispirited seeing an unreachable monster-time on the scoreboard of a single track: a big gap (around 5-10 seconds) could be impossible to recover in the other 2 tracks for the others.
3) Finally, the points system pushes the drivers to realize their real best time on every track and not only very good performances. Final scoreboard can in fact change a lot if a driver should be overtook on a single track (even only for some centiseconds) by 2 or 3 opponents: sure much more than the past year. And this will mean three real races for an exciting and open final standing until the end.Just to take confidence with the new criteria, you can check the attached images that show the final score of the last edition and how it would be resulted applying the new criteria. As you can see, the positions wouldn't be changed, but it would be resulted a more sharp challenge: it would have been enough to invert the positions of the 3rd and the 4th in track B (divided by only 0,25 seconds) to see a different winner.
Anyway, here you can read all the info about the rules, the dates and other stuff.
In red the changes respect the last edition.
TRACKS All the tracks will be created from contest manager, but he won’t be able to realize useful replays before the start of the contest. Just before the publication of the official tracks, I will ask to three participants to tell me a letter of the alphabet. I’ll insert the three letters in the name of the track obtaining so new .TRK files, which will be the official ones used in the contest. For example, I create a track named A10.TRK. Subsequently, just before its publication, I ask to 3 drivers to tell me one letter each of them, at own their choice. For example, thinking that the 3 letters they tell me are B, G and X, I will rename the file A10.TRK in A10-BGX.TRK. In this way, whatever replay I had realized before on that track won’t be utilizable.
FORMULA QualifyingDrivers will have two weeks to realize their fastest times on a single track in order to reach the qualification for the Race. There will be only two updates (the first one planned after the first week, the second one planned 3 days before the end) but a LTB system will push to discover own cards. A the end of the 2 weeks, only the fastest 80% of drivers (LTB included) will be qualified,
until a maximum of 8 drivers. For example:
1) If 8 drivers will send a time to qualify, only the fastest 6 (80% of 8 = 6,4) will take part at the Final Phase;
2) If 10 or more drivers will send a time to qualify, only the fastest 8 will take part at the Race;
RaceDrivers will have to race simultaneously on 3 tracks for almost 4 weeks. The winner will be the driver who will obtain the
best sum of points got on every track, including the sum of Leading Time Bonus got.
LEADING TIME BONUS QualifyingThere will be two checkpoints where it will be relieved the positions of the drivers.
First driver at every checkpoint will gain 1”20 bonus on his final time.
Second driver at every checkpoint will gain 0”80 bonus on his final time.
Third driver at every checkpoint will gain 0”40 bonus on his final time.
RaceLeading Time Bonus will be calculated in this way:
0,2 seconds for every new leading time sent on every different track. Anyway, there are some restrictions:
1) A driver can get the Time Bonus only one time in a day, that is only one time between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 (GMT+1) of every day.
2) Time Bonus won’t be assigned to a driver if he results already 1st with a leading time (realized in a previous day) that had permitted him to get Time Bonus
3) Time Bonus will be assigned to a driver if he results already 1st with a leading time (realized in a previous day) that had NOT permitted him to get Time Bonus
4) Time Bonus won’t be assigned in the first day of race (5th Jan 2009 ) and in the last two days of Race (28th and 29th Jan 2009 ), which will be Quiet Days.
5) Contest Manager will get the Time Bonus only if his time will result the best at the moment of the update.
UPDATE The site will be usually update daily, so to permit to the drivers to see the statement about positions and LTB got.
REPLAYS SendingDrivers have to send own replays writing in the subject of the mail the following data:
1) Time(s) of the replay(s)
2) Track(s) related.
For example, if a driver sent a mail attaching replays realized on Track A and Track C, the subject of the mail should be: Track A: 1.10,55 Track C: 1.05,60
The time(s) written in the subject of the mail will be assumed as official time. This will permit a faster update consenting to postpone the check of the replays (with RPLINFO utility).
CheckingReplays will be checked as soon as possible with RPLINFO utility. The presence of divergences between official times declared and effective times relieved checking the replays, will comport a penalty time:
1 second if time sent was a leading time and
0,2 seconds if it wasn’t a leading time.
Contest Manager replaysAs usual in SDR, Contest Manager will publish his times zipped and protected by password contextually at the update of the scoreboard.
DATES 01 Dec 2008 - Contest Manager asks to 3 drivers to publish on the forum a specific letter of the alphabet, at own their choice, that has to be included in the name of file *.TRK which will be used for Qualifying. The 3 drivers will have to publish their own letter just in time for the start of the Qualifying.
05 Dec 2008 – Start Qualifying on a single track
12 Dec 2008 – 1st Checkpoint
20 Dec 2008 – 2nd Checkpoint
23 Dec 2008 – End Qualifying
27 Dec 2008 - Contest Manager asks to 3 drivers to communicate him a new letter that has to be included in the name of files *.TRK which will be used for the Race. The 3 drivers will have to communicate their own new letter just in time for the start of the Race.
05 Jan 2009 - Start Race on 3 tracks simultaneously
29 Jan 2009 - Finish Race
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OK, hoping this could be a glad news for all Stunts drivers, the appointment is for next December, less than 4 weeks from today.
Soon you can moreover visit the site, by now almost finished.
