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
Qualifying
Drivers 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;
Race
Drivers 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
Qualifying
There 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.
Race
Leading 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
Sending
Drivers 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).
Checking
Replays 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 replays
As 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. :)
excellent! hopefully I will have more time to spend on ISM than I had on recent competitions.
I will be very busy with exams, but that probably just means I'll race more... I'm looking forward to it! ISM is the most prestigious event in Stunts after Zakstunts, if you ask me.
If everyone from ZCT100 participates, it will be seriously hard to qualify!
I'll try to be there but as BJ said, if everyone who took part in Z100 is there my chances are very poor.
International Stunts Master 2010 official site is active!
You can visit it clicking on this link (http://digilander.libero.it/stunts.SDR/ISM/2010/index_ISM2010.htm) or, from now, clicking on the image placed on my signature. Don't expect many changes respect last year, only little details (in add to the main colour choosen as "leitmotiv" for this edition, that is "beige" or "sand"). At that, as it's usual saying in Italy (and maybe not only in Italy...): "A winning team has not to be touched" ;)
Soon I'll publish more info about what you'll find in this edition about tracks and cars. Stay tuned! :)
Striking good video clip, especially the beginning 8)
"Equipo que gana no se toca" is also used here, Mark. And it's quite a good thing to do (or not do actually) so it's probably done (or not done) worldwide.
Qualify Preview!
OK, less than 10 days to start: it's time to publish some info about the ISM 2010 Qualify. :)
Exactly like 12 months ago, being ISM an open event, I chose for the Qualify the most popular car. Even if this means that more drivers will have chances to reach the qualify (sure more than if they should be use a car less known and less easy to drive), it's clear that Indy doesn't mean that qualifying will be an easy affaire, as the starting grid of ISM 2009 showed.
Moreover the drivers will find a track quite different from the past edition. In last December, the drivers had to face an unusual track, a bit long, with several critical passages; the way to approach them could make a big difference on the final time, due to reach or not the PG.
This year who will attempt to qualify will have to race on a quite short and various track, where the precision guide through large curves, jumps and tight hairpins will determine who will be in or out. Powergear? Just a very little tract and not so easy to be reached...
Why a short track for this qualify? For several reasons. First of all, less than three weeks to race; a shorter track means more chances for more drivers. Secondary, I think that we'll see tight gaps between the top drivers and this means a dazzling show since the beginning having all to give their real best if they want to participate at the Race. Third point has related to see a more strategic race for the Qualify trying to gain important LTB due to the system adopted (checkpoints standings, see the Rules page or read the first comment of this topic).
OK, now you know almost all you need to start to prepare your run... ;)
Hmm, the preview sounds auspicious :)
Q-Track name
OK, about 48 hours from the start-line, time to know at least the name of the Q-Track... ;)
As the past edition tracks' name are picked from my favourite songs ever, and for the Q-Track I chose a song of my favourite group ever, "the first love" to be precise. From the album "Black & White 050505" this is "Dolphins", a jewel by Simple Minds... 8)
"Turn off" your monitor (unofficial video is not really suitable) and enjoy this song closing your eyes...
"Dolphins" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yee_KeQrXaM#noexternalembed)
Start Qualify!
Here we are, the 4th edition of the International Stunts Master is going to start!
Q-Track, "Dolphins", is available, download it and try to push your Indy in order to qualify for the Race which will start next 5th January! Remember that the first checkpoint will be the 12 December at 23.59.59, and mind that the first three drivers in that precise moment will gain respectively 1"20, 0"80, 0"40 seconds as bonus time. Strategists at work... ;)
OK, that's all, for the moment. It's time to say, one more time:
"Gentlemen, start your engines!"
Mark, I went to download the track and just noticed the TrackBlaster map on the race page does not match the actual track... surely the downloaded circuit looks much more Indy-like than the screenshot one, but still could you please give us the green light?
Sorry, due to a mistake, if you have downloaded the track before now, you have to donwload it again. The correct version of the track is downloadable from now. Sorry again for the trouble... even if for someone, maybe won't be a real big trouble... ;)
A bit more than 48 hours to the first checkpoint: who will want to discover so soon his own cards? Maybe who wants to catch important bonus time at stake... ;)
1st Checkpoint!
Four drivers already on the track, you can click on the image just below to see the results... ;)
Important news: 2nd checkpoint has been anticipated for 1 day: 2nd an last bonus time will be assigned the 19th December at 23:59:59!
My time for CP2... ;)
Rules amendment
This rule amendment has just published on the official site in the News page and integrated in the Info & Rules page:
"In order to assign the Time Bonus at the 2nd checkpoint, the classification will keep in count the effective time realized. Time Bonus gained at 1st checkpoint won't affect the classification in order to assign the Time Bonus at 2nd checkpoint."
...so we can't get bonus points twice for the same replay, that is? That is perfectly fair.
So, the bonus is only for the final time?
Oh, I think Gutix understood it better than me. Still makes perfect sense.
Thanks for answer Duplode ;)
Quote from: Gutix on December 16, 2009, 08:40:39 PM
So, the bonus is only for the final time?
Exactly. Anyway, to avoid any misunderstanding, I think it's better I explain with other words the concept, making a clear example:
Gutix realized 41,70 for the 1st checkpoint getting so 1,20 as Time Bonus.
But this Time Bonus has applyed only to determine the final classification.
So to catch the first Time Bonus at 2nd checkpoint 41,70 is still the reference. If Gutix won't send a new time for the 2nd checkpoint, he will get again the first Time Bonus (1,20) if no one will realize a time better than 41,70.
If Gutix won't send a new time for the 2nd checkpoint, other drivers will get the first Time Bonus if they will realize
at least 41,70.
Quote from: Duplode on December 16, 2009, 06:37:24 PM
...so we can't get bonus points twice for the same replay, that is? That is perfectly fair.
Effectively it would be more fair, but I wanted to realize a bonus system not very complicated.
2nd checkpoint!
And here we are at 2nd checkpoint! Two outsets and two significant improvements don't undermine Gutix from the vertex: his 41,70 remains the best time at the moment and so he stays on top; getting also a new best Time Bonus, nobody and none can deprives the current leader about the qualification. But behind the classification changes a lot! Mark L. Rivers goes down on the track with the 2nd best time, very close to Gutix: getting the 2nd best Time Bonus the italian driver made a concrete step towards the qualification. On the provisional 3rd step of the podium, and so currently qualificated, a great AbuRaf70: big improvement (almost 3 seconds) and 3rd best Time Bonus for the great argentinian! :) No improvement for a silent and sure careful Duplode who slides at the 4th provisional place: still qualifyed, but he will have almost surely to improve if he want to be on the gridline of the Race. Second significant improvement for SuperBrian, who doesn't reduce a lot his time but, and this is the important news, he shifted to the manual gear ;): 5th provisional place for him, but chances to land on the Race drastically increased. Finally outset for Zak McKracken with a patrol lap just to taste the track: 6th and last provisional place but sure still great chances to be in the next January.
And now we go for the end of this qualify, no more update until the finish. Who will join in the last moment in order to achieve a ticket for the Race? Who will be in and who will be out from the International Master 2010 ? Only a bit less than 4 days for the verdict! :)
We are going towards an unusual result... Just 48 hours to discover it... ;)
Quote from: Mark L. Rivers on December 21, 2009, 10:25:32 PM
We are going towards an unusual result... Just 48 hours to discover it... ;)
Oh my... thanks for the post Mark, I was about to ignore the deadline was before Christmas!! :o
26 hours to the closure, and big surprises seems coming... ;)
I am very anxious about the results. Too bad the deadline is at midnight, probably wont be awake and have to wait until tomorrow...
Don't worry Zak, you can go to sleep without problems as I'm going to be: the update is expected tomorrow in the morning, maybe around the 8.00 o'clock.
So you should to be able to know the result before the wake up of your southamerican fellows... :D :)
Qualify: final result!
ISM Qualify is finished and the inappellabile verdict is the most shocking ever: the winner of the 2008 edition of ISM, also 2nd in the 2007 and 2009, is out. We are talking about Bonzai Joe, who, jointly with Reiger (aka Roy Wiegerinck, 2001 ZakStunts' winner), won't take part to the Race. Both sent replays very far from their best (just a list filler for the dutch driver) showing so not to be very intentioned to put all their engagement in the usually fought and battled contest we'll have next January.
Anyway, the 2010 edition will see really strong starrings as usual:
Gutix, awe-insipiring with an unreachable time, the man to beat
Duplode, the usual powerful and solid result for the absolute protagonist of the 2009
Mark L. Rivers, qualification without big efforts thanks to the Time Bonus got
Zak McKracken, 3rd best time, great motivation and a clear message for all the qualified
SuperBrian, now he's learning to use the manual gear, who can contain his skill?
AbuRaf70, independently from the number of qualified, he's always in: well done!
Big absent will be the dominator of the 2007 and 2009 editions, Ayrton. Sabbatic year for the argentinian master, who, evidently, doesn't like the pair editions not having raced in 2008. ;)
So, six drivers qualified, exactly as two years ago, six drivers ready to give life to an exciting and serried Race on dazzling tracks, as usual!
Now, not before to express my pleasure seeing BJ and Roy mark and honour this 4th edition with their presence even only in the qualify, I have only to fix the appointment for the 5th January 2010, when the engines will come back to rumble on the great show called ISM! :)
Yeah I'm sorry about it... I haven't seen the times of the other drivers, so don't know if I would have qualified otherwise, but I found only 10 minutes to race in the afternoon of December 22 before high-school reunion party and then taking off for christmas celebrations with my family.
I hope this means my exams will be more successful :)
Good luck to the pipsqueaks!
Qualify Analysis
Quite interesting due to the high number of the possible trajectories.
Race Preview!
A short preview about the Race, just to see what the drivers will find in one of the most dazzling pool of tracks ever for ISM (you can take a look about them peeping the images attached... ;) ).
What about the cars...? Here it is some indications:
1) there will be three different cars respect the last edition
2) they will be all original cars
3) we will have one fast car, one PG car and one very classic Stunts car
4) only two cars of them have been already used in the past final stages of ISM
Enough to individuate where the ISM 6 will have to seat...? :D ;)
Breaking news!
Due to a personal problem, not really alarming (at least until here...) but quite heavy related to use the keyboard as we did for Stunts, I have to renounce to participate at the Race. :-[
But ISM 2010 will have the honour to see "in" an historical and prestigious champion: the invite has been in fact extended to the first of the not qualified, Bonzai Joe, who accepted. :) So BJ, unique driver always on the final podium in ISM, will be able to lunge his personal winning stripe, challenging with the other great starrings: sure a dazzling event is coming!
Another victim of CTS... :(
A bit more than 30 hours to the start of the Race, time to discover which cars the ISM 6 will find arriving on the tracks!
Track A: A wonder, exciting, engaging run for a very fast Porsche 962. Warning: you have to jump with high precision... ;)
Track B: Classic slides on a classic track for a classic Stunts car, the Lancia Delta: a race for Stunts purists... :)
Track C: Do you love the NSX Acura? If you also like the free races, well, your fun will be double! 8)
Race start!
Here we are: the International Stunts Master 2010 is starting just now! :)
Before you lower your visors, please, pay attention to the following IMPORTANT rules:
LEADING TIME BONUS SYSTEM
Leading Time Bonus will be calculated in this way: 0,2 points for every new leading time sent on every different track. Anyway, there are some specific rules to keep in count:
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 ( 4th Jan 2009 ) and in the last two days of Race (28th and 29th Jan 2009 ), which will be Quiet Days.
REPLAYS' NAME
Save the replay with the format "XXMSSCCT", where:
• XX are the first two letters of the name of the driver,
• M is the data related at the minutes of race,
• SS is the data related at the seconds of the race
• CC is the data related at the centiseconds of race.
• T is the data related at the track of the race.
For example, if Duplode realizes 1.05,45 on Track B, he must save the replay with the following name: DU10545B
MAIL'S SUBJECT
Drivers have to send the replay (*.RPL) by mail, and they must write 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).
PENALTIES
Replays sent will be checked as soon as possible with RPLINFO utility. The presence of divergences between official times declared by mail subject and effective times relieved checking the replays, will comport a penalty time: 1 point if the time sent was a leading time and 0,2 points if it wasn't a leading time.
OK, that's all!
Gentlemen, start your engines! :)
The race has been opened by the first two drivers... ;)
Four new limits, four new Time Bonus and third outset! :)
Looking at Track C, I suppose way switching is not allowed in this competition :D
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on January 08, 2010, 03:08:58 PM
Looking at Track C, I suppose way switching is not allowed in this competition :D
Didn't I specify it in the rules? Well I provide immediately... done! :D ;)
Other six replays, a new outset, and a new provisional leader in general classification: really an exciting beginning! :)
A driver seems to be already seriously engaged in the contest: he's the current leader on the two tracks where he put his wheels... 8)
A new general leader from South America.... :)
The title of the provisional leader moves from South America to Europe... ;)
Again South America, but another starring on top: he has already got a whole 1 point as bonus, a point that could be really heavy in the battle for the final classification...
And today, if there was an island in the middle of the Atlantic sea, it would have host the "throne" of the provisional first place! :D The tallest step of the podium is in fact divided by two drivers of the two different continents present in ISM 2010: really a great challenge! 8)
No changes in general classification, but scoreboards more and more tight! :)
And for the first time, being out of the contest as driver, I can already watch the replays sent. What I can say is: replays are dazzling indeed, but times are still quite far from those ones we will see at the end... ;)
Two new leading times on two different tracks: one of them drove a starring down from the tallest step of the podium of the classification after a short cohabitation... Will he react soon? 8)
What do you think? Do 1,4 points, as Time Bonus got until here from a unique driver, start to be a quite solid help thinking at the final rank? ;)
And we are by now entered in the second half of the Race: time to start carefully what strategy has to be used... ;)
A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came walking down the track
And they never went further, they never went back
Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road
Yes, "was the Telegraph road"... 8)
Fantastic day, yesterday, with five new replays, a new strong leader, and the waited outset from Duplode (welcome back! ;)): what could we expect better? :)
Three other replays that lead to a new change of leadership and introduced a battle completely argentinian on Track C! ;)
31,8 points, that's the current score of the (new) general leader: minding that the first place on a single track rewards the drivers with 10 points, don't you think it's, even if only provisional, an impressive score..? :o
Combined attack from Argentina to SuperBrian, but the general leader resists on top! Two new records and three different leaders in the three single tracks: intriguing thing while we are approaching the last part of the race... :)
Three main news for this update!
1) After a Gutix's signaling, I found inexplainably in the Spam folder his mail sent the 21st of January at 21.05: keeping in count the replay attached, Gutix returns on top of general scoreboard thanks also to the 10th Time bonus got, that means by now 2 whole Bonus points for him until here! :o
2) Finally, Bonzai Joe sent his first times for the Race! :) Third provisional place for him in general classification and only the different Time Bonus got respect his opponents deprives him about the leading position: wonderfule prelude for the last week of race!
3) The deadline of the race is anticipated for 2 hours and it will be the 29th January at 22:00 (GMT +1): sign it on your daybook so not to miss this appointment!
Last 24 hours have seen three drivers sending their new limits (five replays overall), unusual high activity during a week-end, keeping in count even the other three times sent last afternoon! Duplode starts with a couple of replays yesterday evening: first lap for Track A and new record for Track C, getting his first Time Bonus. ;) Just after midnight another replays from the South America: AbuRaf70 improves with NSX Acura too and marks a new limit on Track C :) increasing to six his number of bonus got. Finally, just 60 minutes ago, double improvement for SuperBrian: again Acura, reaching the third provisional place on that track, and striking result on Track B, where he smashes the 60 seconds barrier with his Lancia Delta and gets the 10th Time Bonus, jumping again on the roof of the general classification and proposing himself one more time as a real pretender for the title! 8)
Wow, great show, gentlemen, great show! :) :) :)
And the "magic" weekend didn't finish without seeing other two new records by Duplode! But, thanks to the Time Bonus got before, SuperBrian still leads!
OK, last three days to catch the important Time Bonus which could be determinant for the final win. Will it be a strong enough motivation for the drivers, in order to discover a bit more their own cards? Or will the final battle be postponed to the two final quiet days? Definitive days indeed, these ones! :)
Another little correction is necessary due to another e-mailing problem. The replays sent in the last week-end were 11 and not 10: a new mail has been discarded and parked in Spam folder. I'm sure that this problem won't cause again other corrections... ::) Anyway, the classification changes remarkably, keeping in count the time sent by Gutix and realized on Track C only 3 hours before than Duplode (but 0,30 seconds better): thanks to the new limit, the argentinian champion leads currently the race having a 1st, a 2nd and a 3rd place, and 11 Times Bonus! :o
Two new replays on Track A, two fellow-countrymen on top of that track divided by 0,25 seconds!
The battle fot the title is by now arrived near to his end: only 40 hours to catch the remaining Time Bonus at stake and 3 days and half to the deadline: gentlemen, fait votre jeux! 8)
Penultimate update before the final Quiet Days!
SuperBrian pushes his Lancia and Acura over the top, conquering the first provisional place in Track B and C with two new absolute record that lead him one more time to be the leader of the general classification: the amazing danish driver is also the one who collected the highest number of Time Bonus (12) at the moment, and there are less than 6 hours to get the last ones! Yes only a bit less than 6 hours to the silence which will walk until the deadline, scheduled for Friday 29 at 22.00 (GMT +1): who will be so brave to discover again a bit his own cards? ;)
No other replays until last midnight (neither in Spam folder... ;) ) so what you see on the scoreboard is the situation at the begininng of the Quiet Days: from now, absolute silence about the results until the deadline! OK, 39 hours to the end of the International Stunts Master 2010: it's time to put a last set of new tyres for a final furious lap... 8)
Waiting for the final result (I'm quite sure that it will be published tomorrow morning, but never say never... ;)), I would glad to know your feedbacks about the track (exciting, funny, boring, good or awful track/combo, else...), and if the contest satisfied or not your expectations: please the truth, wathever it is! :)
The tracks were up to the usual high standards, with very interesting passages and overall designs that were never tiring, overlong or boring, making it easier to focus equally on the three tracks and explore them adequately. In particular, the final third of Track B is maybe the most clever and subtle combo in SDR/ISM so far :) Organization was excellent as expected. My only source of insatisfaction was not being able to race on the first half of the finals, missing out further enjoyment (and LTB!!!)...
I think that was a month sensational, a lot of activity for ISM. As for the tracks, each one has something I like, but if I have to choose which was the one I like I keep the track B. The choice of cars was entirely proper for each track. Also I like those cars ;). The overall management was impeccable, except for the little problem of e-mail left in the spam folder ::) :P.
In brief: brilliant, really enjoy it and I had fun!
The results are published: thanks to all for this, one more time, dazzling contest, and congratulations to the winner! :) :) :)
Racing on the tracks, I had a general feeling of novelty, like "even after all these years and all these tracks, I don't get bored with Mark L. Rivers tracks". You are a very creative track designer and you make use of all the possibilities in the game. I also think it was great that the tracks were so different from each other. Cars perfectly fitting. I think the only ways you could improve would be: 1. the first half of track A (from the tunnel jump to the stray pipe) which wasn't quite up to level, and then track C sometimes got a bit too repetitive (penalty dodging in easy power gear). But it was still really fun to ride, which is always nice when you're working hard on other tracks.
Everything also seemed to run smoothly. Maybe you could put track download links and a simplified scoreboard right on the front page?
Congratulations to Gutix! It was a good fight in the end after all.
Thanks a lot for all your compliments. I always try to realize tracks who can keep alive the desire to race in the Stunts drivers, arousing emotions and fun, and when I know I succeed in it, I'm really glad and satisfied.
It was and hard job for me organizing and managing all having a lot of things to do. Knowing all you have found the contest so good rewards me for all my engagement. Also I'll mind the suggestions in the case I'll be able to organize a new edition in the future.
Thanks again!
Una vez más, Mark nos ha deleitado con tres pistas extraordinarias, muy entretenidas por cierto, con lo que podemos decir que no solo es maestro manejando sino también elaborando pistas... sumado a todo esto, la impecable organización y presentación del evento.
FELICITACIONES MARK POR TODO TU GRAN TRABAJO...!!! esperemos que como siempre, a principio de año nos brindes este regalo, y que mi salud me acompañe para disfrutarlo...
FELICITACIONES TAMBIEN AL GRAN CAMPEON GUTIX...!!!!! quien demostró que haciéndole caso a Mark de trabajar duro durante toda la competencia, desde principio a fin, logró los bonus necesarios para ganarle a otro Gran Campeón DUPLODE... FELICITACIONES TAMBIEN PARA EL, y además, para el tercer integrante del Podio, BONZAI JOE.
Master of puppets
Metallica