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That is quite impressive, given the size of the city. I'm comparing with Italy, where maybe football culture is different, but a 24k city would have the resources for a team, but not the pool of people to get a good set of players 😅

Was football already a big thing there, as in "let's get kids to play in school, let's have little local tournaments" ?

Hungary is a smaller country than Italy, we have only about 9.5-10M inhabitants. After the capital, the second largest city, Debrecen has just over 200.000 inhabitants. Kazincbarcika is the 48th largest city/town (however, we were in the top30 around 1990) in the country.

The fun fact is Kazincbarcika will be far from being the smallest town with a top division football club. 10 cities/towns will have a top division football club, and three is smaller than Kazincbarcika: Paks (19.000), Kisvárda (16.000) and Felcsút (1.700, Viktor Orbán's home village).

I don't think football is especially popular in the town nowadays. In the 80s and 90s it would have been less surprise to see our football team in the top division, when our junior team played in the highest tier, producing players for the Hungarian national team, and the town (with much more inhabitants than today) was crazy about football. But we lost the promotion playoff both in 1982 and 1990 (against famous Hungarian clubs MTK Budapest and Budapest Honvéd). The team wasn't intended to earn promotion before the start of the season. Several players came from Debrecen who were neglected there, including two former national player teams as well. They (Bódi and Varga) become the leaders of our team. When we kept on being in the 1st/2nd place of the table, the club checked for its financial support and after having success, decided to go for the promotion. Even before the last round it seemed surrealistic, but still, by now it has become reality.

By the way the most successful sport here is volleyball: we have five national championship titles and three national cup victories. The team also played in international cups and in the central European league. This season we earned the bronze medal in the national championships. But in Hungary, volleyball is much less popular than in other parts of the world, our men's national team is very far from being a big gun internationally.

Old forum members might remember when I posted about the football club of my hometown. An info, especially for them, but for others, too:

Yesterday, a fantastic and unbelievable thing happened. KolorCity Kazincbarcika SC finished in 2nd place in the second division (NB II) of the Hungarian Football League, reaching promotion to the top division of the first time! Great result for such a small town (24.000 inhabitants at the moment, though it was around 40.000 around 1990).

1 Kisvárda 17 7 6 58
2 Kazincbarcika 14 11 5 53
3 Vasas Budapest 16 4 10 52
4 Kozármisleny 13 8 9 47
5 Szentlőrinc 12 11 7 47
6 Mezőkövesd 12 8 10 44
7 Szeged 10 12 8 42
8 Budapest Honvéd 11 7 12 40
9 Budapesti VSC-Zugló 8 14 8 38
10 Csákvár 10 6 14 36
11 Soroksár Budapest 9 8 13 35
12 Budafok (Budapest) 9 8 13 35
13 Ajka 8 11 11 35
14 Békéscsaba 8 9 13 33
15 Gyirmót FC Győr 7 10 13 31
16 Tatabánya 6 6 18 24

The 12 teams of the top division will look like this in the next season:

Ferencváros (Budapest)
Puskás Akadémia (Felcsút)
Paks
Győri ETO FC
MTK Budapest
Diósgyőr (Miskolc)
Újpest (Budapest)
Nyíregyháza Spartacus
Debrecen
Zalaegerszeg
Kisvárda
Kazincbarcika

Two teams from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county! Great! And five teams from the Eastern part of the country (three from Budapest and four from Transdanubia). However, Kazincbarcika will be the westernmost located club of these five teams.

Unfortunately, our stadium is not eligible for playing top division matches there. We will play probably in Mezőkövesd or Miskolc-Diósgyőr.

Kazincbarcika will get a new stadium AND a Fidesz mayor, soon.

Meanwhile the "newbie" Győri ETO FC finished 4th in NB1 (after an incredible spring performance), they will participate in UEFA Conference League qualifications. Probably a first round fail, but still...

(Too bad, ETO is full of foreign players. That's not the team I supported since the '80s)

I think our mayor is a crypto-FIDESZ mayor, or at least has a secret agreement/alliance with the governing party...

Old forum members might remember when I posted about the football club of my hometown. An info, especially for them, but for others, too:

Yesterday, a fantastic and unbelievable thing happened. KolorCity Kazincbarcika SC finished in 2nd place in the second division (NB II) of the Hungarian Football League, reaching promotion to the top division of the first time! Great result for such a small town (24.000 inhabitants at the moment, though it was around 40.000 around 1990).

1   Kisvárda      17   7   6   58
2   Kazincbarcika      14   11   5   53
3   Vasas Budapest      16   4   10   52
4   Kozármisleny      13   8   9   47
5   Szentlőrinc      12   11   7   47
6   Mezőkövesd      12   8   10   44
7   Szeged      10   12   8   42
8   Budapest Honvéd      11   7   12   40
9   Budapesti VSC-Zugló      8   14   8   38
10   Csákvár      10   6   14   36
11   Soroksár Budapest      9   8   13   35
12   Budafok (Budapest)      9   8   13   35
13   Ajka      8   11   11   35
14   Békéscsaba      8   9   13   33
15   Gyirmót FC Győr      7   10   13   31
16   Tatabánya      6   6   18   24

The 12 teams of the top division will look like this in the next season:

Ferencváros (Budapest)
Puskás Akadémia (Felcsút)
Paks
Győri ETO FC
MTK Budapest
Diósgyőr (Miskolc)
Újpest (Budapest)
Nyíregyháza Spartacus
Debrecen
Zalaegerszeg
Kisvárda
Kazincbarcika

Two teams from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county! Great! And five teams from the Eastern part of the country (three from Budapest and four from Transdanubia). However, Kazincbarcika will be the westernmost located club of these five teams.

Unfortunately, our stadium is not eligible for playing top division matches there. We will play probably in Mezőkövesd or Miskolc-Diósgyőr.

The fate of my potential job as a researcher (now I am accidentally working at the sales department) can be decided 17th January 2025, when the public defense of my doctoral dissertation takes place...

The 17th is tomorrow -- may you have an excellent defense!

Thanks.

92% and summa cum laude.

Thank you very much.

This track was NOT designed to be the track of the year, it rather intended to be a track to make time difference even between top pipsqueaks, and maybe to open a way to some new tricks to be found even after two and a half decades of racing.

I feel somewhat pity as I didn't have a real effort - but I must confess, I could have not reached a top spot on the scoreboard of this track even at showing full effort. Congratulations to the top drivers, great job.

Respect for the Sammarinese team. Surpirisingly low percentage of Italian-born (or other foreign) players, so it is really their merit.

There's been a long time passed since the last time I gave information about the football team of my hometown. Hungarian Elite Divison consists of 12 teams, the second tier consists of 16 teams (there is no separate Eastern/Western Group as it was earlier). KolorCity Kazincbarcika SC plays in the second tier, but after the autumn half-season, our team can be found at the 2nd place of the table! That is far beyond expectations, meaning a promotion to the elite division. However, this is only a dream as we only have a very small 'stadium', let alone being the farm team of the first division team of Diósgyőr VTK (Miskolc). The key of this success is the two former players of Debreceni VSC (Varga and Bódi), who, desipte being formerly part of the Hungarian National Team, had become redundant players in Debrecen - resulting in contracts with our second tier team.

The fate of my potential job as a researcher (now I am accidentally working at the sales department) can be decided 17th January 2025, when the public defense of my doctoral dissertation takes place... I am 41 now and if it turns out that there is no chance of being a researcher of the University of Miskolc, I'll search for a job in the industrial sector...

Have you shat today?

I planned to make a decent replay this weekend on my track - but, awed by the times on the scoreboard, I am not sure if it's worthy. I am ahead of my public defence of my doctoral dissertation, let alone xmas... I am not sure if I can send another replay into the competiton, despite observing such a fierce battle at the top.

Aria

Tom Araya

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Penile cancer

CTG used at Unskilled Stunts 'Podium time bonus', if I remember well.

Btw, that will only interest people who favorize collecting as much points as possible to finish as high as possible in Season's Standings. For those who focus on winning as many races as possible, it will not lure out replays or times.

- a season with only custom cars
- a season with 25 cars
- a season with 25 (shorter) tracks
- we find old pipsqueaks and force invite them back

I guess a season with only original cars would lure old rácers back easier than using custom cars...

Hard to say it, but I'm 41 now... some of the old drivers are even older... with family, children, good jobs... I am still before my PhD defense (I hope I can announce its success within a few months)... so... I don't think anyone of us could focus on 25 tracks... even if they are short ones...

Btw, there is a 25th Anniversary Car... even though I don't like it...

Thanks!

Track is ready. I'll have a sleep to find out a track name in my dreams, tomorrow, I'll send the track before travelling to our capital city. In the next days then, we can test the track to avoid unwanted cheap tricks.

To persuade myself to race this time, I think I'll adjust the car bonuses to have an IMSA race.

P.S.: Hungary-Slovenia 6-2    , though the Slovenes has come with a very young team.

• ZCT281 (submit by 10 Nov) - Akoss Poo

I have noticed this date a few days ago, so I know that you expect a track from me tomorrow at latest. I'll design it tonight (after watching the Hungary-Slovenia ice hockey match on tv, I can start it maybe), because tomorrow I'll travel to Budapest, to attend an Accept concert there. What is the current way of sending a track to the competiton? To Dreadnaut by email, as earlier? Any requirements regarding the track? As for the car percentage bonus modification, is there still a +10 and -10 option?