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KyLiE and Spoonboy have earned PTB +0.5, while HerrNove could guarantee it as early as by the next update.

As predicted, congratulations @HerrNove for reaching PTB +0.5!

That's big news! Congratulations @MiDiaN !

A quick report on PTB. As week 3 begins, two pipsqueaks are in contention for PTB +2: current leader MiDiaN (32:47 margin at midnight -- right now, as I post this, it's about six hours smaller) and Argammon (84:09 margin at midnight). Both of them have reached PTB +1. KyLiE and Spoonboy have earned PTB +0.5, while HerrNove could guarantee it as early as by the next update.

The not-something-else plurality of our poll was right at least

Is the season's standings page one of those places?

Not really: points from each race are shown correctly on the season scoreboard including in the case of ties. There's an issue with the display of tiebreakers for the overall season results (see this discussion from last year), but that's a separate thing.

Might as well make a poll this time!  The context:

@ Herr Nove, I will add a new color after the public days making it even more colorful 

I am not surprised that @ Argammon is going to hide the secret sauce he's preparing with a (I guess) blue car.

Swamp

Good that I get at least some symbolic PTB hours for posting a further improvement over his time.

By now it's adding up to be beyond symbolic  (If I'm eyeballing it right, this evening's update should show you having more than 70 h, well on the way to PTB +0.5!)

As far as the final standings on the scoreboard go, equal times on the scoreboard result in an unbroken tie. Had the race ended a few hours ago with you and KyLiE at 1:17.09, the two of you would share the 3rd place and get 10 points each. There indeed are a few places in the site which don't display such cases as ties; you can think of these as display bugs that we'll get around to eventually. (The XP one, in particular, is mostly harmless, as for the moment XP updates are applied manually, rather than relying on the calculations used for the XP bubbles on the season scoreboard.)

For PTB, though, it's a different matter: to improve your PTB factor, you do need to overtake the time ahead of you rather than just match it, so in that equal times scenario you'd still be regarded as 4th for PTB purposes. In that regard, the PTB system (or at least my implementation thereof) follows the precedent of the old LTB system, in which leading hours were never shared.

Also, how would you visualise PTB during a race, on the track page?

It's a good time as any to consider this, and having gone through a few races with the new system can only help. So, what's your take on displaying PTB information? Below are a few possibilities to kick-start things:

• A detailed chart with the hour totals, like those in the provisional page, could be useful to have somewhere, and in particular works well as a post-race summary. For the main scoreboard page, though, I wonder if a more condensed and directly actionable presentation would be more relevant.
• The mock-up in the opening post of this thread mooted showing the hours needed to reach a PTB target (+0.5, +1, +2), which should be a more directly actionable piece of information. There are some rather tricky question on how to best display that, though: should we use stunts hours, or real hours in the current position? and should we show just the next target for each pipsqueak, or all of them?
• An alternative to hours needed is the concept of a PTB margin that I brought up in discussions elsewhere. The margin is how many (stunts) hours a pipsqueak can afford to miss in order to reach a target. The question of whether to show all of the margins or just the one towards the closest target would also apply here.
• There's also the classic LTB timeline display used in scoreboard pages from previous seasons. The main caveat in adapting that to PTB is that, at least in principle, there would be six timelines, and replays would show up in several of them at once.
• We might also figure out a more visual presentation of the PTB situation. To mention one off-the-cuff idea, a bar chart of the progress towards the targets in stunts hours could make sense. The main question with that might be what to include and what to leave out of the display.

Here is the ZCT284 update of the rankings! The main news in this round is that Argammon has tied Ayrton's long-standing record of 2351 points, and is now very close to taking the lead in the historical ranking! Besides Argammon, Frieshansen has also reached a personal best, while satanziege has returned to the current ranking. Below is the updated evolution chart:

Hello @Sledge ! Fantastic event, thanks for running it and sharing with us 

Yeah, this one had a clear winner! 

5) KyLiE: Is in an eternal battle with Frieshansen.
6) Frieshansen: Is in an eternal battle with KyLie

And this one did end in a tie!

Excellent work, @HerrNove and @llm ! It's taking me forever to be able to sit down and play with Restunts, but anyway I can't wait to try the improved build process!

1. Argammon
2. Duplode
3. KyLiE
4. MiDiaN
5. Alan Rotoi
6. Spoonboy
7. Frieshansen
8. HerrNove
9. Zapper
10. Mortimer McMire
11. Mark Nailwood
12. dreadnaut