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Thanks folks! Also a big thank you from me to @Daniel3D and @stanceboyCZ for setting things in motion.

The pause before Season 5 is, shall we say, tactical: I have some proper busy months up ahead, so it's prudent to give both myself and the competition some extra room, to be able to plan ahead and keep the season going smoothly. The early invitation for guest track submissions is in the same spirit (hint, hint  ).

On scheduling of the rounds, it feels like there are quite a few advantages to four-week races, and I guess it will make sense to keep that for Season 5. The switch to packs of three cars should also help with making it a bit more manageable.

I'm in! There is a map extension to be completed hehe.

Awesome, thank you!

I'll now give the fog track a go under race conditions -- can't leave the new mod untested, after all!

Here it is, a very unofficial 6:49.40 with the Defender. I enjoyed the mod -- it feels different from the night one, and it does feel like fog!

I'm really sorry for having missed the event, and in particular for doing so by foolishly forgetting to double-check the start time yesterday... To atone a bit for that, I'll now give the fog track a go under race conditions -- can't leave the new mod untested, after all!

Sixteen years... And on course for a two-thirds majority apparently. Momentous result!

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Round 3 results are confirmed! Congratulations to the winner @Alain il professore (that final sector in the LC1 lap is very pleasing aesthetically!), @Victor Narl (excellent A-70 lap!) and @alanrotoi (bringing home a CCC medal!).

And with that, CCC Season 4 is a wrap! Here are the final standings:

• NRL: 20 + 17 + 19 = 56
• ALA: 12 + 7 + 21 = 40
• SPO: 16 + 10 + 10 = 36
• DUP: 8 + 9 + 7 = 24
• ROT: 0 + 2 + 13 = 15
• STC: 4 + 1 + 2 = 7

Congratulations to (double!) champion Victor Narl, to Alain and @Spoonboy completing the overall podium, and thanks to everyone who took part. CCC will now have a break, but we'll be back for the second semester, so stay tuned! Meanwhile, we're looking for guest tracks for future races, so if you'd like to see your track in CCC just get in touch!

Reinforcing the call made in January by @stanceboyCZ : CCC Season 5 will be running in the second half of the year, with a minimum of five rounds (and potentially more, depending on what the calendar will ultimately look like). We'll need a good handful of tracks for that, and your creations will be much appreciated!

Here are the key things to know when designing for CCC:

• The CCC rules allow shortcuts with restrictions: tunnels and the finish banner are checkpoints which must be driven through the inside, driving through barriers is forbidden, and so is penalty time. (That said, we're open to tweaking the rules for a specific race, if your design calls for it.)
• In particular, you can use tunnel checkpoints strategically to block specific shortcuts, if that's part of your plan.
• RH is allowed, though tracks which are also enjoyable for NoRH-with-shortcuts are a very nice plus.
• Each race in Season 5 will feature three cars. Feel free to pick them and design the track with your chosen cars in mind. (If the same car is picked repeatedly by multiple people, it might make sense to tweak the car packs to avoid that, but I'm sure we can talk it out and find a good solution if that happens.)
• Given how the CCC scoreboard works, there's no need to make the car pack balanced in terms of performance. There usually is some kind of unifying theme behind the choice of cars for a race; what that theme will be is up to you.
• As the name of the competition suggests, custom cars are preferred; however, it's fine to have one of the DSI cars in a pack if that makes sense for your theme, or if you want to have a performance benchmark for the other cars.

If you're interested in designing for CCC, just let us know, and privately send me the track whenever it's ready -- we'll happily accept submissions in advance, starting from this very moment. The exact schedule of races is yet to be decided, but we'll sure find a slot for your track!

(P.S.: By the way, the final race of CCC Season 4 ends today at UTC midnight! Looking forward to your replays there as well )

I'm in too! Might as well announce my car choice:

Fog: Defender (purple)
Night: Hummer (purple)
Day: Niva (purple)

any line is okay as long as there is no penalty time.

It's worth emphasising that "any line" includes driving through barriers (which would have been forbidden under the usual CCC rules -- but not in this race).

Here is the ZCT296 update of the rankings! Personal bests in this round were by Alain (improving on a mark from ZCT032!), MiDiaN, Victor Narl and Zapper. Below is the updated evolution graph:

That's wonderful news! Congratulations @dreadnaut , all the best to you and yours! 😊 And yup, I'll be around to keep the show running over here 

My replay for ZM73 won't send, constant error

Looks like someone typed the car IDs on the control panel before the morning coffee  It should be working now, please retry.

That was not the period of the fiercest battles of Unskilled Stunts Championships. I can't remember this track built by me more than 20 years ago by me, but maybe I'll check it later this week.

I remember this as one of the first races from seasons past that I had to go searching for back when I started dealing with the Competition Archive. It's nice to have it open for racing again

For the third and final round of Season 4 we will visit Krakow, a track originally designed by @Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister for @CTG 's Unskilled Stunts competition. Krakow was originally an IMSA race; accordingly, the car pack this time (attached below and available from the site) comes from the IMSA neighbourhood:

• @alanrotoi 's Baronetti A-70
• @Overdrijf 's Audi V8 Quattro DTM
• Ryoma's Lancia LC1
• @Zapper 's Mazda 787B IMSA/Group C

In keeping with the original design vision, the driving rules will be loosened for this race, like they were for Sweden-3 last season: no tunnel checkpoints, no need to finish under the banner, and any line is okay as long as there is no penalty time.

To avoid a clash with the ZCT296 deadilne, this round will end one week later than the usual, on 2026-04-11 23:59:59 UTC. It's not a given that we'll do this every time in the future, but with this race being the last one in the season it was an easy enough adjustment to do.

Now, fasten your seatbelts!

In case someone wants to continue the challenge with the "no-limits" ruleset, here my two-tile DWS lap. Williams, 31.80 sec (34.98 with car modifier).

Actually, let's go ahead and put them all here. The three laps are attached below: Victor, 35.50/39.05; Alain, 40.20/44.22; RC Bandit, 41.75/45.93. Plus my freshly driven 33.80/37.18 contribution to the genre  (For the sake of completeness, the TWOTILE2 Indy demo from the opening post would have been a 35.10/44.23.)

I also believe this track is not very suitable for the Superkart, due to its sharp and icy turns.

This is an interesting take on the track! The received wisdom used to be that, given the Kart's low top speed and very high nimbleness, a purpose-built track for it should, in order to have depth, be very twisty and full of sharp turns (ZCT131 is a good example). Your reading of the track suggests perceptions are shifting -- which is kinda what I wanted to nudge with the track, after all