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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.

It is time for the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing! For this occassion, I also played a bit the good old Winter Challenge PC game (1991) with DosBox.

1 Alan Rotoi - his track, his car, his style
2 Duplode - just sneaking silver from CTG
3 CTG - despite huge effort; but getting leading time point(s)
...
then group of 2010-2020 elite drivers who are destined to drive this track, e.g. Finrok, Seeker, Friker, Marco or something like this... let's assume 3 drivers from this cathegory, 4th-6th
...
7 Akoss Poo
8 Dreadnaut
9 Kylie
10 Zapper and Overdrijf (tied)

Topic starter.

30 January: train trip to Kassa (Kosice), sightseeing, eating, drinking, shopping there with Ildi.

Now we are planning to get to Nyíregyháza or Sárospatak/Sátoraljaújhely this weekend to spend two nights there.

Other main things for me these weeks: see 'Be failed' topic.

[9. Fehérvár AV19/HUN 44 14 6 4 20 105:123 58]

Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL) regular season finished.

1.   Red Bull Salzburg/AUT   44   26   5   3   10   168:112   91        
2.   Black Wings Linz/AUT   44   23   6   4   11   137:107   85        
3.   Orli Znojmo/CZE   44   22   4   3   15   157:116   77        
4.   Vienna Capitals/AUT   44   20   6   2   16   125:102   74        
5.   Dornbirn Bulldogs/AUT   44   21   2   6   15   126:108   73        
6.   Bolzano Foxes/ITA   44   20   4   5   15   120:111   73        
7.   Villacher SV/AUT   44   21   2   5   16   120:106   72        
8.   Klagenfurter AC/AUT   44   18   4   6   16   139:142   68        
9.   Fehérvár AV19/HUN   44   14   6   4   20   105:123   58        
10.   Graz 99ers/AUT   44   14   4   4   22   94:123   54        
11.   Innsbrucker Haie/AUT   44   11   2   5   26   98:152   42        
12.   Olimpija Ljubljana/SLO    44   4   5   3   32   85:172   25        

Top 6 automatic playoff berth. 7-12: Qualification round, top2 will also reach playoff. It will be hard to overtake Villach (starting with 6 bonus points) and Klagenfurt (4 bonus points) for Fehérvár (2 bonus points). (Graz: 1 bonus points.) Klagenfurt is the Rekordmeister, with István Sofron is on the roster. Villach is the former team of new Fehérvár coach Hannu Järvenpää.

ZCT 172

1 Duplode
2 Akoss Poo
3 Marco
4 Usrin
5 Alan Rotoi
6 Dreadnaut
7 Shoegazing Leo
8 Zak
9 AbuRaf70
10 Dstien

Flooded track. When I appeared here at ZakStunts, it was a very frequent occasion. Nowadays it has become rare.

Earlier this year I adjusted the track plus the bonuses to have a powergear race. This time I did the opposite. Melange race will come, I guess.

1 Duplode
2 Akoss Poo
3 Marco
4 Alan Rotoi
5 Shorty
6 Usrin
7 Zak
8 Dreadnaut
9 AbuRaf70
10 PJ

Indy track.

1 Alan Rotoi
2 Duplode
3 Akoss Poo
4 Super Brian
5 Marco
6 Usrin
7 AbuRaf70
8 Cas
9 Shoegazing Leo
10 Zaki

1 CTG - cries himself back
2 Duplode
3 Bonzai Joe
4 Marco - won't make us believe that he is not here
5 Akoss Poo - Indy
6 Alan Rotoi
7 Shoegazing Leo - stronger than ever
8 Dreadnaut
9 AbuRaf70
10 Zak, Usrin and SuperBrian (identical time)

Well, presuming that CTG will not be let into the competition:

1 Duplode
2 Marco
3 Alan Rotoi
4 Akoss Poo
5 AbuRaf70
6 Usrin
7 Dreadnaut
8 Zaki
9 Shoegazing Leo
10 Dstien and Afullo (identical time)

The usual topic.

For me, only the usual Transylvanian Conference is sure.
There were ideas like travelling to Southern Italy/Greece/Trentino-Kärnten for summer holiday, travelling to Norway, travelling to Vienna or Prague... nothing is sure.
The hiking diary will be up soon, 1 is already completed (a long and mountainous one in Hungary).

BÖFF!

This time we will go to South America, namely to Chile, and drive the Lamborghini LM 002 there. After the tricky Utrecht and the difficult and powergear driven ZCT159, our fingers can have a rest with this slow and good-handling car. The track difficulty is 3/5, though I think it is hard to build a really difficult track for this car. The estimated winning time is 1:40, though I haven't given a real try to the Valdivia track yet.

Again, I must say: fasten your seatbelt!

Since even if I offered a place to hold the 2014 meeting, there will be no world Stunts meeting this year. But local meetings may take place.

A small meeting took place in Miskolc, 24th April, 2014. Usrin and /me were there. We were planning to hike in the Bükk Mountains, talk and drink beer.

Usrin came by train from Budapest.  We met near Tiszai railway station, Miskolc. We quickly found the well-known Retúr Sörözö (Return Ticket Beer Pub), a very cheap pub where it is mandatory to drink an Unicum, since Csaba Péró from ELTE had made his famous announcement that here the Unicum had been even cheaper than in Perkupa. So we started with an Unicum, and we left then. We took bus nr.1 to get to Diósgyör, a district of Miskolc where there gypsy-supported team, Diósgyöri FC plays. In Panda Sörözö, another pub, we had a Hubertus, and we consumed our breakfast by the tables. We were far from noon, so it was no time yet to drink beer (like alcoholists do, according to Usrin), but we bought one per capita. Near the Zoo, the tourist signs appeared on the trees and the hiking trip started.

First we reached Nagy-Ortás-tetö (Big-Ortás Peak). In the forest, it was hard to find a place where the beer could be drunk, since the mosquitos, flies and other flying insects were all around there. But then we found a glade in the forest, it was p.m. time, so we opened our Borsodi beers. Soon some böffs could be heard in the forest. Then we followed our way to a dark cave, Udvar-kö-barlang (Court Stone Cave), which was a good photo theme. We found it not possible to walk deep down on the steep to reach the bottom, because the ground was wet and seemed very slippery. But we had our first shot of pálinka. (I brought home brewed apricot pálinka, which I got from my mother earlier, two deciliters in a small bottle.) From there, the way started to ascend slowly to Csókás, a larger glade in the forest, there is a spring, a cave (disappeared) and some houses, too. It was time to drink another shot of pálinka. We followed our way partly on an asphalt road, we passed by the place where my girlfriend, Ildi fell on the ice in January. The ascent of Magos-kö (High Stone), elevation: 635m was the next climb for us. In a beautiful but steep path, we reached the peak. A nice view of landscape unfolded there. Usrin made a telephone call, while I was writing an sms. Then we took photos and drank the remaining pálinka. The route ascended further on and we reached Örvény-kö (Whirlpool Stone), elevation: 756m, where another good view could be seen. There is a monument of the Hungarian writer, Mór Jókai was well. We had our lunch there and took photos again. This was the highest point of our route. It was time to drink a beer, so we quickly walked down in a scrubby forest on a steep path, sometimes near springs, to reach the Garadna valley. Unfortunately, there was no shop or pub open, though the local train line was working. To relieve this pain, we ate Kvikk Lunsj (=quick lunch), a Norwegian biscuit-chocolate typically made for hiking tourists (even a description of a Norwegian hiking route can be found in each chocolate, 6 in a pack), something like KitKat, Usrin brought it from Norway. The whole hiking route was about 17-18 kms.

We were reading sports news while we were waiting for the bus nr.15. This bus took us to Panda Sörözö, where we got off and had a beer quickly. By bus nr.1., we travelled back to Tiszai raiway station. Again we found ourselves in Retúr Sörözö to have two beers there. We also ate there, Usrin was happy to taste again the classic Hungarian taste of Globus liver paste, but he also had a hamburger. We chatted much there, like all the time this day (about women, beer, farts, böffs, chili beans, Stunts, weather, meteorology, MetNet, he told me a lot of information about Norway, we told each other about our future plans, and we also mentioned some of our recent experiences and stories). But as half past eight came close, it was time for Usrin to go. We shook hands, he caught his train, travelled home. I walked to Búza tér (Wheat Square), caught the coach to Kazincbarcika and I also travelled home.

Overall, it was a very good small Stunts meeting, it was worthy to organize it.

Pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/114396453847725660391/20140424BukkMountainsStuntsMeeting?authkey=Gv1sRgCI3R3vGi_IzXxwE

[1. (1.) Fehérvár/HUN 10 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 32:21 +11 172. (2.) Dornbirn/AUT 10 6 0 4 2 0 0 0 33:27 +6 15]

Let's start the topic with good news:

SAPA Fehérvár AV 19 managed to reach the Austrian ice hockey league (EBEL) playoff after winning the qualification group (matches for 7th-12th place, first two qualifies).

Platz   SP   S   U   N   SV   NV   SPS   NPS   Tore   +/-   PT
1. (1.) Fehérvár/HUN   10   8   0   2   0   0   0   0   32:21   +11   17
2. (2.) Dornbirn/AUT    10   6   0   4   2   0   0   0   33:27   +6   15
3. (3.) Klagenfurt/AUT   10   5   0   5   0   1   0   0   33:22   +11   15
4. (4.) Graz/AUT          10   5   0   5   1   1   0   0   34:32   +2   13
5. (5.) Ljubljana/SLO   10   4   0   6   0   0   0   0   30:37   -7   8
6. (6.) Innsbruck/AUT   10   2   0   8   0   1   0   0   19:42   -23   5

Rekordmeister and title holder Klagenfurt is out.

In the quarter finals of the playoff:

Bolzano Foxes (ITA) - SAPA Fehérvár AV19 (HUN)

First, check this one!

http://digitaldeconstruction.com/how-to-poo-at-work/

Best tracks:

1 ZCT 147 by Duplode (Eroica)
2 ZCT 148 by Zak McKracken (Ride the Lightning)
3 ZCT 149 by Akoss Poo (Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo)

Best races:

1 ZCT 147 (Eroica), won by CTG
2 ZCT 148 (Ride the Lightning), won by Renato Biker
3 ZCT 146 (Rating Plate), won by CTG

The topic for my December track.

I think this question was never asked... but now it is... :-)

You can make a short list selecting both from ZakStunts and all-competition tracks.

Here is mine:

ZakStunts:

1. ZCT 32
2. ZCT 47
3. ZCT 18
4. ZCT 19
5. ZCT 55
6. ZCT 134
7. ZCT 56
8. ZCT 39

All-time classics:

1. ZCT 32
2. ZCT 47
3. ZCT 18
4. CTRACK 2003/2 (Kalpen) - despite winning the track
5. ZCT 19
6. ZCT 55
7. ZCT 134
8. ZCT 56
9. Újvidék - USC
10. ZCT 39

My worst track: Eperjes I think.

Lot of the mentioned tracks contributed to switching to passive mode, besides computer, hand and motivation problems.

... Renato Biker and CTG is racing and there are bonus points only remaining for them?

I remained unanswered. Please tell me some ideas. I ignore answers from Renato and CTG, who are killing my game (I consider their answer as bullshit as they are not following the way they would tell here), but I am waiting for answers from competition organizers and other mid-range drivers like me.