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Bump! I need your thoughts on this

Far too much beard on Bernie's face!

The statistics will also pick up some of the early years, although the number of submitted replay will remain artificially low — we don't have full records

I hope it's clear that I never intended to offend.

I didn't take it seriously, I know what you meant! The "if he bothers. But when was the last time he did?" language was strong though, so I decided to point that out jokingly — see "light offence" and "". But even that wasn't clear enough 😅

As you know, not everyone here is a native speaker, and sometimes phrasing can come across differently than intended.

Agreed, and written communication, without face expressions and tone of voice, is extra difficult!

Dark Horse: Dreadnaut. Is good with power-gear cars and I can see him on place 6-7 if he bothers. But when was the last time he did?

Ouch, I take light offence at the language   I actually had to stop myself from going "oh, just an easy GTO lap, let's see where I can reach powergear" because it would have spent hours optimising it and searching for the right carpet for a slightly faster trajectory. You know how it goes! And I have to chose whether the hours I have for ZakStunts go into racing, or other sides of the competition and the website 🥹

For the record, the last time I "bothered" was ZCT277

I've heard the story, but I don't know the track number!

Does your bike reach powergear on those jumps?

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure reconstruction
https://www.scottsmitelli.com/projects/cosmore/

The author also produced the CosmoDoc website, which is an incredible piece of documentation 🤩

There goes my weekend reading time then

Let's rename this thread and collect interesting articles! While the series about F15 from the opening post continues, today I spotted this article about Winter Games and its interesting copy protection:

https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

Belle and Sebastian

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Recent season scoreboard have gained tiny medals, showing podium results! (pre-2022 pages coming soon) The same medals also appear on the profile page 🥇🥈🥉

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(as usual, you might need to hard-refresh the page to see the changes, e.g., Ctrl-F5)

Behind the scenes, we've moved all results and replays to a new database table. That sounds dry, but it cleans up a bunch of sharp edges, and will make things easier in the future.

Two minor changes are immediately visible:
- ties appear correctly on both track and season scoreboards
- teams on the track scoreboards are now links!

The scoreboards for 2001-2003 are currently empty. I'm waiting for the end of ZCT285 before I copy the old data to the new table. Once that is done, 2001-2003 submission will be included in the statistics!

[only with losing all your team points]

Today, the ZakStunts rules include these two points:

- You can join any team if allowed, but if you joined one, you can't leave it through the year, only with losing all your team points.
- When you join a team, and you didn't have one before all your previous results count as the team's too.

Emphasis mine

I suspect that these rules exist because ZakStunts track team membership at a season level. In part from our previous discussion about non-scoring team members, and prompted by myself and MiDiaN swapping places, I'm wondering if we should switch to tracking team membership per-race, and amend the rules above so that points scored for a team stay with team, or remain unassigned

I would update the team section in the rules as such:

We encourage you join or start a team. It greatly improves your racing skills, and your motivation to race.

- A team consists of minimum 2, maximum 4 pipsqueaks.
- You can join any existing team, as long as its members agree.
- You can also form a new team: you need at least two members, a team name, and a logo. Let us know in the forum's Team Zone.
- Points scored while part of a team will count for the team championship, and remain to the team if you leave mid-season.
- Team members may share their knowledge or replays, but it's forbidden to race in the name of another teammate, or to use a part of your mate's replay for continuing.
- Team members can request a private "team section" on the forum.
- You can request to leave a team at any time.

Announcing two roster changes for DoublePlusSpeed!

Since my focus for 2025 is maintenance (of the website, my new house, and the Indy's gearbox), I am stepping back from the scoring group of DoublePlusTeam.

I am also excited to announce @MiDiaN has accepted to join the team, welcome 🎉 Looking forward to what the team will achieve!

Once you've had a pope, you can claim him for centuries. I know my tiny town does.