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I'm reproducing here an idea I've had while discussing tournament rules via PM with Victor Narl and also commenting in Telegram. This is something I'm considering for Race For Kicks, but could be useful for other competitions or events of more than one race, so I'm share it in case anybody may find it useful or would like to comment on its potential (positive or negative) effects. I'm curious about anything you have to say about it.

The idea is simply that, in a given competition of more than one race with a point system for individual race and a final season scoreboard, each pipsqueak gets their points doubled for the race in which they've achieved the most points.

The guys in Telegram have compared it to ZakStunts discarding rule, a relation I hadn't thought about. It does sound common in its way of being applied, but I think the effects are very different.

My intention is that the doubling rule will have virtually no impact on pipsqueaks that usually are in the podium or near, but for pipsqueaks that are capable of more than they usually give, but normally don't do their best because their season position is discouraging and there's no incentive, pipsqueaks typically in the middle of the scoreboard, it may be very relevant. For a pipsqueak like this, it would always make sense to put more effort in an individual race because a single result better than any other previous result in the season will pay much more and give them a chance to change their seasonal standing.

So, any comments or idea on it are appreciated

Wow!  So Stunts was distributed while it was still being, in a way, developed. It wouldn't be crazy to think there could be slight differences in the code as well, not just the data files, within snapshots of the same version at different times... but surely they made sure that replays were compatible within the same version.

Everything mentioned here is super interesting, but especially, the Bernie's differences call me to also split up the track in R4K like I did for Joe's. Victor Narl had been telling me about this too.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Hey, @Erik. This is really good... it flies, as it's independent from YouTube and we can control what's there. Thumbs up!  Are you hosting it yourself?

Ah, Big Red Racing has been one of my favourite in some years. I used to play it in LAN with my siblings. Lots of fun

Wow, it's true I'm always just above or below Leo in the scoreboard. We have a very similar level

I arrived about 20 years late, but I'm here   If any Hungarian is around, I'll be in Budapest for a couple more days. I'm leaving on the 13th. I know it's not much time to plan anything, but if it possible, let me know!

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VCR

Great work!  One thing I'd like to ask because I'm not sure I understood is whether cars are being compared only when driven by the same pipsqueak or by their combined results of all pipsqueaks that used them in each given race. I mean, some of us have been to most races, but some pipsqueaks have had periods of much higher participation, so that may have an impact.

Another thing is... would it be possible to solve the PG problem, more or less, by separating races on tracks that make it very hard to do PG from those that are easy to do PG on and treating them as two different cars?

Metal

Road

I usually make my tracks thinking about car diversity, but focusing on fast cars because I like fast-paced races. I understand it'd be boring for all tracks to be like that or for all tracks to be quite the opposite, but since I'm posting one track per year and mixed among those of other pipsqueaks, I figure it's fine for me to always take this approach.

Also, I think it'd be very interesting to have tracks that have a significant PG section, but in which it's not possible to just do most of the track with PG. Of course, a lot of care has to go into achieving this. Not having any PG at all in a whole season is kind of sad, indeed.

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