Well,to be honest,most of you already know the drill,so I can spare some very inspirational words this time,as many LFSers knows what comes in 26th december - Race [un]Green Events presents: the chance to take your 140 horsepower rear wheel drive XR GT and don't feel sorry if you happen to destroy it - because this is an event where you have a risk to get your car finished before crossing the finish line. The event will have only few basic rules regarding behaviour on track,otherwise - feel free to impress your opponents physically,divebombing and P.I.T. maneuvers more than welcome! Event will consist from different parts - qualifying,where each driver just sets his laptimes to decide starting places,heats,where the fight starts to get physical for the chance for final,the final,where best will be decided and a bonus run,where everyone will get a final chance to let out rage on masses!

The event starts 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET with hotlap qualifying,everyone who wants to take part,should be in server before the start of it,but arrival deadline is 20 minutes after start of qualifying (it's the minimum lenght of it),everyone who comes later will be able just to watch and take part only in bonus run - noone without qualifying will be allowed to take part in main event.

Last year the Bullring became a good update,which means the track is still up to date with today's LFS standarts,so we will race in exactly same layout as last year:

(click to see bigger image)
The track surface is 99% grass (not that the 1% of tarmac would make much difference anyway),one lap is 330 meters long and width variates from 10 to 20 meters and it even has a slight elevation! Layout file can be found as attachment from last year's thread and in server when it will be online,feel free to have practice runs to be familiar with track or just store the layout for own needs.


Now some information about the parts of this event:

Qualifying:
The hotlap qualifying will be used here. Every driver will have 1 outlap and 2 timed hotlaps,the best lap counts as per standart LFS qualifying. The order will be decided by connection list - from top to bottom,late joiners will have a chance for their run after initial order. Each driver will receive 2 simple commands from race administration:
[drivername] - join - driver joins and stops his car right before entry of track (right before the yellow line)
[drivername] - go! - driver enters the track for his qualifying run
Everyone else is expected to stay in spectators until called for his run! To speed up things,we will run 2 cars on track at same time. Track is just over 20 seconds long,this means cars will have around 10 seconds between them,so noone should disturb other driver normally. But in case someone spins and loses a lot of speed,he is expected to allow other driver to pass in case he is near behind!
Qualifying will determine starting order for most of runs!

Heats:
Heats will be 10 laps long and will be used to determine drivers eligible for the final. Heat run amount and levels (as semifinal or quarterfinal) will depend from number of drivers taking part,but every heat will be run with no more than 8 drivers,best 2 finishers atomatically qualifies for next level (final or semifinal),except the last chance run where more drivers could start if needed and it will be just 6 laps long!
For example - if there are 13-24 drivers,all will be divided into 3 heats (from qualifying results - 1st in heat 1,2nd - heat 2,3rd - heat 3,4th - heat 3,5th - heat 2,6th - heat 1,7th - heat 1,etc). Best 2 from each heat qualifies for final,the rest will run in last chance run for remaining 4 postions in final.
If there are more than 24 drivers,the first round of heats will determine best 18 to take part in semifinal heats which will be run just like in example.

The final:
The final is the run where the event official winner will be decided - it will be 20 laps long and only best 10 drivers through qualifying and heats will be able to fight for bragging rights! The starting order will be decided partially from heats and qualifying - for example if there were 3 heats,all 3 heat winners will start from top 3 places,order for that will be determined by qualifying results,all 3 heat 2nd place finishers will take 4th-6th places on start with same ordering,last chance run qualifyers will be ordered just by qualifying results.

The Bonus run:
It's the ultimate carnage - everyone in server will be able to take part in this 20 lap run,the best part - starting order will be random,so you could only blame LFS randomizer for a bad starting position. As usually bonus run will have some layout additions,this year I'll try to reduce retirements by layout,so drivers have to knock out oposition by themselves. It's not a promise though...


Even this is a almost rule-free event on track while racing,the event format asks some tough admining,so everyone is expected to behave in server and follow admin's instuctions and these guide lines:

Starting of a run:
...was a quite tricky stuff in earlier events,but since LFS v0.6H there is an option to create custom grid. This means everyone will be simply gridded in default formation - 1st position is on left side,2nd in middle and 3rd - on right side of each row.
Make sure you don't jump the start as LFS will either give you DT/SG penalty or even spectate you - penalty will be replaced by 1 lap penalty,while spectate will mean that your heat is over!

Racing rules:
Everyone is expected to follow clean racing rules... Yeah,right... This is crashmaaas! There are only these basic rules:
1. No wrong way driving - just anti-clockwise direction on track! In case you get spun heading wrong way,driver is expected to turn his car to right direction on full steering lock or reverse and make the J-turn.
2. No standing on track or massive slowing down - exept the car is in undrivable condition/position,in that case feel free to leave your car as an extra obstacle for others and hope for someone's help.
3. No disturbing on non-finished drivers after finishing himself.
4. No rejoining during run - if the car is undriveable,rolled or outside the track,the run is over!
5. Have fun! (also a mandatory rule )


Server behaviour rules:

• follow the instructions of admins
  
• no spamming in chat (few last year's spammers might be quickly kicked if they don't behave)
  
• no insulting others in any way (other than crashing them while in a official run)
  
• join only when allowed
  
• no voting for restart/end/qualification
  

Server is online for practice:
> > > Server name: This is Crashmaaas !!! pass=5mashIT


For refference how everything looked in previous events,here are links to threads and videos from previous years:
2011 - winner: Keff`s
2012 - winner: CG™» Litrololol
2013 - winner: K.Jaunzemis#11
2014 - winner: *‹[TC]›Pete‹
2015 - winner: S M.Kapal


(video made by Litro)


(video made by Gutholz)


(video made by Litro)

The event will not require any sign-ups,but everyone joining server will be expected to have red the rules and information about event format above and follow them!
Feel free to post your interest to take part in this so everyone will know how many drivers (or even - if between them personal rivals) can be expected!

Event server is now online,without password until event day!

I really hope I can make it! Everybody who is free should try to do so . This is a great event.

Really looking forward to this again

Are there drunk canadians again? Might come in.

Not seen Jared in ages, hopefully be emerges for Crashmas

"Like a dog wrapped round my leg. And the old black rum's got a hold on me."

Server is now passworded,password (and click-to-join link) is posted in opening post. Make sure you have read and understood the rules before joining!

Event starts in 5 hours!

Currently server is set to 10 minutes qualifying and 5 laps race,both can be democratically voted.
During qualifying session please no crashing,allow others to test setup,have some clean practice runs. During race everyone is allowed to act like in normal event runs!

Dug out my wheel, installed all the updates to LFS, logged onto the server:

"jmeade last raced on 26-12-2015"

How nice of you, to put my car in front for advert! Definitely will be there!

Guess I am Leonidas this time

Qualifying of the event starts in 30 minutes (18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET) !
Reminder - noone will be allowed to take part without qualifying!

Live results and heat line-ups in spreasheets:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eHJNmXk1Dg0ww_BeFMsj4oRYjbxY5FE1gEbA0tOV9FQ/edit#gid=0

Hello! ( Sorry!)

Another Crashmas event is done and in the 6th year we have 6th different winner. Who? I'll let him introduce himself or you have to check replays: LINK (qualifying replay is missing,forgot to save,didn't want to add the one from server,as it has a lot of extra...)

I never expected last year's activity,attendance was quite close to what I expected - 26 drivers ment that we still needed to go through quarterfinal level before reaching semifinals.

But there was a negative side today,which really demotivates to organize. Some had so many questions,which I could not answer all the time,as I had to take care about results (probably the distraction caused the mistake with advancing drivers calculation in QF),where most info everyone could get from this thread and the live results sheet in post above. Also some people randomly joined,without having right to do so,or in wrong positions,as they saw that it's their run,so "let's just join,who cares about positions". Seems like some hadn't much clue about event format either. And the final hit to my patience was blatant crapping on one of the few rules by one (supposed to) of the most repected LFS users. I could just disqualify him,but since the incidend was against me,it would be "just personal",I would be the bad guy,who destroys all the fun - as some said,it's just a fun event,so everyone can do everything what's fun,so it's ok... This is where I lost motivation to do all the stuff quickly,just took my time.

Seeing some guests failing to behave and showing such disrespect to organization,one is forced to search for motivation to organize events like this again...

Anyway - official results will be posted either this or next week,unless something comes up.

Rony, I know we gave you a hard time, but we all had a ton of fun.

after "that event", "that person" went "what, that's not allowed? oh crap, im so sorry ... well i guess im DQ'd if i have to be"

long story short ... we had a pile of fun (even if I won the award for saltiest driver of the day),

Yeah, it was great, Rony. Things got a little carried away on TS which might explain some of the fooling around.

Grats to LRK for the win and thanks to Ulrich for sabotaging the final!

I was a bit of a dick with all that question spamming... Sorry

I think one of the fun things about this event is that it is demo derby, i myself and a i think few others on TeamSpeak just wanted to start crashing into each other rather than worrying about rules. I think this event is designed to be a bit of fun, and, fun can be a bit hard to do if you are trying to do a very organised event. Maybe you could relax the rules a bit next year so you can relax a bit more and we can all have fun rather than everyone but you.

And, well done LRK!

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Maybe you could relax the rules a bit next year so you can relax a bit more and we can all have fun rather than everyone but you.

How do you expect to see that? How do you want to relax rules here?

The idea of the rules is to keep everything fair to everyone. Like heats system - everyone has 2 chances to advance. As simple as that. Go easy on that and allow for some more retries? Is it fair? Or behaviour rules - like join only when it's your run. If I go easy on that,some might have more fun,but for others it will be just mess. And the few racing rules - how fun is that,when someone,who has finished his run,suddenly goes in reverse direction,crashes and blocks someone,who at least tried to finish,even in hopeless position. Well,ok,he had his share of fun loughing out the idiot,who tries to escape the blockade,but was it fun for both?

The fun part should be found on track,while in run,racing and fighting for positions,not making fun about others,especially organisation...

Great as always! At least got on the podium. Meaddie, I laughed so hard, when I watched your stream replay. That part where you tried to pronounce my name
I know how hard organizing can be, so I'm with Rony. So few rules and even then disrespecting them just leads to boring waiting or anger.

i still feel for a fun event you took it a little too seriously. it was fun and i enjoyed this event and i might of been a little silly sometimes,but it was all in good faith.

granted the hoards of questions were stupid sometimes and people joining when they wernt supposed to was annoying. but the general rules were followed on track in the racing which you wanted.

I admit I did it in the heat of the moment and I didn't think about it too much before I turned around and blocked you. So I would've accepted a DQ because I clearly broke one of the rules.

But overall, it was a lot of fun, especially with the guys on TS.

luckily i had a nap meanwhile lolz

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luckily i had a nap meanwhile lolz

Lucky? You missed one of the funniest events in ages. It was really great.

Cool event, well spent Monday's evening. Thanks to guys on TC teamspeak, had lots of fun