After 9 years of smashing fun it would be a sin to not celebrate a decade of X-mas crashing in Fern Bay,so for the 10th time - 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.

We said a farewell to the old Fern Bay already twice,but some places are just too hard to leave,so we're back again at the same place and same track! The classic layout in it's 3rd revision will be used once again - time and devs' activity will show if for last time or not.

(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 one of previous year's threads and in server,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.

NOTE - before leaving unhappy after first failure,it's worth to remember that everyone will have 2 chances to qualify for next round! So if you fail to make next round during your quarter- or semifinal heat,you'll have another chance in relegation/last chance run!

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 new layout additions,some a bit experimental,some pretty much classic,some might put you out of race,some will help you to put others out.
As always the official part of the event ends with finish of Bonus run,but the afterparty will continue as long there are crashhappy drivers in server - 10 lap races on the Bonus run track just for fun.


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 - except 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 )

NOTE: After having some incidents in previous years,special attention on rule #3! If you finish your run,you may not interfere others in any way! Serious infractions will lead to disqualification. Let's keep it cool and fair for everyone!

Server behaviour rules:

• follow the instructions of admins
  
• no spamming in chat (few known 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=DecaSmash


In case someone needs a setup,here's what the winner of 2014 and track record owner posted:

Quote from mbutcher :

Anyone who wants a proven setup, here's the one I always use:
https://www.lfs.net/files/setups/23280/XRG-Crashmas2014

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
2016 - winner: [GRT]LRK-racer /1
2017 - winner: [SR] Adebayor
2018 - winner: Dzidoris
2019 - winner: [GRT]LRK-racer


(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!

I'm there!

This event will be streamed live on https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts

Server is online for practice:
> > > Server name: This is Crashmaaas !!!

Currently set to 6 laps,which should be good enough for both track practice and smash practice!

Ooh, cool! Hopefully, I will be able to join!

Server is now password protected,password is in 1st post right under the section everyone should be familiar with - rules!

Event live results sheets for heat tracking purposes:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o0WnhWzf8xW40ElXAgPUkVVsUomAIYnnVlDvODuL4e0/edit#gid=0
(this is where everyone can see in which heat he is,I can't answer everyone personally during the event)

i drive

Biggest ever attendance of this event - 44 drivers qualified! After all the smashing and bashing through heats and relegation runs we have a new winner,who will line in the legendary list. But as always full official results will be posted later,as also organizers like to enjoy the holidays.

Feel free to visit https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts for stream on demand to [re]watch the action!

Video on demand also in Youtube now:


All event MPRs attached for classic LFS view.

Quote from jmeade :

I am shook.

2020 has been a terrible year and this result is the turd on top that this year thoroughly deserves

waiting for the bonus round

vod

gg

pls take normal name

A month ago we celebrated the decade event of the annual X-mas derby and after some delay here are the official results! With the event being livestreamed by SimBroadcasts it gained some extra promotion and with it also some extra attendance interest - an official number of participants reached 44,from which 2 of them were just never filled entries in heats lineup though. A total of 6 quarterfinal heats were needed,7-8 drivers in each to sort out the 18 drivers for semifinal,after QF heats were done,the drivers who did not qualify directy,had one more chance in one of the 2 relegation runs,featuring 16 entries in each to fight for extra 3 tickets to semifinal. Rest of the event was held in classic way as all the years before.

Interstingly just half of the 10 finalists qualified between best 10 in qualifying,so pace/crashing tactics were balanced to 50/50 - of course as always some luck required also. From negative side there were few drivers who decided to make fun out of organization by selecting weird names,in future such behaviour will be awarded with quick bans,as surely some more respectful drivers were left outside of fully filled server. Despite event having just 4 actual rules,2 drivers earned disqualification from their runs for breaking one of those,while in Bonus run many drivers tried to rejoin - another rule breaking,luckily without any effect on actual race.

What comes long,comes good - an old proverb turned out to be true in this edition of TiC. The event regular Meaddie,who did participate in every event edition except in the first one on the far year 2011,was on top of the game this year and used the situation to celebrate the win in the event with a big scream live on the broadcast. His way to the glory was the longest possible - he finished 5th in his quarterfinal heat to have another chance in the relegation run,in which he finished 2nd - good enough to qualify for semifinal. He tried to be agressive in his semifinal heat,which resulted in DNF after just 2 laps as he rolled the car,so the way to final had to be done via Last Chance Run - he finished 3rd there to qualify for the final. Meaddie had the lowest qualifying result from all 10 finalists and he started it from outside of last full row - he had plenty of physical position changes during the final heat,running in the top half positions in the 2nd half of the race,while some battles ahead provided him a free run to leading position in the 19th of 20 laps - he survived a unsuccessful attack in the final lap to cross finish line as the event winner.

Another canadian driver finished 2nd - Falcon put 2nd maple leaf over the podium with very similar perfomance as his winning countryman. Coincidentally Falcon run in every heat as Meaddie except for quarterfinal relegation run,which he avoided by winning his QF heat. Falcon finished just 5th in his semifinal heat,where he also set the fastest lap of the whole event,but still got his ticked to final by finishing 4th in LCR. Falcon's final was similar also - he run just in front of his countryman,but had more difficult way through traffic later on,but he advanced 2 positions in final lap by simply driving by disputes of other drivers.

Final step of the podium was taken by Garmatainais - representant from the winningest event country Latvia. He set the 2nd fastest time in qualifying and never had the need for 2nd chance to advance to next heat level as he finished 2nd to Falcon in his QF heat and won his semifinal by almost lapping everyone - pole position for the final was earned. But everyone who is good just has a bigger target icon on his car - despite leading 70% of final heat laps,Garmatainais was held up by Trespasser in final (who got disqualified from results for intentional waiting) and lost the chance for event win,still bringing home 3rd position.

Bonus run featured a total of 34 cars on the customised grid leaving drivers guessing what awaits them this time as the run is famous for surprising layout additions. The layout turned out to be very difficult as 5 drivers could not complete a single lap (few others rolled too but got back on wheels coincidentally to carry on their run),less than a half of the field completed half of the 20 laps distance. Driver,who came too late for main event,was able to shine in the bonus run - RD2. The bulgarian led last 14 laps to clinch the winning honor in the tough survival race,where there were more enemies than just racing oponents.

As always the organization would like to read winner's speach,but at least there is a vocal version of it on the broadcast recording (link few posts above). Let's see if the 11th edition will be held on the very same layout or there will be something new due the long awaited graphics update. In any case feel free to mark the 26th december 2021 in your calendars as the 11th running of This is Crashmaaas !!! as this is a tradition that has to be continued as long as possible! Usually there is also some info about out future plans,but not this time - everyone who follows Race Green Events actions should be well informed about everything,both here in forum and our discord channel!

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