RacerHero,
The League Of The Americas is open to all drivers in the Western Hemisphere that are in good community standing. We don't as a policy, reject anyone's entrance in our leagues, as long as you don't show up on anyone's (Wrecker's Barricade or our founding team's) ban list for intentional wrecking. We encourage drivers of varying skills to join us for quality league racing, but we must insist that our drivers recognize that this is league racing, and all the responsibilities that the "league racing" description entails. We present feature events that are 45 minutes in duration, preceeded by qualifying and a sprint race, and all during these events we expect our drivers to act professionally both off the track and on.
In your case with the RallyCross Championship, we recognized two things in your driving that concerned us, relative to longer league races.
First, your controller type. You had mentioned to me that you were using a gamepad. Normally, this would be an acceptable choice, given a gamepads ability to output analog controls. Your use of the gamepad seemed very erratic, as evidenced, through replays and watching you live, by your inability to drive down a straight in a, well, somewhat straight line. Couple that with the fact that rallying generally requires precise control when competing side-by-side with someone, this did not bode well for you.
Second, your LFS experience and aggressiveness levels must be considered. The LFS inexperience factor normally can be overcome if a driver shows that he/she can control the car and put it in the right situations. Your driving tendancies displayed a higher level of aggressiveness than what is generally acceptable in league racing. Combine inexperience with aggressiveness, and that makes for a undesireable combo for league racing. You have to remember that league races are long, and have more consequences than just the race at hand. More often than not, it is better to not put your car in a questionable situation and wait a few corners or laps to make the pass.
Where am I going with all of this? I would like to see you continue to compete with LOTA. If you will be using your gamepad, I don't, however, think that the FO8 league is the best place for you. We are starting a FOX league that may better suit your experinence level. The FOX, while still providing great competition, is a less challenging car to drive, and may be more forgiving to your controller choice.
Over the next few days, both the LOTA League Server 1 and the CoRe Racing server will be set-up for the first race of each series. You're welcome to come on and test to determine whether the FOX league will suit your league racing needs. In addition to that, LOTA will be hosting a tune-up race for each series on our servers named LOTA League Server 1 & 2. There will be an announcement to this effect soon, and will be open to 20 drivers for each race. You are welcome to join us to see if LOTA is right for you.
If you have any questions, please contact me directly via PM here, or on the LOTA Forums.