Got some rage after a race?
Are you mad to someone?
Want to put your anger on someone to see his car upside down?
Want to release some steam while racing?
Or you are just naturally aggressive driver but all events too soft for you?
Well,here is your solution,because
This is CRASHMAAAS !!!
the 14th annual X-mas derby event 2024
Thursday, 26th december, 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 EET
The end of year is time for many traditions in many cultures. The simracing culture around the online racing simulator Live For Speed has one that goes back to year of 2011 - the year when the very first event of it's series took place on 26th december with 18 crashhappy people. 13 years later the number of crashhappy people rised up to 62,breaking records for non-endurance events attendance. So should we stop while we're at all time highs? Not happening - we're keeping the tradition alive until the last car has been recycled into tin cans,so for the 14th 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 in 2 or 3 levels,where the fight starts to get physical for the chance for final,the final,where best will be decided,battle royale where only event winners can race and a bonus run,where everyone will get a final chance to let out rage on masses!
Fern Bay is and stays the LFS true classic,so it seems we will never leave this place! Bullring V3 is still the place to be,also this year we'll use the very same layout as several years before and probably few years after.
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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
To avoid any delays and make situation fair for everyone,tyre warming is forbidden (except on direct way from spawn spot to waiting place) and drivers must enter track not earlier and not later than on "go!" command.
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!
Preliminary runs:
If there are more than 48 attenders,the event will start with preliminary runs - best 20 drivers from qualifying will qualify for quarter final automatically,rest will have to earn their spot through the 1st level of heats. Everyone beyound qualifying position 20 will be divided into 4-6 heats (depending on drivers count - aiming for ~8 drivers per heat),best 2 will qualify for quarter final directly,rest will be divided into 2 relegation runs to battle for remaining quarter final spots.
> Participants: Everyone who qualified outside top20
> Heat length: 6 laps
> Relegation length: 4 laps
Quarter final:
If there are 48 or less attenders,the event will start with quarter final heats,if there are more than 48 attenders,this will be the 2nd level of heats with 42 participants (6 heats with 7 drivers per heat). Top2 finishers will advance directly to semi final,rest will be divided into 2 relegation runs to battle for remaining 6 semi final spots.
> Participants: 42 best drivers (top20 qualifyers + 22 best from preliminary heats)
> Heat length: 8 laps
> Relegation length: 5 laps
Semi final:
Best 18 drivers from previous heats level will be divided into 3 heats with 6 drivers per heat. Top2 finishers will earn their spot in final,remaining 12 drivers will have to battle through the last chance run for 4 final spots.
> Participants: 18 best drivers from quarter final heats
> Heat length: 10 laps
> Relegation length: 6 laps
The final:
The final is the run where the event official winner will be decided in a 20 laps long heat! The starting order will be decided partially from heats and qualifying - all 3 semi final heat winners will start from front row (order determined by qualifying results),all 3 heat 2nd place finishers will start from 2nd row with same ordering,last chance run qualifyers will be ordered just by qualifying results.
> Participants: 10 best drivers from semi final heats
> Heat length: 20 laps
Battle Royale:
This run is for This is Crashmaaas !!! overall winners only! All the past event winners (including the new one) are set in the short 6 laps exhibition battle to sort out between themselves who is the best without any outside influence! Starting order - random,because the real champion does not care about grid position!
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,where we will allow all cars (including mods) and remove password of server!
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:
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 - once you cross the line to finish the heat,avoid any contacts with cars still running.
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. Also 2nd rule is ignored more and more,so repeated violations might receive ban from this and other RGE events. 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 name: This is Crashmaaas !!! - OFFLINE
pass=(to be announced)
In case someone needs a setup,here's what the winner of 2014 and track record owner posted:
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
2020 - winner: [AAR] Meaddie
2021 - winner: [AAR] Meaddie
2022 - winner: B2ﾏ TωϊnCΔm
2023 - winner: B2ﾏ Upsas
(VOD of SimBroadcasts.tv livestream of 2023 event)
(VOD of SimBroadcasts.tv livestream of 2022 event)
(VOD of SimBroadcasts.tv livestream of 2021 event)
(VOD of SimBroadcasts.tv livestream of 2020 event)
(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!
See you on track and have fun!