Golden Horseshoe Challenge of Nigemy 2014 [TT + TT] [Login]

[Emil Patanen]

Here it comes now... Horse racing makes a comeback to GR competitions after about 3 and half year break. Also my first go at hosting a compo. Let's hope everything will go succesfully

Golden Horseshoe Challenge of Nigemy 2014

Little Story:

Golden Horseshoe Challenge is a fictional event held at the Nigemy Horse Race Facility. The Challenge lasts three days and it is held over a weekend in March. The challenge consists of Official Practice on Friday, Sprint Race on Saturday and Main Race on Sunday. The winner will be decided by the combined results of Sprint Race and Main Race. Thus winning the Challenge doesn't only require speed, but also consistency. Winning also requires good nerves, because in Sunday's Main Race each rider will have only one attempt compared to Saturday's Sprint Race's three attempts. Who will be man enough to meet all the requirements set by the Challenge?

Event Main Page (+ Download)
Rules | Schedule & Results | Login

Schedule:

Day 1: Official Practice 13.3.2014-20.3.2014

• In official practice will be ridden a 1 lap practice run on the Sprint Race course once and a 5 km practice run on the Main Race course once. The times of official practice don't count to the results. Participating in the official practice isn't mandatory.

Day 2: Sprint Race 20.3.2014-27.3.2014

• In Sprint Race will be ridden a 1 lap race run on the Sprint Race course 3 times. There will be 3 different login links in this event, so you don't have to make all the runs at once.

Day 3: Main Race 27.3.2014-3.4.2014

• In Main Race will be ridden a 5 km race run on the Main Race course once.

Short Version of Rules:

This is a time trial competition. In other words you will be racing on the track without any AIs.

Sprint Race is held on the stage version of the track and Main Race is held on the circuit version of the track.
The race length in Sprint Race is 1 lap. In Main Race the race length is 5 km.

The competition is held under the login system. The login time is rider's race time + 3 minutes for each login. The deadline for login is on Thursdays 16:00:00 GMT. In Official Practice and Main Race you have 1 login attempt. In Sprint Race you have 3 login attempts. After login you need to send the files to emilpgr@gmail.com. The required files are .gam, .bmp and .trk.

For the final individual results will be counted the times of the 2 best runs of Sprint Race and the time of Main Race. Winner is the rider, who has the best combined time.
For the final team results will be counted the times of the team's 4 best runs of Sprint Race and the team's 2 best times of Main Race. Winner is the team, which has the best combined time.

You can ride where ever the checkpoints allow it.


Settings:

• Tyre wear: 5 %
• Fuel usage: 0 %
• Fuel mass: 50 kg
• Damage: 20 %

• Race length: 1 lap for Sprint Race and 5 km for Main Race
• Number of opponents: 0 AIs

Game Pack:

You can download the game pack from the competition's website. The pack includes training tracks, pictures of track layouts, horses, sounds and so on.


Signing Up:

To sign up, you have to post a reply in this topic or send a Private Message to me or send an email to emilpgr@gmail.com with required information, which are:

1. nickname
2. Racing number (#2-99)
3. Nationality
4. Racing colors (xxx-xxx-xxx/xxx-xxx-xxx)
5. Name of horse (fictional) and color of horse (from game pack). Example: Elpeczeo (Black)
6. Team name (teams can have up to 3 riders), if you don't race as a privateer
7. Email address, to which can be sent login info

You can sign up until 26.3.2014 18:00:00 GMT.

Provisional Entry List:

#8 kuba, POL, 063-191-063/063-191-063, Destinationationator (Black), Destiny Racing
#23 Trigger Happy, CZE, 010-030-140/255-210-020, Towelchewer (Dark Bay), Scuderia Minardi Jaguara
#34 Emil Patanen, FIN, 255-255-000/011-011-011, Elpeczeo (Black), looking for a team
#52 Buka, UKR, 000-000-000/255-255-255, Zooey (Chestnut), privateer
#77 TuomoH, FIN, 185-100-235/100-150-255, Liekki (Bay), privateer
#95 Marass, CZE, 000-000-120/225-225-000, Napoli (Gray), privateer


Thanks

Thanks to MASA for the horses and to Black Rebel for the sounds.
Thanks to Trigger Happy for showing the way with his Grand Steeplechase of Pardubice competition.
Thanks to myself for the track.

Also thanks to TuomoH, who promised to ban all GRIF members that won't participate in this compo. I really appreciate that you're helping a fellow countryman to gather a big number of racers in his little competition

If there is something you don't understand, feel free to ask me. If there is any differences in information between this post and the website, you can assume that the website has correct information. But it would be still good, if you let me know about it.

You can start joining now and don't be too afraid to join, even if the horses would feel hard to control. It's only for fun, not serious racing. Like Frank Zappa singed: "You'll love it. It's a way of life."

[marass]

Sounds like fun! Let me get in.
#95 Marass, CZE, 000/000/120-225/225/000, certainly Gray, name Napoli, start as privateer.

EDIT:
Oh, forgot wrote e-mail, here it is marass centrum cz

[TuomoH]

This seems fun but

Also thanks to TuomoH, who promised to ban all GRIF members that won't participate in this compo. I really appreciate that you're helping a fellow countryman to gather a big number of racers in his little competition

I must've been drunk or sleeping when I promised that since I've got no recollection. Maybe I should attend anyway so I don't risk banning myself.

TuomoH
#77
FIN
(185-100-235/100-150-255)
Liekki (Bay)
Privateer
tuomoh77 gmail com

[Emil Patanen]

Welcome, marass and TuomoH

Maybe I should attend anyway so I don't risk banning myself.

That indeed is a good idea. But I have to say that I was bit surprised to see you entering the compo as a privateer. I thought you always compete in a team?

[DuklaLiberec]

I'll give it a try, but I'm not going to announce my official participation yet. There is a 50% chance I won't participate. If Tuomo is going to throw me into the dungeon because of this, I will depose him in a pre-planned coup d'état. Anyone who is willing to take part will be royally rewarded in case of success.

[TuomoH]

But I have to say that I was bit surprised to see you entering the compo as a privateer. I thought you always compete in a team?

No, I don't always compete in a team. I don't think this compo seems that much a team compo so Liekki is my horse instead of my team.

[marass]

EDITed my first post

[Emil Patanen]

EDITed my first post

Thanks for pointing that out, marass

Come on, people! The "Post reply" button will not bite you, if you click it and join in this compo!

[marass]

EDITed my first post

Thanks for pointing that out, marass

Come on, people! The "Post reply" button will not bite you, if you click it and join in this compo!

I knew it was good idea .
Come on, it seems it will be great fun, why do not join it?

[Trigger Happy]

Trigger Happy, #23, CZE, 010-030-140/255-210-020, Towelchewer (Dark Bay), Scuderia Minardi Jaguara, e-mail you know.

[Buka]

I hope that I'll be able to take part in this event. So here's my entry (just in case):
Buka; 52; Ukrainian; 0-0-0/255-255-255; Zooey (Chestnut); privateer; avodianyi@gmail.com

[Emil Patanen]

Welcome to the competition, Trigger Happy, Buka and kuba Great to see you taking part.

[Emil Patanen]

I have now sent the login information to those, who have signed up. The login for Day 1: Official Practice is also ready.

Login page

In Official Practice you will do 1 lap race on Sprint Race layout (Nigemy_S) and 5 km race on Main Race layout (Nigemy_M).
The deadline for login is on Thursday 20.3.2014 16:00:00 GMT.

Remember that results of this round don't count to the final results, thus it isn't mandatory to take part in this, but it would be great, if everybody did so. This round is mainly for me to test that everything goes as it should go and for riders to check out, how it feels to ride under the pressure caused by login system

[TuomoH]

Hmm... Emil hasn't been online since March 15th.

[marass]

Well, did not make practice in login. But it was just practice but now,.. I have looked that we have passed day of sprint race, but as I saw,.. there is only login for praktice. So how it is doing?