Just as an exercise: what’s the lowest market score for e.g. Light Sport (Budget?) or Fun in the yellow group? And the highest in the red group? If there is a clear distinction, then that’s something simple to keep in mind for the future to keep realism in check.
Cost (or ET or PU) doesn’t really help, I could quality spam easily where it mattered. Turbos are dirt cheap - but turbo vs NA can be an interesting choice if balanced right.
Edit: A $15k challenge in the same vein, that’d be interesting, but a different thing altogether.
I truly appreciate your feedback, thank you. I will be honest, I was thinking all that, I just didn’t put it in written form (or spoken in the video). You see, the problem is, I’m used to running challenges with my youtube viewers and on youtube, short videos tend to do better than long ones because the average viewer on youtube apparently has a very short attention span. So the video can’t be too long, nobody wants to listen to me ramble I’ve found. Might just be because it’s me, but that’s besides the point.
What I’m quickly realizing here is that people here on the forum are different in that regard, people don’t mind reading through gigantic walls of text like in the CSR rulesets or whathaveyou. The challenge for me now becomes, how do I combine the two? And I guess the answer is, give a brief overview in the rules announcement video with the general idea of the challenge, and point people towards the more extensive post with the complete rules which will be here in the forum. I know that now for next time
I guess probably the best thing to do would be to give an overview of the challenge and format in the video, with a few key rules a basics. And talk about the theme and what you’re expecting to be submitted, which should keep things nice and brief. Then have the detailed rules in the actual forum post, along with everything you’ve said in the video too, just for people to refer to at a later date.
That’s a perfect idea! Text is a lot easier and faster to read through than a video, but video is better at conveying emotion and tone. The video could great for setting the mood and theme of the challenge, while the post can cover more dreary and wordy stuff like rules and guidelines. :D
Guys, I apologize for my mistake and will make sure to make the rules clearer next time. The cars that got DQed despite meeting the rules will also be raced by me on video, but they won’t count towards the competition. I’ll try to get the video done as soon as I can but I have to find the time for it. I’ll keep you up to date on that
It just so happened that I got a window of time today which allowed me to record the disqualified cars going down Hakone. Let’s just say, some of these cars are very impressive!
I would only add that, even in your rules video, you can write out the complete rule set in the description and simply tell people in the video to check the complete list before submitting. Just a suggestion. I’ll have to wait for next challenge anyways as I didn’t make the deadline.
Yeah, at the end of the day it was my own mistake and I will happily admit that. Don’t worry, I don’t think you were too harsh and I appreciate constructive criticism. I have got together with my friend and Discord mod Sedan57Chevy to plan the next challenge together because I wanted to make sure there’s no oversights or mistakes with the ruleset of the next challenge, and I will definitely do that again. Up until this point I’ve always run these challenges completely on my own but I think they will be more enjoyable for everyone (not just myself) if more than one person are involved with setting them up.
With this being said, I’m also looking forward to the weekend and the additional 2 race tracks. For the DQed cars I’m probably gonna race them on both tracks in the same video because the tracks are relatively short, especially the Neon Course.
Race 2 is over! Due to technical issues for which I apologize, the stream quality was rather bad and I don’t feel comfortable sharing a bad quality stream VOD. I managed to fix the issue afterwards, but here are the results in form of the spreadsheet:
Note: since I missed the stream, I would be fine with viewing lesser-quality video if it meant I could still compare how the cars performed relative to each other.
But either way, glad to see how this turned out, and excited for tomorrow! Right now there seems to be a few clear leader, but the 3rd track is certainly much different compared to the first to, and a lot still has the potential to change. (:
In a bit over 1 hour, the 3rd and final race of the competition will begin! I will once again stream it on my youtube channel and I’m sure this time the quality will be good again: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEazrZkjQcCxLaMmj79c62Q
The 3rd and final race is now officially over! Congrats to ErenWithPizza for winning the challenge in convincing fashion with 42 points overall! 2nd place overall goes to Flynt and his F&S Macro Turbo with 29 points, and then in tied 3rd will be DuceTheTruth and NoobEntusiasta, both with 28 points total.
Here are the results in the form of the spreadsheet:
Thanks to everyone for participating, I’ve had a lot of fun and I hope so did you. I apologize once more for not making the rules clear enough but trust me, next time the rules and expectations will be clear and I’m sure you guys will enjoy it.
