New Series Ideas

[Greyfox60]

Well, as the old series is coming to a close I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread to see what you guys want in the next one.

Ideas I have heard or come up with so far

1. Just like last one. Endurance races. But for me I would like to have at least half of them on the less raced tracks.
2. Have a series of 10 lap (or whatever you want) Like 3 ten lappers on different tracks in one night. Scoring for each. I feel this may make it possible to play catch up if you all behind in the points.
3. Classes change (go up) each week like last one.
4. One I like, go for an "R" class series. Or any single class, all the way through.
5. One Wobbly reminded me of, bonus point(s) for fastest lap.
6. Just for humor. A "hot potato" car and a "Dud Spud" car for the one who ran the best race, not nessasarily the winner, but someone who is voted by the rest in the race that say, come from behind the most. Ran the cleanest race, or totally dominated from start to finish, etc. Maybe this car could be the Mercedes or whatever GLC? Unlimited. The dud spud, kinda like the "Boob prize" car that was passed around, errr.....basically given to Looon for stupid mistakes, like dominating race only to crash into a wall towards the end, or blowing engine with wrong downshift etc. I guess what we really need to do here is find out what car Loon wants in his garage out of the D-class lol.
7. Races against other sites vs inter site races.
8. Two man teams?
9. Any other ideas you guys come up with.

So, post your thoughts, what ideas you like and don't like etc so I can start the planning stages of the next series.

[Wobbly Goblin]

Those all sound like great ideas to me Fox. I don't have any additional ideas, but I will donate 2 free months of xbox live for you to distribute anyway you choose. It's not much, but at least it's something we all can use

[The Green Guy]

Some good ideas Fox, I like the fastest lap bonus and honorable mention ideas, very creative! Two man teams is a good idea too. I'm not keen on running the same car class(ie: R1) for the whole tourney though since I'm a big fan of the slower cars running nice clean lines type of racing too. I do like the idea of occasionally picking a specific car (to see who can tune it the best) and running a couple of those mixed into the Potatoe Grand Prix.

[fred114]

I'm with the rest of them, all good ideas. Though I got into late, I like the series that is ending. But would like racing non R class as well. Maybe pick a car for the coming week, tune it to a certain class, but let the racers have freedom of how to get it to that class/pi.

Course speaking of the potatoe car, I was going to ask Green Guy, the resident graphics guru, if he could design a couch potato livery. Not trying to start a team, but would be cool to run it when running both within the group and against non potatoes. Could advertise this site even.

Another question, very much off topic: "Livery" where the heck did this term come from and what exactly does it mean? Wobbly and I were running a little tonight and he asked the question. Also is it pronounced livery like alive or livery like liver(the food)?

Any how, need to get in bed, but look forward to your series Greyfox. 8)

[Wobbly Goblin]

fred114 - 2007-08-27 1:49 PM

Course speaking of the potatoe car, I was going to ask Green Guy, the resident graphics guru, if he could design a couch potato livery. Not trying to start a team, but would be cool to run it when running both within the group and against non potatoes. Could advertise this site even.

That would be awesome

[The Green Guy]

Livery?

Thats a new one. In regards to a Potatoe car ... great idea! Why didn't I think of it?

[Greyfox60]

Here is what I was thinking for the 3 20 minute session series.
1 race on a long track
1 race on a short track
1 race on a reversed track

This is for one class each week, starting with D class and going all the way through to R1 class.

Ideas? Thoughts?

Note: I am currently going through a spread sheet I made up that has estimated lap time that shows how many laps it takes for a approximate 20 minute race and a 60 minute race and comparing that with the number of laps choices you have when setting up a room. It kind of limits you because the only choices ar 1 through 10 laps, then it jumps up to 25 laps, 50 laps and 75 laps. From what I have seen for a 20 minute race a lot of them fall between 10 and 25 laps.
When I figure out what tracks will fit best for what class I will post my findings.

So please, if you want a certain track with a certain class of car, let me know so I can adjust by maybe having one of the races longer or shorter to fit that one in to that session. I am trying to shoot for a total of just under an hour of racing so that with lobby time it comes to a full hour give or take 10 or 15 minutes.

[fred114]

That sounds like a good idea. Different from most series and will definitely challenge all our skills.