IHLC #19 - Sunday 15 November @ 19:00 CET

Post by **dede** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:32 am

What's this cup?
The goal of International Hot Laps Cup is to get as fast as possible with each default car in a brand new track. Players will compete with every car, at the same server, with the same amount of laps. Fastest lap will show the real speed of every driver.

When?
November the 15th 2009 (Sunday) @ 19:00 CET (18:00 GMT, 18:00 UK Portugal, 19:00 CET Germany Italy and Spain, 20:00 Finland...)

How can I join?
The cup is open to demo players also. So just connect to the server to join the cup. Please play the whole cup if you join the server.

How does this cup work?
Car: each car will be driven once (order: EasySlider, Slider, Speeder, Spinner, AntiSlider OR random in case of one server only)
Track: Unreleased - you will be able to download it during the cup
Laps: depending by track-length
Ghost Mode: Enabled
Servers: Community Server [ITA]
Rules: Fastest lap for each car counts. Times will be counted together in order to establish the winner of 'All Cars Ranking' (EasySlider+Slider+Speeder+Spinner+AntiSlider).

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:20 am

im in

iBlaze² · Post by **iBlaze²** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:37 pm

IHLC is back?

I'll be there!!

Actually I'd best get practising, since I haven't driven anything but RDP for about 6 months lol

shyguy1001 · Post by **shyguy1001** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:03 pm

Ack can you pass on something

I would probs save more time getting a 5 sec penalty than doing the speeder round

Post by **dede** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:14 pm

Little change to the cup, that won't make big difference.. There won't be laps limit anymore, as it'll be replaced by time limit: 6 minutes for each car.

See ya'll!

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:30 pm

dede wrote:Little change to the cup, that won't make big difference.. There won't be laps limit anymore, as it'll be replaced by time limit: 6 minutes for each car.

See ya'll!

ok so when the clock is on exactly 6:00 the game stops or will we wait for the last people crossing the finishline

Janne · Post by **Janne** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:08 pm

Yep. I also want to know how it exactly works. What if someone does personal best lap between "race is over" message and manual(?) /continue? At least in F1-league practices, sessions didn't stop instantly after session was stated to be over.

shyguy1001 · Post by **shyguy1001** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:42 pm

Jurgen-NL wrote:
dede wrote:Little change to the cup, that won't make big difference.. There won't be laps limit anymore, as it'll be replaced by time limit: 6 minutes for each car.

See ya'll!
ok so when the clock is on exactly 6:00 the game stops or will we wait for the last people crossing the finishline

I think this would be better and perhaps more realistic: More like an real F1 quali session (your last statement that is)...I suppose its up to dede though.

Post by **dede** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:31 pm

Correction: there will be 7 minutes sessions (so that there'll be about 6m driving, if we consider that track loading isn't excluded from countdown).

There'll be 0 seconds idle time between "Session is over!" message and the end of the race.

Post by **Whiplash** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:43 pm

dede wrote:Little change to the cup, that won't make big difference.. There won't be laps limit anymore, as it'll be replaced by time limit: 6 minutes for each car.

dede wrote:Correction: there will be 7 minutes sessions (so that there'll be about 6m driving, if we consider that track loading isn't excluded from countdown).

There'll be 0 seconds idle time between "Session is over!" message and the end of the race.

Lap limit was better in my opinion.

iBlaze² · Post by **iBlaze²** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:05 pm

Whiplash wrote:
dede wrote:Little change to the cup, that won't make big difference.. There won't be laps limit anymore, as it'll be replaced by time limit: 6 minutes for each car.

dede wrote:Correction: there will be 7 minutes sessions (so that there'll be about 6m driving, if we consider that track loading isn't excluded from countdown).

There'll be 0 seconds idle time between "Session is over!" message and the end of the race.
Lap limit was better in my opinion.

It's only a little change and it will be the same for everybody. We haven't even played the cup yet so at least give it a chance before passing judgement

Post by **Whiplash** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:37 pm

iBlaze² wrote:It's only a little change and it will be the same for everybody. We haven't even played the cup yet so at least give it a chance before passing judgement

Maybe. But I will just miss 'final lap' warning.

Post by **dede** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:03 pm

After some tests, I changed my mind.. It'll be the default way (max laps fixed basing on track length).

shyguy1001 · Post by **shyguy1001** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:10 pm

Good job janne

Perhaps you could teach me a thing or too, wish I had remembered to record it now so I could observe driving styles

Post by **Whiplash** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:19 pm

Fu...!!! I missed the race. I didn't look that time carefully. 19:00CET, not GMT.

So Janne, you had luck this time.

Good job.

Janne · Post by **Janne** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:38 pm

Whiplash wrote:So Janne, you had luck this time.

I agree.

I didn't do any better than usual, maybe even worse with some of the cars after a long while without driving much with default cars. I guess Tijny and dede were just even more rusty than me, besides them being injured.

shyguy1001 wrote:Perhaps you could teach me a thing or too

Best way to learn is to do some (thousands of laps) lap wanking.

Post by **Tijny** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:01 pm

Janne wrote:I agree. I didn't do any better than usual, maybe even worse with some of the cars after a long while without driving much with default cars. I guess Tijny and dede were just even more rusty than me, besides them being injured.

Hehe, I'm not injured, just a scrape on my knee. I kinda brought that up as a joke because dede was having physical difficulties himself. I just hadn't touched default cars at all for 3-4 months until 30 minutes before the start, so I'm actually surprised I drove as well as I did.

Post by **Whiplash** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:13 pm

So dede, will you organise this cup in next weeks again?

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:35 pm

Whiplash wrote:So dede, will you organise this cup in next weeks again?

why ask you wont show up anyway

lol kiddin too bad you messed up in the time man you could have been fighting for place 6-7 in my guess (or were you afffraid hehe)

Post by **Whiplash** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:52 am

Jurgen-NL wrote:too bad you messed up in the time man you could have been fighting for place 6-7 in my guess (or were you afffraid hehe)

Hah, 6-7 is to much I think.

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:17 am

Whiplash wrote:
Jurgen-NL wrote:too bad you messed up in the time man you could have been fighting for place 6-7 in my guess (or were you afffraid hehe)
Hah, 6-7 is to much I think.

nah your good at default you beat me 1.5 sec on small tracks remember and this new track was 30 sec,
plus the factor you have more experience with default which then the time should widen up a bit too 2/2.5 sec and i was 4.8 sec off janne,
so you would be about 2.3-3 sec off janne this time it would have been good for 6-7th place

Post by **dede** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:56 pm

Results are now published on the homepage. Congrats Janne for winning the IHLC for the first time in your TS career (if you didn't win it in first two editions - I don't have the results here..)!

I'm planning to organize IRT soon too, but I really don't have time to make a track. Can anybody provide good racing tracks for IRT/IHLC's? If not, this would mean to use existing tracks.. maybe too big change to even keep the same cup name.

My comments about IHLC:
- not very satisfied by number of players, but this could be because of late announcement and because we never had this kind of cups in last two months;
- I'm really happy about my performance, because my conditions were really bad during the cup: for the whole day, I had problems with my left eye (I couldn't focalize.. everything was doubled).. I was about not to join the cup, but at the end I decided to try to play and eventually stop in case things had gone worse. Happy that I beat Tijny, but a bit disappointed for the mistake in last lap with Speeder: I drove to grass for a couple of tenths, stopped accelerating and still crossed finishline with 28.0

Scud · Post by **Scud** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:29 pm

Is DIT also coming back? That would be the only cup i can really play these days since my new "faster" internet connection wont let me play without lag.

Post by **dede** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:19 pm

Scud wrote:Is DIT also coming back?

No, only IHLC and IRT are back. Other cups aren't interesting enough.

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:33 pm

Scud wrote:Is DIT also coming back? That would be the only cup i can really play these days since my new "faster" internet connection wont let me play without lag.

+1