Okay, so I should have written this a week or more ago. Hell, months ago. But here it is, let's get through it, and thank you for trusting me!

Okay, so we have a bit of an interesting situation. Our current format groups all disciplines into each tier. I.E. all Tier 1 drivers race in all disciplines under the same rankings sheet. This creates an unfair standings advantage for anyone who A: likes entering all events evenly, and/or B: is very good at several disciplines. However, the rankings are what they are for Season 1, but I want that changed in Season 2; more on that in a new thread. For now, though, let's stay on topic.

What this means, is that unless we only represent one discipline at the championships (we really can't do that) we have to put the same ten drivers in five different discipline tournaments. Per tier. Sounds broken but none of us foresaw this going in and we need to ride it out; I take responsibility as I proposed this format change. Additionally, the natural possibility that some drivers won't be at each event will help keep the driver list varied and the lobby filled. I believe I can sustain that much broadcasting, but it'll be a tight squeeze unless we push back Season 2 a few weeks or a month.

So we're looking at fifteen finals events. Three for each discipline, one per tier. We need to decide on the lone car class we will use in each set, although some of the choices will be easy/obvious due to popularity reasons, or that there aren't many car classes in a given tier/discipline.

Here is the rough format for now. It requires discussion or at least approval. Top priority decisions belong to the tiers where I've listed more than one discipline. A short copy-paste form is found just below, for you to fill out and reply with.

Endurance

Tier 1: GT2
Tier 2: GT1
Tier 3: GT Ultimate

Tuner

Tier 1: Classic Muscle or JDM
Tier 2: Muscle or Modified
Tier 3: Super Modified

Street

Tier 1: Coupe
Tier 2: Grand Tourer
Tier 3: Supercar or Hypercar

Open Wheel

Tier 1: Formula C
Tier 2: Formula B or Atom V8
Tier 3: Formula A

Touring

Tier 1: Category C
Tier 2: Super Utes or Cat B
Tier 3: Super Tourers


If you're going to reply to this topic in any way, I ask you to also include the following form copy-pasted and filled out in your reply here, choosing your suggestion for which car class to use out of what's listed. If you have comments on why you made your choices at the end of the list, not in each line.

Tuner Tier 1: Classic Muscle or JDM

Tuner Tier 2: Muscle or Modified

Street Tier 3: Supercar or Hypercar

Touring Tier 2: Super Utes or Category B

Open Wheel Tier 2: Formula B or Atom V8

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Tournament Setup, & Caster and Co-caster Roles


I will do most or all of the broadcasting (I need another streamer ASAP, see other thread). In order to make the game respect our season standings, we will do a parade lap on X track, finishing in ranked standings order as per our standings page. This will set the proper standings; in example, Amhpy will be ranked 1st in Grid Order for tier 3 events, on real track 1 (game track 2). Four tracks will go on. From there, we have a short intermission to respect driver energy/bathroom breaks etc. We'll re-convene with a second 5-track set. The first track is again, a parade lap for grid order. However, to be more balanced, the grid order will be based on the driver point totals from the first four tracks; in other words, the event leaders. This prevents the top-ranked driver from risk of getting too much automatic domination, I feel. Then we resume with four regular tracks.

In order to enforce the grid order, the parade tracks will start with myself or other event host rolling off the start line (What!?), and the top ranked driver will be called on in voice chat by the co-caster, or the event host if necessary. Then the rank-2 driver, and so on. We stay in a line and finish the lap that way. Caster and Co-caster will be at the front and rear of the pack, respectively. Their main RaceNet Club must be set to GASR Officiators [GAS], for our simulated pace-car livery to show and give culture to the parade laps. #WeGiveADamnToMakeGreatRacingLeague.


As for points, I think it is only fair to keep the same point system in place until we're done with the finals. If anyone disagrees, they need to make a case pretty fast, and get agreement from majority of the staff. I am sorry for the short time-frame on this; going forward, we'll have all this planned out ahead of time. Top point-earners will


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Moving on, the dates and setup of these events. Those of you who have replied in the other thread, seem to like the 8-track format per event. I'll go with that for now. This will double our event length, roughly. On that basis I am not comfortable with more than two finals, maybe three in a single Saturday if I am the only streamer. We're talking about going back to the six-hour-or-more Saturdays I gave up for you guys :P just teasing, but that is my personal limit. With two events each Saturday, the finals will take seven to eight weeks. With three events, five weeks. I may suggest that we include Sunday, to help our timeline in general. We could go 4/4/4/3 per weekend, to get done by December 27th. However, I need to message everyone in the top ~25 or so per tier, and ask if they can attend Sunday; let alone Saturday. Worst-case scenario I'll do three events over five weeks, but this will stretch my data cap. You guys might be surprised at how easy it is to go over 300GB a month; even without watching shows, HD videos, or game downloads.

We start on December 6th, just over a week from now. Ideally we'll be done by December 27th. I'll definitely want a co-caster for -every- event, so we need to line that up and probably ping our community for help with that. I would love to have any recurring driver with a half-decent microphone, or even a new face if they prove to drive clean in a Community Cup and speak respectfully over mic.

Here's some of what I'm looking for, in your replies to this thread:

(not requiring everything to be touched on by each of you - this is just the list)

• Car Class per Tier, a filled-out form is required by everyone that replies here.
  
• Whether to include Sundays (theory only. Ultimately this is up to the drivers)
  
• If we do Saturday and Sunday, should we go 4/4/4/3 (or 3/4/4/4), or 3/3/3/3/3 (five weeks)?
  
• Is the format for Tourney Finals acceptable at 4 tracks / break / 4 tracks?
  
• For Endurance, is Endurance mode still acceptable/fair but with a longer time limit? Extra laps is less creative and may still take longer, hurting production value (just saying), even if longer events is the point of Endurance.
  
• Find me some darned co-casters. More importantly, two or three extra broadcasters
  
• Moar Drivarz in Seezun Twooo.