Read this carefully before registering yourself for a cup
Registration rules:
You must enter your player name. Please give the email address where we can contact you anytime. A confirmation mail will be sent and needs to be answered 1-2 days before the cup!
World wide players are welcome to register our leagues. So the official language is english.
Maps: Admins are doing their best to choose the best maps possible. When you accept to join the leagues, you also accept the rules, the maps and every admins decisions, wether you understand them.. or not.
League Rules
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Concept: The players will be distributed over the servers. On a server, they participate in a journey through the 7 environments of TMU. In each environment, there's a different task to fulfill. You win points according to your achievements.
The tasks/game modes of the environments will be the following:
Bay (Trial)
In Trial Mode, your goal is to reach the end of a course full of obstacles. Some passages may require precision in jumping, others may ask you for a good balance in your car control.
In the Crazy World Cup, one map will be played in Time Attack mode. You have 20 minutes to finish it. Players are ranked by their best finishing time, while the best player gets 100 points. Coast (Stunts)
In Stunts mode, you'll find a map full of ramps, boosters and pipes to perform a trick. In 3 minutes you have time to sumarize your combos over the whole map.
In the Crazy World Cup, one map will be played in Stunt mode. You have 20 minutes to finish it. The best score you reach will be divided by 10. If you score 980 points so, this will be 98 points for the cup. Desert (Maze)
Based on the former "Crap Map Contest" concept, this track basically contains a maze, with dead ends and traps. The goal is to find all checkpoints and the finish.
In the Crazy World Cup, one map will be played in Time Attack mode. You have 30 minutes to find the finish and improve your time when you found the way. Points are given from 100 to 0 according to the ranking of best finishing times. Island (Beach)
Based on the "Beach Cup" concept we're playing a multilap race on Island offroad tracks here, mostly sand.
In the Crazy World Cup, two map will be played in multilap mode with 8 laps per map. Players get points from 100 down to 0, based on their overall added finishing time of both maps. Rally (Micromachines)
Like in the "Micro Machines" game, you'll see the action from the top. Obstacles can be seen very late and the camera seems to have a way higher velocity.
In the Crazy World Cup, two maps will be played in multilap mode with 8 laps per map. Players get points from 100 down to 0, based on their overall added finishing time of both maps. Snow (Capture the Flag)
In Capture the Flag mode maps with only one checkpoint are played, which is placed on the opposite side of the map, where Start and Finish are located.
In the Crazy World Cup, two maps will be played in Rounds mode with 6 rounds per map, with scoring system 10,9,8,...0 on each server. Players get the points they reach in Rounds mode. Stadium (Monsters & Madness)
In Monsters & Madness, we play on Stadium dirt tracks, which are especially bumpy. Also, a monster truck model is used for this competition type.
In the Crazy World Cup, two maps will be played in multilap mode with 8 laps per map. Players get points from 100 down to 0, based on their overall added finishing time of both maps.
Monster Trucks: make sure, that you have a monster truck skin applied for this cup! You find some monster trucks in our Truck Showcase on the left, and on ET Forums.
Rescheduling: The matches cannot be delayed.
Winners: The player with the most points after all maps will win the cup.
Map pack: Map packs will be on our servers for the match day, and can not be trained before the matches.
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Rounds: The cup will be played on Sunday, the 14th of December 2008. it'll start at 15h00 CET.
Waiting time: 5min delay will be accepted for late players. Not less, not more. if the game has started when you join the server, too bad for you and your points :)
Game versions: The whole tournament will be played on Trackmania United Forever.
IRC & meeting: be sure you are connected to #ET.TM on quakenet before the cup starts, so you can receive the server + password settings from an ET admin.
Map order: All maps will be played one after the other. You can play the whole tournament on one server. The tasks of each environment will be announced in quizes during the next days.
Server Settings: The match is played in different modes for each environment. ET will provide all servers for this tournament.
Shortcuts: For Crazw World Cup, any kind of cut, reverse driving or resetting to checkpoints in inverse direction, is explicitly allowed! (if you want to take that risk on a map you don't know ;)
In game: 2 warmup laps are necessary before match starts. If you notice a lag during the warm-up, tell it. Once everyone agrees to start the map, the map has to be played until the end. If a problem occurs, always take screenshots or replay as a proof and report immediately to an admin (there will always be 5-6 of us on irc during the games).
Upload/Download Limitation: It is NOT allowed to put the upload/download setting to 0 during a game, in order not to have your vision blocked by other cars. The main reason is that such a behavior is unfair, because your car does not appear on replays taken by others, and therefore is a gate opened to cheaters of all kind. A team caught using the 0 UL/DL setting (not appearing on replays, but well on the score page) will be forfeited for the game for which they used the trick. If the team is caught a second time, it will be banned from the league and from future competitions.
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Results: The scores will be distributed among all finishing players over all servers, beginning with 100 points for the best player, down to 0 for the non-finishing players. In some modes, we might distribute the points differently, stay tuned for the environments tasks!
Reports: Players are invited to write a report on the forums after their matchs, sharing their best moments, their points of view and other screens & replays. It's always a pleasure to read them !
Conflicts: Laming, Cheating, Abusing, Moaning and all other bad attitudes will be stopped right away by kicking the player or the whole team out of the league. Report bad attitudes to Admins. Don't forget to join replays that could proof your accusations .
Admins might change/add rules to improve the leagues at any time
Bay (Trial)
Coast (Stunts)
Desert (Maze)
Island (Beach)
Rally (Micromachines)
Snow (Capture the Flag)
Stadium (Monsters & Madness)
