Read this carefully before registering your team for a championship
Registration rules:
You must enter 2 players/team minimum, and two optional substitute drivers. Please give the email address where we can contact you anytime.
A player can play for only 1 team. A player, already playing in the league, is allowed to change team only once during a single season.
If a clan has 2 or more teams in the league, no switching will be allowed between the teams of the clan.
World Wide Teams 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
--------- Before the match -----------
Season: 12 teams of 2 players each will play in a 24-players race on two multilap-maps each SUNDAY, 20:00h.
Rescheduling: The match cannot be delayed.
Substitutes: You can freely choose 2 of 4 drivers for each map of the competition, even inbetween a league day. The points will go on account of the whole team. If you have more than 2 players missing, you can also play alone, or leave out a map.
Winners: The team with the most points after 7 weeks will win the championship.
Map pack: map packs will be available in "Download" every Sunday after the previous Formula ET races.
--------- During the match -----------
Rounds: Each Sunday at 20:00h CET, 12 teams with 2 players each meet each other in a 24 players race on a laps server with 24 laps set for each map.
Waiting time: Race start is 20:00h! Try to start joining the server at 19:45h and to be online at 19:55h latest. The race starts at 20:00h, independent, who is there or not.
Game versions: The whole tournament will be played on Trackmania United Forever.
IRC & meeting: be sure one of your players (preferably the captain) is connected to #ET.TM on quakenet before and after any challenges, so you can decide who host, what are the servers and password names. Please remember that ICQ or MSN are not the main communication way and appearing in IRC is MANDATORY. If you don't have IRC, use the IRC browser module on the ET Portal Page.
Map order: The map order for both maps, such as the lap count for the maps will be given by the league admins each week, at once after the previous Formula ET race.
Server Settings: Servers are setup by ET in Laps mode, 24 laps. You find the servers located in Estonia, named by the group you're playing in.
Shortcuts: CAUTION: "Shortcuts are allowed as long as they're taken between 2 CP and in the good oder/way of the original track". But in the case of a player getting out of the track after an accident, it is allowed to get back on the track taking the CP in the wrong way and respawning, since the first intention was not to use a shortcut. A player getting out of the track and having to get back to the CP is in no way gaining time, so this is allowed. Only the intentionnal shortcuts are prohibited.
In game: Always do a few warm-up laps (2-3 laps at least). If you notice a lag during the warm-up, tell it. You are not supposed to start a round if you experience problems. Once everyone agrees to start the map, the map has to be played until the end. No change of players is allowed when a map is started. 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).
Fairness: If you occur an invalid time due to an error network, before all players finished the first lap, restart the round for fairness. Once the first lap is finished, it's the drivers error to not correctly setup his/her computer. A restart can be done by vote or forced by the server admin.
Upload/Download Limitations: It is strictly forbidden to put the upload/download speed setting to 0, forbidding other players to see you during the game. 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 cutters and cheaters of all kind. A team caught using the 0 UL/DL will not receive points for the week. If the team is caught a second time, it will be banned from the FET and from other competitions.
--------- After the match -----------
Results: The scores will be given, as the following list shows:
finishing 1st: 15 pts
finishing 2nd: 12 pts
finishing 3rd: 11 pts
finishing 4.: 10 pts
finishing 5.: 9 pts
finishing 6.: 8 pts
finishing 7.: 7 pts
finishing 8.-9.: 6pts
finishing 10.-11.: 5 pts
finishing 12.-13.: 4 pts
finishing 14.-16.: 3 pts
finishing 17.-20.: 2 pts
finishing 21.-24.: 1 pt
not finishing inbetween the time limit: 0 pts
Please take a screenshot of the final result and give it to an admin.
To avoid someone presses DEL in Lap Mode to start outside the main field, we count the position the player reaches the finish, and not the time the player finishes with. You are supposed to start the race with all players together!
Reports: Players are invited to write a report on the forums after their matchs, sharing their best moments, their points of vue 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
