◆ SNAIL [Spec] Racing - Currently Recruiting for GT7 - JOIN TODAY!!Open
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For a little more clarity. The reason the qualification times are not presented as public knowledge. This data would allow a new comer to hand pick his starting division. While in the long run said racers divisional placement will be on par with their skill level. That period before said racer could win races against racers he out classes and truly that isn't fair to those racers. As well it goes against what makes SNAIL so appealing. The classed racing that provides good clean door to door action.
Some may not realize why that Info is top secret. Hopefully that explanation helps those mentioned.
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Since it seems we still have some ambiguity and confusion regarding how to time stamp an IR, I am going to make an effort, 1 last time, to clear up how and why we want the time stamps done in the manner described in this post.
We'll take last weekend's batch of incidents as one of the prime reasons SNAILIRR was built in the first place.
It took our most prolific steward, and probably one of the most efficient reviewers, 7 hours to pull down all the replays necessary, get them transferred to his PS3, imported to GT6 and view, multiple times in some cases, 47 incidents, post a penalty score, to include comments in a discussion document, to validate that score. Let me say that again. 7 hours. He did it all at one go, on a day where he could spare that big a chunk of time, because he knew the rest of the week wasn't going to allow him to do much more. To my knowledge, all the other stewards had to slot in an hour here and an hour there, over 5 days, to get their reviews completed.
In an attempt to collect the necessary data and streamline the process of identifying which incidents are in the same replays, so we, as stewards, don't have to bounce around to different replays, nor bounce around in any one particular replay, and, the only real reason SNAILIRR was born at all, SNAILIRR generates a list of all incidents. This list is where all stewards begin the review process. It groups every IR by Division, then sorts each division group by which round it occurred, then by the race within that round, and finally, by the time stamp. The race lap number is used as a check and validation on the time stamp. This list's sole purpose is to help organize the IRs in a fashion the stewards can smoothly follow from incident to incident without having to jump back and forth between replays or even within a race that sourced multiple IRs. With the accurate data in place, we can roll through each incident in a linear and timely fashion, with as little wasted time as possible.
In the past, the stewards have made an earnest effort to discover, from the seemingly endless variety of time stamping practices some people seem to be able to pull off their races and replays, when any particular incident actually occurred. We have given allowances for folks who might have an accurate time stamp they got from the individual lap elapsed time, total replay time, best lap time, etc. Then there are the folks that don't seem to get, SNAIL Sunday races will never have an hour value greater than 0, ever. Why is that field included in the form you ask? Because google docs requires that hour field when a time value is chosen for an entry, and the brooms that sweep the data around in SNAILIRR require that time data value, to work properly.
Once again, so that everyone sees it, here are the requirements for entering time stamps in the IR form;
Having posted all the above, all SNAILs can expect some changes to policy regarding IR submissions soon.
We'll take last weekend's batch of incidents as one of the prime reasons SNAILIRR was built in the first place.
It took our most prolific steward, and probably one of the most efficient reviewers, 7 hours to pull down all the replays necessary, get them transferred to his PS3, imported to GT6 and view, multiple times in some cases, 47 incidents, post a penalty score, to include comments in a discussion document, to validate that score. Let me say that again. 7 hours. He did it all at one go, on a day where he could spare that big a chunk of time, because he knew the rest of the week wasn't going to allow him to do much more. To my knowledge, all the other stewards had to slot in an hour here and an hour there, over 5 days, to get their reviews completed.
In an attempt to collect the necessary data and streamline the process of identifying which incidents are in the same replays, so we, as stewards, don't have to bounce around to different replays, nor bounce around in any one particular replay, and, the only real reason SNAILIRR was born at all, SNAILIRR generates a list of all incidents. This list is where all stewards begin the review process. It groups every IR by Division, then sorts each division group by which round it occurred, then by the race within that round, and finally, by the time stamp. The race lap number is used as a check and validation on the time stamp. This list's sole purpose is to help organize the IRs in a fashion the stewards can smoothly follow from incident to incident without having to jump back and forth between replays or even within a race that sourced multiple IRs. With the accurate data in place, we can roll through each incident in a linear and timely fashion, with as little wasted time as possible.
In the past, the stewards have made an earnest effort to discover, from the seemingly endless variety of time stamping practices some people seem to be able to pull off their races and replays, when any particular incident actually occurred. We have given allowances for folks who might have an accurate time stamp they got from the individual lap elapsed time, total replay time, best lap time, etc. Then there are the folks that don't seem to get, SNAIL Sunday races will never have an hour value greater than 0, ever. Why is that field included in the form you ask? Because google docs requires that hour field when a time value is chosen for an entry, and the brooms that sweep the data around in SNAILIRR require that time data value, to work properly.
Once again, so that everyone sees it, here are the requirements for entering time stamps in the IR form;
Having posted all the above, all SNAILs can expect some changes to policy regarding IR submissions soon.
I'll be missing the race this night, since my mothers tavele buddy was taken off the ship with symptoms of a streak that was later determined to be a brain tumbrels and they are flying from Maine to L.A. Tonight and we're gaining straight to UCLA!
I apologize and understand why it should be kept unpublished. I look forward to racing.
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The driver's list has been updated and is ready to go for tonight's racing. All drivers that have submitted time trials have received their placement messages. All part time drivers are listed in their correct order of priority for racing.
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Happy thanksgiving fellow Canadians
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Here's your official S.N.A.I.L. Welcome Post!
Thanks for your interest!
Here's what you need to know (and do) in order to join:
We run a clean league by enforcing a strict penalty system based on the S.N.A.I.L. OLR (which is a modified version of the GTP OLR). We also expect all of our drivers to know and follow The Good Racecraft Guide.
Please become versed in both if you aren't already. Once that is complete, please follow the steps below to complete your entry into the league:
1. You take the S.N.A.I.L. OLR and Racecraft Test
2. You run the Time Trial and submit your information by 23:59 EST on Saturday night if you want to race this Sunday.
3. @JLBowler PM's you with your assigned Division that we feel will give you the closest competition. You will be added to the drivers list.
4. Send a PSN friend request to the Race Director or Primary Host from your assigned SNAIL Division. Sunday night you will need to sort the online lobbies by friends and join the lobby named 'snailracing.org Division_(x) based off your Division placement from JLBowler. That lobby will be where you race Sunday.
5. Place the following links (URLs) in the favorites (or bookmarks) in your web browser for quick reference. Please make every effort to read and understand the following links. Over the years a great deal of time and effort has gone into creating this league and we would like nothing more than to have you but we ask that you take the time and effort to do your homework. 99.9% of any question you may have about SNAIL can be found in the posts below. Now if you've actually read this, post ain this thread.
6. You drive fast and clean on Sunday 👍
Again, the original post has everything you need to know about what to expect on Sunday night and what you will need to have completed in order to be competitive. If you have any questions, please feel free to post your question on the thread.
If you have a preference for car/wheel colour and racing number, please follow the instruction contained here.
During the week we run a number of different events, we encourage all SNAILs to join as many as possible.
Welcome to S.N.A.I.L.
I have a question about the time trial all I have to do is submit a time correct I don't have to post a recording of the lap to
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Thanks for that clip man ... altho i couldnt touch your time it helped me improve my pb by almost a second.
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With my family being up north at the cottage, I Had plans of racing tonight but friends have invited me over for Thanksgiving dinner tonight. See you guys next week.
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I just logged in twice, even wireless just to check it out. No problem here.
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Just signed in now and got on gt6 and it's working
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Call psn...that is what I did.
