◆ SNAIL [Spec] Racing - Currently Recruiting for GT7 - JOIN TODAY!!Open
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- 4,157
- Virginia
- Wolfsatz
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- socal
- SAMHAIN85
Yeah we had quite a few non snails join tonight. Luckily they didnt interfere with anything and for the most part left voluntarily. The copy/paste works well, and hopefully some of them will make their way to the thread and join us.
Vovik was stuck in the beginning but a restart on his end fixed everything.
Vovik was stuck in the beginning but a restart on his end fixed everything.
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- whatbadgerseat
D4 data for 12/10 and 12/3 has been entered.
- 2,003
- New York
- OMG_mang
I tried uploading replays last night and got the typical error message but the replays did not post. Will try again later today.
If anyone else from D2 wants to give it a shot sooner, go for it. I won't have time until this afternoon
If anyone else from D2 wants to give it a shot sooner, go for it. I won't have time until this afternoon
DesertPenguin
(Banned)
- 10,691
- Long Island, New York
- DesertPenguin_
It's nice to see the interest but we were already pushing on 30 minute late with people joining in while we're just trying to get grid order lined up. It was a mess that took way longer than it needed to. At that point we can't be as nice and just have to get the show on the road. Save the names and send them PMs later explaining the quick boot.
- 4,157
- Virginia
- Wolfsatz
I do a 1, 2 and Boot!!! Copying the standard preferred message your division is using I was using somethig like below. 4 got the message, 1 asked questions and 1 just totally ignored. Golden Boot appeared as soon as he joined track with the wrong car.
Pasting the message as they enter the room seems to work very well for me.
DesertPenguin
(Banned)
- 10,691
- Long Island, New York
- DesertPenguin_
We had nmcp1 giving the auto-message but it was filling up the chat when we were also trying to type out grid positions so some important messages might have gotten missed in there. I know I started behind Whitey when he went off on his qualifying and should have been behind me. There might have been other people out of place too but I don't know. Just mentioning it now for the first time.
- 1,105
- Michigan
- vsfit
So you didn't stay and race all races because of this?
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- Brasília
Hello!
I would return to run the snail, I had the Gran Turismo 5 in the old days and my login in this site was GCarneiroBR.
I was running with kcheeb, nmcp, drrgreenthumb, jlbowler and more in season.
I forgot my old account login and made this one to run on GTSport now.
How can I proceed?
I would return to run the snail, I had the Gran Turismo 5 in the old days and my login in this site was GCarneiroBR.
I was running with kcheeb, nmcp, drrgreenthumb, jlbowler and more in season.
I forgot my old account login and made this one to run on GTSport now.
How can I proceed?
Don't miss GTPlanet's feature of our very own @CoachMK21!
Congrats to @Neovre for making his debut at Le Mans
(where he scored an incredible P5 finish!)
Check out our very own @vovik05 putting SNAIL in the news!!
Congrats to all the SNAILs who competed in the
2015 GT Academy USA Finals!!
2015 USA Finalists
Back Row: @LoCoArMeN*, @vovik05*, @Ryan Lynch*, @Ricky Wilson, @TRL_Importlife, @Tyler Utley*, @gtr3123
Front Row: @ConnorWolf, @Crystalline_T
Not Shown (qualified for, but unable to attend finals):@GTP_Compton3, @Matt Sierras, @msgt-sd
* - advanced to Silverstone finals!!
And good luck to the SNAILs who are competing in the 2016 GT Academy Mexico Finals!!
2016 Mexico Finalists
@Enzo_Goiko (second from left), @Ness (second from right), and @pakicote (far right)
Welcome to SNAIL
From our humble beginnings, SNAIL (aka Sunday Night American Interactive League) is now the largest console-based sim racing league in the world. Our mission is to provide our members with clean, intense, and competitive racing - regardless of skill level! We believe that providing full grids of evenly-matched competitions is the most realistic way to race, improve skill, and refine racecraft! Our league night is Sunday at 9:30pm Eastern / 6:30pm Pacific, but we also have a a wide variety of other events held on other nights of the week. If this sounds like something you'd like to be a part of, please keep reading to learn more about us and how to join.
What Makes Us Different
SNAIL is the only sim racing league in the world that's able to combine five key features into one consolidated package. First of all, we provide you with evenly-matched competition to drivers of all skill levels. In fact, the intense level of competition that we produce has established SNAIL as the "go to" place to prepare for GT Academy. And if you want to keep track of your improvement along the way, you'll be glad to know that we keep the most comprehensive race data available on GTPlanet. We also feature an interactive process that allows all of our members to have a say in which cars and tracks we race. And last but not least, we're the only league that awards our members with valuable prizes just for racing with us!
Evenly-Matched Competition
Have you ever watched a professional race where drivers with completely different skill levels were competing on the same track? Of course not! That wouldn't be fun to watch, let alone fun to participate in. Unfortunately, that disparity of pace is something you'll often find in organized online racing. When this happens, you'll be lucky to have just a few drivers that you're truly competitive with. Everyone else will usually either be faster or slower than you. We prevent that from happening in SNAIL by dividing our drivers into separate divisions based on speed and skill. This results in full grids of evenly-matched competition and creates the closest and most intense sim racing experience around!
Prepare for GT Academy
If you'd like to compete in GT Academy, there's no better place than SNAIL to hone your skills to the elite levels necessary to make it to the finals. You need to be the best of the best to make it to Silverstone, and that's exactly what the drivers in our top division are. Half of last year's and half of this year's Silverstone Finalists have raced in SNAIL. And since our race format (which features multiple sprint races) is almost identical to the format used at the GT Academy national finals, they were able to use their SNAIL experience to help them advance to Silverstone. Click here if you want to advice from last year's eventual champion and click here if you want advice from last year's runner-up.
Valuable Prizes
Have you ever wished you could win free stuff just for having fun? If so, then you might want to know that our members win valuable real-world prizes just for racing with us! These prize are based on participation and not on race results. Some examples of prizes our members have won include GranStand sim racing products like this, this and this, ButtKicker products like a Gamer2 and a Wireless ButtKicker Kit. You can also join Team SNAIL and earn even more prizes, such as shirts (e.g. S.N.A.I.L. shirt, F1 shirt, GT Academy shirt), video capture devices (e.g. Hauppauge PVR), sim racing equipment (e.g. Playseat Evolution), and even gift cards (e.g. Amazon and PSN).
Spec Racing
SNAIL has always been a one-make series, but when we decided to prohibit tuning in all of our races, we became the first "spec" racing league on GTPlanet. Spec racing ensures that success is determined primarily by driving skill and not by differences in power, gearing, suspension, weight, or aerodynamics. Because variables in the car are eliminated, spec racing is the truest measure of driver skill! It also produces intense battles for position because all of the cars are equally strong or weak in the same areas of the track. Plus, you'll never spend hours tuning cars or wondering if someone is truly faster than you or if they just have a better tune.
Race Format
Our league night lasts for two hours and is split into three rounds. Each round consists of two races that last 10 to 12 minutes on a predetermined car and track combo. At the beginning of each round, a brief qualifying session determines the order of the starting grid. The first race is set to 'Fastest First' to reward the best qualifiers and the second race is set to 'Reverse Grid' in order to promote on-track action. Points are awarded based on our "perfect" points system. After a round is completed, we move on to the next round and repeat the same process with the next car and track combination. Once all three rounds are complete, we tally up the points and then let our interactive format kick in.
Interactive Participation
Our unique format allows everyone to have a say on which cars and tracks we race. It's also used to strike a balance between familiarity and variety of our car and track combos. In other words, the progression of cars and tracks that we race is slow enough for us to learn them well, but fast enough that they don't get "old". At the end of every league night, everyone votes on which car and track combo they enjoyed the least. The combo that receives the most "elimination votes" is dropped from the next week's lineup entirely. The combo that receives the second most votes is also dropped, but only partially. This is where our prizes come into play:
Prizes
A prize is awarded to the divisions winners with the three highest scores*. The division winner with the highest score gets Prize A. The division winner with the second highest score gets Prize B. The division winner with the third highest score gets Prize C: (NOTE: We now have a new process for breaking ties in the elimination vote)
Prize A: The right to select the new car and track combo to replace the combo that was voted off
Prize B: The right to replace either the car or the track of the combo that received the second most votes
Prize C: The right to "freeze" either the car or the track of the combo that received the second most votes
Promotion and Relegation
Although we split our drivers into separate divisions based on performance and skill level, we realize that our drivers are constantly improving and deserve a chance to climb the ladder of success. That's why we promote and relegate drivers before every season based on the results and data compiled during the previous season. This is also done to ensure that our races are as competitive as possible for all of our league members, top to bottom. Regardless of which division you're in, you will almost always be fighting to gain or defend a position on the track. Simply put, no other Gran Turismo league in the world can offer this much competitive racing to so many different skill levels.
Comprehensive Race Data
It's not always accurate to promote and relegate drivers based on championship points alone. That's why the massive amounts of data we track are invaluable to our league. You'd be hard-pressed to find a sim racing league anywhere in the world that tracks driver data and race results more comprehensively than we do. In fact, our SNAIL Data document contains so much information that we have to archive old data to avoid exceeding the GoogleDoc's maximum capacity! You can use this data to track the points championship for each season and compare yourself to other drivers in categories such as fast laps, total race pace, total points, average points per race, and power rankings.
Rules
We expect all drivers to follow our OLR Rules and pursue good racecraft at all times. If you're not sure what good racecraft is, watch this video. It can be summed up in one simple 'Golden Rule' of motorsports: It is the responsibility of the overtaking driver, meaning the car that is attempting to execute the pass, to make sure that the pass is made cleanly and incident free. If you don't agree with this rule or don't think it applies to you, this is not the league for you. If you ever feel like a driver is not following the rules, please wait until league night is over, then file a Racing Incident Report. Our Stewards will review the incident and issue the appropriate penalties.
Settings
Lobby Settings
Course Settings
Tire Settings:
Based on Dealership PP (not the PP after an oil change)
below 349 PP -> Comfort Mediums
350-399 PP ---> Comfort Softs
400-449 PP ---> Sports Hards
450-499 PP ---> Sports Mediums
500-549 PP ---> Sports Softs
550-599 PP ---> Racing Hards
600 PP & up --> Racing Mediums
How To Join Us
Step 1: Post a request to join (do not PM me, just post your request on this thread).
Step 2: Watch the thread for a reply to your post and follow the instructions provided.
Step 3: Purchase the three cars listed in the lineup for our next races.
Step 4: Get an oil change on each car, but do not do anything else to the car (e.g. add parts or reduce weight).
Step 5: Wait to be assigned to a division and then join that division's lounge on Sunday night.
If you are not sure which division you are assigned to, please check the Offical Driver List
For a list of helpful links and FAQ's, please click here.
DesertPenguin
(Banned)
- 10,691
- Long Island, New York
- DesertPenguin_
- 2,860
- Central NJ
- nmcp1
@GCarneiro
Here's your official SNAIL Welcome Post!
Thanks for your interest!
Here's what you need to know (and do) in order to join SNAIL Racing League:
We run a clean league by enforcing a strict penalty system based on the SNAIL 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 start a conversation and add @CoachMK21, @JLBowler, @nmcp1,@zer05ive ,@Rednose58 &, @MajorBlixem as participants.
The conversation title should be "Request To Join".
2. SNAIL Administrators will respond with specific instructions on what you need to accomplish to join the SNAIL [Spec] Racing.
3. 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.
4. 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 SNAIL
Just have the host change the room to host selected order, then you don't need to worry about typing out positions. The host specifies the order and where you are on track when the race starts doesn't matter.
- 2,860
- Central NJ
- nmcp1
That's what we were doing but between the stuck on grid situation, which necessitated the host manual grid, myself and the host didn't know the starting positions after quali. I was asking everyone to type in their positions on the chat but between all the randoms and the "pretty please with sugar on top, GTFO" messages, things got really crazy, really quick.
- 4,499
- Tampa, Fl
- Ice_Warden
And amazingly after all that we still finished less than 10mins later than usual after starting almost 25mins late due to problems in the first race. After the first race went off we were smooth sailing.
Started off with Tom not seeing people. So he left for a few minutes then came back. Then someone had a wheel issue or something. Then we did qualifying. A random or two tried to join. Then upon race start 4 or 5 were stuck on the grid. So we restarted the room completely. Then the flood of randoms came...as fast as you can read "bling" "bling" they were popping in and nmcp was trying to handle the messages while I was setting the grid based on what people thought they qualified...we knew the top 4 for sure. Anyways, we were now about 30 minutes late so I just started booting as fast as possible after nmcp gave them the message. One guy wanted to have a conversation and chat, then wanted to watch...it all chews up minutes due to typing delays.
Once the first race started it went fairly smoothly. Randoms still came hard and heavy but mostly while we were racing thank goodness so they usually left.
Then one race we started and someone (named for a flightless bird) decided to go afk between races and their car was motionless when it went green causing issues with those behind him.
All that and we still finished nearly on time. Of course we only had 8 people so we didn't have to do split qualifying sessions at the speedway track. Which probably saved a good 5 minutes.
Started off with Tom not seeing people. So he left for a few minutes then came back. Then someone had a wheel issue or something. Then we did qualifying. A random or two tried to join. Then upon race start 4 or 5 were stuck on the grid. So we restarted the room completely. Then the flood of randoms came...as fast as you can read "bling" "bling" they were popping in and nmcp was trying to handle the messages while I was setting the grid based on what people thought they qualified...we knew the top 4 for sure. Anyways, we were now about 30 minutes late so I just started booting as fast as possible after nmcp gave them the message. One guy wanted to have a conversation and chat, then wanted to watch...it all chews up minutes due to typing delays.
Once the first race started it went fairly smoothly. Randoms still came hard and heavy but mostly while we were racing thank goodness so they usually left.
Then one race we started and someone (named for a flightless bird) decided to go afk between races and their car was motionless when it went green causing issues with those behind him.
All that and we still finished nearly on time. Of course we only had 8 people so we didn't have to do split qualifying sessions at the speedway track. Which probably saved a good 5 minutes.
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- Virginia
- Wolfsatz
JLBowler
Premium
- 7,986
- California
- JLBowler
Because it's an oval and that's how races start on an oval and because we said so.
Seriously though, it's not due to turn one, it's due to a standing start on even a slightly banked straight leads to drivers abusing the track boundary on the inside to gain positions when one driver gums up the start.
- 4,255
- Fort Worth/Texas
- RacingChamp30
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