Everyone in the NE is getting hit with snow today...
But to specifically answer answer your question... In central Jersey where I am it's blowing around pretty good and depending on where you look, there's either a dusting of snow or an 8" drift. All withing 5' of each other. Unfortunately, it looks like the drifts are winning at this point.
Same, it's getting there but the area between my car and my neighbor's house is getting a large mound building up. At the same time my car barely has anything on half of it so there's that. Just have to shovel a path to the driveway and some quick lines to make a path for the tires otherwise let it melt I'm in no rush.
Ah, a TOPP. I'll throw in some pictures so it's not a total loss.
Just now noticed they don't use your personal driving suit when you include a driver in scapes photos. That would've been a nice personal touch.
I can still have fun in my Corolla, albeit at a much lower speed. I just don't feel like digging it out right now. I'll have to do it tomorrow morning though since I have places to be early.
The drivers list has been updated. Promotion, relegation and division leveling have been done. This list may or may not be final. Any time trials that are received between now and Saturday night will have to be added in and this may cause some adjustments to be made.
You need to start by reading the first post and following the directions to join. Once you have done that, @nmcp1 will be along with further instructions.
You need to start by reading the first post and following the directions to join. Once you have done that, @nmcp1 will be along with further instructions.
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.
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 reply (by click the 'Reply' button at the bottom of this post) stating, "I have read the first post and would like to join." (Do not start a conversation with anyone, 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.
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:
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.
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
Sounds about right. It helps if you have certain things that are a constant across all liveries so you can bang that out right away and it already looks custom.
Sounds about right. It helps if you have certain things that are a constant across all liveries so you can bang that out right away and it already looks custom.
That room was open 3 hours prior to you joining. I was running the combo welcoming anyone to join, was even stated it wasn't an official practice room. Take your twisted panties elsewhere please.
That room was open 3 hours prior to you joining. I was running the combo welcoming anyone to join, was even stated it wasn't an official practice room. Take your twisted panties elsewhere please.
Bad From to have a practice room open past 0900 on a Thursday night... that just causes delays as it did tonight... just starting 2nd combo at 1030.. 'Thank you for your cooperation!
Starting a 10+ min race at 0925.. double bad form. But hey..we are in the US. Feel free to do what feels right.
In @Tecticles defense , he was not hosting an official practice room, and by no means needs to change any format just because a few simple assumptions were made.
I believe a logical solution would be to have a announced host for the evening open a room, properly labeled so a SNAIL member, or a future prospect wanting to participate in the official Thursday SNAIL practice , can do so. It's not fair to force someone into hosting a room a particular way just because it's Thursday night and they are a member of this league.
I know a lot of members who prefer to practice earlier on Thursdays for whatever reason , I've even hosted early bird's on Thursdays but run them how I want to. If it happens to be close to 9 pm some guys will go to the official practice room, some stay, some find a pillow, others go blow up tanks or club zombies over the head, which I hear is pretty fun too.
In @Tecticles defense , he was not hosting an official practice room, and by no means needs to change any format just because a few simple assumptions were made.
I believe a logical solution would be to have a announced host for the evening open a room, properly labeled so a SNAIL member, or a future prospect wanting to participate in the official Thursday SNAIL practice , can do so. It's not fair to force someone into hosting a room a particular way just because it's Thursday night and they are a member of this league.
I know a lot of members who prefer to practice earlier on Thursdays for whatever reason , I've even hosted early bird's on Thursdays but run them how I want to. If it happens to be close to 9 pm some guys will go to the official practice room, some stay, some find a pillow, others go blow up tanks or club zombies over the head, which I hear is pretty fun too.
I know anyone can open a room at whatever time for whatever reason. I do not think that is the point being made here. For whatever reason it was announced above that Tec's room would've the Official practice room for Thursday. I am not sure as to why.
if anyone is hosting a room with the majority of Snail members on a Thursday night 10 minutes before the the establish practice time; at least you could follow the regular format.
For those on EST zone that have to get up before the sun is up; these unnecessary delays are bad form... and that is my own opinion. Just as any member is free to open any room at any time; I am also free to criticize it as it usually causes confusion and delay!
I'm not sure if it was my connection or what was going on last night but every time I connected to a room, all would be well for roughly 5 minutes, then EVERYONE in the room would leave and I would be the only one left. I would back out and then go back in and the room would still be there and everyone would still be racing. I rejoin and then 5 minutes later it would happen again. After 3 times I finally gave up and worked on creating liveries.
I cleared my cache, rebooted my router and still no luck. Hope it doesn't happen on Sunday night.
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:
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.
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
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