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WELCOME
TO THE
UNOFFICIAL
RACING
PENTATHLON
ANNOUNCEMENT THREAD
TO THE
UNOFFICIAL
RACING
PENTATHLON
ANNOUNCEMENT THREAD
Welcome!
The racing pentathlon, as you may know already, is a multi-game event created with the sole purpose of testing the skill of players in the top five of the most distinguished PS3 racing games .
Of course we have many ace drivers here in gtplanet. But ... usually they are ace drivers in ONE of these five games.
Do you guys know if any gtplanet member can be a top finisher in TWO of these games ... or THREE (and I won't even mention FOUR and FIVE
)Do you guys think you can do it?
Well, it's probably time to find out!
And discover who, in gtplanet, can adapt better - and faster - to different tracks and cars, and also to different games, racing disciplines and ... physics!
The concept is simple: One evening, Five games, at least one race in each of them.
Its implementation, however, proves to be a very difficult task. Several of these games don't have (at all or just properly working) essential online features and that creates our need to be inventive in the overcoming of the resulting difficulties.
So, I will refrain to define the specifics of this event until I get a clearer picture of how many gtplanet members sign up to take part in it.
Thing is, I will have to divide players in groups of 8 (mainly because of GT5P's random matching and because of the lobby limit of 11 players in F1:CE).
And, for each group of 8 players that signup for this I will need someone responsible to take care of said group and fulfill the hosting duties or delegate them during the event to those with a better/more stable connection (but keeping the responsability of running the group, regardless of who is hosting the lobbies).
With the approval of Jordan, this signup thread is published in 5 forums (GT5P - NFS:Shift - Console & PC Gaming - Supercar Challenge - F1:Championship Edition). We will see how many players, regular posters in all of them, submit their entries and, in consequence, how many groups of 8 players will need to be created (therefore, how many of you guys will be asked to fulfill hosting and race-group leading duties).
Now, the details:
1) Date & Time - April 18th (Sunday) , 21:00 GMT
2) Races (many rules and definitins still TBA at a later time)
- GT5P - Expert World Event available at the relevant date. Free choice of car (if the WE allows it). Players will be divided in 2 groups of 4 players each, each group will do a race and after that race the top two of each group meet in final A, and the bottom two of each group meet also in final B, to do a second race. Scoring will be given considering final A gives us 1st to 4th positions overall and Final B gives us 5th to 8th position overall.
- NFS: Shift - 2 laps race at the Nurburgring Nordschleife. Manufacturer race, meaning, everyone will go with the same car.
- Supercar Challenge - 7 laps race at Spa-Francorchamps. Car TBA.
- V8 Superstars : Next Challenge - 10 laps race at Portimão. Race rules and settings TBA.
- F1:CE - Race at Interlagos. Number of laps and other settings TBA
3) Requirements to take part:
Minimum - to own at least 3 of the pentathlon games
Recommended - to own at least 4 of the pentathlon games
Optimal - to own ALL the 5 pentathlon games
(note: F1:CE - NTSC Version isn't online-able anymore so owning it is irrelevant to assess the above requirements)
4) Scoring - Old F1 style, meaning 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 points from 1st to 8th in each of the event races.
5) Relevant results - Best 4 out of 5, so if you miss one race that's no big problem. However, if you must miss 2 (because you only have 3 games)that can seriously compromise your end result.
6) Who proceedes to a next stage - Not knowing how many players will take part in this, therefore not knowing how many groups, it is difficult to say what will happen after the races that will be held next April 18th. But IF we have (this is an example) 4 groups, my intention (if people have sufficient interest in it) is to organize a "Stage 2" of the Pentathlon, with only the 2 top finishers of each group in Stage 1.
Disclaimer: No promises are made of a Stage 2 happening in the future, I'm just saying that I would consider this option if there's enough interest to justify its organization.
7) GTP OLR rules & guidelines apply for any issue about track behaviour. In case you don't know them, or if you have any doubt, check them here: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=111241
8) Deadline to apply for this event - April 15th, just three days before the event happens, until 23:59 GMT
9) How to apply for this event - To keep things in some kind of order, and to make sure no one gets missed, I ask all who want to submit their entries to do it in the announcement and signup thread published in the
SUPERCAR CHALLENGE FORUM
BUT take good note of this:
I will be the first in that thread's list, because I submit my entry the momnent I post it. However, I can only be responsible for the first group of 8 players applying. This means that, from the 9th player onwards, acceptance of submissions will be kept provisional until the nomination (by me) of another as responsible for the second group, and third, etc, until we can be sure we have people enough to keep all groups racing properly.
10) Competitor Names
Please sign up in the relevant thread using YOUR PSN ID (the one you will use in the event) and also by providing informatin of what games you have.
Let's have fun!
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), so count me in! 
