After a short period of verification and clean-up, the official GTPlanet Registry Qualifier is once again open for submissions!
If you’re tired of A-spec and B-spec racing in Gran Turismo 5 and are eager to compare yourself to the rest of the racing community, this is just the thing for you. The official GTPlanet Weekly Race Series (WRS) is a friendly yet competitive weekly contest that has been running since early 2003 in the guise of a hotlap or time trial competition between drivers of all abilities and backgrounds. We’ve already had more than 100 submissions each week so far in GT5, and with the upcoming Online Monthly Race Series nearly ready for launch, there has never been a better time to join the GTP Registry. So, how do you get involved?
STEP 1: Join the GTP Registry by creating a GTP_Tag PSN account here
STEP 2: Run the GTP WRS Qualifier. Details here
STEP 3: Submit your confidential qualifying times
STEP 4: Await divisional placement and then you can start competing in the Weekly Race Series, and soon the Online Monthly Race Series
Further detailed information on all of the above can be found in this very useful post, and can be discussed on the forums here
Potential competitors are asked to first of all run an official WRS qualifier combo selected by the GTP Race Admin team in order to be placed in a division appropriate to their ability. It has been WRS tradition for competitors to not only be able to win a weekly race overall, but also take glory in their own division. Due to the new physics engine of GT5, all interested drivers are asked to run the new-for-GT5 qualifier.
Some important information:
- The GTP WRS is run according to our strict but fair Online Racing (OLR) rules and guidelines found here
- Registry Qualifier times and any information pertaining to them must be kept confidential and only revealed to Race Admin staff during submission
- The WRS is mainly a time-trial / hotlapping contest, but your GTP_tag and divisional status will be used for upcoming official GTP Race Events
- It might be a good idea if you’re interested to see how the WRS has been run in the past and what it entailed. The archive can be found here and the details of the GT5:Prologue WRS here
Remember to have fun and always show respect for your competitors. The WRS has never been a win-at-all costs kind of competition, but with prominent members of other GT forums such as GTRP, GTro and GT5rs also popping in from time to time and having a go, the best drivers that compete in the GTP_WRS are well recognised in the online community! So if you think you have what it takes, join us in the WRS forums
Haha! I now have a reason to make a new account. So I’ll finally be able to use my (Asian edt) stealth codes. Woop woop!
I think I’ll go with GTP_MrDinosaw94
It took three hours to level a fresh account to level 12 doing special events. The qualifier car is given. If you have chromeline or stealth cars and you create a new acct on the same PS3 you even get those at the new account on boot. The updates and install data even carries over to your new user.
After I hit level 12 I had about $400k too. And you can gift, lend cars etc between accounts.
Yep, I haven’t started yet. I’ll get r done this weekend. Not to sure how I’m gonna compare to all you pros but I’ll give it a shot. Hopefully I at least make the registry
Just created my new account, man I could of lvl’d up to 12 in like what 4 or 5 min with that stupid glitch. Oh well I guess I’ll just have to play the game!
Thanks Lyvan, i think i will just use the GTP tag when i start then, then i can add people from GTP onto that account to race online etc, iv never added any friends on my main account anyway, iv only got one mate that has a PS3 that actually uses it for gaming haha. See ya’ll on the track sometime.
I think im going to wait for the next one of these to roll around (im punny (get it ‘roll’)) just so i can observe and get the jist of it.
Yahoo!
sooo, just one question, sorry if it’s already answered.
if i create my new acount and i need to buy a car for the WRS, i can just borrow it from my original acount right?
i’m looking to participate and i don’t want to start over again with 240 cars in the shop
Yes, you can borrow it.
Hey guys, i’m going to want to participate in this racing comp when I eventually get around to playing the game (collectors edition GT5 along with my G27/cockpit etc are in a wardrobe back in NZ but I’m currently traveling the world so am yet to play GT5). So my question is.. Am I better off to just creating a GTP_PSN right from the begining and use it as my main GT5 account all the time so I will deffinitly have the cars etc needed for this competition? That seems to be the best option huh? Cheers!
If you are going to start from scratch and you consider yourself a hardcore GT gamer or at least not ocassional, maybe it will be a better deal to play with your GTP tag…that’s what I do.
As soon as I saw the title, I went straight to the comments. I come back just to see you guys keep fighting about the GTP tag. U need a better system, or ban complainers. I can barely get my comments posted, so I’m not saying which side I’m on. I wont be qualifying though.
Sucks a bit for the new participants that there is no shortcut to level still.
level (ripped out by my tags) required for AMG Academy Intermediate (12?)
I’ve heard that the level of grip for race tyres was changed slightly in the last update, if this is true it would affect divisional placement regarding guys who submitted new times compared to those who ran it before & give a false result. Can a mod or admin confirm whether or not this is so?
I would love to make a 3rd account (second GTP as i deleted my last one) for GTP but no, not whilst i have NO CARS and i’m not going to level up without the Bonus Race on Seasonal Events so this is a big dissapointment as I missed out of the last qualifying date as i couldn’t get onto the GTPlanet forum to submit my times
Maybe you shouldn’t have deleted your previous account.
Please explain why a new GTP_PSN-account is needed. Don’t see the need for a different account just for posting some lap times…
It’s just how it is. If you want to be part of the team you have to wear the colours? It is to easier identify racers who abide by the OLR rules and also needed when running interforum competitions.
@ Anghammarad…I think the “team colours” is the best explaination EVER, about the recurrent whining about making a new PSN account with the GTP_ prefix.
i have my psn as pigboy_05.so this suggests i have to open another 1.wont i go to the start of gt5 and have nothin on that account?
just a lil confused
pigboy_05
I’d like the same questions answered.
I assume I could transfer cars over, or will the challenges use specific cars that I wouldn’t need to own?
You have to get another PSN account to participate. Once you’ve done that, you have to level up to level 12 in order to run the qualifier. You csn easily do that by doing the seasonal events. The WRS weeks will contain lots of differents cars, so I recommend saving some money. We can’t get enough information from the replay yet (see replay defencies), so now we can only use combo’s in arcade time trials. But you can expect different kind of combo’s in the future.
Good luck.
Yes, create a new account, that is what I did. Your new account will be a new start account with 20000 Cr and no cars. But you can either gift the AMG SLS ’10 to the new account, or you can share it. Either way it work. The only thing I use my GTP account is for WRS racing, so it’s no big deal.
@Ren that doesn’t work as you have to use the car that GT5 gives you for the special event not a car that you have gifted yourself
There’s no deadline. We set a deadline for the initial qualifier to help manage the first influxof entries, but the qualifier is open ended going forward.
Thanks EDK
I am Division 5 Gold, but in the Week 1 results it shows me as “div ?”. But the splits for weeks 1-3 properly show me as div. 5 gold. Weird.
So EDK correct me if I am wrong, so we can submit our times anytime we can, and expect to start WRS once we get your approval about our times (or replay)?
Deadline?
Finally!! As promised…within 3 weeks is 3 weeks!
Can I assume we don’t need to do this if we’re already in the registry?
Once you take away the requirement for a GTP_PSN, then this could become popular.
Stop whining.
I agree with pudge and mynamehere. But it’s kind if important to have the GTP tag…
Agree 100%
I agree, the only reason i have not joined the WRS is that I will have to change my my PSN tag. Or create a new account and have to start from square one.
What’s the deadline guys?