TTBikeSim championship?

[Dom]

Just a thought really, but would anyone be interested in us starting some kind of championship for TT? We could set out a theme such as the endurance bikes and then pick out maybe 10-15 different 'rounds' for the individual challenges to take place at. Each round could 'open' on a certain date and then we could have say a 2 week window for people to submit their times. Obviously nobody's got all the time (or desire) in the world to be sitting in front of their PS2 all day long, so it would have to be a relatively friendly format for the 'time challenged' of us.

We would then be able to use a points system (eg MotoGP's) to figure out who's in the lead overall and at the end of the championship there would be an overall winner. Not sure if we'd be able to do any particularly fancy prizes although I could at the least offer a 'Championship Name Winner' logo which could appear next to the winner's avatar on the forums. But hell, the taking part's what counts.

Would anyone be interested?

[Red Frog]

Sure, but if I get second place do I get to be the 1st Loser?

[Dom]

Hehe I'm sure that could be arranged.

[MotoDude]

Great idea, count me in.

Maybe we could win some vCash? I’m so bad at picking winners that I need another way to build my balance.

[Dom]

Not a problem! The 'v' kind I can spare a bit of.

Edit: Does anyone have any thoughts on bike restrictions? Should we do multiple classes or keep things simple with just one bike type or a total free for all to start with?

[Wizrad]

Any prize for LAST place? Thats where i'll be. Nothing like an old broke down biker trying to ride a Rice Burner lmao

[Dom]

I would have thought a some kind of accolade could be possible. Must be careful though, as at this rate everyone will be a winner and we wouldn't want that.

Welcome to the boards btw!

[Wizrad]

Thanks....been floatin around here for a few days

[MotoDude]

Just some random thoughts:

In keeping with a MotoGP theme, how about limiting it to real circuits that are on the MotoGP schedule? What are they, Motegi, Laguna Seca, Valencia? Are there others in TT?

About the bikes, something like your choice of RM class machines? In pro mode only? I’m game for anything, even the scooters. What do you guys think?

All I know is I need a lot of practice. Seeing some of the replays posted lately has me very concerned.

[Dom]

I'm not sure what to do about tracks, really. The three you mention I'd definitely like to use partly because of the MotoGP link and partly because they're all ace tracks. Very random thought, but it might be fun to have them correspond with the actual time their respective GPs take place. I also quite like the idea of the Nurburgring being the final race.

Other than that I'm not really too fussed. How many races would people like to see overall? One consideration is that the EU release is in a month and obviously the more people who can be involved from day one the better.

The other thing to think about is how we'd work out points. If we did it MotoGP style then anyone in the top 15 would get points and currently that is a little excessive.

[Wizrad]

Uuuuughhhh!!!! ya just had to mention the "Ring"! I guess if ya had a competition about who could make it around the Ring the fastest on their arse, i'd be a shoe in! Thats where i tend to spend the most of my time on that track lol

[Dom]

I quite honestly suck at the Nurburgring, but it's such a sweet track it'd be a shame to miss out.

[Wizrad]

lol I agree, it is a sweet track, just every lap i take i have to dodge my butt prints lmao Seriously, i just haven't ran the track that much. One of these days gonna just sit down and spend a day on it.

[es nes]

im interested, so, thoughts:

nordschliefe - no! not unless someone can give me a magic set up to cure the headshake. the 999r rm got so bad over 160mph it stoped respounding to imputs.

bikes - id suggest the 1L rms (r1, gsxr, zx10r, cbr-rr, 999r rm, rsv factory rm, and f41000s rm) and none of the suzuka bikes. each user has a custom number and no one can use a special number until season 2.

tracks - we could run the races in the superbike 1000 championship in the game using single race instead of the championship. (plus, since were in tt mode, we can use custom riding styles and set ups too)

[Slow1]

I think it would be interesting. I like the idea of running the 1K RM bikes but it sucks that you can't run regular races in the TT mode The 1000cc series would be cool but I can't stand the Motegi oval that is the biggest bore.

anyway what is the idea for how it is run? fastest laps? complete race times (which would be kind of hard outside of arcade mode ).

also in regards to tracks I know everyone has their best and worst tracks, but I'm probably in the minority when it comes to those really long tracks like the Nur-ring and some of those ultra tight street courses. For me those courses might be fun to run every once in a while but are either just too long (Nur-ring) and frustratingly stupid for bikes (New York) for me to spend time on trying to get good times on.

I like the real race tracks like (laguna, Motegi, Valencia, etc..... but also some of the originals like Trail Mountain and deep forest.

I know you can't please everyone but if we are going to wait until the EU release lets put thought into this.