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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Carrion Crow on September 08, 2008, 09:34:24 am
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Trackmania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackmania), as featured in Freeware Fridays (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=71042.0) is a fantastic Hot-Wheels style racing game. The point of each game is to get the best time on each track from start to finish, but it requires fast-reactions and moderate short term memory to succeed. Be warned: It is incredibly addictive.
I had a game with Rockman last night and before I could win he shut down the server, so I thought - with such good sportsmanship why not have an GW Olympics Event?
OK Cool I'm sold already gimme the download link!
Your best bet would be to get it through Steam (http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=app&AppId=11020&cc=US) as it is very fast.
Can we suggest tracks for the events?
By all means, but it has to be a valid track of a high standard that has no annoying pitfalls.
When the tracks have been chosen, they will be posted here so you can download and practice them before the events.
When will we hold the events?
Next weekend is looking like the best time to do this so we will aim to have everyone playing the practice tracks beforehand and then we will have a sequence of 10 minute tracks (say 5) and the scores will be tallied via screenshots and afterwards I will apply a MarioKart like points system to see who gets the medals.
Anything else?
If you're still not convinced, here's a snazzy video.
List of competitors so far
1 - crumply/ed
2 - Esh
3 - Rockman (pre-emptive signup there)
4 - Mr.Bojangles/LordTyphoon
5 - PTizzle
6 - RAMIREZ (capitalised because.... oh okay ramirez then :woop:)
7 - Mr Sarévokéz
8 - Carius (Smells)
9 - jpolito830
10 - Warlin
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I'm in.
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I've never played but hey, why not! I'm in.
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I'm in too.
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Yeah, this game is pretty fun.
Started playing yesterday. Bring it on etc.
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yeah
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aye
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This game looks like a blast...Def.!
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This is a pretty good turnout already. Good job guys. Be sure to save tracks that you think meet the above criteria and we shall move into phase 2 of suggesting tracks. Sign-ups still welcome.
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I AM IN (good call eddie)
By all means, but it has to be a valid track of a high standard that has no annoying pitfalls.
This is called good black track design. You are basically saying "lets not do black / Rockman's tracks they're too hard" you big pussy
I had a game with Rockman last night and before I could win he shut down the server
Well you had already won, it just wasn't happening for me
I am preemptively uploading the AWESOMEPLEX because it is fantastic, no "pitfalls" (difficulty) and is p. fun too.
http://www.box.net/shared/dbzz51yff0
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I'm in.
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Fuck it, I'll join in too.
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Down here in da GWC yo, we iz trainin' hard, we iz trainin' strong!
We meanz da biznas n we'r gunna claem da priez.
(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/44244/Training.PNG)
We traen wid da bset n destry all da rest.
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Hey the Australia paint job looks pretty great.
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Everything about australia (except for the aboriginals) is great, what are you talking about?
EDIT 4 Below: Not turning this topic into a flame-war, good try though.
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Well actually I was just saying "hey that's great" but no now you've started it Neighbours sucks
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I want to race with you guys. In my special 'Esh' car.
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If you add me on MSN I will play you now.
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If we can get everyone on at the same time, you could just do rounds mode (score points depending on place, until someone reaches a score limit)
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FEAR THE BLACK CAT
FINEST CAR IN THE WEST
Well Sare I'm pretty sure the game ends when one person reaches it? idk how that would work for doing medal positions.
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You get time based on how long the race is to finish (usually 10 - 30 seconds), and then it's done by the amount of checkpoints passed.
There's also laps which is quite simply...a PROPER race with laps
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I'm uh downloading this game right now, no idea how this will turn out on this fuck horrible machine. In any case, if I like the game I might sign up~
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I'm in, I'm going to fail hard, but I'm in. I'm practicin' so I can get my raceface on.
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Holy shit it's pretty much a full GW Australian turnout.
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I'm in.
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Wait?
Next weekend as in the 13th? Or the 20th?
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This next coming weekend. The first Saturday you encounter at the end of this week. The day after Friday.
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Okay so I hit a snag, during the day time (onpeak) my internet has been capped because I downloaded too much shit, I'm still counting on my night time (offpeak) limit but I know it has also almost reached 10 gig.
Basically what I'm saying is that I can only schedule races between 1am and 5am GMT+8
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It doesn't matter. Trackmania does all the racing locally so it doesn't matter how slow your internet is.
Also I am PAINTBALLING this saturday but cool I can do anyime after about 5pm GMT (and I have my cousins here but w/e)
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The only thing that will suffer is the mirrored ghosts of other competitors which mean jack shit in the context of racing to get the best time.
The events will be held about 5PM and no later to be fair to the aussies really. It will be 11pm at that time in Perth.
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Your list up there says I smell but I don't smell because I can beat you so really by saying I smell you're saying YOU STINK
Also to give this post a purpose you forgot to add christo to the list.
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Can you make it half 5?
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Ah shit I'm in LA then.
I guess I'm out.
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Saturday 5 PM GMT? I'll be at my aunt's birthday then (will be out for most of saturday). :-(
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OK OK, how are people for Sunday? Going to church? Having an enema?
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At work 8)
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I think I'm washing my hair that day.
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Please vote.
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If we're going to do it, 5:30 is good for me, any night but best on Sunday since I don't work and have less of a chance on getting held up on something.
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Sunday is the best time for me.
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Practice the green tracks as that's what we're going to be doing for the olympics. No-ones suggested any and they are pretty fair difficulty so green nadeo tracks it is.
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Sigh this sucks man. I finish work at -6- and you're going to do it at bloody half 5
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Shouldn't be a problem making it for 6 or 6:30 if it gets bumped back, hell, that's only like 1am in my time, it's 3:30am at the moment and this is a work night.
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We train hard
We train all night
We seek the ultimate prize
GW's Trophy shine's so bright.
Carius the Dingo
Crumply the Skank
Training together
Securing high ranks.
We stand as one
But race as a pair
The cup will be won
But victory we won't share.
I can't write rhymes btw
The end and shit...
Here are a few of our training sessions of the green tracks, highlighting B06 and B07
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Practice the green tracks as that's what we're going to be doing for the olympics. No-ones suggested any and they are pretty fair difficulty so green nadeo tracks it is.
Thanks for ignoring my post
Seriously green tracks are not difficult / competitive enough.
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They are difficult when you are competing for the best time, they are of average difficulty and get increasingly harder toward the end, there aren't as many traps and pitfalls as other colours but it's by far the most balanced for anyone to play, even beginners.
But well, I'm sure with that statement you intend on beating all of us on the "easy tracks" huh Rockman?
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not if all you guys want to race on Sunday because I am unavailable all weekend!
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Thanks for ignoring my post
Seriously green tracks are not difficult / competitive enough.
I think to make the competition accessible to everyone and not people who have been playing for a while now it's important that medium-difficulty tracks are used. Your argument that they are not competitive does not stand as no matter how easy a track is, the skill of the driver determines the time taken to complete it - unless the track is a straight line.
Sigh this sucks man. I finish work at -6- and you're going to do it at bloody half 5
We'll wait for you man, those Aussies will have to stay up late. 6.30 Sunday is what it's looking like atm.
Edit:
A friend linked me to this video on youtube which is the most insane TM related thing I have ever seen
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That's just like, stupidly ridiculous.
The bit where he flips into driving on the wall and then flips out of it. What the hell.
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On the weekend I most likely work 4pm-10pm EST on Saturday and possibly Sunday
I might do 11am-5pm on Sunday tho, still unclear
ps all the merit on a track like that goes to the maker
you guys know all the player has to do is step on the gas, right
the track plays itself. nevermind i guess this isn't youtube
heh
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ive never played this, and i suck at any racing game not snes mario kart, but ill give it a go
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On the weekend I most likely work 4pm-10pm EST on Saturday and possibly Sunday
I might do 11am-5pm on Sunday tho, still unclear
ps all the merit on a track like that goes to the maker
you guys know all the player has to do is step on the gas, right
the track plays itself. nevermind i guess this isn't youtube
heh
I can see him adjust his position many times during the video, I doubt it's just step on the gas. If it is, it's still very impressive. If it isn't, it's the most insane thing I've ever seen in a game.
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rami, he doesn't adjust his position ever. It is just the way the car lands that makes him move a tad. I've played tracks like those before. It is pretty insane though, yeah.
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It is a press forward map but apparently it only works with older versions of trackmania because the physics in the new one is different. Either way it is still jaw dropping!
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it's a shame that track doesn't involve any skill to race because it sure looks like it took some skill to make!
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He definitely adjusts it in 0:45. It moved a bit when it hit the floor, and he adjusted it again _after_ that. That or I'm blind.
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He definitely adjusts it in 0:45. It moved a bit when it hit the floor, and he adjusted it again _after_ that. That or I'm blind.
nah, it's just how he lands. He doesn't land perfectly even, so he turns a bit automagically. It's a press forward track, all you have to do is press forward. :P It doesn't work in the newer Trackmania tho, but yeah he doesn't ever change his position, it's just how he winds up landing that gives that illusion.
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So when is this happening? I should probably mention I don't mind when it goes on, so my vote is pretty void.
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Sunday, 6.30PM GMT
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Let's just hope I don't have to close down on Sunday.
Wait GMT? Let's hope I have to close down then.
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ive never played this, and i suck at any racing game not snes mario kart, but ill give it a go
Yeah I still haven't played it :(.
I miiiight not be able to make this as I have work early on Tuesday so don't wait around if I don't make it, but I'll try to work it out!
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PTizzle, it's Sunday night (well, monday morning for us), how does it affect tuesday?
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Lol, too bad it wasn't Mario Kart...I would do way better.
*sigh* work, work work work work work work...WESTERN UNION SEND MONEY TO INDIA!!!
*declines* :sad:
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Add me on trackmania before the tournament tonight, my username is crumply. When everyone has joined I will reset the game and we will play.
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I wish I had known about this before right this second because I would have stomped you all. Oh well, maybe next time.
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The server is up now.
My sexy assistant also pointed out that the password is "gw".
If you can't add me then go find a server called crumply tracks in GBR
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We are about to start playing so get on the server jackasses!
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Motherfuck. My internet is screwing up. I don't know if I'll make it =\.
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Man I dunno who that esh guy was but he sucked a$$
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I'm gonna have my dinner then I will compile the scores
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I'm going to sleep, with a bit of luck it will be:
1st - Crumply
2nd - Carius
3rd - Sarevok
4th - Harland
5th - Esh
Where the fuck was ramirez
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i was just too fast for that game
you've all been warned
the eshmobile cometh
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i wash ere but overslept
A+++=-+
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lol i finished facing backwards!
and still beat my old score
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it's eshfever
esh says as he blasts through to 1st place, falling to last only 20 seconds later...
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Man that race was awesome, when you and esh were tied for time, then I push ahead (luck, believe me), then crumply uses his admin hacks to win.
great stuff
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i had to physically drive backwards to beat my score too
it wasn't just a "rolling and landing" job, the skill involved was mindblowing
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I'm going to sleep, with a bit of luck it will be:
1st - Crumply
2nd - Carius
3rd - Sarevok
4th - Harland
5th - Esh
Where the fuck was ramirez
It'll be close but I think esh might have beat me more times than I beat him.
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I have tallied the results and I present them in tabular form:
The yellow represents the points gained for a track, the white is the cumulative score for that racer.
(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/52348/match.jpg)
The bottom screen is shows the final scores in white with myself getting gold, Carius getting silver (by one point) and Sarevok getting Bronze.
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How esh won that first race I don't think anyone knows...
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(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/52348/think_drink_drive.gif)
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meowwwwwwwww
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So that's it finished?
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If you want me to organise another one I can do!
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yeah you guys haven't even faced ol' jackie stewart over here.
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If you want me to organise another one I can do!
This
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We should do something different for another one. Maybe a team event or something, where we buddy up with same nationalities and add each team's scores together. (we could even do another Olympic one since there were two speedrun events)
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That's a pretty good suggestion, I reckon we can do just that. I guess the hardest part would be making sure the rest your team turned up so there isn't an imbalance. Also we could perhaps have 2 trial runs to start off with, tally the places then go down from first to last splitting the odd and even places into two teams (so the competition is balanced).
The green tracks seemed to work pretty well although with planning we could use more interesting maps of similar difficulty to spice it up a bit.
I might let it die down for a few days then create a topic for a phase two or something (New topic = more attention) but yeah it worked well and the server behaved - all good!
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That's a pretty good suggestion, I reckon we can do just that. I guess the hardest part would be making sure the rest your team turned up so there isn't an imbalance. Also we could perhaps have 2 trial runs to start off with, tally the places then go down from first to last splitting the odd and even places into two teams (so the competition is balanced).
Yeah, but this wouln't work for the Olympics! (national teams)
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The trouble with national teams is that some countries are only represented by one person. So unless Grindie shows up I won't be able to compete (not that I'd win anyway).
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Ffff I thought this was tonight not last night.
I am so so bad with time zones.
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k, tizzle... For future ref, youre 2 hours in front of me, and im 7 hours in front of crumply. So just add 9 hours on to whatever time crumply says.
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The trouble with national teams is that some countries are only represented by one person. So unless Grindie shows up I won't be able to compete (not that I'd win anyway).
Yeah, that's true of course, I guess I was just thinking that since we already have at least two Brits and two Aussies it wouldn't be so difficult to rustle together more teams. I can see why you specifically (and I'm sure quite a few others) would have a bit of trouble. I'm not sure how scoring would work with mixed teams though.
EDIT: Wait a minute Harland surely you qualify for the GBR team? (I read that as just Ireland which would cause trouble!) unless there's some circumstance I'm unaware of.
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Man, racing with all those britfags last night was awful, I was bullied heaps, they all circled me and put on hacks that stopped me from passing through them and then they ALL started blaring their horns, (which one of you had the dukes of hazard horn?) and yeah.
Too much britmeat at an already cramped sausagefest.
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Yeah, that's true of course, I guess I was just thinking that since we already have at least two Brits and two Aussies it wouldn't be so difficult to rustle together more teams. I can see why you specifically (and I'm sure quite a few others) would have a bit of trouble. I'm not sure how scoring would work with mixed teams though.
EDIT: Wait a minute Harland surely you qualify for the GBR team? (I read that as just Ireland which would cause trouble!) unless there's some circumstance I'm unaware of.
GBR and IRL are seperate.
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Yeah but Great Britain and Northern Ireland aren't! (way to read you made the same mistake I did)
EDIT: well fuck Harland is actually representing the Republic I had no idea.
EDIT EDIT: I am willing to pull out my Tipperary heritage in order to preserve your participation Harland!
also if rami can get another Flying Finn on-board we have a Finland team too! (I could get one on board but a) he's not a GWer and b) he would kick all our asses)
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Does this mean I have to be in a team with Sarevok or esh. They both drive like Honda grannies.
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Well no I was joking so you can probs double team with me
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I am so out of being teamed up with crumply :(
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I'm more interested in what the hell Honda grannies are?!?
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Green tracks sucks, you should do the harder (maybe not black) tracks.
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We could just do the same again but with harder tracks
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Blue's pretty rockin'
Red pisses me off toward the later stages
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I'd be up for a country tag-team if Carius is.
Cheers for the timezone stuff is well. I have no idea how I thought we were THIRTY THREE hours in front.
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Yeah, teams would be better. I mean, if we did it exactly the same then the medals would just be exactly.the same. Seems kind of pointless.
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I'm down for a P2-C DT (I already gave us a cheesey name :D)
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jeah lets show these darkos whats what
I've actually played it now and it's a pretty sweet game! Getting medals is addictive.
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Alright its settled...
Round up your finest, the Cell Saga tournament begins!
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why must you make me feel bad for playing this game carius
ugh
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Is it to late to sign up for this?
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If you mean the original event, then it's already finished.
As far as things go for future events it comes down to whatever the hell crumply decides on.
@ Mr. Bojangles: I'm........ sry.......... :(