GT Academy USA Round 2 Cancelled, GT5 Update Incoming
Wow! In an unprecedented move (and on a Sunday morning, no less), SCEA has just announced the cancellation of Round 2 in GT Academy USA, due to more abuse and “wall-banging” on Rome and Madrid. All participants who qualified for Round 2 will be automatically moving on to Round 3. The start of round 3, previously scheduled to begin on February 14th, is now “subject to change” pending the next GT5 update, which has been confirmed to introduce more sophisticated corner-cutting and wall-banging detection mechanisms to “prevent this type of inappropriate driving”.
Though some with fast times at Rome and Madrid will be least pleased with this outcome, it is a wise decision to uphold the integrity of GT Academy while absolving SCEA from making subjective decisions about individual disqualifications. The awkward nature of the Rome and Madrid city courses were also particularly unsuited for such an important time-trial competition.
Players world-wide will now benefit from more reliable collision and corner-cutting detection, providing greater integrity in GT5‘s online races and ensuring such a fiasco does not happen again when GT Academy returns to Europe.
Stay tuned for more news about Round 3 and the next GT5 update. Thanks to all of you who sent this in so quickly!
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February 9th, 2011 at 6:51 pm - #AGTFan
Best thing for those disappointed in GT academy is to think about how to get involved in actual racing. Grassroots motorsports can be practised in many countries and with small budgets too. I’ve been playing GT since version 3 but but every time I attended a real driving event (I run an Integra Type-R 1996) I find it hard to enjoy GT again. The handling is very realistic indeed but not having gforces and fear and nothing at stake means it totally different from the real thing.
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February 9th, 2011 at 11:18 am - #kenkwilinski
Just put in the time to make the fixes in a timely matter so we can get bonus race 7 already!
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February 9th, 2011 at 10:52 am - #eclipsee
Well, it took 13 years of development for fixing (if really fixed) the wallbanging and lawnmowing, better late than never.
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February 9th, 2011 at 9:40 am - #sinister_300zx
HA! figures..i saw this comin since about half the people who play GT5 or for the matter all the GT’s cheat..cutting turns or hitting other drivers (people really need to learn how to pass other drivers not run into the back of them to spin them out…this is why i put heavy damage and penalites on strong online :) )….the next “update” wtf its been over dued wtf is kaz and PD doing i have no clue..i stand by my words “5 yrs of doing what to GT5?? the way this game is it would have took at least 2yrs”
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February 9th, 2011 at 7:03 am - #jasr73
Hmmm. As much as it’s going to piss off everyone off that conducted themselves in a gentlemanly manner, the only real way manage the communities expectations and return some creditability to this kerfuffle is to hit the reset button start again post update.
Moreover, if they’re going to get serious about running competitions like this in a professional manner going forward; set a few internal rules around scrutineering of lap times going forward.
Not rocket science really. Get a few real quick guys to set some bench mark times and if punters are getting within 10% +/- of those times then laps need to be captured and scrutineered for rule compliance.
Yep that would take some resourcing, but if there serious about running a tight competition to a creditable standard…
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February 9th, 2011 at 7:13 am - #S117
Well, that doesn’t piss me off, but then again, I don’t think anything like that will happen if this update works half as well has Sony/PD hope it will.
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February 9th, 2011 at 3:21 am - #Craigles
What a cock up round 2 was. Cant wait til gta europe. Although il probebly not get through =>
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February 8th, 2011 at 11:50 pm - #Zuel
@ SavageEvil
I read and comprehend just FINE SON.( So watch your step) What you fail to see is that PD and SCEA are going through the pace of getting the event done. Even though they have prof of people cheating. So they canceled the event until a working update can be released to prevent this from happening again. Which is fine but having people to move on to round three is not right. The whole event should re-start no matter what. This is a event on driver skills not cheating. Everyone whom entered should have another go at it due to the matter at hand. If you don’t agree with this then you must be one of the people who cheated.
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February 9th, 2011 at 6:40 am - #GetOutOfMyFridge
“I read and comprehend just FINE SON.( So watch your step)”
What are you going to do? Throw letters at him via E-mail?
Might want to try growing up a little before you go arround calling people “son” and making threats. Of course a mature adult wouldn’t be doing that over a videogame based competition in the first place anyway, and for the most part they wouldn’t go arround making generalized statements like, “If you don’t agree with this then you must be one of the people who cheated”, but come back in 5 to 10 years, try this again, and we’ll see what happens.
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February 8th, 2011 at 7:18 pm - #Arda_Tirmas
Kazu tweets update on middle of February, maybe 14th ?
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February 9th, 2011 at 6:13 am - #lol
Has long has he didn’t tweet “90% finnished on the update”, or “The update could be released anytime”, there’s a chance it’ll at least be close to the 14th. But if he tweets either of those, it’ll be the year 2017 before we get it.
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February 8th, 2011 at 4:21 pm - #Zuel
I agree with with a lot of points that have been made ob the game. But GT Academy it self no, PD and SCEA have done a very poor job on the event. They seen corner cutting,walling riding and so on. They’ve changed the tracks TWICE hoping to prevent any cheating and that didn’t work. They’ve canceled and pushed everyone from round two to round three due to the cheating. The event is based on driving and sportsmanship. And by their actions they haven’t should any mind set on running the event right. They’re coming out with a update to fix the trouble but what of the event. Are they going to restart it over again? More likely not due to the time last left to the being of the race season. GT Academy in the States for the first time and people messed it up.GREAT FUNKING JOB PEOPLE!!
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February 8th, 2011 at 4:54 pm - #SavageEvil
You must not read and comprehend very well. PD wanted to avoid having to be subjective on ruling out who cheated and who didn’t. So they canceled the time trial until after the update is out. My goodness I swear some people just like to complain because they can. Stop crying about everyone who made it to round 2 getting a free ride to round 3, just means more people to get eliminated in that round. Complain much?!?
As for the cheaters, seriously what did you expect? See one person cheat and he doesn’t get penalized, then others will follow suit. Follow the leader mentality, PD decided to cancel so they don’t have to go policing the contest and try to be subjective and choose who cheated and who didn’t. Less time consuming and easier is to fine tune the penalty system to prevent course cutting and wall riding, hope this increases the sensitivity of the damage modeling, 30mph impact with an immovable object would seriously damage any car, and knock things around in your gear box and transmission. Come on PD get this right, and how about including a difficulty select for the offline game, I know there is a switch for it. Oh and complete option to disable rubber banding, so if the AI pulls away, you won’t catch up unless you are just faster and have a better car. Same car with same skill means you lose if you crash.
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February 8th, 2011 at 2:34 pm - #XTRGT
Ok you guys are blind because GT5 is awesome on driving and that’s important to me and for the guys who can’t drive fast and cheat please don’t play the game ok,for the guys who can’t drive fast but drive clean please practice more and you will be fast some day and for the guys who think they can do a best simulator in 5 or 6 years then do it and will see the results because it’s all talking but no action.
PS:For Kazunori Yamauchi and Team thank you for your Hard Work to trying put this game Perfect :)
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February 9th, 2011 at 6:02 am - #Craig
Your right, PD couldn’t make a best simulator in 5-6 years. Couldn’t even finnish this one. But, give them a couple centuries , and who knows, mabey they’ll at least catch up with Forza……..
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February 9th, 2011 at 8:55 am - #Mohamu
Driving th cars and the phisic is very good. But it looks like you’ve never played this **** online lol
Disapearing tracks, no flag rules, etc, etc…If this is perfect for you, well, live with it in happyness:)
It is almost as bad as NFS Shift was.And lets check out the GTR/Race series on PC, or Iracing, or rFactor, or I could list the better games for you.. and noone took this long to finish…
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February 8th, 2011 at 1:39 pm - #Chiz
Whatever country your from….hahah f u
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February 8th, 2011 at 10:49 am - #Jochim
Americans… HAHA
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February 8th, 2011 at 9:20 am - #BanditRa101801
I agree with you that constructive criticism is what is needed in anything, including GT5, but, everyone thinks that every single problem is going to be fixed instantaneously, which is not going to happen. There are certain problems that can be changed right now (penalty system), and there are certain problems that can only be changed when GT6 or future installments come out (graphical). Everybody has to just deal with the game as it is and be patient. It’s not perfect.
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February 8th, 2011 at 10:26 am - #Mohamu
I agree! But think it over again. We all were patient for long years :) I only say, my patience is not never-ending.. 5 or 6 years are more than enough to test the server capacity, to think over the flag rules, and I could list the very-very big problems of the game.
Big respect to Mr. Kaz, but this game in it’s actual position is more frustrating than enjoyable (for me), and JUST because of those bugs..
The concept of GT5 is more than good, almost perfect, but I bet they have lost a lots of fans (including me) with theese problems..
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February 8th, 2011 at 2:37 am - #BanditRa101801
I think, and this goes to everyone one who is part of GTPlanet, that we have all forgotten the structure of GT Academy, what it takes to become a race car driver, and Gran Turismo.
1) GT Academy is a competition in which a virtual racers skill is tested through various time trials. From these time trials, the best move on to each round, until the finalists are selected. From this point, these finalists are given a physical, to see if the finalists are capable of driving. Then, the finalists who pass this go through “racing boot camp” to see who is the BEST possible candidate(s) to become a professional race car driver.
GT Academy DOES NOT make every single finalists a driver, GT Academy only selects the BEST to have the title. That is how the competition is and will continue to be. We will never know who cheated from the European competitions because the problem was not a big as it is in the Americas. We will never know who cheated in the Americas up to this point. Deal with whatever PD and SCEA plan to do. Stop the useless whining, complaints, bashing and making unnecessary personal attacks. This is NOT what Yamauchi-san would want!
2) If there are people who feel that they can become a professional race car driver, this is not your only opportunity. There are racing schools and racing clubs one can get involved in. Every little bit helps. But, if you have the drive and the motivation to become a race car driver…just do it! If, you put in every amount of hard work into becoming a race car driver, and your will get it in return. Don’t be a defeatist. Have faith.
3) Now, I agree with PD and SCEA for pulling the times and looking into fixing the penalty system for GT5. However, everyone needs to realize that this competition is merely that…a competition. Competitions have flaws, they have their imperfections, just like GT5. PD and SCEA are making a decision that they feel is needed for making this competition have validity. As followers of this great game series, we all know that this game is a piece of art, no matter what flaws it may have. Gran Turismo was created on bringing realistic car simulation to the home consoles. However, Gran Turismo has now been a surprisingly influential part of the car industry, just as Yamuachi-san and PD are portraying in their interpretation, not ours. Mr. Yamauchi-san would want nothing more to make the game “perfect,” but that is not possible, because… if this game was 100% perfect, our beloved series would die! Yes, there would still be tracks, cars and/or DLC that could be added to the series, but there would not be the passion that people, like Jordan has, if the series was to cease. There have been many great video game series in history that have fallen to this fate.
As much as we may think GT will be around forever, there is always that possibility that it MAY NOT! Let’s not criticize PD and SCEA for past mistakes and support them with the solutions they are making NOW!
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February 8th, 2011 at 2:44 am - #BanditRa101801
P.S.: I am NOT enter into the GT Academy competition. I do NOT own GT5. I do NOT own a PS3…I am only someone who appreciates and cares about Gran Turismo and always will, no matter what comes out. My apologies on the grammatical errors I made…but just deal with it. Have a good night. :)
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February 8th, 2011 at 7:10 am - #Mohamu
“Let’s not criticize PD and SCEA for past mistakes and support them with the solutions they are making NOW!”
To be honest, (and I apologize if I hurt somebody with my words) untill this game doesn’t going to be palyable I can’t criticize anyone else but them. (And the best support for them if they hear our criticism.)
I’ve spent a lot of money on this game. Bought a PS3, a wheel, built my cockpit and waitin’ 5 long years for only this game. And what I do 3 month after the game release? Just waiting for them again to make this game playable..
Great.
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February 9th, 2011 at 6:44 pm - #AGTFan
That’s a overlong post but one message hopefully will stick with a few readers. If you enjoy competitive driving look around for car clubs in your areas and get involved as helpers,marshals or drivers. It’s a lot of fun and it does not have to cost the world.
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February 8th, 2011 at 12:36 am - #Rios
Great, now if you guys could put like half the effort you have in to this into making a decent update or some DLC?
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February 7th, 2011 at 6:48 pm - #SpawBlack
Nice, cant wait!
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February 7th, 2011 at 4:15 pm - #Tvensky
cant wait for the update.. and hope it be worth it.. and bring some new stuff to GT5 aswell..
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February 7th, 2011 at 2:09 pm - #LazyYouth
So Polyphony needed some retarded guys to cheat three times on their special competition to finally realise their penalty system was wrong to begin with? Way to go.
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February 7th, 2011 at 1:38 pm - #Type2red
In my opinion POLY canceling round 2 automatically voids Gt Academy and is unfair to anyone who particpated in round 1 because the corner cutting that exists now was still prevalent in round 1 POLY sould cancel the entire competiton and remake it from scratch because if not I don’t think anyone will take this “real driving simulator”too seriously from a competitive stand point, just my 2 cents.
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GT Academy has been a joke since the beginning. It should be cut. I agree with some others. Fix the problems with the game that I payed for.