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Hello and Welcome everyone.
That's it, the Ground Zero Academy is finally born.
What is the Ground Zero Academy?
This is a league of serious racers who want to improve their driving skills week after week, day after day, race after race, turn after turn.
There are lot of leagues on gtplanet. Why should I choose to race in this one?
Because what makes us different from other leagues is that your goal here will be to reach the Ground Zero which is the Division for no abs drivers.
That's cool but I don't want to run abs off ever. Shame because the combos looks really great.
No worry, the Ground 1 is exactly the same as Ground Zero, except abs.
So you and you only will make the choice to run in the Ground Zero.
Racing Format ●
Ground Zero Academy features a dynamic format.
It takes place on a two-week cycle. Week 1: One long race. Week 2: Two Sprint races
Long race: ~1hour / Mandatory Pit.
Sprint races: ~20mn / No Pit. Grid of race 2 is based on previous race results.
- Stock cars -> you buy the car and you break in it.
- One-Make -> Cars on the grid are 100% identical.
- Dates -> We will run 2 dates per week. One for NA and one for EU.
If you race in NA, you can't race in EU the same week (this is to avoid multiple driver points)
NA races: every Thursdays, 19.00 PST / 22.00 EST
EU races: every Saturdays, 20.00 UTC
Track notes ●
Standard OLR rules, 2 on track surface, rumbles, and inside the white lines after the rumbles end.
Room
Slots: 16
Race Quality: High
VOIP: Disabled
Host: Unfixed
Track Settings
Everything default except number of laps
Event Settings
Penalty: None
Race Finish Delay: Maximum
Visible Damage: Off
Disable collisions: Off
Mechanical Damage: Light
Slipstream Strength: Weak
Tire Wear/Fuel: Normal
Grip Reduction on Wet Track/Track Edge: Real
Regulation Settings
Car Restrictions: None
Tires: depend of the car / Ground
Vehicle Tuning: Prohibited ABS: allowed for Grounds 1 & 2 / Not allowed for Ground Zero
Traction Control: OFF
Active Steering: OFF
Skid Recovery Force: OFF
ASM: OFF
Driving Line: OFF
Race days ●
Rooms are open 1 hour prior meeting.
Qualifications starts promptly at the time according to your time slot (Thu. 19.00 PST - 22.00 EST / NA & Sat. 20.00 UTC / EU)
Race starts automatically after 15mn.
There will be no restart for late comers and personal mistakes (MT/AT or BB).
Each driver will be allocated to a Ground. That determinate his position through the field and his skills. There are 3 grounds. They are detailed below.
Ground 2 ●
- For drivers who want to join without submitting the Proving Ground.
- For drivers who submitted their Proving Ground but they need to be a bit faster to reach Ground 1.
- ABS is allowed in this Ground.
- Tires used for these drivers are stock tires (original tire sold with the car).
Ground 1 ●
- For drivers who submitted their Proving Ground without mistake and they were a bit faster than guys in Ground 2.
- For drivers From Ground 2 who totalized at least 0.70 points.
- ABS is allowed in this Ground.
- Tires used for these drivers are stock tires or less.
Ground Zero ●
- For drivers who submitted their Proving Ground with an excellent result and they are volunteer to enter the Ground Zero.
- For drivers from Ground 1 who totalized at least 2.95 points and they are volunteer to enter the Ground Zero.
- ABS is not allowed in this Ground.
- Tires used for these drivers have not a really good grip.
Points System ●
Each two-week cycle, drivers will receive points for their completed races. Points depends of number of participants for the race.
In case of a full grid, points will be alocated as below:
i.e.: if there are 12 drivers for a race, the winner receives 0.12 points, 2nd receives 0.11 points, etc.
● Ground 2 drivers start the season with automatically 0.00 point.
● Ground 1 drivers start the season with automatically 0.85 points.
● Ground Zero drivers start the season with automatically 3.10 points.
- or how to join us -
Finally (we know you wait for this since the post #1) here is how to join us:
● Post on the thread that you're interested to join us. (gtplanet username / PSN ID / Nationality / Fav. Time Slot)
● Then, one of the PURE Officials will contact you or post on the thread to know when you're ready to run the Proving Ground.
● When you both are in agreement to a time/date for meeting, the PURE Official will open a public lobby and you'll have to join this lobby.
● Then, here is the Proving Ground:
Room settings for the Proving Ground ●
Room
Slots: 2
Race Quality: High
VOIP: Disabled
Host: Unfixed
Track Settings
Track: Suzuka Circuit / No weather
4 Laps
Event Settings
Penalty: None
Race Finish Delay: none
Visible Damage: Off
Disable collisions: Off
Mechanical Damage: none
Slipstream Strength: Weak
Tire Wear/Fuel: Off
Grip Reduction on Wet Track/Track Edge: limited
Regulation Settings
Car Restrictions: Amuse 380 RS SuperLeggera (recommended)
Tires: Sport Softs
Vehicle Tuning: Brake Balance only
ABS: allowed
Traction Control: OFF
Active Steering: OFF
Skid Recovery Force: OFF
ASM: OFF
Driving Line: OFF
● When you enter in the room you are supposed to be ready to run your Proving Ground. The PURE Official can give you some warmup if he has time.
● When you're ready, the host starts the 4 laps race and you do your run.
● When 4th lap begins, the host will use the text box to ask you to leave the race and confirm that your best of your 2 timed laps is clean or not.
● Then it's over, you'll be informed later what is your Ground.
● Do your best and take care, you got one shot, and one shot only!
● You are strongly encouraged to run the Proving Ground but you are not obliged to do it. In this case, you'll start to run in the Ground 2 for future events.
● Your are not allowed to give informations regarding your lap time on this thread. Each post containing any information will be edited by a mod.
This is a brand new League in the gtplanet community. Hope lot of people will join, have fun and improve their driving skills. If you have any question regarding this league, just ask it here.
@ Petros & Twistedfireworks: Let us know when you want to run your Proving Ground (if you wanna run it) and we'll schedule a meeting. Take your time for practice before that .
Note: You cannot be in the room at the same time. Only 2 slots available for the Proving Ground. One for the Driver, one for the Steward.
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