So what are your guys thoughts on the rotating car selection racing I've been talking about? For various reasons I need a break from the weekly scheduled points racing format. That's not to say we won't do it again in the future, but this season was quite a handful and to prevent myself from getting burnt out I just need to take a little break and try something different. But I want to keep Team ORCA racing together, hopefully in new and exciting ways.
So far the outline of my plan is relatively simple. To start with we could plan on getting together at our normal times for some fun spot racing using new/different cars. I'll probably recruit some hosts to choose one of the time slots and regularly host it so any one of us would really only have to commit to one night for now. If I can get 6 other hosts, then we could potentially have an "official" lounge open every night. But a host isn't needed all the time, anybody would be able to open the lounge and make a post letting others know it's open so they can join. They could race the pre-selected cars for that week (at whatever tracks they want) or we could also allow karts, shuffle racing and recommended garage racing at any time since those are easy to setup and everyone has access to the vehicles (presuming everyone has at least 1 kart).
Each month I/we would come up with a schedule for the selected cars. I could follow a simple theme such as:
Week 1: Vintage Cars
Week 2: Street Cars
Week 3: Race Cars
Week 4: Any of the previous selected cars for that month
(karts, shuffle and recommended garage would be allowed at any time to ensure variety).
Those are very loose themes that allow a very wide variety of possible cars but they give us a general direction to stick with. Whenever we get together that week at our normal times, we would all race the selected car at random tracks for 5 or 10 lap races. By laying out the whole month in advance it would give people time to track down the cars and get them prepped.
You could look at it this way, we're going to race a whole bunch of different cars for a 1 week mini-series (without points). Instead of racing 1 car multiple times a week for 6 weeks and keeping track of points, we'll race 1 car multiple times a week for 1 week without keeping points. Basically like our practice sessions I guess, but with more racing (pick a track, practice for 10 or 15 minutes, race; pick a new track, practice for 10 or 15 minutes, race).
Maybe it will lead us to our next points series car, maybe it will lead to a whole new way of racing together online, there are lots of possibilities. But this, I think, is a simple way for all of us to keep racing together for now without a lot of demands on anybody. It's a basic enough foundation that we could build from it based on how we end up using it. We could do this all in the ORCA_Champ lounge since everyone has access and could open it up to the public so we could boost our numbers and have more racing at more times. We could have an Aussie host that runs the room at Aussie times, a UK host that runs at UK times, etc.
Thoughts? Does any of that make sense or sound like a feasible plan? I'm open to suggestions about how to tweak/modify/improve it so let me hear what you guys wanna do. 👍 Or is there no interest if we don't have some kind of points system?
