CIVIC trophy by VRF_road

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You can't advertsie series that are not run on these forums.
 
You can't advertsie series that are not run on these forums.

But this series are not based in a website outside this site.

The links, like in another series, lead only to information.

My blogs are not forums, they have no place to interact with another participants or the organiser.

Ultimately i`m obligating my usual participants to adhere, if they want to chat, not taking out people from GTPlanet.

Cheers.
 
VRF
The links, like in another series, lead only to information.

My blogs are not forums, they have no place to interact with another participants or the organiser.
Then why not just post all the info in the thread here? Why make it harder for someone to join?
 
Then why not just post all the info in the thread here? Why make it harder for someone to join?

Hello.

I tried, but the system is a bit complicated and lead to easy mistakes who take ages to correct (ok, i`m a rookie in the computers thing, 1 year experience only, so no surprises here).

Copy paste from the blog is not a option, the end result is a mess.

So, i decided to post a basic tread with the minimum number of links needed for access all information necessary for book a entry.

And for someone to join, only need to send a friendship request to VRF_road (something they must do anyway because the races will be in VRF_road private lobby), stating the tournement or tournements that they want to entry.

Another series ask for that and also to post in the GTPlanet tread they GTPlanet nickname, PSN nickname, nationality and car and wheel´s color.

That is a lot more complicated, i think, so i don´t understand your question.

Cheers.
 
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So, dear Furinkasen, you booked a entry in a tread that states this...

"How to Sign Up

Tim (Dr Watson), our resident IT expert, has put together a website specially for this series, which makes it easier to view sign-ups, driver standings and qualifying/race results. All we need is for you to register (unless you've already competed in a PURE series which required you to sign-up to the website) here. After you log in, you should be able to find the banner for this series in the 'Racing' tab. Click 'Sign-up now', enter your number in, and you should be good to go and be able to see your name on the Driver Standings. After this, everything is complete. As the series goes on we will use this site to publish results and current standings."
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=251654

...but you send me a message yesterday telling me that...

"You can't advertsie series that are not run on these forums."

So, you are telling me that i can´t run a series from a website outside this forum (exactly what the one you has signed in does) and telling me that about a series who have a blog supporting they activity (like i do) but are entirely run in this forum without ask the participants to go to another site to sign in.

Why?

Cheers.
 
The rule is for series that post series here but run them in a separate forum. There's nothing against posting regulations or taking sign ups with other off-forum methods (organizers of most major series use Gdocs and such for taking sign ups and posting results usually)

PURE uses our website in order to take sign ups, no difference between that and Gdocs.

CALM is really the first Pure series to host regulations and all information on our site in order to keep the OP more relevant and clutter-free for people to find information easier.

We only use the site because our series features an overflow of information and results pages, so instead of opening multiple threads or having an OP that scrolls forever, we wanted to make everything easy to find through the OP's portal style layout.

So they assumed you had a separate forum, when you only use the blog to host the rules.

But what daan is suggesting is that since you don't have many rules it'd be much easier to post in the thread rather than a blog.
 
^^. I agree with what wardez said. My advice to you, since this is going to be the first series you are running here on gtplanet, that you keep everything here at gtplanet. In my opinion it will help you with sign ups, as soon as you get a bunch of regulars that participate in your series (i.e. pure) then you can start going off site. Once again, this is just my opinion on how you could get more sign ups, take it for what its worth.
 
So they assumed you had a separate forum, when you only use the blog to host the rules.

But what daan is suggesting is that since you don't have many rules it'd be much easier to post in the thread rather than a blog.


Hello

Thanks to take your time to give me some advice, i really appreciate.

And finally someone understand that i´m not operating outside this site.
I said more, i been organising series by myself from January 2011 (some 250 races spread within 30 series), and the guys who use to race with me (some 20 + eventual´s), and some did´t like GTPlanet, now must to come on-board and maybe one day will be racing with another organisers.

I hope that is clear for you that i did´t put in check your´s series legality, but the reasoning in the back of the Furinkasen`s message.

The reason i opted by a blog, or better, a series of blogs, is that in the blog i has been able to create templates who make easy (and avoid miss some important information) to post a tread.
And the appendix´s annexed to the regulations are only one that is linked with all series (for each promoter), avoiding the constant repeat of writing the same stuff.

Also, if somebody is racing in more that one series (sounds better than tournements, may be i change the regulations wording), can swift between then more easily with the internal links, than scrolling down the forum.

And the final product, in the GTPlanet and the blog, is easy and simpler to understand and consult, with some information that a participant only need once taken way from the main page and accessible by links.

Yourself said that in the message you send me:

"...CALM is really the first Pure series to host regulations and all information on our site in order to keep the OP more relevant and clutter-free for people to find information easier (...) so instead of opening multiple threads or having an OP that scrolls forever, we wanted to make everything easy to find through the OP's portal style layout..."

Cheers.
 
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"...this is just my opinion on how you could get more sign ups, take it for what its worth."

Hello

Worth a lot for me.

That´s the reason i have private chats with 4 or 5 site members, some with responsibility ´s (moderator, organiser), before decide the best way to act as a series promoter in the GTPlanet:

A insider´s opinion worth gold for me.

Ok, uninformed opinions, like the Furikasen´s one, obviously only can cause damage without add something useful to the situation.

Thanks for your time and advice.

Cheers.
 
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Running 4 different series' at the same time wont help you, either. Start off with just one, run that, then start up more if it goes well.
 
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Running 4 different series' at the same time wont help you, either. Start off with just one, run that, then start up more if it goes well.

Hello.

Run 4 or more series at same time is not new for me, that´s something i did before without any problem, unless once when i opened a lobby 2 minutes late for a qualify (run at a scheduled time is paramount for me, probably a consequence of 19 years connected to rallying, including as a pilot).

At that time i did´t have the support from a blog and a site like GTPlanet, i did all by PSN messages and direct invictations in open lobby´s, so now all should be fine.

And i´m not the only organiser, something you can check at this link:
http://virtual-racing-fun.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-vrf_20.html

Thanks for your help, i appreciate.

Cheers.
 
VRF, this series seems like something I would be interested in, I can't commit 100% at the moment, but put down as I will try to make as many as I can. Always like to find a new group of racers to run with. 👍
Another thing, dont know if the time is set in stone(I'm guessing the time is GMT), but if you could make it about 5 hours earlier it would be much better for me.
 
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VRF, this series seems like something I would be interested in, I can't commit 100% at the moment, but put down as I will try to make as many as I can. Always like to find a new group of racers to run with. 👍
Another thing, dont know if the time is set in stone(I'm guessing the time is GMT), but if you could make it about 5 hours earlier it would be much better for me.

Hello.

Yes, the time is GMT.

Giving your will to race early, why you don´t try this trophy, also?
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=253849
Is at the same day and track than the Civic trophy, but one hour early.

Cheers.
 
Hello.

Some changes have been done today to the VRF_road proceedings and the CIVIC trophy regulations:

- The word 'series' replaced 'tournements'.

-The wording in some regulations has been simplified, for a easy reading, but without changes in their meaning.

-The facility to book for only one race has been withdraw.

Sorry for any disturbance caused by this changes.

Cheers
VirtualRacingFun
 
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Hello.

Some recent changes has been made to the VRF-VirtualRacingFun blog:

- A full VRF series calendar has added.

- The championship definitions has changed to accommodate racing with karts and formulas.

Cheers
VirtualRacingFun
 
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