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    jenkki's Avatar Trials Developer
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    Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    Once you guys get a hold of the game, I know you will have more input, but we are brainstorming right now ways to run national and global Trials Evolution competitions. No promises now, but we are doing some planning.

    So I really want your feedback on the best way to do that. (This is about best playing, not track building btw

    We have these:

    * Leaderboards - best times on single player tracks
    * Supercross - best at 4-player side-by-side driving
    * Hardcore Trials - best at 4-player on same driving line

    A lot of you have tons of experience with Trials HD, so you will move through the lower skill levels fairly quick and you will not have as much discovery and learning and love as you had with Trials HD. That is natural. The game is not easier, you are just an excellent player now. Yes we have Extreme tracks but not Ninja ones, as we have explained in many interviews, it is not fair to punish players who are new to the series like that.

    What we do have is Hardcore Trials. Multiplayer on Extreme tracks is going to break you. Multiplayer on an Extreme tracks, with no way to restart, knowing you cannot make one single mistake, at all, or you are done, beaten by another player... that is more Ninja than anything we've ever been able to offer before.

    That is the kind of intensity I want in a global tournament.

    I won't sticky this thread but bookmark it and I will check it regularly and give you all heads up on all the various tournaments we are planning and will run.
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    the easiest way could be to copy already existing tracks, change some background details and upload it again on the track central as competition tracks. this would give you a seperate championship leaderboard on each track, i think. maybe a championship playlist in the track central could be possible?

    example:
    - upload the tracks / playlist on monday 23. april
    - championship starts on monday 23. april
    - championship ends on sunday 29. april

    so all players had the whole week to get into that championship
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    We had one going with forums members from OXF where we would pick 2 tracks each week , usually one easy and one harder, and there was a deadline at the end of the week and whoever had the best times would get 10 points and 2nd place would get 9 etc... So max 20 points per week

    We were all in a league and you would move up and down the league each week depending on your cumulative scores.

    After a while there was quite a few riders so we ended up splitting into numerous leagues and introduced relegation/promotion and after a set timeframe (6/8 weeks) so many at the top and bottom of each league would move either up or down.

    Redlynx generously donated prizes fo us after one DLC came out so thanks for that.

    Props goes to Flembo26 who put all his spare time into running it.
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    We must not forget the average rider here. Its all fine doing competitions that is only really for the top few players.

    Maybe seperate it via divisions! IE, based on leaderboard standings, you can only enter a Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze division... gives you a fair chance.

    Platinum for the top 1000 in the leadboards.
    Gold from 1001 to 10,000
    Silver 10,001 to 50,000
    Bronze for anyone over 50,000

    So every compition has 4 branches!
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    Originally Posted by KurtCobain
    We must not forget the average rider here. Its all fine doing competitions that is only really for the top few players.

    Maybe seperate it via divisions! IE, based on leaderboard standings, you can only enter a Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze division... gives you a fair chance.

    Platinum for the top 1000 in the leadboards.
    Gold from 1001 to 10,000
    Silver 10,001 to 50,000
    Bronze for anyone over 50,000

    So every compition has 4 branches!
    I completely agree and +1 this idea. One main reason I never really competed in THD comps is becuase I just can't compete with the top guys that would always win. Playing with people similar to my skill level would be SO much more fun.
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    50,000 people for a championship tournament? lol...

    I think, redlynx should pick a user generated single player track for qualifying, give people a week or two to qualify. Then the top (however many you want in championship) will qualify for the open bracket "hardcore trials" tournament.
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    It sounds like people will start up 4 player on an extreme track then simply wait at the start for other players to fault. Then when no one is left, slowly make their way through the track knowing how far they must get to win. Hopefully there is s safe guard against this.
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    Really cannot see how that would matter in online multiplayer chicago. Perhaps it could be an issue in local multiplayer though..
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    Originally Posted by KurtCobain
    We must not forget the average rider here. Its all fine doing competitions that is only really for the top few players.

    Maybe seperate it via divisions! IE, based on leaderboard standings, you can only enter a Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze division... gives you a fair chance.

    Platinum for the top 1000 in the leadboards.
    Gold from 1001 to 10,000
    Silver 10,001 to 50,000
    Bronze for anyone over 50,000

    So every compition has 4 branches!
    I think this is the best idea. But make it like Call of Duty so that the podium players get more recognition. Also, no way 50k people will be doing this, Id say around 2,000 MAYBE. Call of Duty has millions of players, yet not that many people play the tournaments.
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    Re: Thoughts on how to run Trials Evolution championships?

    Originally Posted by ChicagoAJ
    It sounds like people will start up 4 player on an extreme track then simply wait at the start for other players to fault. Then when no one is left, slowly make their way through the track knowing how far they must get to win. Hopefully there is s safe guard against this.
    That's fairly risky and doesn't really make any sense. If we're talking about good trials players here there's a very good chance that 3-4 of them will 0 fault the extreme. And why bother waiting at the start for people to fault before you do the track slowly anyway. You might as well just do it slowly when the race begins to save yourself the time.
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