TSA GRiD Competition Results
First off the grid? Or last to the flag?Published 31/01/2010 at 21:50 by Michael
Last weekend several TSAians took to the starting GRiD to take part in the second GRiD competition. As you may remember, cam the man was the winner last time around, so it was up to everyone else to catch up. Here’s how it went down.
Race 1 – Istanbul Park
The opening race saw Manorhowze taking the chequered flag closely followed by cam the man and mannysingh.
1. Manorhowze
2. cam the man
3. mannysingh
Race 2 – Jarama
The second race was also won by Manorhowze with Baxteros a close second and mannysingh taking third again.
1. Manorhowze
2. Baxteros
3. mannysingh
Race 3 – Milan
Oh how we all love this track (just to be clear, that was sarcasm). After his earlier troubles tom_lord was able to join the lobby in time for the third race.
Milan was chaos as always, 3 cars wrecked during the race and nearly a few more as the wrecks just stay there causing new roadblocks for the other drivers to avoid. After the dust (and bodywork) had settled cam the man brings it home in first place with mannysingh in second and tom_lord getting on the podium in his first race of the day.
1. cam the man
2. mannysingh
3. tom_lord
Race 4 – Nurburgring
Off to Germany for race 4 and tom_lord is getting into his stride now and takes the victory with cam the man second and mannysingh in third.
1. tom_lord
2. cam the man
3. mannysingh
Race 5 – Spa
The finale at Spa started with a bang (well a huge incident that was pretty much all, er, someone’s fault) that took out half the field before we even got to Eau Rouge. 5 laps later and tom_lord walked away with his second victory with cam the man second and Baxteros in third.
1. tom_lord
2. cam the man
3. Baxteros
Overall Standings
After all 5 races had been completed the final standings were as follows.
1. cam the man – 35 points 250 TSA points
2. mannysingh – 31 points 100 TSA points
3. Manorhowze - 30 points 50 TSA points
4. tom_lord - 26 points
5. Baxteros – 18 points
6. Deadpixel - 16 points
6. G_The_Enemy – 16 points
8. jacklum – 14 points
9. Ro6afc11 – 9 points
cam the man managed to hang onto his racing crown – better luck next time! Thanks to everyone that took part – these community events are a vital part of TSA, so we hope you enjoy them as much as do writing about them.
For those of you who like pictures, here are some depicting the outcome of each race.
Istanbul
Jarma
Milan
Nurburgring
Spa
Now, is Gran Turismo 5 out yet?
Comments
Please note that all comments are the opinion of the individual author and not TheSixthAxis.
tom_lord | 31/01/2010 22:03
Team TSA: Writer
580 TSA Points | Member since: Apr 2009
Awesome TSA Meet. Properly enjoyed myself. Just a shame that I couldn’t join until Race 3 thanks to Virgin Media. Can’t wait until next time.
G_The_Enemy14 | 01/02/2010 16:20
Member
783 TSA Points | Member since: Jan 2009
I will definitely do this again as even though i am rubbish, it is extremely fun!
Deadpixel | 01/02/2010 08:32
Member
452 TSA Points | Member since: Mar 2009
Awesome competition! Really looking forward to the next event. I’m practising a lot to reach top 5!
Btw: who needs GT5 with Grid around? Love this game!
Manorhowze | 01/02/2010 11:28
Driving God
2032 TSA Points | Member since: Dec 2008
Congratulations (again) cam.
It was a great evening of racing and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I do think that if tom had been there from the beginning that the result would have been very different.
Two things put paid to my chances, one was trying to go side by side on milan with jacklum where there wasnt really room, which ended up with my car going slightly airborne and face first into the barriers. The second was the start at Spa, Got a good start from the back and got a bit too adventurous trying to pass someone and clipped someone else causing a several car pileup, I dont know how many got caught in it as my car was spinning around too much to see.
My thanks to all who took part it was a much closer event than the first one, If everyone plays again next time it should be a close event.
Also thanks to cam for the photos and Baxteros for being the keeper of the scores.
tom_lord | 01/02/2010 13:13
Team TSA: Writer
580 TSA Points | Member since: Apr 2009
No pressure for next time then…….
cam the man | 01/02/2010 23:03
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2071 TSA Points | Member since: May 2009
Cheers Manor
It was unlucky for tom (lucky for me) having connection problems as if he had done all the races the result would have been different. He managed 4th place competing in just 3 races.
In the 2nd race after G_The_Enemy and I came together (accidentally) at the end of lap 3 or 4 I ended up in the barrier so didn’t score any points, I thought my chance of winning the tournament had gone. The next race I managed to win but at the Nurbergring, as hard as I tried, I couldn’t catch tom. At Spa I managed to get a good start and was in 2nd after Eau Rouge. All I had to do was stay on the track and out of trouble, which wasn’t easy with Bax chasing me, to win.
Thanks to Manor for organizing the tournament and Bax for keeping score. A goog job done by both.
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 01/02/2010 21:58
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2528 TSA Points | Member since: Aug 2009
well done guys n girls. maybe i should take part in competitions.