When organising competitions on TSA one thing is always obvious; TSA members love their racing games. One racing game in particular that’s really popular on TSA is the Formula One series which is why we’re setting up a TSA F1 Championship 2012.
In previous years we have set up multiple groups right away, each racing on one day per week. This year is slightly different, and were starting with just one group of 16 and room to expand to accommodate demand. The first group will be on Sundays at 5pm for the 5 week duration, starting on the 14th of October and earning points depending on what position they finish in. If there are enough people submitting entries to warrant it, then we’ll open up a second group which will race on Mondays at 7pm, and the 5th and final week will then become a much grander finale.
We’re deliberately going for a more rigid and compact Championship this year, after previous attempts were rather unwieldy for us to keep a handle on. However, with just 5 weeks of racing that doesn’t leave us with many tracks to cover, so we’re mixing it up with the weekly formula in order to help with that.
For weeks one and three we will have two 5 lap races worth half points, each preceded by a “one shot” qualifying session, whilst weeks two, four and five will feature a 25% race and a full 15 minute qualifying session. We’ve gone after this set up to give you a few more tracks to visit and also add a better shot of taking points if you’re involved in an early racing incident, but we’d love to hear your feedback on this format in the comments. Tell us things like which tracks you’d like to see, or quite plainly that we’re doing this all wrong!
For the racing itself, both groups will have a community team member who will set up the lobby and be in charge of that group. If a racing incident occurs (like a crash or repeated unfair overtakes) and one of the drivers thinks it was deliberate or unfair then they should discretely bring it up after the race with the community team member in charge. The two CT members will be Teflon and JamboGT, and they will also be racing in the competition, although Teflon wont be eligible to win any prizes! (Unlucky)
Talking of prizes, all we’re announcing right now is that we will be giving away a trophy (an example of one from previous years) to the driver that comes in first place. Rest assured that we have big things planned to announce over the next few days, so keep a look out for more details on what the prize pot will consist of.
The full rules, including which assists will be allowed and the points system in use can be found on the next page. Please read these rules and remember, this championship is competitive but it is still primarily for fun. If you only want to win at all costs and show no regard for the other drivers and therefore don’t race for fun… please don’t enter.
This year we will have video coverage provided by a team you may be familiar with Death_in_Flamez, Chuggy and their friend Liam, so we’re asking if you could choose a preferred team to help when it comes to commentary. During the competition, they’ll also be needing people to upload footage from races in order to put their videos together, the more videos captured the better!
So without much further ado, just fill out the entry form below by 11PM BST on Tuesday 9th October to put yourself in the running!
Entries are now closed, and the Championship is under way.
CarBoyCam
Signed up! Looking forward to it! I shall be flying the Marussia flag hopefully! :D
Tarak
Any chance of getting a 360 champ set up?
teflon
Not really, I’m afraid. Most people buy big cross platform MP games on PS3 on TSA, so it’s hard to get anything 360 off the ground…
Darth Newdar
Really enjoyed TSA F1 2011 (even if I was shockingly bad), but haven’t got 2012, so can’t enter. :( Good luck to all involved!
Death_In_Flamez
Ahhh myself and Chuggy are Team Mercedes….watch out people ;)
eviroboy
Had it been on 360 I’d be all over this :(
Snakefingers13
Must say I’m disappointed with the decision to keep it on Sundays and Mondays, as I doubt there’ll be enough drivers to prompt a Tuesday group. With not being able to make at least the first Sunday and definitely not Mondays, it looks like I’ll be unable to enter. :(
Snakefingers13
Aw hell, I’ll make it work. Entered for Sunday, but I don’t even have the game yet and I’m in the middle of moving house. Hectic.
TORO ROSSOOOOO!
teflon
Yay!
It was always a bit of a logistical nightmare trying to juggle so many spinning plates whilst on waterskis, so we really felt we had to lock it down to just the two championships this time around.
Hope you can make it to the races :)
Lee-ma
Suppose I better sign up and try to defend my title! :p
Adam Garrett
Was trying to find a picture of your trophy from last year as an example but I couldn’t find one :(
MadJunkBoy
i am totally new to the F1 thingy and will probably just DNF all the time and crash into people but i am going to buy it anyway and will get it next week!
if u see me on the track, get the hell away from there! i don’t know what i am doing! :P
MadJunkBoy
poor sod who chooses Red Bull as team and me as teammate! :P
i have now actually signed up! =D
What have i gotten myself into!? :P
CarBoyCam
Just do the opposite of what you do on DiRT Showdown and you’ll be fine mate! :D For example… Don’t t-bone me! :P
freezebug2
@MJB The team mates thing is only for pit stop strategy and trying to time it so that you don’t both enter the pitstops at the same time, nothing at all to do with points earned as a team ;)
Death_In_Flamez
urmm actually there is a friendly competitive Constructors Title this year with no prizes but you believe what you want xD
keaneplay
I’ve entered for this years tournament but I just hope that work doesn’t get in my way as I have a revolving schedule that changes on a weekly basis :/
freezebug2
You’ve asked for feedback on the tournament format, and it all seems fine but it could be worth considering not using Dynamic weather set up. This years game seems to choose wet races more than dry when left to it’s own random choice making.
The wet racing in this years game isn’t particularly enjoyable (for me especially but also for a lot of other people) and I think that it could take the shine off the tournament if it kept coming up with randomly chosen (read: biased towards) wet races!