The Admins had a meeting last night to discuss all the concerns you guys have raised. It was decided that a few changes needed to be made in order for this ladder to continue improving and to run as smoothly as possible. We understand the frustration so far and hope you understand that we are listening and doing everything to resolve these issues.

Firstly i will clarify the changes:

- There will now be an official "10 minute" rule - This means teams have a maximum of 10 minutes to join server and be ready for race 1. There have been problems with games timing out because of late arrivals and other teams who are willing to wait. Your team can be forfeited if you do NOT have both players in server before the first 10 minutes.

- The server was changing to the next match map 10 minutes before game time. This is fine unless there are matches played 30 minutes apart. This would leave the first match with only 20 minutes to complete. Another reason why some matches were called draws. This has been corrected so the match server will no longer start 10 minutes before match time but exactly ON TIME.

- The lap numbers have also been changed. Both 16 and 32 size maps have been dropped back a lap. Now 16p maps will run for 4 laps and 32p maps will run for 3. 64p maps remain the same at 2 laps.

- Team roster sizes have been increased to 4. Initially it was thought there would be more teams with smaller rosters but an increase to 4 should see less forfeits.

- Forfeit rules have been clarified - see rules page. Basically defines what can instigate a forfeit and now teams will be dropped to the bottom of the ladder if they register 3 forfeits consecutively.

- Finals have been set and sorted. See "S1 Finals" thread to be posted soon

- Word from Elxx is that server issue tweaks and some polishing has been almost complete for the new version of battleracer. 1.3 will be complete and ready for testing after S1 finals and well before S2 starts. New tracks available.

I advise everyone to browse the rules just to make sure they are up to speed with all the changes and to refresh their memories. As always we are keen to hear your feedbackand will work through any issues you present.

With these fixes, changes and extra admin on board the ladder will run alot smoother, there will be less forfeits and hopefully alot less issues to work through. Thanks for being patient and we look forward to seeing you out there racing.

Jay, Oxi and Jazz!

Nice, just hope all goes well!

Sounds good Jay, will there be any of the maps that you designed at all in the next series ?

Yep

Yay

Thanks P)

This might stop spercific prople from stuffing around me thinks.. :]

Edited once, 23/4/09 - 8:04pm.

lol took me like 4 reads to finally decode that

reading this a little late, but seems good.
thankyou jay and admin team.

oxi.speedhack

Whats the go with the ladder atm? I made a thread i guess tallly didn't like it??