The CDC, SSC and TGFT are proud to bring you The Deneb Run this weekend.

*** The TIME will be 5pm Eastern Daylight Time, 2pm Pacific, 9pm Saturday GMT (Or 21:00) ***

*** More sponsors means more prize money! (see below) ***

The race progress announcements will be announced on Channel 500

Listen to racing music on Radio TGFT at: http://www.live365.com/stations/dj_screwball

All citizens are welcome to race, there is no entrance fee, and 6 Million credits in prizes are available. Some of it could be yours!

Once again, the rules are:

1) Racers must race from Odia M14 through Deneb heading clockwise back to Odia M14.
2) Race starts in Odia M14 near the station.
3) Contestants must be within 100m of me before the start
4) No shooting before the race starts.
5) You die and you're out (so no /exploding)
6) All weapons and ships allowed, except those listed in #10.
7) First person to get back and dock at Odia M14 wins the first prize. (3 million credits)
8) Second person back gets 2nd place prize (2 million credits)
9) Third person back gets 3rd place prize (1 million credits)
10 Valkyrie ships are not allowed.
11) Attempting to trigger a false start of the race is grounds for disqualification.
12) Money for killing other racers: Any pilot, racing or not, is eligible to earn money as follows:

Pre-condition #1: There must be at least 3 racers
Pre-condition #2: Less than 3 racers complete The Deneb Run
If the above pre-conditions are met, the undistributed prize money will be awarded to those who killed the racers as follows:
- Kills in the Odia M-14 sector are not eligible
- The most recent eligible kill earns the highest unawarded prize money (3 mil, 2 mil, 1 mil, or 0)
- The 2nd most recent eligible kill earns the 2nd highest unawarded prize money (2 mil, 1 mil, or 0)
- The 3rd most recent eligible kill earns the 3rd highest unawarded prize money (1 mil or 0)

Please reply to this thread if you intend to race.

Results? Miha?

Working on it. I've been pretty busy this past weekend, on top of being kinda sick saturday night and most of sunday.

Results will be up by this evening.

Okay! Here are the results of the 94th Deneb Run.

The Racers:

Mick - Union pilot, member of PA and one of the top three racers, back from a long hiatus.

Katrina Le-Feir - Union pilot, Council and Lieutenant of PA. Another top notch racer with an impressive number of wins under her belt.

Mecha Touriuas - Serco warrior, unguilded. Infrequently races in the Deneb Run.

Jestatis Bess - Itani pilot, this is among his first few races.

WarSong - Union pilot, member of PA. This is his (I believe) first race.

Results:
Mick | 28:38 | Vulture MkIII, FCPC, no weaponry.
Katrina | 29:24 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian, FCPC, no weaponry.
Mecha | DNF | TPG Raptor, FCPC, no weaponry.
Jestatis Bess | DNF | Centurion MkII, UCPC, no weaponry.
Warsong | DNF | Hornet MkI, UCPC, no weaponry.

Notes:

1) Lots of issues before the race resulted in one potential racer (TheBlackFlag) dropping out before the race began. We also had a false start by Jestatis, which delayed us further.

2) Lots of issues during the race as well. Sector load times were horrendous, one sector in Edras (an empty sector, for that matter) caused Mecha Touriuas to drop out of the race while in second place.

3) Both Jestatis and WarSong were using Ultra Charges, and the effect of the extra second of charging time required for the wormhole jumps was visible quickly as they dropped behind.

4) The MC/racer group exploded around when Mick was in Bractus, resulting in a lack of coverage for several minutes of the race while the remaining racers and I clumsily tried to get a group back together. Spontaneous group disband. Bug! Didn't effect the end result, however.

Next week's race will be in the LATE slot.

Kudos to Miharu for hosting such a hectic DR.

I'm a bit disappointed that Mecha was stuck in an empty sector and unfortunately decided to retire when he was well ahead of me. He deserved the second place.