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.

Note #1: This week's Run is in the EARLY slot. Next week's Run will also be in the EARLY slot.
Note #2: TGFT has prepaid their sponsorship for the next three races including this one (#103, #104 and #105). Thanks, Ecka!

--The Racers--
Waldoze -- Union pilot. "Probationary" member of TGFT. This was his first race.
SCAR Bank -- Serco member of SCAR. Tonight this character was flown by Nautargos, one of SCAR's council members. He races from time to time.
Jestatis Bess -- Akanese commander of ONE1, he has become a regular of the Deneb Run, but has yet to take home the 3M first prize.
NP -- Union pilot, a member of PA. This was (I think) his first race.
Tex Arcana -- Union pilot, unguilded. This was his first race.
Dartok Anto -- Itani pilot, unguilded. After several races, he has yet to actually finish the circuit!

--The Results--
Waldoze | 33:17 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian, FC, no weapons.
SCAR Bank | 33:29 | Warthog MkII, FC, no weapons.
Jestatis Bess | 33:31 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian, FC, no weapons.
NP | 34:19 | Corvus Vulturius, FC, no weapons.
Tex Arcana | 39:09 | Centurion MkIII, FC, 1x Plasma HX.
Dartok Anto | DNF | TPG Raptor, Heavy, no weapons.

--Observations--
1) I have no idea what Dartok was thinking using a heavy powercell. He quickly dropped to the back of the racer pack, and was taken out by an SAF member before even reaching Pyronis. (He took the Helios route and was killed in B-7 before reaching the wormhole.)
2) A couple odd ship choices today--two ships with 60/s drain. Oddly enough, they both finished!
3) Today's Deneb Run marked the debut of an announcement assistant script, "MC Spammer", designed by the MCs of today's race, Eonis Jannar and myself. The script worked just about as well as we'd expected it to, and the bugs that did crop up have provided us with enough information to get the script closer to perfect for next week! Thanks to all the racers for being patient with us and the script--we had to recreate one of the groups because of how we'd written the code to determine who in the group was a racer and who wasn't, and it took a little bit of time.

Next week's Deneb Run will be in the EARLY slot again. Hope to see you then!

Ummm, you just forgot the weapons loadouts so you put "No Weapons" right? I know I reported I had one neut on my Centurian (I affectionately call her Suger Foot), and that I-tani feller Jestatis was hanging around a wormhole after he finished, chasin' after me and firin' gems.

I don't recall who had what, but definately just about everyone had weapons. Shootin' didn't play a big part in the race though.

Congrats to the top three. Good race. I'm glad I got a chance to finish my first race despite interferance and poor planin' on my own part. See y'all next time. I learned a lot from this one, maybe next time I'll see y'all finish while sitting at the station with a victory drink in my hand.

According to the notes I took down when asking for layouts, you did not have any weapons on there. Dartok had told me he had weapons, and then afterwards told he me didn't. I can check the logs again.

Tex i raced with no weapons. After i finished racing i loaded gems then came after you :)

[Sat Jul 28 16:54:10 2007] (group) [Odia M-14] <Tex Arcana> gCenturian III fast charge Plasma HX

Neither of us was right, Tex. :P

You did tell me you had a weapon, but you said it was an HX, not a neutron. Fixed above.

Heh, I as probably under the influance of some malt based drink when I remembered I had a neut. I knew I reported some weapon though.

My reading of the rules kind of lead me to believe that weapons might be a good idea (don't ask me what I planned to do with one plasma hx) since it seemed that not only other racers can fire on you but bystanders as well. Though I admit that when someone did fire at me I just wanted to finish the race since I was almost there anyway, and just ran for it.

That was most likely the best tactical choice. Maybe that's why no one else bothes wih weapons, I guess.