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, like last week's.
Note #2: TGFT has prepaid their sponsorship for the next two races including this one (#104 and #105). Thanks, Ecka!
Note #3: MC Spammer should be fully operational this weekend and not spewing error/debug messages on our end.

==The Racers==
Katrina Le-Feir - Union pilot, council of PA. A veteran racer who rarely fails to place in the top three in her trademark Orion Hornet, the "Millenium Kitten".
Jestatis Bess - Akanese commander of ONE1. A regular racer in the Deneb Run who has yet to take home first prize.
Cranston Gorky - Union pilot, lieutenant of ITG. He races from time to time.
Waldoze - Union pilot, probationary member of TGFT. This was his second race.
Mick - Union pilot, council of PA. A veteran racer who frequently places first in his trademark Vulture MkIII.
Maiz Man - Union pilot, council of PA. He's raced a few times so far.
Riyusone Haro - Serco pilot, member of SCAR. This was his first race.

==The Results==
Mick | 28:41 | Vulture MkIII, FC, no weapons.
Jestatis Bess | 30:05 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian, FC, no weapons.
Riyusone Haro | 30:08 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian, FC, 1x LENB.
Waldoze | 30:19 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian, FC, no weapons.
Cranston Gorky | 32:48 | TPG Atlas X, FC, 1x Geminis.
Maiz Man | 34:25 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian, FC, no weapons.
Katrina Le-Feir | 37:27 | EC-89, FC, no weapons.

==Observations==
1) Katrina finished the run in a govbus, beating Erik C.'s time with an EC-89, however Erik's record still stands as she didn't use a stock EC-89. Still an impressive finish, even with the slowest ship in the game as far as turbo speeds go.
2) Orion Hornets dominated the space lanes tonight. Only three pilots flew other ships. Mick in the Vulture placed first, and Katrina in the EC-89 placed last (not her fault though!)
3) Mecha Touriuas scraped at least three kills off of Jan Rhapsody, who was attempting to kill the racers off. Hats off to Mecha for his hat trick.
4) MC Spammer was not used tonight due to technical difficulties. declare(), we curse thee.

Next week's Deneb Run will be in the LATE slot. Hope to see you there!

You go, Kat! You should really try it with a free batt sometime. Fun fun, gets the heart pumping.

Kat's notes:

1) Flying the "Canned Kitten" was great fun. However, not for the faint of heart: due to its low speed, an EC-89 cannot outrun the hive assault ships. This makes long storms extremely dangerous: the aggressive assaults (a pair of TyCorps, in my case) WILL hunt you and WILL hit you - unless you can dodge properly - while you slowly crawl for the storm exit point.

2) I repaired in Pherona Garden (Pherona J8) with 1% left, due to those blasted TyCorps. It was wonderful to repair for 0c! :D

3) From Pherona J8 to the Artana WH in P7, I hit a 12km long storm. Full of ApuTech Guardians. That was some seriously thrilling flight.

4) I hit five storms. I didn't prerace properly, however, and the one in Jallik appeared during the run.

5) 37 mins with five storms and a pitstop is a terrific time. Better than some of the third place times in recent runs! I'm seriously considering to follow Erik's suggestion and try a free cell, or use the slowest ship ingame, the XC. EC89's acceleration is far, far better than XC's one.

6) Thanks to Miharu and Eonis for hosting, congrats to Mick, Jess and Riyu for their performance, and special thanks to Mecha and Mick for having escorted me during the greyspace segment of the race. Was fun to hear their corvults boost and slow down to keep my pace! :)

7) Since the EC89 has a 48 e/sec drain, it was actually interesting to head for (distant) wormholes when not at full energy, and recharging the battery while boosting! That's the only ship able to do that!

Mecha only killed me twice. Sadly, not a hat trick. Wishful thinking, Miharu!

You're the one who said he did.

I was actually flying my TPG Atlas X, so make that three racers in alternative vehicles. That 12K storm got me too, but I didn't notice any bots...

Good lord. Sorry about that Cranston. XD