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Tube Racing returns for a second season.
Tube Racing is a test of pure piloting. Five races across five sectors — Sedina B-5, D-5, E-5, F-5, and H-5 — and nothing in the hold but nerve. Fly any non-capital, fighter-class ship you like, but the weapons stay off. There is no shooting your way to the front of this pack. There is only the line you choose, and how hard you dare carry it into the next bend.
The start is the first test. Gather within 100 meters of the host and wait for the call. "Ready." Then, when every ship has gone still, "Set." Nothing moves until the host calls "Go." Twitch early and your race is reset; do it again and again and you are finished for the night.
Then it is the tube. Cross the finish line ahead of the field and take 25 points. Second takes 18, third 15, and on down to a single point for tenth. Clip hard enough to punch out through a wall — or come apart entirely — and you score Did Not Finish: zero. The tube does not move. You do.
At the end of the event the points are tallied and the top six pilots split up to 21 million credits, with 6 million to the champion. And the leaderboard is lifetime — every point you have ever scored is still standing on it, which means the fastest pilots of Season One are already ahead of you.
Come take it from them.
Season Two will begin September 2nd, Wednesdays at 6 PM CST (2300 game time). Each event runs about half an hour.
Point schedule (per race)
Place Points
1st 25
2nd 18
3rd 15
4th 12
5th 10
6th 8
7th 6
8th 4
9th 2
10th 1
Reward schedule (per event)
Overall Credits
1st 6,000,000
2nd 5,000,000
3rd 4,000,000
4th 3,000,000
5th 2,000,000
6th 1,000,000
TUBE RACING — SEPTEMBER 30TH
The fastest lap of the night did not count
THE NIGHT
Four minutes before the first call, Ultionis was out on the Sedina B-5 course
on his own, warming up, and the board lit:
New track record! Ultionis has raised the bar to 00:49.409
Faster than the 00:49.539 that stands under his name on this thread. Faster
than anything anyone has ever run in B-5 in a scored race. And set at 18:58,
three minutes and fourteen seconds before "go" — which makes it a practice lap
and nothing else.
When it counted he ran 00:51.009. He won the race by five seconds. He spent
the rest of the night irritated about it:
<Ultionis> when i mess it up i still beat the next best guy buy two
seconds or so but i need to get that number down on the
official board!
spidey arrived for B-5 still carrying ordnance — "aw shiet i packed a gun" —
and was told, reasonably, to keep his finger off the trigger. He took second
in 00:56.073. Azryayix gyarz teleported in at 19:02:49, forty-seven seconds
after the start, and watched the whole thing from the line. Nothing for him
in B-5.
Then D-5 went strange. Something broke on Azryayix's run — nobody could say
quite what — and the question was whether he had punched out of the tube.
<Phaserlight> "Azryayix gyarz" you clipped out?
<Azryayix gyarz> no
<Phaserlight> I didn't see it
With no way to call it, the question went to the only other racer with points
on the line — the man leading the series by a mile, who had nothing to gain:
<Phaserlight> Ultionis are you all right with him running the course again
and comparing his time against yours in this case?
<Ultionis> going through backwards certainly wont fix it, but yes, i can wait
<Ultionis> let azry re run it
Azryayix was teleported out and back, lined up alone, and ran 01:56.415. It
counted. Eighteen points, and the only reason he finished the night on 72.
E-5 cost the field its third racer. Mid-race, with Ultionis already across:
[100] spidey vanishes
<Ultionis> spidey just logged off
VO-Discord <draugath> What? Where did he go?
<Ultionis> sadness
spidey never came back. His eighteen points from one race in Sedina B-5 were
still good enough for third place overall, and when the prizes went out the
server replied: *** Don't know who spidey is.
That left two. Azryayix ran the whole night in a Vulture MkIV — a fine ship,
not a racing ship — and Ultionis spent the gaps between races trying to fix
that:
<Ultionis> azry are you out of superlights?
<Ultionis> i can deliver you a load for oen
and, when the final times went up and Azryayix apologised for being slow:
<Azryayix gyarz> is slow in comparison
<Ultionis> youre not using a racing ship though
Final: Ultionis 125 — a clean sweep of all five tubes — Azryayix gyarz 72,
spidey 18 in absentia.
COURSE RECORDS
Every time below was set during a scored Tube Racing event, from the first
series in April 2025 through the present. Only a pilot's single best run in
each sector is listed, so no name appears twice on a board.
Not one place on any of the five boards changed this week.
Sedina B-5
1. 00:49.539 Ultionis
2. 00:50.687 Teni
3. 00:53.632 spidey
3. 00:53.632 storm_titty
5. 00:54.713 Westacular
6. 00:56.643 Harpo
7. 00:56.760 Payne
8. 00:59.711 Lunar Shadow
9. 01:01.247 Sitra Achra
10. 01:03.489 Factor Fett
Sedina D-5
1. 01:12.768 Ultionis
2. 01:13.673 Teni
3. 01:15.968 spidey
4. 01:17.120 storm_titty
5. 01:20.192 Westacular
6. 01:27.618 Sitra Achra
7. 01:29.151 Azryayix gyarz
8. 01:30.176 Factor Fett
9. 01:44.255 Harpo
10. 02:23.295 Pvt. Parts
Sedina E-5
1. 01:25.182 Ultionis
2. 01:28.387 spidey
3. 01:29.921 Westacular
4. 01:30.369 storm_titty
5. 01:35.744 Payne
6. 01:41.247 Sitra Achra
7. 01:44.257 Factor Fett
8. 01:51.489 Azryayix gyarz
9. 01:52.960 Dasona Korar
10. 01:57.119 Ashanti of The Sands
Sedina F-5
1. 01:20.447 Ultionis
2. 01:23.137 Teni
3. 01:24.671 storm_titty
3. 01:24.671 Westacular
5. 01:24.740 spidey
6. 01:29.536 Payne
7. 01:38.567 Azryayix gyarz
8. 01:40.159 Sitra Achra
9. 01:40.608 Factor Fett
10. 01:46.304 Dasona Korar
Sedina H-5
1. 01:18.912 Ultionis
2. 01:22.369 Westacular
3. 01:22.688 storm_titty
4. 01:24.286 Teni
5. 01:28.322 Payne
6. 01:35.366 Azryayix gyarz
7. 01:38.568 Factor Fett
8. 01:51.680 Dasona Korar
9. 01:55.334 Harpo
10. 02:13.756 Lunar Shadow
Ultionis holds the fastest time in all five tubes and has done since the 9th.
The only pilot who has looked like beating any of those marks lately is
Ultionis, in practice, and the clock does not count it.
LEADERBOARD
Pilot — Lifetime points
1. Ultionis 990
2. Azryayix gyarz 667
3. storm_titty 194
4. Factor Fett 145
5. Harpo 125
6. Westacular 111
7. spidey 104
8. Teni 100
9. Sitra Achra 72
10. Payne 70
11. Ashanti of The Sands 66
12. Dasona Korar 63
13. Lunar Shadow 42
14. Pvt. Parts 15
15. Boss Mos 12
Movement: Ultionis takes 125 and sits on 990 — ten points short of a thousand,
which the first race next week will settle. Azryayix gyarz takes 72 and moves
to 667, eleven events from eleven, still the only pilot who has never missed
one. And spidey, who raced once and logged off, collects 18 and climbs over
Teni into seventh all-time. There are worse ways to spend four minutes.
Points are awarded by finishing position in each race: 25 for 1st, 18, 15, 12,
10, 8, 6, 4, 2, and 1 for 10th. Crossing order decides it, not the clock. Exit
the tube before the finish line and you score DNF for that race. Top six overall
at each event take a credit prize.
Same time next week, Sedina B-5. Bring a fighter. Leave the guns.
Tube Racing is a test of pure piloting. Five races across five sectors — Sedina B-5, D-5, E-5, F-5, and H-5 — and nothing in the hold but nerve. Fly any non-capital, fighter-class ship you like, but the weapons stay off. There is no shooting your way to the front of this pack. There is only the line you choose, and how hard you dare carry it into the next bend.
The start is the first test. Gather within 100 meters of the host and wait for the call. "Ready." Then, when every ship has gone still, "Set." Nothing moves until the host calls "Go." Twitch early and your race is reset; do it again and again and you are finished for the night.
Then it is the tube. Cross the finish line ahead of the field and take 25 points. Second takes 18, third 15, and on down to a single point for tenth. Clip hard enough to punch out through a wall — or come apart entirely — and you score Did Not Finish: zero. The tube does not move. You do.
At the end of the event the points are tallied and the top six pilots split up to 21 million credits, with 6 million to the champion. And the leaderboard is lifetime — every point you have ever scored is still standing on it, which means the fastest pilots of Season One are already ahead of you.
Come take it from them.
Season Two will begin September 2nd, Wednesdays at 6 PM CST (2300 game time). Each event runs about half an hour.
Point schedule (per race)
Place Points
1st 25
2nd 18
3rd 15
4th 12
5th 10
6th 8
7th 6
8th 4
9th 2
10th 1
Reward schedule (per event)
Overall Credits
1st 6,000,000
2nd 5,000,000
3rd 4,000,000
4th 3,000,000
5th 2,000,000
6th 1,000,000
TUBE RACING — SEPTEMBER 30TH
The fastest lap of the night did not count
THE NIGHT
Four minutes before the first call, Ultionis was out on the Sedina B-5 course
on his own, warming up, and the board lit:
New track record! Ultionis has raised the bar to 00:49.409
Faster than the 00:49.539 that stands under his name on this thread. Faster
than anything anyone has ever run in B-5 in a scored race. And set at 18:58,
three minutes and fourteen seconds before "go" — which makes it a practice lap
and nothing else.
When it counted he ran 00:51.009. He won the race by five seconds. He spent
the rest of the night irritated about it:
<Ultionis> when i mess it up i still beat the next best guy buy two
seconds or so but i need to get that number down on the
official board!
spidey arrived for B-5 still carrying ordnance — "aw shiet i packed a gun" —
and was told, reasonably, to keep his finger off the trigger. He took second
in 00:56.073. Azryayix gyarz teleported in at 19:02:49, forty-seven seconds
after the start, and watched the whole thing from the line. Nothing for him
in B-5.
Then D-5 went strange. Something broke on Azryayix's run — nobody could say
quite what — and the question was whether he had punched out of the tube.
<Phaserlight> "Azryayix gyarz" you clipped out?
<Azryayix gyarz> no
<Phaserlight> I didn't see it
With no way to call it, the question went to the only other racer with points
on the line — the man leading the series by a mile, who had nothing to gain:
<Phaserlight> Ultionis are you all right with him running the course again
and comparing his time against yours in this case?
<Ultionis> going through backwards certainly wont fix it, but yes, i can wait
<Ultionis> let azry re run it
Azryayix was teleported out and back, lined up alone, and ran 01:56.415. It
counted. Eighteen points, and the only reason he finished the night on 72.
E-5 cost the field its third racer. Mid-race, with Ultionis already across:
[100] spidey vanishes
<Ultionis> spidey just logged off
VO-Discord <draugath> What? Where did he go?
<Ultionis> sadness
spidey never came back. His eighteen points from one race in Sedina B-5 were
still good enough for third place overall, and when the prizes went out the
server replied: *** Don't know who spidey is.
That left two. Azryayix ran the whole night in a Vulture MkIV — a fine ship,
not a racing ship — and Ultionis spent the gaps between races trying to fix
that:
<Ultionis> azry are you out of superlights?
<Ultionis> i can deliver you a load for oen
and, when the final times went up and Azryayix apologised for being slow:
<Azryayix gyarz> is slow in comparison
<Ultionis> youre not using a racing ship though
Final: Ultionis 125 — a clean sweep of all five tubes — Azryayix gyarz 72,
spidey 18 in absentia.
COURSE RECORDS
Every time below was set during a scored Tube Racing event, from the first
series in April 2025 through the present. Only a pilot's single best run in
each sector is listed, so no name appears twice on a board.
Not one place on any of the five boards changed this week.
Sedina B-5
1. 00:49.539 Ultionis
2. 00:50.687 Teni
3. 00:53.632 spidey
3. 00:53.632 storm_titty
5. 00:54.713 Westacular
6. 00:56.643 Harpo
7. 00:56.760 Payne
8. 00:59.711 Lunar Shadow
9. 01:01.247 Sitra Achra
10. 01:03.489 Factor Fett
Sedina D-5
1. 01:12.768 Ultionis
2. 01:13.673 Teni
3. 01:15.968 spidey
4. 01:17.120 storm_titty
5. 01:20.192 Westacular
6. 01:27.618 Sitra Achra
7. 01:29.151 Azryayix gyarz
8. 01:30.176 Factor Fett
9. 01:44.255 Harpo
10. 02:23.295 Pvt. Parts
Sedina E-5
1. 01:25.182 Ultionis
2. 01:28.387 spidey
3. 01:29.921 Westacular
4. 01:30.369 storm_titty
5. 01:35.744 Payne
6. 01:41.247 Sitra Achra
7. 01:44.257 Factor Fett
8. 01:51.489 Azryayix gyarz
9. 01:52.960 Dasona Korar
10. 01:57.119 Ashanti of The Sands
Sedina F-5
1. 01:20.447 Ultionis
2. 01:23.137 Teni
3. 01:24.671 storm_titty
3. 01:24.671 Westacular
5. 01:24.740 spidey
6. 01:29.536 Payne
7. 01:38.567 Azryayix gyarz
8. 01:40.159 Sitra Achra
9. 01:40.608 Factor Fett
10. 01:46.304 Dasona Korar
Sedina H-5
1. 01:18.912 Ultionis
2. 01:22.369 Westacular
3. 01:22.688 storm_titty
4. 01:24.286 Teni
5. 01:28.322 Payne
6. 01:35.366 Azryayix gyarz
7. 01:38.568 Factor Fett
8. 01:51.680 Dasona Korar
9. 01:55.334 Harpo
10. 02:13.756 Lunar Shadow
Ultionis holds the fastest time in all five tubes and has done since the 9th.
The only pilot who has looked like beating any of those marks lately is
Ultionis, in practice, and the clock does not count it.
LEADERBOARD
Pilot — Lifetime points
1. Ultionis 990
2. Azryayix gyarz 667
3. storm_titty 194
4. Factor Fett 145
5. Harpo 125
6. Westacular 111
7. spidey 104
8. Teni 100
9. Sitra Achra 72
10. Payne 70
11. Ashanti of The Sands 66
12. Dasona Korar 63
13. Lunar Shadow 42
14. Pvt. Parts 15
15. Boss Mos 12
Movement: Ultionis takes 125 and sits on 990 — ten points short of a thousand,
which the first race next week will settle. Azryayix gyarz takes 72 and moves
to 667, eleven events from eleven, still the only pilot who has never missed
one. And spidey, who raced once and logged off, collects 18 and climbs over
Teni into seventh all-time. There are worse ways to spend four minutes.
Points are awarded by finishing position in each race: 25 for 1st, 18, 15, 12,
10, 8, 6, 4, 2, and 1 for 10th. Crossing order decides it, not the clock. Exit
the tube before the finish line and you score DNF for that race. Top six overall
at each event take a credit prize.
Same time next week, Sedina B-5. Bring a fighter. Leave the guns.
Noooooooooo! Too early for me. That sux :(
Glad to see the races coming back though, even if I can't be there...
Glad to see the races coming back though, even if I can't be there...
Tube Racing is coming back!
The second season will commence on Wednesday, September 2nd, at 2300 game time in Sedina B-5
The second season will commence on Wednesday, September 2nd, at 2300 game time in Sedina B-5
No one will ever take my title belt! I'm the fastest in Gray
yay!
Should also record best times so we get a best of all time leaderboard! (that's somewhat supervised to mitigate the clipping shenanigans.)
Should also record best times so we get a best of all time leaderboard! (that's somewhat supervised to mitigate the clipping shenanigans.)