1. Buckyball Racing Club is an existing set of races in time trial format. There are ten races, spaced once a month, each in a different system. The routes are organised by various members of the Buckyball racing club and there are two classes, unlimited (where any ship can be used) or Regulation (where only a specific ship build is used). Time trials are entered with screenshots taken a certain points in the course or by monitor a YouTube video or Twitch Stream. More details can be found at either their Discord ( https://discord.gg/YwxcsCf ) or on the forums

   

   [INDEPENDENT] - Buckyball Racing Club

   The Buckyball Racing Club was formed by a group of participants in the Buckyball Run series of races, after it was announced that the original organiser of the Buckyball Run was taking an indefinite break from doing so. The aim of the club is to continue to organise and race in Buckyball-style...

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2. SRV Races - using a tool called EDCoPilot; it is possible to create virtual circuits on planetary surfaces. With a series of these locations set up, it could be possible create a Formula 1 Type series of races. It would need players to volunteer to marshal these events, and to provide virtual cameras of the course which would be used to broadcast the event over twitch / youtube.

3. CQC Tournament - CQC is idea for these kind of competitions. You could have a simple deathmatch competition, where a number of players play in heats, semi - finals and the final, with obviously the highest scoring player in the final winning the event. Or a knock out tournament where teams play the capture the flag scenario, in a series of matches until the

However, for CQC there a few issues that would need to be overcome in order to get this to work and circumvent the horrible match making;-

• Every Player would have to start with a base ship, i.e. none of the more advanced builds that are available in CQC.

• Players are put into a random draw, to generate the fixture list of up to 7 players for the heats.

• For every game, one player would have to be neutral to provide a virtual camera to broadcast to twitch for commentary. Any player who attacks the camera is immediately disqualified.

• The players for the heat (and the Camera player) all form a team and then enter the deathmatch game mode. Hopefully, this will start a match with just those players involved. If players not involved in that heat appear in the match, the players leave the match and try again (this is the most frustrating part of CQC).

• Each heat is played with the top scoring players goes through to the next round.

• With the Capture the Flag game mode. Each team will be restricted to 3 players each. (two teams of three + the Camera player).

• Some dry run CQC matches would have to be run first to see if its possible to run a Tournament like this. The CQC matches themselves are a lot of fun, it's the matchmaking that gets in the way!

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