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

*** The TIME will be 9pm Eastern Daylight Time, 6pm Pacific, 1am Sunday GMT (Or Sunday 01:00) ***

*** 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.

Before the official standings are published, I already admit that my victory was exclusively result of luck on my part.

After an entire lap glued to Blue Streak's exhaust pipes, I just popped in front of M14's docks, while he appeared 2km behind me in the very last leg of the run. And this uncontrollable event bascially decided the standings.

Luck or not, Congrats!

Indeed, congrats :)

i thought the race wasent for another 3 and a half hours?

Announcing I am an idiot! (ORLY)

I didn't pull up all the information from the logs, then I got curious about SFs in Unionspace and launched VO, thereby wiping them clean. After fidgeting for a week and hoping God would strike everyone with amnesia about last week's Run I've decided to own up and post what I have. I'm missing some ship setups and the names of the two new racers. If anyone remembers the info, I'll be grateful if you post it here. Anyway...

Katrina Le-Feir | 28:05 | Orion Convoy Guardian Hornet, FCPC, no weaponry
Blue Streak | 28:11 | EC-107, FCPC, no weaponry
Raze Aretou | 32:47 |
Jestatis Bess | 39:31 |
Señor Incognito One | 41:33 |
Señor Incognito Dos | DNF |

Notes:

1. You can see how close Katrina and Blue Streak finished of each other.

2. Jestatis kept calling for someone to shoot Raze down, but the pirates were testing out Stormtrooper targeting systems.

3. The sole DNF was due to RL issues, so no deaths this race.

Tomorrow's race is in the EARLY slot, so don't be sloths and be there early!