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 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.

Something has come up and the Run is not likely to be run by myself or Joyce. If anyone else can, please feel free to run the race and contact us for prize reimbursement.

Since nobody from the SSC/CDC/TGFT guilds was able to host tonight run, I took the liberty to host it. I paid all the prizes out of my pocket, but the run has been announced as sponsored by CDC, SSC and TGFT.

The Racers:

Foo Fighter, itani, first time runner, and [ITAN] member.

Jestatis Bess, itani, veteran commander of [ONE1]; his career is at the beginning, but he knows how to fly fast.

Morgan West, itani, representing [SKV]; a veteran in game, but his first race.

Raze Aretou, serco, from [PA]. Two third places for the pilot with a thing for knitting.

Results:
Morgan West | 37:58 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian, FC, No Weps
Foo Fighter | 41:51 | Warthog MkII, FC, Neut MkIII + Megaposi
Raze Aretou | 43:27 | Warthog MkII, UC, No Weps
Jestatis Bess | DNF | Warthog MkII, FC, No Weps

Notes:

1) Very slow run. Lots of storms, no scouting, and some questionable ship/equip choices slowed down our racers.

2) The only race in a long time without UIT pilots. Strike Forces in Serco space were particularly busy running after the three itanis.

3) Jestatis Bess fell to one of the most annoying glitches of the game: recently, accessing sectors takes a lot of time, and when he was done with loading, the seekers that were after him already destroyed his ship. I dearly hope the devs would address this inconvenience, or we will keep losing pilots to such unpredictable events.

4) No reported pirate activity, but lots of unrats annoying our contenders in the last leg of the run.

5) Teutonic Crusader was tempted to participate, but made up his mind too late, when the racers were already in serco space. Next time, better reserve some time for the DR in advance, Teutonic.

6) The run was plagued with a serious group bug problem: from time to time, my group would disappear on its own, without any apparent reason; I had to re-create and re-invite all the racers for a dozen times during the entire event.

7) I could have easily won this one! ;)

Next week's race will be in the EARLY slot.

Kat, if you can get ingame sometime tomorrow I'll be able to get you the sponsorship money from Sigma's end.

(I had a baseball game to help broadcast today and couldn't be around for the race.)

Thanks, I'll try to be around. Eventually for the NW.

I could have been a contender :(

Its so fustrating when you see yourself on the other side of a jump and frozen. Took about 20 secs to load the screen. I couldn't run i was just dead. SF and seekers should get the same lag :(