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.

Note, for the avoidance of an ambiguity exception, that is Tonight, Saturday Night. (Sunday 02:00 here in UK)

I am not sure I can make the Run tonight. If Katrina, Ecka (or someone else, Mick or Surb maybe) wants to MC tonight, that'd be super-awesome.

Can't guarantee. The late slot means staying up from 3AM to at least 4AM for us europeans. Will try.

Actually all other regular events now happen at 21:00 GMT. This is not ideal time for me (I'd prefer events to start earlier than midnight for me), but seems like at least both Europeans and Amercans can make it at this time slot. So maybe let's drop late timeslot? DR#100 voting showed that early is ok for most racers

Of course don't expect me to be at the event which will start at 4:00. I have a life. Sorry :)

I'm up for it, see you at the start line 8)

The DR#101 risked to be canceled due to lack of racers. At the very last moment TheBlackFlag decided to join in.

The racers:

Jestatis Bess, itani, Commander of [ONE1]; a man, his guild, one million eq advertisements.
Foo Fighter, itani, Councilor of [ITAN]; a competent racer, already aware of many tricks.
TheBlackFlag, UIT, member of [CLM]; to liberate cargo, you need to smuggle quickly...

The results:

Foo Fighter | 29:56 | Orion Hornet Convoy Guardian | FC | bare
Jestatis Bess | 33:24 | Warthog Mk II | FC | bare
TheBlackFlag | 34:40 | Warthog Mk II | FC | mega posi

Notes:

1) Very stormy run. Especially Pherona and Jallik reserved many blue km to our racers.

2) Not much pirate activity. In a weird twist of roles, Omega 0, guildmate of Foo Fighter, attacked TheBlackFlag. An ITAN firing on a racing pirate! Not a common sight.

3) Still, even with few percentage points left, TBF managed to dock in third place.

4) Miharu already paid up the sponsor quota for SSC.

5) The late slot attracts few people. Summer makes it worse, apparently.

Next DR will be in the EARLY slot.

Thanks, Katrina.

I got invited out to see the new Harry Potter movie with a friend at the last minute and wasn't sure if I'd be back in time to MC the race.

If one considers "five minutes after the race started" as "in time", then I guess I did. ;)

Evil Potter, I suspect he will steal several people from the next race

thank you Syylk for hosting. U rock!!!

and BTW I came in 2nd :) WOOOOOT!!!

Syylk, past precedent in the race has shown that if you only get two racers, the MC races as well so as not to cancel. So you could have MCed AND won the race!

The Run only gets canceled by no racers, just one racer (besides the MC), or servers down.

If he/she intends to race, you mean?

Because I find demanding to MC as it is. Having to run WHILE announcing and keeping track of the racers would saturate my synaptic allowance limit. :) I prefer to MC well, and not race, than do both poorly. I consider hosting a service to players.

I know I could have smoked all the three racers, but that's not the point! ;)

Anyway, should the need arise again in the future, I will try and fill in the spot. Maybe with an unusual ship. My understanding is that nobody raced with an XC, yet. :D