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It's time to celebrate, and I'm taking it super literally. So what better system to celebrate a Ruby Anniversary than 40 Leonis (see what I did there?). Our race starts and finishes at Goeschek Horizons in 40 Leonis. Your mission is to buy some gifts, name the event, and secure your invite to...

Questing on Qixi - Buckyball 101st Race “We’ve had a tradition of opening a pathway across the vast stars, for a Earth folk tale of a Cowherd and a Weaver Girl who can only meet at Qixi every year. Sounds cliche, doesn’t it? Yet, We Starfinders do this every year, to make us have something to...

The Loose Screws Ring Tossers Rally : Ross 104 : May 25 - June 2, 3310 The Loose Screws Podcast Network welcomes you to the second race in the Triple 8 Championship: the Ring Tossers Rally, sponsored by Niebla's Artisinal Tritium, "If it's not Nieblas, it's only sparkling hydrogen." The Race...

SUBMIT YOUR RUN IT'S PARECO TIME (Posting this real early because of ECM)!! This is one of my favourite races from all of Elite Dangerous Racing and I felt like it would be criminal for me to not bring it back for a third time given how popular it was last year! Also after the madness that was...

The Buckyball Racing Club Presents: The Trouble With Triples Did you ever have a moment when out exploring or when trading or running missions or otherwise travelling from one system to another only to get a rude awakening by almost crashing into one of the stars in the system you jumped...

It's been four years, and the bars at the Asteroid bases are thriving! Time to revisit these glorious bases. Take 5 Buckyball Beer Mats and deliver one to each of the asteroid bases nearby, to offer them the help they need if they join Bucky's empire. And on your way back make sure to pick up...

Welcome to Back to Pareco! Like the original, Full Throttle at Pareco, this is a Buckyball time-trial race. It's also the first of eight fan-favorite races in a series - the Magic 8-Ball Championship - to determine who is the biggest, baddest, buckyball-iest racer in the entire galaxy. RACE...

We've been quiet for way too long but the Buckyball Racing Club are back baby, with a whole new championship consisting of 8 races run at monthly intervals throughout 3308. The idea with this championship is that we will re-run 8 of the community's favourite races from the past 6 years of...

There has been an increase in Thargoid activity recently. After encountering the Thargoids in the Coalsack Nebula where they have previously not been seen, Canonn Research Group want to check to see if there have been any changes to known Thargoid activity areas. In particular whether there...

The Buckyball Racing Club Presents: Signs Of Life The Buckyball Racing Club website: http://www.buckyballracing.org.uk The Buckyball Racing Club Discord server: https://discord.gg/YwxcsCf The Signs Of Life race involves visiting as many different locations where life of one sort or another can...

Thanks to CMDR Alec Turner for the banner Description The Hull Seals are an organisation dedicated to help people who damaged their hulls, similar to the Fuel Rats, just with other limpets. Nearing the anniversary of the Seal's creation, it's time to celebrate it with a nerve-wrecking...

8am Nov 2 - 8am Nov 3 "24hr Elite Charity Challenge Livestream" benifitting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention @afspnational on twitter. The goal is to complete the current 4 BuckyBall Racing Club Standing Challenges in 24hrs. The donation goal is $1000. Watch...

Fancy a shorter trip? The Buckyball Racing Club Season 3: Triple Eight Championship has just finished, but hop over to the BRC Discord to see what's in the works for 3311. SPECIAL NOTE: The rules in this OP are out of date, and it will take a major effort to fix them. For the latest rules...

Buckyball Racing Club Presents: The Race to the Poles - Polar Ship Fram Celebration Final Classification In the late 19 century, back on Mother Earth, when humanity was pushing to discover the most obscure corners of the planet, the Polar Ship Fram was built with few but...

Buckyball Racing Club presents The Black Riband Rebooted A Standing Challenge for Smugglers CURRENT HOLDER: Cmdr Bruski (Flaming OnionBe4r Freight) Time: 02:48:41 BLACK RIBAND STANDINGS - 21:00 UTC 18-JUL-3304 BOOTLEGGER EXPRESS STANDINGS - 21:00 UTC 18-JUL-3304 COBRA CHALLENGE CUP...

Starports can be found in a wide variety of locations, some of them close enough to their parent body that the supercruise approach becomes much more of an art than a science. Many will have heard of Robert Aitken Orbital in Firdaus, where the station famously skims remarkably close above the...

At Lavecon this past weekend, Buckyball Racing Club was pleased to welcome participants to the second annual Lavecon Buckyball Race. We ended the weekend with some 27 competitors over the two days (a few of whom managed to fit in two attempts, though we were prioritising those who had not...

Back on Earth in the decades around the turn of the 21st century a thing called "base jumping" was a popular past-time for the spoiled and reckless (basically an urban underclass who dressed and spoke like they were poor yet could seemingly afford to hire helicopters to drop them at the top of...

RUN SUBMISSION FORM Nothing beats a good pub crawl, since the dawn of time it seems as though humanity has enjoyed the experience of staggering from one bar to the next with a group of friends, having a merry time and finishing up with a plate of spicy food or dancing the night away in a club -...

One of ancient Earth's more intriguing customs took place on April 1st of each year when people would play pranks on their friends, typically by trying to trick them into believing outlandish claims. The gullible victim would be labelled an April Fool and the day was often referred to as April...

"...shuddup! Are you sure this is working... Be quiet now. I mean, if they can hear us... They won't if you can keep your flappin' mouth shut for the next twenty minutes. But if... Bjorn. Mhh! Mhh mhhm mhh mhhmhhh? Do I have to remind you that our hunky technician, in addition to that duct tape...

A time-trial race event open for nine days on all gaming platforms. A test of skill for interstellar ambulance pilots and speed enthusiasts of all kinds. The Story: “Alright candidates, listen up.” The pilot briefing room aboard Harris Hospital Station fell silent as the Director of the...

Back Story "Hey Bump, it's been a while huh?" The man at the bar turned, his velvet coat spinning out in a graceful arc. "How you doin' Daily, long time no see!" "Delia please! only my staff call me Daily" "Jeez, the last time I saw you must have been over 2 years ago, back when we put on...

Happy Christmas everyone! See you in the new year ... https://youtu.be/Jq4w09sABwo :cool:

NOTE: RACE EXTENDED TO 12/18!!! Hello, and welcome to Land of Hope and Glory! The leaderboard: The race will start on Tuesday, December 5, 3303 at 0:00:00, and will continue until Monday, December 18, 3303 at 23:59:59. All entries must be run during that time. Submissions will be...

Generally, whenever I take part in a Buckyball race I like to video one of my runs and set it to some music. Turns out I've got well over a year and a half's worth of these now so I thought I'd gather them all in one place and thereby present a brief history of my involvement in Buckyball...

The Buckyballer's guide to Engineering Now also with advice for Elite Racers This guide aims to explain the concepts of engineer modifications when applied to racing. It will help your ship fly faster and jump further. Engineer modifications for modules other than those typically used in...

Your textbook and Professor for today... Greetings CDMRs! Bucky, in close cooperation with the Buckyball Racing Club, is putting together a volume of the collected wisdom of the pilots who consistently push the limits of their ships and themselves to just a tad faster every time they get in the...

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...

The Buckyball Racing Club presents: The Black Riband - sponsored by Evil Juice. Are you the best smuggler in the galaxy? Prove it then... Please note, this event is for OPEN-MODE ONLY The Leaderboards Correct at 08:00GMT 01-SEP-3303 Current Holder Previous Holders Unsuccessful...

Fancy a shorter trip? Take a look at the Club website for our other races (roughly every 3-4 weeks)! What is it? The A* Challenge is simple: Fly from Sol (or Wolf 359) to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy, and record your time for doing so. Of...