Controversy reined in Regulation Cobra Class today, with that most pedantic of factions
The Race Marshalls employing their V.A.R. (very annoying replays) system to frustrate everybody.
First run of the day was an excellent attempt by Cmdr
@Ozric, making it back to Hoshide Dock ahead of
@Alec Turner's time, and comfortably under 6 minutes with bonuses, but the Race Marshalls picked over Ozric's Cobra Spoiler Not Included and their extensive and confusing set of rules and determined that the loadout contravened the strict regulation class rules by only fitting a single fragmentation cannon.
Undeterred Ozric fitted a second cannon and set out again, blazing his own trail around the course, but an obscured jump cost him this time and he arrived back 15 seconds off the lead.
Alec was hanging onto his lead by a technicality, and as the day wore on and all the action was happening in Unlimited Class, it looked like it would stay that way.
Then a flurry of activity rewrote the leaderboard, despite an attack of cookiebots jamming submissions for some time, eventually Cmdrs
@sgurr and
@Epaphus managed to register their times.
Sgurr blasted around the course in
Class of 84, claiming a full house of bonuses and an adjusted time of 2m19s, but again The Race Marshalls and their V.A.R. system had their wicked way - Sgurr had broken and entered before his fly-through of the installation, and so was denied that bonus. Nonetheless, the stunning regulation run was fast enough to claim the lead by nearly two minutes.
Then just as the day appear done, Epaphus completed his second run in Baller, knocking ten minutes off his regulation time and knocking poor Alec down to third place, and Ozric (who would have been second) off the podium.
Over in Unlimited, it was a very busy day.
First Buckyball crazy-ship maestro Cmdr
@crotalus ran around the course in his Alliance Crusader Eleanor with a run of under 30 minutes, picking up the Station Hustler and Beer Run bonuses to bring it down to 25m52s.
Shortly afterwards Buckyball newbie Cmdr EvilRaven30 made a run in his Imperial Eagle
Red Comet unfortunately missed out some of the waypoints - he was never going to get that one past the eagle eyes of The Race Marshalls, especially with that dazing new paintjob. EvilRaven is back out on the course as this report is being compiled and so will hopefully have a valid spot tomorrow.
Improved runs were then made by
@Sulu and
@Shaye Blackwood.
Those cookiebots have been running amok in Sulu's Imperial Courier, but he still managed to knock nearly 4 minutes off his time and close the gap on Alec's lead.
Shaye has no cookiebots on Blackbird, and today was no baselining run.
The Race Marshalls shook their heads in disbelief, unable to find anything to disqualify as Shaye set the first negative time of the event - blazing around in under 24 minutes with a full house of bonuses including a 100% hull "Daisy bonus" for an adjusted time of -1m03s! o7
The final run of the day, by CMDR Tannis Phage (
@shockbait) was absolutely beset by cookiebots, but Tannis persevered and made it back with all bonuses and an adjusted time of under 24 minutes.
See you tomorrow, hopefully with no unwanted interference by
The Race Marshalls or cookiebots.
Since then I haven't even been able to get the Launcher to open, the process instantly dies a split second after it starts in task manager. Rebooted, reset modem, tried all the usual things, no dice.
