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 Buckyball Racing Club history (and there were 79 to choose from).
(note: this collage only shows a selection of the 79)
Each race will run for a week or two (remember, our races are all time trials run over a period of time during which people can enter whenever they want and as often as they want) as entirely standalone events. But, in addition, competitors will be awarded points according to their final placing in the race that will count towards their overall championship standing, with our 3308 champions being announced at the end of the season. To allow for the fact that not everyone who enters the championship will necessarily be able to take part in every race, only your best 6 results will be counted.
Good news! Since writing the original OP for this forum thread we've now had 8 volunteers step forward to run these races so the following plea is no longer needed and the Magic 8 Ball championship can officially go ahead! Maybe just move on to post #2 where you'll find more information about the championship.
We need 8 volunteers to each pick a race they like the sound of from the #past-events channel in our DISCORD SERVER and agree to run it. For those that are happy to really get involved with this, running a race could include coming up with a name and banner for the race, posting a forum thread for it, taking in people's submissions (typically a set of screenshots) and verifying times, maintaining the leaderboard for the race (typically just in a spreadsheet) and posting the results in the forum thread on a semi-regular basis so everyone involved can see how they're doing. It's actually more fun than it sounds, is a great way to really engage with the racing community and has made the Buckyball Racing Club what it is. Don't worry if you're not sure how to do parts of this, we'll help as much or as little as you need.
There's a bunch of core members of the BRC who are still around (myself included) who'll be picking a race each to run but without the community's help there's a real risk that we won't have the time or energy to run all 8 of these so if you still love Elite and want to see its community events section continue to thrive then this is your chance to help and to become a part of a club that's been here since the beginning and is strongly represented within the in-game universe.
And if you have your own communities (or just groups of friends that you play with) then PLEASE share the above banner and a link to this thread in order to make as many people as possible aware of this.
P.S. I'll probably do more of an FAQ later but one thing to say is that we like to try and make our races as inclusive as possible so in general we plan to let people run in either Horizons or Odyssey, unless the race involves an SRV section, in which case we'll restrict it to Horizons (which everyone can still run) since those races will have been designed around the original Horizons terrain.
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