Spark Racing League

[Reaper_Charlie]

Spark Realm is proud to announce the long-awaited release of:

Spark Racing League!
http://srl.spark-realm.net

What:
Spark Racing League is an every-man-for-himself league in which players do their utmost to get their ship from the starting spawns to the finish lines in the shortest amount of time possible! The races take place on specially-crafted raceways, designed from the ground up into Spark maps. The skill factor that accompanies most leagues does not affect Spark Racing League; players of all skill levels can play (and be competitive) in this league! Whether or not you are victorious against your competitors depends on the dexterity of your fingers, the speed of your mind, how quick you are able to take the curves, and whether or not you can avoid the deadly traps throughout the raceways!

When:
Spark Racing League Staff hold races from time to time. Catch us in our lobby on Spark (#srl) to request when we'll be having races, and we'll also post announcements in the lobby or on the forums!

Who:
Anyone can race! SRLis all about getting players to experience the fun that can be had by racing in Spark! It doesn't matter what skill level you are at in terms of normal league or pub play, because there is no flag-capturing, switch-flipping, assassinating, or any conventional objectives involved!* Just you, your opponents, speed, curves, traps, and the battle to achieve victory instead of defeat!

Where:
SRL is played in a mixture of maps both chosen from ARL (Swift, etc.), and created specifically for SRL (CrazyMaze, GoldRush, PrisonBreak, etc.). These maps have been overseen to be of the highest quality possible, and have been tested endlessly for usability purposes, and have been guaranteed 100% awesome by the SRL staff! If you would like to create a map for SRL, please reply to this post directly or PM me!

Join Us:
We are mostly looking for players with prior racing experience to be referees for Spark Racing League. But even if this doesn't describe you, feel free to apply anyway!


For any other information, please PM Reaper_Charlie (me) on these forums, or take a gander at the SRL website (http://SRL.Spark-Realm.net) for updates!

See you on the raceways!


*At the end of a race, players are required to pick up a flag to signify their crossing of the finish line. No competitive flag-capture play is required. Also, since all players are on the same team, shooting is allowed, but does not affect other racers, due to friendly-fire being turned off by default in Spark.

[astrix]

astrix for VP

[Reaper_Charlie]

Important Update: Astrix has just been demoted from SRL Vice President to Worthless Peon.

[astrix]

Meh. It's a title.

[Reaper_Charlie]

Meh... thought you'd be heartbroken. Or at least eager to go pee in the streets and make an arse of yourself again.

Seriously though, I'm so stoked for when Spark Racing League will be coming out! There'll be cookies and candy and chips and popcorn and brownies and energy drinks and girls and lots of bashing-head-against-keyboard-ness and it'll be an all-around good time! Someone go find PitchblackItai and tell him to get back on Spark! =0 Where'd that foo go? He disappeared with my race footage! =0

It's gonna be so much fun!!! Can't wait!!! <3

[Reaper_Charlie]

If you'd like to help out reffing, read this: http://www.spark-realm.net/forum/index. ... wtopic=128

[Frog]

I wanna race, vroom vroom. I think we should all be same color because people in this community would shoot eachother and ruin a race just to be dicks.

[astrix]

thats the idea frog

[snowball]

I'm gonna go on the other color just to kill frog.

[atr3yu]

yeah baby! this is gonna be FUN!

[turbo]

What are the rules for people who made the maps being allowed to participate?

[astrix]

considering i've had all the maps for a while, i dare say we won't be participating.

and if we do, it wont be recorded.

[Reaper_Charlie]

We'll be releasing all of the maps when they're complete, probably all at once. Hopefully it will be up to 2 weeks before the league begins, so that everyone can get in a lot of practice. But the maps we're creating aren't really about practice, they're about racing well. Knowing the maps is barely an advantage.

[epi]

RC i would have loved to do this...but i have too much going on to play in a league, let alone 1 CTA tournament a week. by next quarter i hope things at school slow down, and maybe ill get some free time!

[Reaper_Charlie]

Hopefully if everything goes well, we'll be running this league every couple of months, or bi-yearly or something.