TMNF : theSGL Grand Prix
Posted by
Uzi on 11th Jun 2008 @ 2:28pm
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Trackmania Nations Forever is fun. Summed up in one word that few who have played the game will be able to argue with. As is usual when I have been working with a game for some other event I always want to bring it to theSGL and try it out on you guys - usually thismeets with limited success but on this occasion the game has two things in it's favour :
- It's bloody brilliant!
- It's totally free!
What we are going to be doing over the summer are a series of "Grand Prix" events. Each of these will take the form of a three night event. We start off with groups of four players, each group plays on three separate tracks and have points awarded for their performance on each. After the three tracks are completed the points will be added to the league table and the top two players will go through to the next round of the event the following night.
The same process is repeated on the second night until we have four players remaining for the third and final night where the winner will receive a full copy of Trackmania Forever via your Steam account.
Applications for the event are very much open and you have a little under two weeks to practice the tracks we will be using. You will need to download the official ESWC "Masters of Paris" map pack from this link. In it you will find eight maps. We will be drawing all our maps from this pack at random so you'll have to decide if you need to practice them all a bit, or if you're going to work hard on just a couple and then cross your fingers and hope that they are used....
So taken as given that the overwhelming majority of you have got STEAM installed on your PC's you should have noticed the Trackmania Nations Forever game that is sitting in your account as a totally free addition. If you haven't already done so then the time to install it is now (make sure you update your direct x installation after you have added the game or it won't work). If by some chance you do not have the wonder of steam installed on your machine then head over to the official website for this game where you can download and install it manually.
As the old LO3 config always used to say :
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Comments
#1 |
converge | Posted on 11/06/08 2:50pm
VROOM VROOM
#2 |
BanKs-.- | Posted on 11/06/08 2:59pm
smash bang wollap config ^_^! should be fun!!
haha, looks great

#4 |
bm` | Posted on 11/06/08 4:00pm
im in!
#5 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 11/06/08 4:20pm
Im IN!
#6 |
spk | Posted on 11/06/08 4:22pm
ROFL gna add for a laugh
SIGNED UP!


im in

... will be fun.. tho i havnt played the masters of paris tracks yet..
shame i already have the prize

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Just seen some vids of people on TMNF, they're fucking CrAsY on it! Actual immense driving
#11 |
Buster | Posted on 11/06/08 5:35pm
lol seb.. but anyway, im down

i'll be on ya tail nemesis :P

go for it
#13 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 11/06/08 7:06pm
AHha nemesis

As if!! I heard rumours that id already won :P
lol :p u shoulda come 2 eswc man, u coulda further embarrised r2k..

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and i mean.. i alrdy have trackmania united forever.. i alrdy got the prize so its a shame since i wont try so hard.. :p.. no need to try so hard if prize isnt so important

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#15 |
Uzi | Posted on 11/06/08 8:17pm
lol, nemesis youre like an 8ft kid pushing toddlers around in this event hahah. Should be fun, shame there are no collisions in this game hahah.
#16 |
HippY- | Posted on 11/06/08 8:33pm
Says 8 tracks, but there is only 5 in that map pack!
#17 |
Uzi | Posted on 11/06/08 9:50pm
that would be right , i changed it from the june-july pack to the masters of paris pack - my bad. CONFIRMING FIVE tracks only
#18 |
FoXehh^ | Posted on 11/06/08 9:52pm
am in for the giggles
#19 |
danny- | Posted on 11/06/08 10:21pm
uzi, PICK ME, PICK ME!
#20 |
btk | Posted on 11/06/08 11:37pm
im in, but wot game is this?
#21 |
eLysium | Posted on 12/06/08 2:38am
download it on steam trackmania forever or something its called
basically YOU RACE AND YOU GET TO THE END!!
nah uzi, its just that r2k has been winning these years simply because none of the good uk players from online showed up.. if darky showed up i woulda had a really hard time keeping ahead, trust me, this event will be alot closer than ESWC

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#23 |
Uzi | Posted on 12/06/08 12:22pm
in all seriousness if theres a big wedge of players on the scene im more than happy to run a full on season for them, I had a monsterously good idea for it involving some (if i do say so myself) damn fine skins i did for cars, steelseries, alienware, scan, amd, oSektor, dell etc.
think "sponsored teams" just like F1...
yea, ive seen afew leagues like that run sucessfully in the USA (nascar).. another cool thing to do would be to run a time attack and seed evry1 then make teams from the seeds.. so if there is 16 people put
seed 1 + 16
seed 2 + 15
etc etc... to make up teams like in F1

#25 |
ande | Posted on 12/06/08 1:20pm
im in! gna b top 3 UK watch this space pow pow!
#26 |
HippY- | Posted on 12/06/08 1:20pm
Please tell me this will be rounds and not timeattack :P
i suspect it'l be rounds

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#28 |
Uzi | Posted on 12/06/08 2:26pm
youre suspicious ?
#29 |
bm` | Posted on 12/06/08 2:30pm
if its a grand prix it should be laps nothing else :S
#30 |
Uzi | Posted on 12/06/08 2:37pm
oh come on grand prix is just such a nice name. sounds so much beter than "theSGL quick bez round some tracks" for eg
i suspect it'l be rounds

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o_o how did i double post o.o? anywai's, laps would last longer and be fun but that'd involve uzi actually going out finding good laps tracks..

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and yes.. im suspicious

#33 |
spk | Posted on 12/06/08 4:23pm
where do i extract these maps?

#34 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 12/06/08 4:33pm
lmao, laps on masters of paris tracks would hard ;o
i already got united forever aswell lol
spk put them into my documents/trackmania/tracks/challenges/eswc paris/
#36 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 12/06/08 5:39pm
24th June - Thats my Bday!!!

I get to pwn you all on my b'day, or is that when sign ups close?!
#37 |
w'll | Posted on 13/06/08 3:23pm
Great idea, shame about the maps. Just installed them and played through them all, hard yeah, but it'll come down to luck on the day, due to the amount of silly junctions the map maker has added.
#38 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 13/06/08 4:15pm
i like the maps

hmm i prefer'd the june-july pack for ESWC.. but they are ok, number 1 and number 5 are best.
#40 |
HippY- | Posted on 13/06/08 6:15pm
Out of interest, what times should people be roughly going for to stand a chance you think? :P
#41 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 13/06/08 7:56pm
2 - 3 seconds off wr every round imo. lol. thats what im training for anyway
#42 |
safety_ | Posted on 13/06/08 9:50pm
where do i put the maps and how do i play them? i've tried but cant find them in the game

#43 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 14/06/08 3:36pm
C:\Documents and Settings\Mr & Mrs Holmes\My Documents\TrackMania\Tracks\Challenges\Downloaded
Make a new folder called eswcmasters or something and stick them in there. Then in game, Play Solo - Browse - Challenges - Downloaded - then find the folder - click the map - Play

#44 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 14/06/08 3:37pm
oops, but without Mr & Mrs Holmes xD stupid man who set it up did it for mr and mrs, e.g my mum and dad and not for me and its my pc lol
xD you training alot darky?
i havnt rly played them that much.. not too fussed about winning :p might practise abit more tomorrow since your practising so much :p.
#46 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 15/06/08 9:30pm
im training a bit yeah, will be alot more now seeing as esl race is over

:p sounds like im screw'd then

:p sounds like im screw'd then

#49 |
Uzi | Posted on 17/06/08 8:44am
nemesis ftw at refreshing the post after posting and creating a double post.
if you see this could you pm me please
oops

#51 |
DarkY^ | Posted on 19/06/08 5:56pm
Uzi when do the matches start, do they start on 24th or is that when sign ups close?
NemeNub :P i need to practice hard when i get my pc back

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