Had a decent go tonight but couldn't beat my time. Quality track though, I've just got no valid aproach to the final checkpoint other than 'try to get there with like 5 crashes left and hope for a spot of luck'. Would love to see a vid of Ram's run.
Despite a late push from Unc, Ram steals the crown this time with that impressive 1:12.09 - well done Ram!
I'm going to have a think about how I can mix this up for next time, bit more encouragement for others to participate. Am thinking:
- Have a regular trail like we've been doing
- Have a 0 fault category
- Include some 'challenges' outside of just getting the fastest time (like finish with x time or lower, with y faults or lower etc). Not sure if I'll be able to come up with enough to make it interesting but figured it may give some incentive to those not fighting at the top.
Yeah it’s tricky. I was thinking you could do both a no fault and an unlimited fault run?
Outside of that then I don’t know what else you could really do? It’s a shame there’s isn’t any actual multiplayer but I can’t even fathom how they’d get that working.
I think an any fault run will just result in everyone going full pelt through ever checkpoint, I like that 10 gives you space for risks during a run without being a blanket 'yeah just yolo it until you make it'.
I think there's definitely some stuff we can do for 'fun' milestones during a challenge, leave it with me
(Sorry. Allow me to enjoy this as never been close to the top twice in any online challenge before!)
Re different challenges, a zero crash one would deffo bring something different, stops the likes of Grem cheating
Or a 0.5 second time penalty per crash
Or maybe something like 'closest time to rank 5000 in the world ' or some other random target time of your picking?
Or a bit less faff maybe, but a winner with the Most digit x in their time - maybe number 2 or higher to favour those with times over 2 mins
Holy fuck the next mountain is hard. Very different too. Parts are like downhill skiing whilst others are like Kickstart (for those old enough to remember).
I briefly tried one after you first mentioned it, not sure if the same one or if it had ticked over to a new one as after midnight...but i couldn't even get to the first checkpoint after half dozen goes so i gave up. there seemed to rocks and boulders cutting off all the routes..
Hmm, can't really remember. Also I'm pretty sure that I mostly watched Junior Kickstart rather than Kickstart. The theme tune was rather good in any case...