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An LS mate described the Windy>Jeuno>Bastok>Rabao run as the "Moron's Marathon" tonight. I think it's catchy! XD

Anyone think we need to make a new thread with a catchier/more descriptive title to advertise the weekly events, and keep discussion to this thread?

The first OFFICIAL race will be run a week from today, Sunday, August 29th, at 9PM EST/6PM CST.

This race will have a 100g entry fee. Prizes will come from the total submitted entry fees. 65% for the first place finisher, 25% to second, 10% to third. Rules are simple:

You must race on a level 1 job with no /anon set.

You may not set ANY home points except at the starting point in Bastok Markets and the halfway point in Jeuno.

You are forbidden to request/receive any kind of help from higher-levels, including teleports, sneak, and invis.

You are forbidden to use any sort of stealth items (silent oils, prism powders, etc.)

You must stay in the party to which you are assigned at the beginning of the race at all times. Any disbanding, unless it is from a disconnect, will be considered forfeit and elimination from the race.

You must have fun. Darnit.

Any other rules you guys can think of? I think I am going to make a new thread for this.

Edited, Mon Aug 23 00:52:12 2004 by Byaina

I think we should make a new thread with all the rules and times listed in the opening post, AND YES A CATCHY SUBJECT TITLE!!

Seriously though, this was amazing fun and I think it's just what a lot of people need to break away from all that "MUST BE #1" stress.

oh and YAY ME!!!! I survived the many deathwishes cast upon me by the other racers and DAMN YAG POISON!! ><

I also think we should have a "registration " period for each event.

Let's say 1 hour-10 minutes before race time, everyone that will be participating has to have paid and has to be ready at the starting point. It will give us some time to tally up how much we have for the prizes and also give us some time to fix any last minute problems. We can inform all the participants that there is atleast 1 "committee member" in each alliance to monitor that group and also one at the checkpoint and one at the finish line.

Just precautions to help hinder some of the less then serious particpants.

And I think an LS for the races would be great. Maybe not one for each participant but atleast one for the committee so we can easily talk within the group and It would help with the monitoring of the races.

I have a question.

As a RDM...I randomly will throw cures on someone or Poisana (sp? :-/ )

We aren't penalized if someone helps us are we? Or will there be a rule if someone tries to cure you to just keep running and don't stop. Maybe tell them not to help while running? But sometimes cures do go off while someone is running.

Just wondering.

Haha! I bet.

Oh and congrats by the way! :-)

I can't wait to do this lol.

Byaina, let me know if you want me to make a new post JUST for the actual events. I am thinking it will be one standard post, with all the rules and regulations in it and the date and time of the next race. Every time a new event is coming up we can just update this one post with the new information and the rules and regulatins will always be there. I think it will keep the race thread a lot cleaner.

(I'm offering to do it since I seem to be the one person involved that spends to most time on here ; ;)

Doh Demoncide... I meant PST... /slap <me> That wasn't very smart of me. Thanks for pointing it out.

Ele you can go ahead and start the thread, if you just want to copy/paste my rules feel free. We'll keep this thread for discussions. And since I just realized I didn't specify - the first official race will also follow the Bastok>Jeuno>Windy route. We'll save the Rabao one until we've done the shorter one with a whoooole lotta people.

Hello to the latecomers, you're all more than welcome to join in next time. HI Ishido too! XD

Re: referees: how many do you think we need who won't be running the race in the parties? And once we figure that out, who wants to volunteer? ;P What I was thinking is that it might be beneficial to have at least two referees following the groups on chocobo. The goal would be to have them at either end of every zone, watching people cross each line, then following through into the next zone. I don't think we would need more than two people for that, and that might eliminate the need for having one person just hang out at every checkpoint. What do you think? Also, the referees who actually run the race in every alliance should also pay an entry fee and be eligible for prize money - we want to have fun with this too!

When we did the trial run, an idea came up that we should offer side bets on who will come in first, who will die first, who will die the most spectacularly, etc. Do we want to have this as an "official" part of the race, or just let people have these bets on their own?

I do like the idea of there being a time by which you have to submit your entrance into the race. 10 minutes before the race is good. I was also thinking that it might be good to have people in each of the major cities /shouting to advertise the race to drum up some last-minute racers before we head to the starting point. Thoughts?

As for being helped by high-levels, you can't really help it if someone does a driveby Cure casting. However, if someone takes it upon themselves to cast sneak or invis on you, you are required to remove it yourself as soon as it's cast. Explain to the person who cast it on you why you're refusing their gift or don't, either way, you must remove the spell's effects immediately or risk disqualification. In fact, I think if you have someone randomly cast on you like that, you should be required to notify your alliance so that a referee understands the situation before you're automatically eliminated.

Finally, with regards to a linkshell, I'll go ahead and buy one at some point today and try to come up with some kind of clever name for it, heh. Committee members will automatically get pearls; other pearls will be distributed to people running the race if we end up with multiple alliances.

So everyone raise your hand if you're on the committee! Please understand that if you're on the committee, you are required to serve as a referee whenever we might need you, which at times may mean that you can't run the race. So if you always want to run the race, don't volunteer for the committee. ;) I know for sure Ele, Dnothoran, and Demoncide are on the committee -- Ishido, you want in too? Anyone else?

Winnar: Demoncide!! Lucky thing I haven't bought the LS yet!

lol I love the name Demon^^

Side note on the betting on deaths and winners and losers and what not, we have to make it a rule then that one cannot bet on him/herself. Otherwise everyone is going to bet that they lose and they are all going to be sitting in bastok waiting out the race lol.

And I will make the thread hopefully today If I get a chance (I'm actually busy at work today ; ;)

We should make it 500 gil for some races. I mean, most people could throw 500 gil on the ground and not miss it, but it really does add up with enough participants. 20 people with a 500 gil fee adds up to about 10k. 6.5k first prize isn't bad. :D

ahhhh dno the loveable dino is back ahh run for the hills >.< now that that is done with i wanna do a lvl 1 ballista match sounds like a great fun really tho it would be fun damn it >.< can you even do that tho?

Sure, we can up the entry fee, i have no problems with that. Maybe increase the entry fee as the races increase in difficulty?

Tpsyco, you get maps for different cities in the cities themselves. :)

I don't know if you can do level 1 ballista... isn't there level requirements? Also we'd kind of have to make sure we did one no one else was planning on doing because otherwise... we'd have a bunch of level 60's destroying us before we could blink...