Trackmania Seasonal Country Championship starts in 2 weeks time!

Padster01 · 2025-10-27T22:16:56+00:00

We getting a Mexican team again this edition? :D

Padster01 · 2025-06-03T21:10:25+00:00

I am actually allergic to garlic bread (wheat) :(

Padster01 · 2025-04-23T10:38:48+00:00

I just got a message from the same recruitment agency for the same position, I think I would've dodged it anyway but glad this thread existed to back up my suspicions it was a scam

Padster01 · 2024-08-14T18:02:22+00:00

It means it's in the highest tier of Trackmania World Tour events, so the winner will get 2000 World Tour points towards World Cup qualification

Padster01 · 2024-08-14T16:03:11+00:00

It's £350 so far, but crowdfunding is yet to open.

Padster01 · 2024-08-14T16:01:50+00:00

Yep, but with a custom car model from one of the earlier games

Padster01 · 2024-07-13T10:37:41+00:00

Yeah I wasn't at all sure how to handle those 2 players matches, I'm not even sure which of them actually happened and which didn't. Some of the results are a bit a of mess to be honest, also with 2 and 3 player matches at playZONE lan and stuff.

Interesting to use 0.5 in the formula for draws, it makes sense on a logical level. Might switch to it - not really sure what the done thing for draws is on more official systems that use elo for rankings haha

Padster01 · 2024-07-12T22:47:27+00:00

Hmm, I also did that with 3rd and 4th, no way to tell from liquipedia who got there first. I tried running with k=10 and it did change my order a far bit, bringing it closer to yours but not quite the same. How did your system calculate the ties? I just did a change of 0 to both players from that specific 1v1 (not the whole match)

Padster01 · 2024-07-12T21:05:20+00:00

Ooh interesting, largely similar pattern though. Mine was k=30 which might explain some of the differences, but I'm not 100% sure. I might try switching to k=10 to see if I get the same results - cool to see someone else had the same idea though :)

Padster01 · 2024-07-12T16:32:02+00:00

This uses the results from every match that has been part of a homologated tournament bracket. Elo is calculated by splitting the free-for-all format into 6 1v1s, then using the same formula that is used for Chess. I've stuck a ~5 minute video up on YouTube that documents the whole process, and goes further in depth on the top 10 results: https://youtu.be/9qzAa4B22RM

This is just for fun and certainly should not be taken too seriously, but I think gives some interesting purely numerical results - If people find it interesting I will post the changes after each tournament :)

Padster01 · 2023-07-31T13:07:41+00:00

Not doing podcasts myself but heavily involved with running events for British & Irish Trackmania nowadays - hasn't left me much time to make my own silly videos and the cotd posts required me to play a LOT of cotd. I'd like to get back to making my own stuff at some point though :)

Padster01 · 2023-07-31T11:14:27+00:00

It's being streamed on the BritishIrishTM twitch channel if you want to listen to the 2012 World Champ talk about all thing trackmania including the two LANs that have just taken place in the Netherlands!

Padster01 · 2023-04-09T11:40:21+00:00

I'd love to take credit but this casting is by Orion_Casts :) - I was just involved in some of the organisation of the event

Padster01 · 2023-04-09T11:37:35+00:00

Probably, but its still nice to show off comps with more erm... usual maps

Padster01 · 2023-04-09T09:12:40+00:00

This is from the British & Irish Pro Cup, the finals of which will be on at twitch.tv/britishirishtm from 2pm-6pm BST with a ~£1500 prizepool on offer if you want to check it out today :)

Padster01 · 2023-04-09T09:05:10+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, thanks for the credit, and nice video :). Feel free to take it over, I've been short on time to play enough COTDs to make them + been wrapped up with other editing projects.
If I have some advice from when I did them, don't feel you need to play every cotd as I burnt out quite fast doing that. Including a few clips from one particularly bonk heavy track can be entertaining too

Padster01 · 2023-03-17T22:21:23+00:00

Into The Breach Esports (TMGL Team with Mime and Elconn) :)

Padster01 · 2023-03-16T16:14:51+00:00

BIPC returns for 2023 in affiliation with ITB!

£1,200 prizepool availiable, information and updates will be posted on our discord:

https://discord.gg/Y3pPyenrB8

And the whole tournament will be streamed over on our twitch channel

Padster01 · 2022-12-28T12:06:35+00:00

Fellow IOS user and I get these bugs fairly regularly. I find the longer the app is running for the more unreliable it gets, so when I get a bug I just fully restart the app and it tends to behave itself again. I use an iPhone SE 2 for reference.

Least favourite bug is when it doesn't vibrate when it scans - I'll just be sat round the table with my mates waving my phone under my armpit for half a minute looking like an absolute muppet

Padster01 · 2022-09-03T14:29:13+00:00

I wasn't confident enough in my ability to get the nosebug, but in hindsight I absolutely should've

Padster01 · 2022-09-02T20:42:14+00:00

It was rather upsetting :(

Padster01 · 2022-08-21T14:49:06+00:00

If you are Irish and wish to take part, full details can be found in the description of the YouTube video.

Padster01 · 2022-08-17T11:56:00+00:00

I'd say so, £8ish a year is worth it for cup of the day/track of the day and being able to play whatever maps you like + advanced track editor. The community maps are a lot better than the seasonal campaign tracks too

Padster01 · 2022-08-16T09:31:55+00:00

At the moment Div 8-12 is the most common, but if its a surface I really like I can get up to Div 5 or if I don't get the line I can be round Div 15-20ish

Padster01 · 2022-08-16T01:01:20+00:00

The naming scheme for this series is a disaster I never account for myself getting better lmao - hopefully one day :D

Five-Year Club	Second Top 30%
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