NSSCRA 10- SIGNUPS
This is the signup thread for NSSCRA’s 10th season. Please be sure to read the information in this post, because signing up for NSSCRA is not as simple as signing up for many other competitions on the forum.
For information on how NSSCRA is scorinated, click here.
NEW FOR NSSCRA 10:
There will be a second tier series (we’ll give it a cooler name) eventually. This series will have just one scorination of data, and there will be no posted qualifying data for it in advance. It’s results will be posted on the same day as qualifying for the main series.
All participants in the first race of the second series will begin with a KPB value of ZERO in xkoranate. This will allow for everyone to have an equal chance, initially, to have success in this series. Unlike NASCAR, a driver cannot attempt to qualify for each series. Either they are main series driver, or a second tier driver on a race weekend.
I) BASIC SIGNUP RULES
– Everyone is welcome to signup. If so, you will signup THREE drivers (If you wish to have only one or two, that is fine), in order of your preference (aka put your favorite or preferred driver on top). Include your preferred car number for them. (00-99 is acceptable). However, please be advised that car numbers ARE NOT “first come, first serve”. Returning nations will have rights to the car numbers that they used previously. If any car number is a repeat, I will determine its priority and request the user change the number on their own or have me assign one. Now, for the returning users, I humbly request for you to not jump on a first time nation if they request a number you have rights too. I know you have rights to them, and we can address any duplicate car numbers in due time.
Additionally, all MASTER nations will have at least one, and possibly two, races in their country. This race may be in EITHER the main series OR the second tier series. All PUPPET nations MAY have one, and potentially two races, depending on the number signups. Race schedule will be between 24 and 26 races. We simply cannot have the type of length in the schedule that we did for NSSCRA 9 when we had 36 races.
If you are returning user from NSSCRA 9, you may present up to two tracks for NSSCRA to have a race on.
If you are a first time user, you may present one track for NSSCRA to have a race on. More information will be provided about what to include later in this post.
II) Charter Usage (relates to guaranteed entries into a race and those subject to qualifying in)
Any race team that finished in the top 20 of either owner points or driver points will receive a guaranteed charter. This number may be expanded to 25 or 30 but right now I simply want to play it safe, and say top 20. All MASTER nations that signup will have at least one guaranteed charter for the race. Any PUPPET nation will get a guaranteed charter based on how that puppet was roleplayed in prior editions of NSSCRA, or if a first time puppet, how the master nation historically roleplays their puppets in other competitions.
All signed up drivers that the nation has chosen to compete in the main series, that do have not a charter, will need to qualify in. The number of spots available to qualify into depend on the number of the signups and guaranteed charters assigned.
III) Puppet Policy
Puppets are allowed, but in order for it to be considered, having participated and actively roleplayed in a prior season of NSSCRA from NSSCRA 6 and forward is required. Puppets that have not been roleplayed by race eight will lose all guaranteed charters. Other checkpoints will be announced during the season. Only sign up a puppet if you are intending on using it. Do not just enter a puppet because you can.
IV) The “open” charter
The “open charter” will return. This will be for a nation to potentially enter a fourth driver, or an additional driver. Interest in the open charter for an upcoming race should be provided in the RP immediately preceding the race desired, or by privately telegramming me. In the event I need to choose, first preference is to allow the open charter to a driver racing at their home track. After that, it comes down to number of times the nation has used the open charter, and the amount of RP they have provided.
– If you are going to declare this in a RP, please bold it in your RP, so it is understood that your intention is clear.
– Nations who signup and who can see themselves as likely to use the open charter (and know who that driver will be) should list their open charter driver in their signup as well. If the fourth driver will be TBD, that is fine, it can be figured out during the year.
Anyone can request the open charter. ANYONE! I want to re-emphasize that requests for the open charter should only be done in the RP of the race that immediately precedes it. Please do not request it 2-3 races in advance. You can hint at it and let me know the intention of the request then, but still it is not considered an official request until the RP of the race prior! Please remember this!
Whether or not there will be two open charters is TBD.
V) Important Disclaimer
All guaranteed charter information is subject to change in the event of a higher then anticipated number of signups occurs that would result in an unrealistic field size. We went with 46 last year and that was fine.
VI) Schedule
More often then not, there will be two races per week, and they will PROBABLY be on Wednesday and Sunday. With the inclusion of the second tier series, that will be scorinated in the day prior to the main race, so likely on Tuesday and Saturday. Qualifying for the main series will be posted with the second tier results. There will not be a separate day set aside for qualifying for the second tier series. That will be posted on the same day as the second tier results.
The schedule is adjustable throughout the year, but I will announce any deviations from the initial schedule posting well in advance.
Note that adjustments are made to the NSSCRA schedule during the World Cup and World Baseball Classic to only run once a week, or if there is another competition that many NSSCRA users also want to devote a lot of time too. NSSCRA 10 will begin in the vicinity of November 25, but NOT before the group stage of the World Baseball Classic is completed.
The NSSCRA schedule is long, so while I can personally anticipate what I might be doing in November and December when the initial schedule goes up, once we move into 2021, dates are more subject to change.
VII) Structure
NSSCRA uses the chase and elimination round system that NASCAR does. We, however, do not implement stage racing and stage points.
VIII) Second Tier Series
This is unchartered territory (pun intended), and we will learn the ropes with this together. Right now, my plan is to allow a nation to decide to “drop” their drivers that do not get guaranteed charters into the second tier series. A nation can declare, at signup, that a driver will be assigned to the second tier series in advance but if you do that, note that they will not attempt to qualify in the main series race.
In addition, if you are one of those lucky people that know that you will get three guaranteed charters, you may add a fourth driver at signup and note that they will be assigned to this series.
The second tier series will eventually fill up to 44 cars that race.
Are you still with me? I hope so!
That was a long preface. This is what an example signup should look like:
#24- Gordon Jefferson
#48- Jimmie Legend
#88- Dale Bowman, Jr.
(You can feel free to add biographical or sponsor information to the drivers, but that is not a requirement for the signup).
Track: My National Speedway
City: Somewhere, My Nation
Length: 1.5 miles
Record: 32.011 seconds (lap record, very important information).
Number of Laps:
Layout: Standard cookie cutter oval.
DNF Tendency* (1 to 10):
*- Essentially, does this track have a lot of wrecks? 10 would be an extreme amount of carnage, 1 would be virtually none. 5 is average. Based on this number, the DNF cutoff will be set. New nations may only use a max modifier of 7 in their signup.
- Also, note the addition of the number of laps to the signup.
Not sure of a realistic lap record time? use this tool
