Your chance to qualify for Team USA 2010 is quickly approaching. The World Cyber Games online qualifiers are starting up April 5th with tournaments in Counter-Strike 1.6, WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, Guitar Hero 5, Forza Motorsport 3, Tekken 6, and Carom 3D. The FREE online qualifiers will run each week through August and winners will advance to the US National Final where the top gamers will represent Team USA in the WCG Grand Finals in Los Angeles, California

• What: World Cyber Games 2010 online qualifiers to the National Finals

• When: April 5th - August 8th

• Where: qualify.us.wcg.com

• Games: Counter-Strike 1.6 (PC), WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne (PC), Carom 3D (PC), Guitar Hero 5 (Xbox 360), Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360), and Tekken 6 (Xbox 360)

I know this is just a spam thread of sorts, but I couldn't help but take a look at the rules for the qualifiers. It's one-on-one with no collisions, three laps around a few set tracks, with only autobrake and racing line forced off...oh, and no limits on car selection.
 
I'm envisioning tournaments filled with crazy X-Class racers puttering about tiny tracks, and I find the thought hilarious.

" I know this is just a spam thread of sorts, but I couldn't help but take a look at the rules for the qualifiers. It's one-on-one with no collisions, three laps around a few set tracks, with only autobrake and racing line forced off...oh, and no limits on car selection.
 
I'm envisioning tournaments filled with crazy X-Class racers puttering about tiny tracks, and I find the thought hilarious. "

Spam threads also will actively consider suggestions regarding modifications to the rule set.  
 
Thanks for the feedback :P If anyone have any other specifics they want addressed, holler.

" @FuManChuu3:  Heh, whoops. My apologies for thinking you were a spambot. I figured it would just be the one post and then you'd be gone. Then again, when I assume...  Anyways, while I do find the idea of X-Class on those tracks hilarious, I did sign up anyways. Even if the rules stay as-is, I'm a glutton for amusement (which is often why the Giant Bomb Race Nights are so warped), and more truthfully, I've wanted to take at shot at one of these world competitions for a while, even if I have the most outside of chances.  That said, I might suggest that if you were to make a rules change, you should simply specify a certain class to race. If you still want faster prototype racers, force R1-Class, which should provide a better selection of fast cars than the few that can be upgraded into X. You could also drop down to slower but more evenly competitive cars like in A-Class. As much as I'd love to suggest further restrictions based on putting more emphasis on the driver skill, that would come at the expense of restricting car selection and tuned setups, which takes a lot of Forza 3's character out of the competition. "

" Implying that if you were playing to win you wouldn't effectively be relegated to a choice of the porsche RS spyder in R1 and the audi S5 in A-class. "Character"... you're hardly losing much of it by putting further restrictions in place. It's a false liberty, car selection in a tournament. All cars in a race series are equal, produce better racing, and at the end of the day better choice and are more skillful than an AWD car. "

" @crunchUK said:

" Implying that if you were playing to win you wouldn't effectively be relegated to a choice of the porsche RS spyder in R1 and the audi S5 in A-class. "Character"... you're hardly losing much of it by putting further restrictions in place. It's a false liberty, car selection in a tournament. All cars in a race series are equal, produce better racing, and at the end of the day better choice and are more skillful than an AWD car. "

When I made that post, I hadn't looked at the leaderboards in quite some time and seen the absolute Spyder/S5 domination. My bad. Seriously, that S5's ripped apart A-Class quite a bit since December.  I'll admit I wouldn't be against the idea of being forced to pick a certain car or one of a few select equally-matched cars, with stock tuning/upgrades forced on. Seeing a bunch of the same car racing around the track in Forza might not be much of a spectacle, and that's where I think you'd be losing some character, by making Forza's car selection look more limited. That said, I'm never against the idea of a driver's race -- in fact, many of my favorite races were stock or spec car races. "

  There are only a few qualifiers remaining as your opportunity to make the cut and join Team USA is quickly fading. Be sure to head on over and get signed up at qualify.us.wcg.com while there is still time!. All winners will receive a travel stipend for the USA Finals. Best of luck!

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