Easy Money

So we have some crafty guys out there determined to get the most out of GT5. Fleaver, one of our own, and a heavy contributor to the league, has come up with a way to "stick it to the man" with some minor McGuyver tactics. He managed to max out his bankroll overnight and I couldn't help but give him props. Click the link here for all the goodies.

Week 2 is in the books

Well, week 2 has come and gone in the Swerve Tour Race League. In what was a low turnout from the previous week, we made due. It could have been me postponing it back a hour and a half for the watching of the NCAA BCS National Championship Game or that I just run my races too late. I had several new members come in and ask me to join and they did not show. It seems we had a really good fanbase build this site to everyone hibernating for the winter. The races still have the qualifying bug that we can't figure out but the action was still good. In the 400hp division series, the up front racers had a good battle going on til Fleaver had to pit (he doesn't like his tires much) and could not make up the ground this week, despite laying down the fastest lap times. Racerx_52 and myself (swervesauce) had a very nice battle on the last lap for 3rd spot. He had me pinned pretty good til we hit the last bend and I was able to garner just a little more grip on the corner and take him on the inside. In the big boy series (700hp) it was a good battle for only a couple laps. I did not watch the whole replay yet so I don't know what happen to Fleaver on lap 3 or 4 as he was out in front and just like that dropped to 3rd. I for one, forgot to do engine maintenance to my ride, along with an oil change and later found that I was down to 664hp and did not have a good tune for my car this week. I admit I didn't practice as much as I wanted but I was just ugly out there. I wrecked twice and once pretty severely damaged the front left and right rear. That turned out to be one hell of a battle to get to the pits. This week was a little disappointing but I feel with a little more work on my end and a little more support in forums around the net, we will be able to make this next series one of a kind.

Now this was expected only because this is my first attempt at hosting a league of any form in the gaming world. I have been the commissioner many times in a fantasy football league because I enjoy the work. I enjoy putting together site and information and resulting in summaries like this one here. It looks as though we need to find a niche. A race or series of races that no one else is doing that will make the site stand out. So, from that on I have come up with the series labeled as Nurburgring Nordschleife Endurance Series at the top of this page. Now, I love the course and racing for an extended period of time is how I prefer to throw down. Fleaver and I have started discussing what should take place in this series in the forum section. I have also made a thread over at GTPlanet stating the goal of my idea. Things haven't gone so smoothly over there at GTP, and I have no idea why. It seems there are tons of racers wanting in on something and there seems to be no where for them to go. A lot of the series are either full or already ongoing and I for one have been left to wonder what is going on with my capability to reel in some talent. Ok, rant over.

Ridiculous Video I stumbled upon

Ready For Kickoff

  As you may notice, I have sexied up the site a little bit in prep for the season. I hope everyone had Happy Holidays, I know I did. However, I didn't receive a sweet racing wheel from anyone so I'll snatch one up in the coming weeks. I hope to see some more of you in the practice rooms soon. I am going to host rooms up until the start of the series, which is Monday night January 3rd at 10pm/cst.

  Through some testing and reading on the forums it seems that 'Skid Force Recovery' is the same as GT5P's "normal" vs "professional" physics. Therefore, I will not be allowing that in any race. All other options will be up to the driver unless noted within the regulations of that series. 

  One more thing I've come up with (can't believe I never used it before) is keeping a PSN chat room. I've noticed that if you never delete it you can always get right back in. Now that is the easiest way to communicate with everyone once I have a lot of you in a room , rather than the actual lobby chat in GT5. So if you can remember to not delete the room, just clicking the circle button backs you out. That way even if I'm not on some of you guys can still communicate with one another. I'm trying to organize myself here because once I sign on PSN it gets hectic. I have well over 40 friends with about 31 in GT5 alone. I will also be sending out reminder messages through PSN to all the ones who put their name on the sign up sheet. Anything else that you can think of to make this process more organized and flow please feel free to lay it on me. 

  Big shout out goes to Fleaver for helping me out with the forums and being a participant in a lot of the practice sessions. Blackbird 190 as well. They are both very good drivers and the competition is going to be nice. So get your machines ready and once you are final on what you're driving, make it know in the forums. I have created a "Drivers Stable" subtopic and all you have to do is make you a topic under it and put the picture of your ride in there. 

  There's also talk about forming a 'Team' within our community. If you are interested please let me know. I have received several messages from two other leagues who found me through GTPlanet about racing against us and also sharing events. I will provide more information when I get it.

See you guys soon,

Swerve