The time has finally come for me to retire from full time driving in the CANZ community, which will come into effect at the end of 2016.

While I wanted to go "part time" for this year by not racing the main series on Project Cars, I felt numbers weren't high enough and the series itself wasn't the best suited for doing live commentary via spectator mode for video replays.

I now have other projects I wish to pursue properly, rather than skimming the surface of them because I spend too much time in other areas. It so happens that for me, while I enjoy racing online with everyone, if I had to choose between CANZ or Rocket League/social nights, the latter wins out. My new projects are more important to me to pursue at this stage in my life, so CANZ has to make way for this. Some of these projects are directly to do with TSG, while much of my time will be dedicated to personal projects.

Unlike many who have come and gone (essentially disappeared and never heard from again), I wanted to write this post out of respect to everyone who has been a part of the RGL, ORC and now CANZ community of racers, who have contributed not only by taking part in races, but also helping in a number of other areas as well. While the year isn't over and you will be seeing me on track for the remainder of the rounds, I preferred that everyone was aware of this now, rather than dropping it at the end of the season.

In 2017, I will still play a part in CANZ, assisting with stewarding as requested and possibly being a wild card entry for endurance rounds. I would also take part in the occasional social night of racing if there are any (seem to be not doing them so much these days).  As mentioned, I will continue with Rocket League and our other social gaming nights - so I am not disappearing totally, just hanging up the racing suit so to speak.

I do hope we see more of you stepping up and being more involved (thanks hyboi for the Bathurst round article, Caderz for his videos and those helping run support series) to assist Scav3nger and hopefully see CANZ grow a bit more each year.

People have asked for it so here we go. Muscle Car Masters is back with old faces and new faces into it's ranks. This series will be held alongside the remaining rounds of the V8's with 2 races per night following the V8 races and the remaining two rounds being held alongside a 2017 potential series social night to be held later in the year (more information on this soon).

General Information:
Series Title: CANZ Muscle Car Masters
Proposed period: July - November
Day: Thursday nights ~9PM AEST
Category: Social 
Number of Drivers: 24 drivers
Points System: CANZ official Points System
Team Points: No
Teams Required: no
Rounds: 10
Races: 1 race per round, 2 rounds per night
Time Period: Start date - 28/7/16. End date - 29/9/16
Qualifying: No

Vehicle Information:
Vehicle Details: 1969-1970's Muscle Cars must have 5.7 litre V8 Engine, Sport Tires, and must be either on or jus under 289kw of power (ford XB and Holden Monaro compromise with a higher kW but lower top end speed)

Car List:
AMC Javelin B class pi569
Buick GSX b class pi585
1970 Chevrolet Camaro z28 b class pi558
Ford XB Falcon GT b class pi566
Ford Mustang Boss b class pi598
Holden Torana A9X b class pi584
Holden Monaro GTS b class pi567
Lancia Startos Stradale b class pi597
Mazda RX-3 b class pi600
73 Nissan Skyline GT-R b class pi598
Opel Kadett b class pi579
VW Beetle b class pi584
1982 Porsche 911 turbo b class pi577
Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am b class pi535

Vehicle builds will be available on Chaos 7h30ry's tuning sharepoint.

Upgrades: Yes
Tuning: No

Livery Information:
Any livery design must not have same numbers as other vehicles first come first serve basis

Stewarding Details:
Full stewarding:No
Partial stewarding: Yes
No stewarding: No
Incident submissions required: No

Race Formats: 
1 all out race bump and grinds are permitted blocking is permitted, 1 rule no pit manoeuvres on other drivers

Rounds and Tracks:
Round 1 - Watkins Glen Short Alt 8 laps
Round 2 - Brands Hatch Indy 12 laps
Round 3 - Lime Rock Full Alt Circuit 12 laps
Round 4 - Mazda Laguna Seca 6 laps
Round 5 - Sebring Short 10 laps
Round 6 - Prague Short Reverse 8 laps
Round 7 - Bathurst 5 laps
Round 8 - Longbeach full 7 laps
Round 9 - Road Atlanta full 8 laps
Round 10 - Sonoma Short Circuit 12 laps


July 28th, Rounds 1 & 2
August 25th, Rounds 3 & 4
September 22nd, Rounds 5 & 6
October 13th, Rounds 7 & 8 (In concjuntion with a 2017 test night)
November 3rd, Rounds 9 & 10

Pit stops:
No mandatory pitstops cars are cosmetic

Registration:
x06 The Doc 06x - Chevrolet Comaro Z28
CrashCaderz - Holden Monaro GTS
Hyboi - Ford XB Falcon
MRN3Drifter - Ford Mustang Boss 302
Woebegone6 - Holden Torana A9X
Scav3nger - Opel Kadett

Before I begin I must stress the point that this is still very early days in the process, what I am about to show you and open discussions about is not final.



Introducing CANZStats, a web based stat tracking platform for the CANZ Racing Community!

Many of you would be aware that we have a stat tracking section on the website for game information relating to Rocket League. Including wins, losses, goals, assists, saves, player value, and more.

Is there anything the system doesn't currently track that you wish it did? Or something it doesn't do that you wish it did (i.e. compare two players stats head-to-head)?

I'm messing around with a system for CANZ and seeing if there's any point in applying it to Rocket League or just keeping our system we're using now.

The recent discussion in the V8SC thread has prompted me to open a discussion on date changes, how they should be arranged and what the processes should be because organising the moving of the Bathurst round of V8's has turned into a bit of a mess.

Firstly I think we need to establish a ruling on requesting date changes. I'm open to suggestions on this but I'm thinking some form of application for a date change should be put forward in the forums.

We will also need to establish what happens if other drivers are not available for the proposed date(s). On this I'm thinking if equal or greater numbers (i.e 2 request a change and 3 are unavailable for the proposed date) then the change would not go ahead. As we've always tried to accomodate drivers to have the optimal grid size we'll need to preference the people who are able to stick to the provided schedule.

We'll need to look at how many times this can be applied as well. I want to be lenient but we want to keep the schedule as much as people so people are able to plan around it. In saying that I'm thinking every round should only be able to be moved once and if a late or last minute issue comes up preventing other drivers from racing they'll unfortunately have to miss out.

Lastly, and this is something I'll be bringing up when I start the 2017 discussions after the enduros are over, we'll start looking at how we can schedule rounds better in 2017 so everyone can plan ahead as much as possible. We'll look at this more after next week (or the week after depending on when Bathurst get's rescheduled to).

Happy to hear your thoughts on this as I want to be able to accomodate everyone.

Currently proposed ruling:
Any race can be changed once provided the following conditions are met:
Proposed date does not clash with an existing event
Greater than 50% of the field agree to the change AND the change does not affect equal or greater numbers of drivers
Admin/Series Organiser approval for the change of date is granted

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/...roved_the/

Quote:Just to give a really quick run-down of what has been discovered, in lay-mans terms:
1) In FIFA Ultimate team you open packs to gain access to cards which represent players in the game. You can also buy these cards from other users.
2) When you build your team, by playing cards in particular positions, and with particular set-ups, you can increase their chemistry attribute. Having a high chemistry attribute on a player will give them boosted stats, having a low chemistry will nerf their stats. These chemistry stats boosts are huge for how your team plays.
3) It turns out that for a large chunk of the most expensive cards in the game, FIFA has not been attributing the stats boost to the cards afforded by their chemistry. Meaning that they feel sluggish, slow and clumsy in comparison to other, cheaper cards in the game which have been given the chemistry stats boost.
4) This means that users have been spending vast amounts of in-game and real life money, sometimes hundreds even thousands of dollars/pounds, to obtain player cards which are NOT what they seem and are in fact heavily nerfed.

We're getting close to announcing our plans for Season 1 of TSG's RLC, but before we do that there's a bit of pre-planning we need to do and cover off a couple of things in the lead up to the announcement.

First things first, we need to establish some ground rules. These will be made available on the website in due course in a more refined format, but to cover off the basics now we're setting the following in place:

A) The Salary Cap. Each team will be set a $1 million salary cap. Each captain will have to pick two team mates to combine with their own value that fits within this cap.
B) Players must have played at least four games to be eligible to creat their own team (players who have competed in the pre-season cup for example will have played as many as 10 games already).
C) All players will be released into a selection pool, negotiations between players and captains will take place during a "draft period".

D) New players who do not have a previous player value will be assigned a base value that should allow them to fit into most teams. This value is yet to be determined but should be less than 200k.
E) Players will be given opportunities to pre-select players they would prefer to play with or prefer not to be teamed up with. While we'd like an all inclusive community we understand there occasionally times where two people simply don't gel and we don't want to force people to play together if they don't want to.

So if anyone has any questions at this stage, let us know here and we'll get back to you, otherwise keep an eye on the forums for further information on Season 1!

The plan:
To host the largest GTA social we have ever had across RGL and TSG, where we will continue our favourite event - Mounting of Chiliad, and The Descent using none other than the Panto vehicle (tiny smart car). This will be followed by the usual random chaos as well as some racing and other game types suited to lobby numbers.

When:
To be advised, though it will be either a Tuesday or Thursday night. Due to the goal of building a big lobby, the aim will be to start from 8:30pm AEST, with the first event beginning by 9:30pm.

Stay tuned for the date!


List of potential players:

1. z00lu
   
2. Scav3nger
   
3. deadx89
   
4. Blogsie360
   
5. MrDaddyDavis
   
6. Woebegone
   
7. Alsimo
   
8. Ollie9394
   
9. Caderz
   
10. MRN3Drifter
    
11. The Doc
    
12. Clasfied Hunter
    
13. Techwo1f
    
14. Kotic (DaddyDavis friend)
    
15. NuclearNinja
    
16. NuclearMajor
    
17. DrinktilDeath 
    

Here's a list of the confirmed cars for FH3. Considering it's going to have a large aray of Aussie cars I thought it be something worth keeping track of.

Will try and update weekly. 


ARIEL

2016 Nomad

ASTON MARTIN

2011 V12 Zagato

AUDI

1986 Sport Quattro S1
2013 R8 V10 +
2014 #45 Flying Lizard Motorsports R8 LMS Ultra
2016 R8 V10 + [Tier 4 Reward] [Preorder car from Amazon]

BENTLEY

2013 Continental GT Speed

BMW

1996 M3 (E36)
2011 Z4 sDrive35i
2012 M5 [Tier 5 Reward]
2014 M4
2014 #55 BMW Team RLL Z4 GTE [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]
2016 X6 M

BOWLER

2012 Nemesis

CHEVROLET

1970 Chevelle Super Sport 454
2014 #3 Corvette Racing Corvette C7.R [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]
2015 Camaro Z/28
2015 Corvette Z06

DODGE

2014 #94 SRT Motorsports Viper GTS-R [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]
2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat [Preorder car from Gamestop]

FERRARI

1987 F40
2009 458 Italia [Tier 6 Reward]
2014 #51 AF Corse 458 Italia GTE [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]
2015 488 GTB [Preorder car from Gamestop]
2015 FXXK
2015 LaFerrari
2016 F12tdf [VIP Car Pack]

FORD

1969 Mustang Boss 302
1973 Capri RS3100
1973 XB GT Falcon (351)
2005 GT
2013 F150 Raptor (Shelby)
2013 Focus ST
2014 Ford Ranger T6 Rally Raid
2015 Falcon GT F 351 [VIP Car Pack]
2016 #66 Ford Racing GT Le Mans [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]
2016 Mustang GT350R [Preorder car from Microsoft Store]
2016 #55 Supercheap Falcon FG X [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]
2016 Pursuit Ute
2017 F150 Raptor [Reward for playing Forza Motorsport 6] [Co-Cover Car]
2017 GT [Tier 10 Reward]

HOLDEN

1974 Sandman Ute
1977 Torana A9X
2016 #22 Sharkbite HRT VF Commodore [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]

HONDA

2005 NSX-R [Tier 2 Reward]

HUMMER

2003 H1 Alpha

JAGUAR

2014 F-Type R Coupe
2015 F-Type Project 7 [Preorder car from Best Buy]

JEEP

1945 Willy's Jeep
2012 Wrangler

KOENIGSEGG

2013 Agera
2015 One:1 [Reward for being a VIP in EITHER FH2 or FM6]
2016 Regera [VIP Car Pack]

LAMBORGHINI

2013 Veneno
2014 Huracan LP 610-4 [Tier 9 Reward]
2015 #63 Squadra Corse Huracan LP620-2 Super Trofeo [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]
2016 Aventador LP750-4 Super Veloce (SV) [VIP Car Pack]
2017 Centenario [Cover Car]

LAND ROVER

1997 Defender 90
2014 Range Rover 5.0 Supercharged Autobiography

LEXUS

2010 LFA

LOCAL MOTORS

2014 Rally Fighter [Reward for playing Forza Horizon 2] 

LOTUS

2008 2-Eleven

MINI

2013 X-RAID ALL4 Countryman

McLAREN

2013 P1 [Tier 8 Reward]

MERCEDES-BENZ

2013 G65 AMG
2016 C63 S AMG Coupe [Preorder car from Xbox Dashboard]

MITSUBISHI

2008 Lancer Evolution 8 MR

NISSAN

2002 Skyline GTR V-Spec (R34)
2003 Fairlady Z (350Z) [Tier 3 Reward]
2012 Nissan GTR Black Edition
2015 #1 NISMO MOTUL AUTECH GT-R [Motorsports All-Stars Car Pack]

OLDSMOBILE

1969 Cutlass 442

PAGANI

2013 Huayra

SHELBY

1969 Cobra Daytona

SRT

2013 Viper GTS [Tier 7 Reward]

SUBARU

2005 Impreza WRX STI

ULTIMA

2015 Evolution Coupe 1020 [VIP Car Pack]

OTHER

2011 Penhall “The Cholla” Class 10 Dune Buggy
2015 Baldwin Motorsports Monster Energy Trophy Truck

UNKNOWN