The Rejectful Eastern European Cars Computerised Series

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 01 Apr 2012, 16:41

If it's allowed, Grands Traveaux Inutiles - hugely impressed by the performances of Simon Garfünkel - would like to enter in my third car. A Wartburg, sponsored by Napoleon Bonbon.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 01 Apr 2012, 16:56

This wrote:If it's allowed, Grands Traveaux Inutiles - hugely impressed by the performances of Simon Garfünkel - would like to enter in my third car. A Wartburg, sponsored by Napoleon Bonbon.

I sense some sarcasm there... :lol:

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 02 Apr 2012, 10:58

dinizintheoven wrote:
REECCS Calendar Announced
After much speculation (from the entire REECCS fanbase of 5 people) the REECCS calendar has been announced.

The fanbase could, possibly, increase to six.

Are there any spaces left for this season?

Despite the fact that the pitlane will end up resembling "Will it Blend - REECCS edition" if too many more cars are added, there'll still be spaces available - there'll just have to be a number of drivers who don't qualify.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 02 Apr 2012, 12:13

MinardiFan95 wrote:
dinizintheoven wrote:
REECCS Calendar Announced
After much speculation (from the entire REECCS fanbase of 5 people) the REECCS calendar has been announced.

The fanbase could, possibly, increase to six.

Are there any spaces left for this season?

Despite the fact that the pitlane will end up resembling "Will it Blend - REECCS edition" if too many more cars are added, there'll still be spaces available - there'll just have to be a number of drivers who don't qualify.

If that's the case, then Nurminen Racing Engineering would like to enter the following car:

Driver name: Nikolai Nurmovitsch
Car: Lada
Number: 91
Sponsors: Fazer, Koskenkorva
Car Colour(s): Two-tone, beige top half with blue bottom half.
I can make the livery myself if you can provide me with a template, the link in the first post isn't working.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 02 Apr 2012, 13:28

MF95, why you didn't update the entry list in page 1?

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 02 Apr 2012, 22:19

Allright, my updated entries:

Team: Mussels from Brussels (Trabant Factory)
Driver: Gio Van Dycke (BEL)
Car: Trabant
Sponsor/colours: Delta Mossel, white (or use your fantasy)
Number: 13

Team: Police Squad (Trabant Factory)
Driver: Frank Drebin (USA)
Car: Trabant
Sponsor/colours: DDR Polizei, White-Green
Number: 33 1/3

Team: Grands Traveaux Inutiles
Driver: Simon Garfünkel (LIE)
Car: Wartburg (actually a Wartburg-Inator)
Sponsor/coulours: Napoleon Bonbon, Doofenschmirtz Evil Inc. Light yellow - purple
Number: 0

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 13 Apr 2012, 14:23

New Rules for this season:

- Maximum grid of 35 cars - slowest car(s) from each manufacturer knocked out in pre-qualifying (excludes manufacturers with less than three cars)
- New "Manufacturers Cup" championships - each manufacturer has it's own championship to encourage drivers of Trabants and Wartburgs.

Also, if you want to paint your own car, I've re-uploaded the templates in PNG format. You can find these in the opening post of the thread. Hopefully the series will start this weekend.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 13 Apr 2012, 16:27

MinardiFan95 wrote:New Rules for this season:

- Maximum grid of 35 cars - slowest car(s) from each manufacturer knocked out in pre-qualifying (excludes manufacturers with less than three cars)
- New "Manufacturers Cup" championships - each manufacturer has it's own championship to encourage drivers of Trabants and Wartburgs.

Also, if you want to paint your own car, I've re-uploaded the templates in PNG format. You can find these in the opening post of the thread. Hopefully the series will start this weekend.

Will have to get a move on with the new Lada skins for Scuderia Alitalia then. BTW, you read all the changes my team is making, right? If not, here's a quick recap...

#43 // Krzysztof Holowczyc (POL) // Scuderia Alitalia
#47 // Carsten Jancker (GER) // Scuderia Alitalia
#51 // Andraž Velikonja (SLO) // Zenit Corse by Scuderia Alitalia

I decided to drop Agyemang-Badu from seat-sharing the #51 as he now has a full time RoLFS drive.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 13 Apr 2012, 18:16

Excuse me, but unfortunately I need a bit more time to to make the livery. I'm currently away from home and computers, and won't return home until Sunday evening. But I won't oppose if you run the first race before that.

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 14 Apr 2012, 12:19

This season's entries as of round 1: (some cars have interim liveries, the proper livery is coming soon)
http://imgur.com/a/dn3Ig#40

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 14 Apr 2012, 13:15

Round 1:

Qualifying.

The following drivers were knocked out during Pre-Qualifying.
Jean Girard
Dinah Lance
Peter Senreson
Frank Zimmer
Jacek Piscopo

Qualifying Results

Race.
From qualifying it was obvious that it would be close at the front, but which drivers would stay up there. Many expected drivers like Brucie Kibbutz and Rick Simpson, who were quite accustomed to their Lada's already, to beat some of the new Lada drivers. Except, because this is REECCS, where literally anything can happen, they didn't (finishing 9th and 14th respectively). Instead, the main two frontrunners were in cars that didn't even have their proper livery on them, showing how... erm... (I guess the term would be) newly rebuilt they were. Krzysztof Holowczyc held the lead throughout the race, with Nikolai Nurmovich never too far behind. Meanwhile, the usual Trabant chaos was occurring, with more rolls than a bakery. Detective Frank Drebin inspected the crowd safety of the event when he rolled over the armco fence, while the others were busy rolling in everyone else's way. Back at the front, and Nurmovich was gaining on Holowczyc, but eventually ran out of time. Guillaume Gauther finished 3rd ahead of teammate James Davies.

Awards, points and video coming tomorrow.

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 14 Apr 2012, 13:34

Why did HWNSNBM leave the series?

And I don't know how much trouble it is for you, but if at all possible, please make more and longer highlights reels, this championship is amazing to watch XD

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 14 Apr 2012, 17:21

Zoran Stefanovic wrote:You see? All you idiots, who said I was incompetent as a racing manager, f*** you! I am brilliant, Alitalia is winning REECCS under my control, we are the best!

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 14 Apr 2012, 21:42

Preferrably not explicitly mention 'the naked' gun on the trabant (i think the number is obvious enough), it has to be a stock-DDR-polizei-trabant, which is been used as part of an 'undercover operation'

I'm happy with the Van Dycke livery (i knew a giant mussel would work out fine) and the Garfünkel-livery looks as wrong as i hoped.

Good to see my drivers perform as expected. Though am i really the only one running a Wartburg?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 14 Apr 2012, 22:09

Does anyone know what the parts highlighted in blue are? I don't know where they are on the car so I don't know which colour to paint them.

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 15 Apr 2012, 03:00

Highlights video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNpPxZHCNpk

kostas22 wrote:Does anyone know what the parts highlighted in blue are? I don't know where they are on the car so I don't know which colour to paint them.

I know one of them is the bootlid, though I'm not sure what the other is.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 15 Apr 2012, 03:32

MinardiFan95 wrote:Highlights video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNpPxZHCNpk

Question: How long could we go into the new season without someone rolling over?
Answer: 22 seconds :lol:

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 15 Apr 2012, 03:34

MinardiFan95 wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Does anyone know what the parts highlighted in blue are? I don't know where they are on the car so I don't know which colour to paint them.

I know one of them is the bootlid, though I'm not sure what the other is.

I'd assume the other one's the hood in that case.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 15 Apr 2012, 06:53

Wizzie wrote:
MinardiFan95 wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Does anyone know what the parts highlighted in blue are? I don't know where they are on the car so I don't know which colour to paint them.

I know one of them is the bootlid, though I'm not sure what the other is.

I'd assume the other one's the hood in that case.

Nope...both are there already, I cut them out from that picture, they're vertically aligned with the side view. It's not the bootlid or the bonnet. That's what doesn't make any sense, in theory removing those two bits wouldn't stop the car from looking complete. Are they winodws? Why are they wider than the entire car? It makes no sense.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 15 Apr 2012, 14:17

Try painting them some garish colour and see where they end up?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 15 Apr 2012, 15:10

dr-baker wrote:Try painting them some garish colour and see where they end up?

Yeah. I'll probably paint them lime green with 'WTF?' written on them for effect, and see what MinardiFan finds...

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 15 Apr 2012, 16:08

I think we should give the #55 Trabant 1 bonus point as a prize "Rolling Start".
Why? That car made the first roll of the season! :lol:

Post by **Nuppiz** » 15 Apr 2012, 16:42

Nikolai Nurmovitsch wrote:Da! Da! Da! Da!

I'll design the livery soon, although it won't drastically change from the interim livery you had made.

By the way I'm glad that I didn't choose Trabant, because they look extremely prone to roll over! :lol:

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 15 Apr 2012, 17:56

It will be a plug of a season! (plug in a positive way I mean)

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 15 Apr 2012, 18:15

Shizuka wrote:I think we should give the #55 Trabant 1 bonus point as a prize "Rolling Start".
Why? That car made the first roll of the season!

except that the #55 didn't qualify...
it's the 33 1/3 that was rolling, it's partially green too, that's why the confusion.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 15 Apr 2012, 22:27

Here's my updated livery:

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 15 Apr 2012, 22:27

Nuppiz wrote:Here's my updated livery:

That's all there is to edit in the livery designer? Then it shouldn't be that difficult then

Post by **Nuppiz** » 15 Apr 2012, 22:32

JeremyMcClean wrote:That's all there is to edit in the livery designer? Then it shouldn't be that difficult then

Well, If you don't want anything fancy, then yeah that should be enough. In a way it's possible to do stuff like this even on MSPaint, although I used PSP8 to have layers and whatnot to make the edit process easier.

You would be surprised to know how much exactly I've used flood fill on many of the RoLFS liveries I've made...

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 16 Apr 2012, 07:20

This wrote:except that the #55 didn't qualify...
it's the 33 1/3 that was rolling, it's partially green too, that's why the confusion.

Sorry then, 33/13 it is. It was confusing indeed. But still, the first roll is the first roll!

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 16 Apr 2012, 08:51

I've forgotten to mention that the infamous awards are back, and bigger than ever

Master of Disaster (awarded to the most chaotic driver): 5 points
Look Ma, No Wheels! (awarded to any car that loses a wheel) 2 points for a wheel, 10 for all four
Lolwut? (awarded to anyone who causes an incident that makes me say Lolwut?): 3 points
Got beaten by a Trabant on a road course: -3 points
The Bradbury Award (awarded to anyone who wins a race after everyone in front of them crashes): 7 points
The Daniel Melrose Award: (Awarded to someone who performs well for the first half of the race only to simply disappear off a cliff after that point): -2 points
The "That's not gone well" award: (Exactly what it says on the tin): The Top Gear Golden Cock and -1 point.
Fire in the hole (awarded to any car that catches on fire): 2 points + a free fire extinguisher
Where's my GPS? (awarded to anyone who gets lost): -2 points + a track map
Brand loyalty (awarded to the top finisher for each brand of car): 3 points + a really small trophy.
Coulthard's Adelaide 1995 memorial award (awarded to anyone who crashes in the pits): 2 pts + a free "greatest Murray Walker Quotes" CD
Rolling Start (awarded to the driver who is the first to roll): 1 point + a set of bicycle training wheels

Votes will be taken for these awards:
Reject of the Race: -5 points
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: 5 points

Anyone can suggest an award for this series,

On that note, here's the awards for Birmingham

Master of Disaster: Frank Drebin
Lolwut?: Rudi J. Blass, Frank Drebin
Where's my GPS?: Frank Drebin
Coulthard's Adelaide 1995 memorial award: Rudi J. Blass, Ricky Bobby (for an incident in pre-qualifying)
Rolling start: Frank Drebin
Brand loyalty: Krzysztof Holowczyc, Matej Uram, Merak Keznorski, Kodosky Vulkatin, Simon Garfunkel, Ricky Bobby

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 16 Apr 2012, 12:59

kostas22 wrote:
Zoran Stefanovic wrote:You see? All you idiots, who said I was incompetent as a racing manager, f*** you! I am brilliant, Alitalia is winning REECCS under my control, we are the best!

James Davies wrote:Aw, put a sock in it, you bloody nonce. We're only one race in!

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 16 Apr 2012, 13:08

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
kostas22 wrote:
Zoran Stefanovic wrote:You see? All you idiots, who said I was incompetent as a racing manager, f*** you! I am brilliant, Alitalia is winning REECCS under my control, we are the best!

James Davies wrote:Aw, put a sock in it, you bloody nonce. We're only one race in!

Daniel Melrose wrote:Besides, nobody really gives a shite about who wins in the REECCS anyway. It's all about the insane action man!

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 16 Apr 2012, 22:35

Yeah, the 33 1/3 starts good with 4 awards in one race...
perhaps you could intruduce an award for winning more than 3 awards in one race

(not including that award itself of course)

and why is nobody racing a moskvitch yet?

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 17 Apr 2012, 04:29

I'd like to suggest a new award.

The "Kurt Busch Radio Sweetheart" of the day: Awarded to a driver which does something which warrants a 30 seconds rant by someone else (I think Kostas would do the job fine :lol:

): -1 point for every time Kostas swears during the rant :lol:

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 17 Apr 2012, 05:12

kostas22 wrote:Does anyone know what the parts highlighted in blue are? I don't know where they are on the car so I don't know which colour to paint them.

I've found out what these are, as you'll see in the picture below.

The green is the one above the front of the car on the template, the yellow is below the front of the car on the template.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 17 Apr 2012, 08:12

MinardiFan95 wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Does anyone know what the parts highlighted in blue are? I don't know where they are on the car so I don't know which colour to paint them.

I've found out what these are, as you'll see in the picture below.

The green is the one above the front of the car on the template, the yellow is below the front of the car on the template.

I see. Straight fill should do the trick then.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 17 Apr 2012, 08:12

Wizzie wrote:I'd like to suggest a new award.

The "Kurt Busch Radio Sweetheart" of the day: Awarded to a driver which does something which warrants a 30 seconds rant by someone else (I think Kostas would do the job fine ): -1 point for every time Kostas swears during the rant

I get the feeling almost the entire grid will end the season on negative points :twisted:

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 18 Apr 2012, 13:50

Round 2 - Autumn Ring Mini
The big news for this round is that pre-qualifying has been ditched, meaning that everyone will start (unless there isn't enough grid spots)

Qualifying

Race

With laptimes of around 44 seconds this was expected to be a very interesting race, as lapped cars would be a serious issue for the frontrunners, especially if they got mixed up with a Trabant about to execute a half pike with a twist in a corner. It only took one corner before the Trabants began to roll, a pattern that continued throughout the race - at least half of the corners were Trabant rollover hotspots. Meanwhile, at the front, Jason Hamilton could almost stop and enjoy a Magnum and still be leading given his distance ahead of 2nd. However this wasn't the case, as he got stuck behind a battle between a Dacia and a Wartburg... and just to make matters worse, Frank Drebin pulled alongside in the Polizei Trabant. The lapped traffic benefited almost anyone in a Skoda, with the Ladas strruggling to weave their way through and the Fiats were just pushed around by the much bigger cars. This came to the point where the top 6 were all Skoda drivers.
Hamilton's bad luck with traffic continued when he was stuck behind Tetsuya Tekagi's Polski-Fiat for a few laps, allowing a pack of five others to catch up. All six frontrunners hadn't won a race, so barring major disaster there would be a first time winner. Unfortunately for Hamilton, who led much of the race, it wasn't him, he dropped right down to 6th. Instead it was first time racer Dinah Lance who took the win, a bit of a difference from round 1, where Lance didn't even pre qualify. Second was Tom Douglas and rounding out the podium was Lance's teammate Helina Bertinelli.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 18 Apr 2012, 17:49

Finally!

Chicks rule!

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 18 Apr 2012, 19:43

Meerwick 4th!? That's enough for an IIDOTR nomination.