Thanks
It was a hard earned win, too.
The first 2 nights, we all raced till around 4am in the morning. The last race, I passed out around 5-6am, and Hero and .It stayed awake all night racing! Hero is sick now, so...yeah. lol.
There was so much blech with this race, though. I really don't know where to start. The bugs with the tracks that caused only like 1 in 10 laps to count (the rest would finish with no times). Sometimes it was worse than that. We had reported it to VFK on last Wednesday when we started to practice. It never did get fixed. Out of the hundreds of laps we ended up doing, only a small fraction ended up with a time. Talk about frustration. Imagine running an amazing lap...and finishing with no time! I'm certain our times would be lower if every race counted. Everyone eventually reported it. VFK responded that they couldn't reproduce the problem...
Then there was the problem of us coming in first the first 2 races. Picture trying to race on the last day while everyone and their brother IM'ed you asking for tips, advice, wanting you to race FOR them, wanting to know what your fastest time was, etc. It got so impossible that I still hadn't started racing until after the evening puzzle. Eventually, I took the open IM box and dragged it off screen and ignored all IMs after that. .It had to do the same. It was ridiculous. Before I did that, I'd be running a fast lap and BOOM...IM box right in the middle of the screen. LOL.
Then VFK wasn't posting times. Everyone kept asking...VFK kept putting it off. NOBODY knew how well they did! It was awful waiting to see where/if we placed!
Clones. Clones and more clones. Flooding the racing lists, both stock and mod. Pathetic. Disgusting. Not only collecting as many pins for themselves as they can...but also depriving others of an opportunity at those pins. The height of selfishness.
Then people running in both the stock and mod categories. Not against the rules...but really. Trying to 'double up' on the prizes? Blech.
Then the people who were running races for other people. That's classic. You'd be surprised how many ppl on the list didn't race their own race. Nice.
Then the last problem was a couple of racers that accidentally found a bug on the last day of racing that put their times
significantly below the top racers. We think this is why the final times took so long to be posted. Those very short times were thrown out. Thank God lol. But not before word of it leaked out...then all you-know-what broke loose. It was chaos.
In the meantime, you had rumors, conspiracy theories, etc. People talking bad about each other. It really was crazy.
Seriously, this type of thing is supposed to be fun. With all the bugs and mayhem...it was far from it. I'm not sure I'll race again because of it.
We won, and I'm again humbled. Lightning did strike twice. We're grateful for having the chance to defend our titles. We still don't have our new top 10 pins yet, but we have everything else. The suits are the same as the first time...which was a little bit of a disappointment. We didn't receive any extra suits, either. lol
All that being said, I seriously hope that VFK can straighten out the great amount of problems this race produced...before deciding to offer another race. We also saw the best and worst in people with this race. I hope I don't have to see it again.
Thanks again everyone for the congratulatory posts