I don't know how you're planning to run this series, but I kinda hope you're doing different cars for each race? What I think would be cool is doing some races with "self-restricting" cars. What I mean by that is like using cars where you simply can't go POWWAHHHHHHH with it :P So like with the FXR you can put like 4k BHP in it without issues, and I was sticking 2k BHP in an FO8 earlier and would have been fine if I had my wheel

What I mean is stuff like having an "unlimited tweak race" with UFR/XFR or something, but force people to use road tyres. So that instantly limits people's power outputs (although you can still put a half decent amount of power down as it's so light) and you should end up with a close race. Or maybe FXR unlimited but force people to use R2 tyres

I thought it was pretty good. Some of it was really, really shit (and that's coming from a very patriotic person who thinks the whole thing is the best thing since sliced bread), thinking in particular of George Michael here. But quite alot of it was good in my opinion. The musical stuff at the beginning was really good, as it had a nice selection of lots of London/Olympic-y kinda music stuff, like Waterloo Sunset, West End Girls and Parklife. But then who the **** thought it was a good idea to put ****ing One ****ing Direction on, with their song about some pubescent girl who pouts in FB profile pictures and thinks she's ugly. How is that anything to do with the Olympics :doh:

The middle was the really rubbish bit, but it got steadily better towards the end I thought. Jesse J managed not to butcher We Will Rock You which is nice What I really don't get is the song choices of some people, George Michael didn't sing anything I'd even heard of, The Who played about 2 lines of My Generation and let some ginger dude sing Pinball Wizard, The Kaiser Chiefs did a cover, Annie Lennox did some song I'd never heard of - really not what I was expecting from a "Symphony of British Music". We're known all over the world for our passionate fans (see Grand Prix), and we're not passionate about anything more than sport and music, so why didn't they give us a sing-along if they're going to celebrate our music? Having been lucky enough to actually go to the Olympics there was a massive buzz everywhere, then they kinda ruined that with loads of rubbish songs when they could have picked ones everyone knew

Anyway, I think the whole games have been brilliant. I've seen so many people put on FB how amazing they think it's been, and especially on Super Saturday even people who aren't into sport were going pretty mad. Very proud to be British Got some tickets for the Paralympics too (which are INSANELY cheap) so looking forward to that too

P.S. Highlight of the day: Boris Johnson dancing to the Spice Girls.

Quote from Flame CZE :

New combo on the server please

Done

BMX races are pretty epic, mix between LFS T1 and Moto GP

I don't get why the guy behind has gone all apeshit? It's his fault? Or is he that much of a f***ing retard?

Quote from Kid222 :

Apparently spainards like diving and acting in basketball as much, as they do in football (didn't see the game, just heard this and that).

Yeah they were, but the French were almost as bad. Some of them played for the Barcelona basketball team too so it's clear where it's come from

I saw that live - typical French.

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Damn, what you gotta do to get 17+ then?! O_o

Well his execution score must have been like 8.6, which considering how hard it was (most people's difficulty ratings are like 6-ish) is pretty amazing.


EDIT: I think I've been watching too much gymnastics :hide:

Quote from Silverracer :

I dont have a clue as to whats on your avatar...

It's Rainbow Road off Mario Kart no? Most annoying track ever

First time I've seen all of that together, nice

Quote from The Very End :

Holy shit! What score did he get, and what's the max score?

Apparently he got 16.533, difficulty was 7.9 (:O) so it was out of 17.9

First received image of the surface of Mars:

Quote from DeKo :

Talking about ranking stats differently, Scotland would be 6th in the medal table if they were seperate from GB. Not saying they should be, but quite interesting. They have got 10 of the 37 medals of team GB despite only making up 10% of the squad.

And apparently Yorkshire would be 7th

Quote from DeKo :

Drugs and doping are terrible for Athletics, but who doesn't want to see a Dope 100M final with the winner running it in 7 seconds.

Quote from troy :

Some idiot throwing a beer bottle just before the start

I thought I saw something on the replay but assumed it was just some random bit of paper or something :S

Moar stats:


Golds per person:

1 Jamaica
2 New Zealand
3 Slovenia
4 Hungary
5 Kazakhstan
6 Denmark
7 Lithuania
8 GB
9 Croatia
10 Belarus


Medals per person:

1 New Zealand
2 Slovenia
3 Denmark
4 Jamaica
5 Australia
6 Hungary
7 Belarus
8 Slovakia
9 Mongolia
10 Armenia

Quote from sinbad :

I based the 300 on a single google search so you may be right, but regards it's a start that needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt.

Ah yes definitely. It's pretty skewed for both extremes of population and extremes of medals. I'll update it tonight and see what's changed.

@ TVE you can guess who won. No new WR though

Quote from sinbad :

It's a bit hard for China. All 300 medals divided by their 1344 millions, is 0.22. Those charts will always favour the smaller nations because whilst you may have more people to choose from, you can only enter the same number of events as everybody else.

Yes of course. I totted up the medals last night (and got 427) and even if they'd have won every single medal they would still only be 21st on medals per person :P Will do it again tonight and see if it changes, which it could well do if a small country gets even 1 medal

EDIT: Obviously they wouldn't be 21st if they'd got all the medals, they'd be 1st, but you know what I mean :P

Good suggestion Troy and I think dave already did that. but, as you say, it helped... for a short period of time :banghead:

Well hopefully Scavier team can solve this any time soon

E: lol Rolly same time same reply

So yeah the BBC lied when they said we were top of the "golds per population" table. Interesting to see how badly China are doing compared to their population size - 30th out of 34 for golds per population.

China: 0.018 golds per million population, 0.039 medals per million population
USA: 0.082 golds per million population, 0.171 medals per million population

Team GB: 0.225 golds per million population, 0.467 medals per million population

So one medal per 2 million population - not bad

Apparently top of medals per population

Quote from The Moose :

Only Intrepid could fail to be proud to be British after that lot

And I love the fact that probably the second most important race at the games (women's 100m) just seemed like such an anti-climax


GB.

Quote from de Souza :

And Phelps.

Yeah for once he's not top of the headlines Although bit props to him - amazing acheivement

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

as if it needed to be said, this is a jk.....although not far from the truth

Quote from CSF :

GB football team.

Hahaha yes

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I wonder who will be on the front pages tomorrow

Might take that back now

6 golds in a day

I wonder who will be on the front pages tomorrow

Quote from josemspain :

Seems to have admin-server powers

Yes. Highest level of admin in Airio, Limad5. Can't ban him. Well I did, the ban appears in the banlist but it is no use