Here ya' go....Monday Night Random Combo Cup: http://www.lfs-lota.net/index.php?topic=783.0

Potentially starting up around late October.

Technically yes, but since most residential connections do not use static IP's, it may be a moot point.

/unban username

EDIT: Check out the attached Commands.txt file. This is a copy of the standard commands file you can find in your "docs" folder inside your LFS folder. There are several language versions.

Last edited by banshee56, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 01:38. Reason : add commands.txt

Thanks Tweak!

I think we've all been getting a little tired of some of the stale content, so LOTA has been trying to change up the racing style a bit to add some variety. Like doing the touring style format of 2 pits and standings-based ballasts, and the MRT Custom Course Cup, where you don't know what you are racing on until the day of the race. We're also considering a random combo series, similar to the MRT series, where you don't know the car or track until the day of the race.

At any rate, it's been fun, and we too hope to see some new LFS content to spice up the LOTA racing!

Today, September 18, 2007, is the one year anniversary of the LOTA domain registration, marking the official start of the League Of The Americas. One year ago, we (members from CoRe Racing, Land Of The Free Racing, CHOPS Racing Canada, and BlackSheep SimRacing) concluded our league planning conversation after having run two mini-leagues to test out our ideas. LOTA was started out of the need for quality racing in North America, which turned into a focus on serving the entire Western Hemisphere.

Back on May 19, 2006, we began what was to become an extensive conversation, including 614 forum posts in 62 different threads. We chose to start out slow and talk about things first, laying a good foundation for the league we envisioned: initial ideas, race & championship format, car/track choices, rules & points, governing of the league, logistics (including LFS servers, web presence, etc.), and finally two separate, 4-race invite-only mini-leagues to test our ideas. Throughout this conversation, we fielded many ideas from several people. As human nature and interaction goes, there were some good ideas, and some not so good ideas that were argued over, but we eventually worked out what we wanted to do.

LOTA officially started one year ago, and since we've presented some fun series that has produced some great racing action:

• Formula V8 Challenge (Fall 2006 & Winter 2007) - our first and will always be our signature premeir series. Look for it to return in the future. Two seasons of WR quality laps from some of the best in LFS. Congratulations to our two champions: Tweaker (Fall 2006), CoRe.rcpilot (Winter 2007)
  
• Formula XR Challenge (winter 2007) - Great racing in the premeir FOX series proved that open wheel racing can be close. Congratulations to CoRe.BigTime (Winter 2007)
  
• RallyCross Championship - Racing in the dirt, side by side. Close racing was seen throughout the season in this first of the mini-leagues, for individuals, and for the first time, squads. Congratulations to the Winter 2007 champions: CoRe.Viruz (individual), and CoRe.Viruz/CoRe.Banshee56 (squad).
  
• Micro-GTR Shootout (Spring 2007) - Our second, and most popular mini-series to date, was the first test of the expanded grid sizes in LFS, and saw two great championships crowned: 1ST»A.Terrahe (individual) and CoRe.BigTime/CoRe.DeadWolfBones (squad).
  
• MRT Custom Course Cup (Summer 2007 onging) - The S1 most popular car, custom courses, and a unique format has become a popular series. A HUGE thanks to LFS veteran David "Le Kid" Sirois for the tracks, and that great video! Good luck to the MRT C3 competitors for the remaining of the season!
  
• Grand Touring Cup (Fall 2007 ongoing)- GTR's, field balancing, squads, touring style racing in the tin-tops!
  
• Special Events: The 2006 Christmas Clash - reverse grids, the winter texure mod, and some great racing action to celebrate the holidays.
  
• Thursday Night Thunder - Random combos voted on by the drivers, reverse grids, lot's of fun in this non-championship series.
  

Our mode of operation has evolved, as has our website and our governing group, as we move forward and continue developing our league idea. It's taken some time to get it where we are now, and we are not yet finished, with several new racing & championship ideas, along with more web refinements, coming in the future. We appreciate the strong following that you, the LOTA membership, have shown over the last year and during our early development.

Thanks to the League and Series Officials (ZoltUSA, CoRe.Banshee56, |||bdshan, lambchop44, sweetchop17, |||MARSH, 1ST»A.Terrahe, David "Le Kid" Sirois) for keeping things going. Thanks to those that have served as server admins in a pinch: CoRe.BigTime, 1ST»A.Terrahe, CoRe.DWB, CoRe.Forbin, elderchop29). A huge thanks also goes out to the many people that have donated to help keep LOTA online. Thank you to 500Servers.com, for partially sponsoring LOTA with great U.S.-based LFS Servers!

Lastly, but certainly the most important, we would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of our racers that have shown great loyalty, respect in racing, and wonderful friendship throughout this past year. You make what LOTA is today, and will continue to do so as we head down that front stretch into tomorrow!

Last edited by banshee56, Wed 19 Sep 2007, 04:46.

I've raced in several different leagues, with varying types of cars, and on most of the regular tracks. I love league racing because the driving is cleaner, and you get the pit strategy that you don't get in pickup racing. In fact, I don't even do much pick-up racing anymore.

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If there was a serious league that restricted practice by only announcing the track an hour or two beforehand then I would be very interested.

Incidentally, the League Of The Americas is putting the final details together for a series just like this one. We already run our relatively popular MRT Custom Course Cup, in which the tracks aren't shown (in picture form) to the drivers until about 8 or so hours prior to the race, and then in physical form not until a 30 minute practice just prior to the first race of the evening. Our new series we are doing will publish the list of cars and tracks used, but not in which combinations until randomly selected by one of the drivers before practice.

Please don't spend any money on websites and hosting until you spend some money on some damn grammar lessons! Please, your posts are very, very hard to read!

Todd, there are sure to be some racers on the LOTA servers tonight. We just came out of an off week in the schedule, and our next race is Thursday. I'm certain there will be people getting some final prep work in tonight and tomorrow!

Oh.........my.........God.

Use a period...or four.

Quote from MikeB :

CoRe, XFR and FM added

Thanks Mike, but I don't see CWMAX in our team listing. Can you add him manually? Not sure if he is added on the LFS World team listing.

Please add CoRe Racing.

Quote from Toddshooter :

Is the server named LOTA? I don't think I've seen it before. Texas is on Central time right?

All of our racing happens on LOTA League Server 1, and also on LOTA League Server 2 if a series has enough drivers, like our current Grand Touring Cup.

League Of The Americas - servers in Texas...we have 43 Canadians already registered, about 50% are active in leagues. Races at 9:30 PM EST. Thursday Night Thunder tonight....sprint race at combos voted on by members.

I was about a corner ahead of someone at Blackwood and decided to spin my car and finish backwards. Spun too soon, backed into the wall BEFORE crossing the S/F, and couldn't get going fast enough to finish first. :banghead:

No prize needed here. It was just an illustration that someone who has a lot of experience is expressing the same opinion of a guy that doesn't have much experience at all, yet you guys are ragging on him because he expressing those opinions. What do I want? I want more content! I love LFS. I really do. But, I want more out of it because I love it.

Oh, and I do have a life. I have a wife and two kids, a dog and two cats, a house, a couple of cars, and two momos! And yes, my wife rolls her eyes when I wear my CoRe Racing t-shirt!

Good GOD, why are you guy riding this dude so hard? Maybe he plays single player.

I've got 123,969 miles and I'm going to say it too: I want more cars. I'm getting bored of the same old combos. No, I haven't tried every combo, and nor do I want to because I don't like this or that. There, rag on me for saying the same thing, and leave this guy alone.

Easy killer....I replied 3 minutes after you posted your topic. Maybe those guys haven't even seen this thread. Anyway...whatever....my work is done here. KTHXBYE

Another simple 30 second search for IRC Channel on their forums.......

www.lfs-teamorange.net

Simple 30 second search on LFS World.

Ummm...with that team name? No thanks.




/me goes away shaking his head and wondering what this silly kid was thinking....

Umm...what happened to Touge Knights ??

Quote from Ausdrifter :

hey,

This week Touge Knights has Hit The Seen Of DriftIng On S2.

We Have 3 Good members Willing To Drift our Way To The Top.
At This Time We Are Still Looking For Members, They need To be Willing To train And help Run Sites Etc..

I will Be Posting A Site Up With More Info But Till Then Keep it Cool.

Kurt-

That was posted only two days ago.....

Victor,

I would also like to be able to use the relay for CoRe's two servers.

Thanks!

Well, the best way to make that happen is to go race with them...a lot....and maybe you can get into one of their teams. Trust me, running a team can be a huge amount of work and if you are already having issues with time/money/etc, you are setting yourself up for failure. Not trying to rain on your parade, but this continuing trend of people announcing teams while also announcing that they need resources for said team is getting out of hand.

The first thing i would do is to learn where the period comma shift and return keys are on your keyboard because its not really good nor does it exactly induce a lot of confidence in your organizational skills when you run a bunch on sentences together i think you should take some time to think about this whole team idea and maybe make a couple of online lfs friends outside of the forums and maybe make the team with them so you dont turn into a dreaded forum team.

KTHXBYE

:faint2: Not a lot of thought went into that....did it?