Quote from commandermas :

not before September.

If there are free places in the NGT we maybe think about changing them to GT2 or GT1 spots

Or maybe a fourth server like last year (if it is possible)?

Quote from BigTime :

I've been meaning to ask this, and I should have done this before the thread dropped so far... Do you have this posted on YouTube? If not, I can host it for you with credits in the title.

I just need it on Youtube so I can use it as an embed stream.

As I don't have a youtube account it isn't there. If you want to host it, feel free to do so (thanks in advance ). If you need anything (like a .f4v or .flv file) please say so. I don't really know how youtube handles that (it probably converts everything, regardless what it is?), so if you need anything, please tell me.

Quote from N I K I :

btw what's the songs name, I've listened it so many times, but never knew the name, so I can download it

Mötley Crüe - Kickstart my Heart.

Quote from seniecka :

Looking from review style video point - its best video i've ever seen.

Just remember that it's meant as a highlights video - and not as a review video (review videos tend to be more informative). The aim was to create something similar to this style (cool looking, a bit of information, and - uh - cool looking): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adY5qtSsajE

(Whoops - giving away all my inspirational sources )

I really like the colours. They're far more subtle than mine. Nice video!

Thanks for all the nice comments! I wasn't really sure at the end if it's good or not but apparently it's decent enough Although I have to say that it would be only half as good without the commentators. Thanks guys! You did an amazing job.

Regarding the filesize: It could've been 10 - 20% smaller if I'd have gone for 30 FPS instead of 60 - but it's a bit smoother with 60 so I guess the tradeoff is okay.
If anyone's interested in the settings, I've uploaded the screenshots of the x264 settings in meGUI: Here, here and here. With further readings here, here, here and here. While each video requires its own fine-tuning I think it should be a decent starting point (done with build 1173 of x264 - options always subject to change. I guess 2'500 KBits would've been also enough).

I'd like to apologize to M. Pesonen for that hit in Race 2. After watching the replay again, I found out why I couldn't avoid it:

I've seen you go to the left but afterwards you were hidden behind the A-Column of my car and appeared when it was too late for me to avoid you. Sorry about that.

Other than that it was nice racing for me - I had some nice fights with lots of people. Thanks for that!

By the way:

A video containing some highlights of the 2009 iCON Touring Car Championship can be found here:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1204389#post1204389

After some trouble I finally managed to finalize this small video showing some of the well known and less known highlights of the iCON Touring Car Championship 2009.

Download the video here:

http://n.ethz.ch/~dnovak/download/iTCC2009-muxed.zip

Alternatively there's a streaming version which you can find here (it likes to stall the CPU a bit for unknown reasons. The quality should be the same but it only has 30 FPS instead of 60):

http://n.ethz.ch/~dnovak/download/itcc.html

It was actually a pretty interesting race, considering only 2 FO8's were on track. Sorry for that bump Bambo and too bad you touched the grass at the end. It might've been a very exciting finish at the end. Next time I should deactivate the power-saving mechanism on my monitor. No idea why it suddenly went to a hibernating state

77
Hypothraxer
NDRC

Congratulations to all the winners! Although one winner is missing: The organizers!

I have to agree that it was a blast. Thanks to the organizers and commentators! You did a great job!

P.S.: Next time we should load the presents equally into the ICON cars eh Darren? So that you don't have to carry all of them.

I was wondering if you have to apply to this bump drafting - when someone came from behind he always chose the other car to bump leaving me in the dust, making me think that I forgot to pay my dues?

I'd like to thank Joe, Darren, Tom and all the others who were organizing this. I already knew that you guys are great but now a lot more people know, how amazing iCON racing is!

The qualifying was surprisingly good - the rest was pretty much the same old 'get sent to the back of the field' like in all rounds. But I can at least claim to have finished all races of the iTCC!

This round was a little more fun than the rally event in season 2 thanks to the safety car It's also a nice proof that you can overtake in rally cross without contact (I have no idea how we managed that Yann ).

It's a shame though that only so few bothered to show up.

77
Hypothraxer
NDRC
XFG

I most probably won't be able to join this one. Either I'll come back late from a celebration in the mountains or I'll be lying half-dead between our institute machines trying to figure out why the algorithm doesn't work.

Quote from Joe_Keaveney :

Actually, if you look in the iTCC rulebook, David, you can't.

Yeah - for some reason I thought it is allowed to overtake once the green flag is up. I have no idea where I got that from but it's obviously my fault.

P.S.: We're derailing this thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsmanship



That and I was fairly certain that you can overtake before the finish-line. My mistake and hence the protest.

iTCC Protest

Your Name: David Novak

Your LFS Username: Hypothraxer

Protest Against: (LFS Username) Hypothraxer

Type of Protest - Unfair Overtake or whatever): Overtaking before the finish-line under green flag.

Description - Your opinion of what happened): I overtook L. De Jong at Race 2 before the finish-line at the end of the safety-car period.

Which Event / Session: (Quali or Race 1/2/3): Race 2

Attached Evidence - Attach your pictures, or other evidence: 5:13 into the replay of Race 2.

Honesty is hard to come by and much appreciated. Nevertheless, the crime was committed and Novak receives a warning

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:10.

I think that was the best iTCC event I had so far. There were lots of great battles even in the back.
Sadly there was a lag incident with Gonçalves (I think) and me which sent us both spinning around. Sorry for that!

And for some reason I didn't manage to get good times after the shootout - even though I was using the same setup throughout the whole event.

@Jack: Good driving!

Car Number: 77
Driver's LFS UserName: Hypothraxer
Class (LFSBC or NDRC): NDRC

LFS Username: Hypothraxer
Real name: David Novak
Prefered number: 77
Car: XFG

Go iCON!

Quote from J@tko :

Nooo clashes with iTCC

I can't make it then, unfortunately

Same problem here. Maybe I'll make it if I don't qualify in the iTCC shoot-out.