Esports

[scotta]

Last night saw the inaugural event of the SMRC E Sports series. Our very own racing superstar [mention]Nefarious[/mention] took part in the PS4 round. Im up tonight on the Xbox round.

Registrations are open for round 2 now - https://www.smrc.co.uk/championships/es ... istration/

[scotta]

Heres Neils efforts from last nights live stream.

[mik]

Quick look at that between meetings - I can see Nef doing quali, but is there a race?

[scotta]

Quick look at that between meetings - I can see Nef doing quali, but is there a race?

yes - right after the quali

[mik]

Got it - race starts around 7min10s.

3rd not so shabby - although I guess he spent more time airborne than desired.

[dinny_g]

Is there anything that man can't do...

[Rich B]

Is there anything that man can't do...

jelly vibrators.

[dinny_g]

[mik]

Kill himself on TV crossing the Baring Strait on a hovercraft?

[Nefarious]

Got it - race starts around 7min10s.

3rd not so shabby - although I guess he spent more time airborne than desired.

TBH, I was expecting to completely embarrass myself - I set the PS4/wheels/seat thing up in November, played a couple of times that first week, then got distracted by real life stuff (and the occasional bit of COD). Roll forward to about a week ago when they announced this Esports thing, I set it all up again and frantically practiced for 3-4 days, but knew I was still best part of a second adrift of the quick guys.

So I was pretty surprised when I managed to qualify 3rd!

With hindsight, if I'd been a bit more patient in the race, I did actually have the pace to bag 2nd (what's needed to qualify for the grand final). But I wasn't. Hey-ho. At least in esports your cock-ups don't come with a massive repair bill!

Oh, and I can and will re-do the jelly cake, but have to concede that the Bering Strait trip is looking extremely unlikely at this point

[mik]

Forward to approx 2hrs15mins for the final race

[scotta]

Fuck bollocks and bastard all in one. Thought i had that. Had to lift to avoid a time penalty.

[mik]

Coverage is a bit crap in that they don’t go back and review / comment on incidents. It’s easy to miss things.

Bloke that took you off appeared to think the apex for Duffus was about 25m before the corner....

[Nefarious]

[Foz]

Been meaning to get a proper set up for ages, maybe nows the time

[scotta]

Been meaning to get a proper set up for ages, maybe nows the time

Im just playing on xbox with a logitech G920

[Foz]

Don’t have anything

[mik]

I’ve ordered a rig - should be here soon.

[RobYob]

Cool! But replace the triple screens with VR...