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4D Stunts League

2013-02-18T04:09:40Z

Chulk: /* History (by Alan Rotoi) */

'''4D Stunts League''' (also known as '''4dsL''') was a Stunts competition held by [[Alan Rotoi]]. Aimed at Latin American racers, it found extraordinary success through its two seasons, held in 2003 and 2004.

==History (by Alan Rotoi)==

4dsL was created in May 2003 as an info site about Stunts in Spanish. Later on, I published a competition track intended for August 2003; but I had to rush its beginning because I received many registration emails and replays. So the competition started 15th of July 2003 with Melee track, which lasted until 31st July 2003. After that, the tracks were monthly.

I received a lot of racers because 4dsL was associated with another abandonware comunity: La Cueva de los Clásicos. Its admin, Lucas, helped with advertising in his page, giving 4dsL 200 visits per day. Melee, the first track, was available only for 15 days but had 57 pipsqueaks plus the "motivating" time from the virtual opponent Skid Vicious. The idea was to create a newbie competition with easy and fast tracks to make a bridge to the main competitions in the stunts community.

I decided to make a dual league competition to not discourage newbies with impossible times from the "pro" racers. In one side we had the main competition, "Iberoamerica" (i.e. Latin America plus Spain and Portugal); on the other, the rest of the world. Back then, Latin America didn't have pipsqueaks that could unbalance the scoreboard and immediately demotivate the rookies. That was the key to 4dsL success.

The names used for the tracks in the first season were taken from Monkey Island saga islands: Melee, Booty, Scabb, Phatt, Dinky and Monkey. These tracks, when placed together, formed a large map. The competition site also featured a tricks section called "Trucos", which was essential to learn new and different ways to race.

The first season had six tracks, and ended on 31st of December 2003. The winner was the Colombian [[Tsino]] who took the 1st place in five tracks, only being beaten by [[Gutix]] in the last track. Second place went to [[XSCrapy]] and Gutix was 2nd overall.

The numbers were huge: 130 racers from 17 different countries. We also had a very active chatroom (in Spanish) in an IRC server and a subforum within the abandonware forum of La Cueva de los Clásicos.

After a six month break, the second season started on 1st of July 2004, featuring a new site design, and ended on 31st of December of 2004. Most of the data of this season was lost because the server hosting it was hacked. Anyway, the Brazilian [[Dark Chaser]] won the season, and [[Gutix]] helped with the final count.

The names for the tracks in this season were taken from Tolkien's Middle Earth, such as Rivendel, Moria, Isengard, Gondor and Mordor.

Attempting to harness the potential of new jewels who entered the competition, I took some pipsqueaks for my own [[MeganiuM Aces High]] team to take part in [[ZakStunts]]. They were [[Chulk]], [[Gutix]], [[Ayrton]] and [[AbuRaf70]]. Thanks to good publicity, many racers were eventually led to the main competitions of the community; and so the project reached its main objective.

==External links==

[http://4dsl.maitecomics.8m.com The archived site of 4dsL 2003]

[[Category:Competitions]]

Car colours

2013-01-30T00:29:48Z

Chulk: /* Colour preferences */

An unmodified version of Stunts offers eleven car colours to the racers, seven of them being available for each car. Given that there are eleven original [[:Category:Cars|cars]], one might suppose there is an one-to-one relation between cars and default colours, but that is not the case - for instance, four of the eleven original cars default to blue. As creating [[custom cars]] with modified graphics became possible, new colours were added to the canonical set. Popular novelties include black (default colour of [[Speedgate]]) and British Racing Green (default colour of the [[Lotus Esprit]]).

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== Colour preferences ==

Some racers are known for racing almost exclusively with cars of an specific colour. Below are listed some of the better known such cases. Note that these preferences often span a small range of similar colours (e.g. in this context "violet" almost always implies "lilac or violet").

{| class = "wikitable"
! Racer !! Favourite colour !! Noteworthy exceptions
|-
| [[AbuRaf70]] || Blue ||
|-
| [[Alan Rotoi]] || Yellow ||
|-
| [[Bonzai Joe]] || Red ||
|-
| [[Chulk]] || Silver -> White -> Grey
|-
| [[CTG]] || Red || [[Jaguar]]: green; [[Melange]]: tricolour; [[Speedgate]]: black
|-
| [[Duplode]] || Violet || [[Acura]] and [[Corvette]]: golden; [[LM002]]: dark grey
|-
| [[Friker]] || Violet ||
|-
| [[Gutix]] || Violet ||
|-
| [[Krys TOFF]] || Yellow ||
|-
| [[Roy Wiegerinck]] || Green ||
|-
| [[Usrin]] || Yellow ||
|-
| [[Zak McKracken]] || Red ||
|}

[[Category:Driving]]

Car colours

2013-01-30T00:27:58Z

Chulk: /* Colour preferences */

An unmodified version of Stunts offers eleven car colours to the racers, seven of them being available for each car. Given that there are eleven original [[:Category:Cars|cars]], one might suppose there is an one-to-one relation between cars and default colours, but that is not the case - for instance, four of the eleven original cars default to blue. As creating [[custom cars]] with modified graphics became possible, new colours were added to the canonical set. Popular novelties include black (default colour of [[Speedgate]]) and British Racing Green (default colour of the [[Lotus Esprit]]).

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== Colour preferences ==

Some racers are known for racing almost exclusively with cars of an specific colour. Below are listed some of the better known such cases. Note that these preferences often span a small range of similar colours (e.g. in this context "violet" almost always implies "lilac or violet").

{| class = "wikitable"
! Racer !! Favourite colour !! Noteworthy exceptions
|-
| [[AbuRaf70]] || Blue ||
|-
| [[Alan Rotoi]] || Yellow ||
|-
| [[Bonzai Joe]] || Red ||
|-
| [[Chulk]] || Silver || White || Grey
|-
| [[CTG]] || Red || [[Jaguar]]: green; [[Melange]]: tricolour; [[Speedgate]]: black
|-
| [[Duplode]] || Violet || [[Acura]] and [[Corvette]]: golden; [[LM002]]: dark grey
|-
| [[Friker]] || Violet ||
|-
| [[Gutix]] || Violet ||
|-
| [[Krys TOFF]] || Yellow ||
|-
| [[Roy Wiegerinck]] || Green ||
|-
| [[Usrin]] || Yellow ||
|-
| [[Zak McKracken]] || Red ||
|}

[[Category:Driving]]

Talk:Golden Generation

2008-09-18T01:27:31Z

Chulk:

CTG: Just an idea: let's make a table about dates of join, as an addition to [[Age of Stunts racers]]. It would be also interesting to see... :)

That's a nice idea... but should everyone (when possible, of course) fill in its own join date according to his/hers own perception or instead we should adopt an standard measure (e.g. date of first replay sending to an international competition)? --[[User:Duplode|Duplode]] 00:51, 31 August 2008 (CEST)

CTG: both solutions are good. But I guess many of us have no clue about the exact date, knowing only the month of appearance or the track's name.

CHULK: CTG is right. I don't remember when I joined the commmunity. Maybe Zak can find when I registered in Zakstunts in 2005 (or else you should count me in from 2nd track that year, as I didn't take part in the 1st one), though I should say the date I joined 4dstunts League (no idea about it...)

Chulk

2008-07-30T22:28:59Z

Chulk:

'''Chulk''' (La Plata, Aug-30th-1985) is an active Argentinian racer who debuted in 2005. Member of [[Meganium Aces High]], he is one of the latest on his team dynasty of world-class racers, and a very active member of the community as well. Has achieved a [[ZakStunts]] victory, on [[ZCT57]], and reached third place overall on ZakStunts season 2007. He also was champion of [[SDR]] [[NoRH]] and third place overall in [[SDR]] [[RH]] in 2006. 2nd place in [[SDR]] [[RH]] and [[SDR]] [[NoRH]] in 2007.

[[Category:Racers]]

Chulk

2008-07-30T18:47:06Z

Chulk:

'''Chulk''' is an active Argentinian racer who debuted in 2005. Member of [[Meganium Aces High]], he is one of the latest on his team dynasty of world-class racers, and a very active member of the community as well. Has achieved a [[ZakStunts]] victory, on [[ZCT57]], and reached third place overall on ZakStunts season 2007. He also was champion of [[SDR]] [[NoRH]] and third place overall in [[SDR]] [[RH]] in 2006. 2nd place in [[SDR]] [[RH]] and [[SDR]] [[NoRH]] in 2007.

[[Category:Racers]]