ZakStunts

Long name: Zak McKracken's Stunts Competition, or Zak's Stunts Competition. An online competition running continuously since March, 2001, now in its 8th season holds the title of the longest running competition. It was also the first competition which required racers to drive different cars each month, and also the first one to implement a fully automatic php based replay sending form and scoreboard system. Altough there were competitions with higher number of participants, ZakStunts is often considered as the most influencing competition of the online Stunts community.

History of ZakStunts

2001 The first season only started in March, and only had 9 tracks, as one track, during the summer lasted for two months. The original concept included the Opponents commenting the sent replays. Competitors mainly arrived from the biggest and best of the time - the Kalpen Competition, and achieved 10 racers/month at most. The winner of the season was Roy Wiegerinck, with Ben Snel and manager Zak McKracken finishing close.

2002 The second season was the first full-length season of ZakStunts. As the Kalpen competition closed and others not so popular, ZakStunts took the reputation of the biggest and most prestigious competition on the web. This season Teams were introduced, and racers started to cooperate with eachother, or in some strange cases with themselves, using Ghosts. Racer number reached an incredible 20/month, and the number of replays sent started to get unbearable for the manager. Also ZakStunts didn't only host a competition, but served as an abandonware site too, offering various racing games for download - so raising the number of the site visitors and the racers. The winner of the season was expert driver Bonzai Joe, while a newbie, joined only in April, named Alan Rotoi, aka. 'The Dog' came second, and the former champion, Roy Wiegerinck only finished third.