Permanent Tracks Competition

The Permanent Tracks Competition concept refers to the idea of keeping records of lap times achieved by racers on different tracks, especially well known ones, while always accepting new such records. This is in contrast with most tournaments in the community, which regularly or sporadically offer a race or challenge that specifies a deadline and finally, a winning podium.

As of June 2023, three platforms support or have supported this format: the Race For Kicks records, ZakStunts old Permanent Competition and the DOS Game Club Stunts Leaderboard.

History

The first platform to ever support a Permanent Competition system was ZakStunts itself. Forum posts indicate that this competition has existed since at least October 2002, about a year after the site first came up. At the time, ZakStunts did not have an automated replay upload system and this did not change for the Permanent Competition when the main tournament was updated. With time, the main championship gained a lot more attention while the PC gradually became abandoned. Because records were only kept on a table and there was no direct access to the replays on the site, many of these old records are unverifiable today. Some, though, can be found in the forum. Particularly for the Default track, many such record replays have been posted there.

In March 2020, Cas announced that Race For Kicks would include a Permanent Competition system and checked with the community if there was an interest of merging the old ZakStunts PC with it or connecting the two in some way so as to add to the idea instead of displacing it. The community was more inclined towards just moving forward with the new platform, since the old PC hadn't been updated in a very long time. While some records have since been posted in Race For Kicks, the popularity of the new PC has been pretty low compared to the main tournament. Yet, replays are posted there, so verification will remain always possible. Unfortunately, the new records are not nearly as good as the old, now unverifiable records. ZakStunts removed their old PC records from the site around 2021 or 2022.

On 10 June 2023, Tijn, from DOS Game Club, created a Stunts Leaderboard that follows the same format as the other two PCs. While the focus and objective are slightly different, this leader board can be considered one more permanent competition system and remains active today.

Known Permanent Competitions

ZakStunts Permanent Competition

The old Permanent Competition was a record table that existed in the ZakStunts website since at least late 2002 until around 2022. The table was manually updated by the site administrator whenever somebody posted a new record, which was done via e-mail. At the time, this was the same procedure used to participate in the main tournament, but later on, ZakStunts was updated with an automated system and the PC remained manual. Because record replays were usually sent via e-mail, many of them have been lost.

All original tracks well known in Stunts were available. This included DEFAULT, BERNIES, JOES, CHERRIS, HELENS and SKIDS. Each of these tracks was also available in a "flooded" version, to approximate some degree of OWOOT-ness. However, the rules for all tracks were completely free-style. Any car could be used and if there were any penalty time, it had to be included in the final lap time. If a time had been obtained without exploiting a certain freedom, this was not recorded. It was a competition for the fastest lap, no matter how.

Race For Kicks Records

Race For Kicks provides

Permanent track records

Original tracks

Track	Racer	Time	Date
Default	Renato Biker	0:30.35	2010-02-23
Bernie's	Alan Rotoi	0:57.40	2021-10-02
Cherry's	Renato Biker	2:25.55	2006-01-30
Helen's	Renato Biker	3:31.60	2006-02-05
Joe's	Duplode	0:48.10	2010-02-26
Skid's	Bonzai Joe	1:10.65	2006-02-05

Closed tracks

Track	Racer	Time	Date
Default Closed	Renato Biker	0:42.60	2006-01-28
Bernie's Closed	Renato Biker	1:18.50	2010-02-26
Cherry's Closed	Renato Biker	3:02.95	2010-02-26
Helen's Closed	Renato Biker	4:06.65	2006-02-05
Joe's Closed	Renato Biker	1:04.95	2010-02-26
Skid's Closed	Renato Biker	1:27.05	2010-02-25