North American Team WO Team

[RedScar]

I like it although im not sure if I understand it correctly. Would this be a second type of qualifyer, practice, or just a tourny for the sake of having one?

[Vartazian]

I would say we pick best of the best.

Whoever specializes in certain roles should race in that sector.

[TheFrostE]

i am for sure a much better battler than avalon pilot lots of ship wreckage in my wake of fury.

[TarotCardKiller]

I like it although im not sure if I understand it correctly. Would this be a second type of qualifyer, practice, or just a tourny for the sake of having one?

The Grand Tour match design would be against other national teams or any other 4 pilots that decide they'd like to have a match. There are no qualifiers involved with it. Does that answer your question?

When you said qualifiers, I think you might have been referring to when I said, "We can hold different tourneys before other matches like Feisar31 mentioned." In an earlier post, it was suggested that we have North American tourneys before any match to have a rotation of pilots that represent the NA continent. It would allow for more NA tourneys. I'll leave it up to you guys. If there is interest, we should definitely do it. I wasn't quite clear before, sorry about that.

When it comes to picking the pilots for no weapons/ weapons races, qualifiers are not needed I'm sure it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to choose.

I'm giving you guys this information early so you can have it and hopefully there will not be any confusion when the time comes to race another team. We can just pick a date and race. I will mention SaturnReturn (the mastermind behind the GT design) and I would like to test this Grand Tour design using the North American Team and The Flying Dutchmen. We'll let others know how it works out.

For now, there is nothing planned. I'll keep you guys updated and will let you know if I need help Vart, thanks. Any questions ? let me know

[RedScar]

OK, sound good. Just let me know if something is to happen and I shall say if I can show or not.

[Vartazian]

OKay Guys listen up.

We got 2 months to get our practice in. WipEout World cup is closing in on us fast.

I want to organise some team practices to prepare for the imminent close races we are going to have.

I want to Send France, The Netherlands, Italy and Austria Crying home to their mommies!

If you are on the team send me a few PM's with times you are available. Lets get training folks, Victory comes with practice.

[Darkdrium777]

Hire me if you need some additional competition (Like when a spot is open) during your training, when I'm on. Just use a nudge (zomg a useful feature that is)
But no, doesn't mean I can return to the team, as uni starts just befor World Cup and I want to have the least distractions at the time.

[RedScar]

My situation is the same as dark's, Uni starting on the 8th. I will be moving into my apartment on the 4-6th and prob will have my internet on the 6-7th. Work load shouldn't be that heavy first month of the semester, but school > wipeout.

That said, im so down for some "practice" if it means we can do another tourny.

[Vartazian]

We Desperatley need practice, We need Frost as well. Lets take advantage of everyone playing fury and get some solid practice in.

[TarotCardKiller]

Same here although school starts the 25th for me. Thanks for letting us know in advance.

Another tourney/practice session would be great. We can start by setting a temporary date and see the availability. Would next weekend, maybe Friday or Saturday be good ? or would you guys prefer a couple of weeks to get settled first?

This will be a more-organized session. Since we're practicing for the WC, we'll do weapon races with the older ships/tracks. It'd be a great idea to have some Zone Battle, Eliminator, and Avalon tourneys too. Maybe a mini-tourney of the new Fury tracks? If you guys are interested, I'll find ways to include those. =D We can do a points-style ranking system to up the ante and bring out the best in everyone.

If you can, please direct some North American pilots to the forums/thread so we can have a bigger pool of pilots to practice with. I know CoatlKetzal, Pngthk, Texus009 and RedAlrt are good pilots.

If this sounds like its too much, let me know. I'm trying to make it fun training session.

[TarotCardKiller]

I thought about it and realized we don't have to make it that complicated. LOL Lets just play Wipeoout soon. I know FrostE, Vartazian, and RedScar are down for practicing

[LOUDandPROUD]

I'd definitely be up for some practice, as well.

[TarotCardKiller]

It seems a lot of the NA players are up for some practice sessions. We can hold some this coming Thursday 7th and/or Friday 8th. We can make the NA Team chatbox again, share tips/tricks, and make an 'invite only' room lol that doesn't work. It seems to hold of a couple of people off though when they see its 'invite only'. Though many zoners are kind enough to ask to stay =].

I think Thursday or Friday should work, RedScar mentioned his internet should be up by then. If you guys would like to practice/after by yourself, we can post some NTSC ghosts on el habib's website. If you don't know about it yet, you can find out more info in his thread http://wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5335 .

If Thursday and/or Friday work, how about setting up a time. I've looked a couple of your timezones (I'll finish writing the rest in a bit); this'll help setting up future events more easily. Most of you seem to be in the East so the timing will be in your favor. Maybe 10-11PM GMT-5?
GMT-5 BlochnWhitey, DarkDrium777, Feisar31, Kyonshi, LoudandProud, Mjolnir, RedScar, theFrostE
GMT-6 Cerium, DividedXZero, TarotCardKiller
GMT-8 Vartazian

Again, if you know anyone else that'd like to play/practice with us, let em' know we're here. =]

How's this sound? Any questions, objections, and/or suggestions ? The more we can get, the better.

[LOUDandPROUD]

The earlier the better for me...10-11pm is gettin near my bedtime lol. If that's what we settle on though, then I can prob play for a bit anyway.

[RedScar]

Ya TCK, that is in September for those dates, there is still all of augest left for me to play WO hassle free.

[Vartazian]

Im up til 5 AM everynight anyways. Ill be there when the teams there.

[TarotCardKiller]

Thanks for the replies, this gives me something to work with. =]

From what I've gathered, it might seem best to just set a time, maybe this can be done regularly each week. The practice session will last from 9-12EST, join and leave at your leisure. If you can sign in around those times on Thursday, it'll be great. We'll have a game/chat room up. We can have one on Friday too if you guys are up to it. It'll be nice playing with the NA pilots. I'll send some messages out just to make sure everyone is aware.

RS - Thanks for letting me know

[DividedXZero]

Sounds Good TCK, perhaps exchange tips to strengthen the NA team as a whole (not only practice for the main pilots but for the subs and any upcoming new NA pilots around).

[RedScar]

Buddy might wanna hang out on Thursday, but I should be home around 11ish anyway. Friday is cool also.

[TarotCardKiller]

Alright, we can have sessions Thursday and Friday. You can come in when you want/available. We may do this weekly. This'll help out both the mains and the subs AND any other NA racer that would like to practice.