Running a drift event

Judged qualifying, a tandem knockout and a result that scores the round, the way real drift series run it.

The format in short

A drift competition has two parts. In qualifying each driver does solo runs and the judges score them; the best run counts. The qualifying order then seeds a tandem bracket (Top 4, Great 8, Top 16 or Top 32), where two drivers battle head to head over two runs, each leading once, and the judges decide who goes through. To run one in FRLcast, start a new round and choose Drift round: the night then runs as practice followed by the drift competition.

Judging a qualifying run

On the Drift battles page, press On track beside the driver who is about to run. Each judge scores three categories, following the split Formula Drift uses: Line (how close the car stays to the ideal path and the clipping zones), Angle (how much and how consistently the car is sideways) and Style (commitment, speed and how it looks). The default maximum is 35, 30 and 35 points, which you can change. The run's score is the average of the judges' totals, recorded the moment the last judge sends theirs. If your league prefers one number per run, switch the scoring to a single score.

Judges on their phones

Judges do not need to be at the operator's laptop. The Judges card gives each judge their own link. On a phone the page shows the run on track with a slider and step buttons for each category, or, during a battle, three large buttons: the leader, One more time, and the chaser. Each call reaches race control within a second or two, and the console shows which judges are connected. The link carries a key; pressing New links stops every earlier link working, which is useful if a link was shared by mistake. On a local setup judges use the address on your network; on a hosted event the links work from anywhere.

Battles, One More Time and third place

Byes fill empty seats, so an eleven driver entry fits a sixteen seat bracket without inventing drivers. Click a pair in the bracket to put the battle on air, mark run one and run two as the lead swaps, and let the judges call it. A majority decides. A split decision, or judges who call it too close, means One More Time: the votes are cleared and the pair runs again, up to a limit you choose, after which a decision has to be made. You can switch on a battle for third place between the two beaten semi-finalists.

What viewers see

The broadcast has drift graphics of its own. During qualifying, a card shows who is on track and fills in as the judges score, then reveals the score with Line, Angle and Style bars and the driver's qualifying place. A qualifying board keeps the top scores on screen. In battles, the judges' calls stay hidden while they vote, so the result is not given away, and then open one by one when the battle is decided, which is the moment the crowd waits for.

What drivers see

The driver app tells each driver when they are up next and against whom, whether they lead or chase in the run on track, and whether they won or went out, along with their qualifying place. The voice spotter says the same out loud, so a driver warming up does not have to look at the phone.

The result and the season

When the final is decided, finish the session. The classification follows the bracket: the winner, the beaten finalist, third and fourth from the battle for third (or the beaten semi-finalists), then each earlier round's losers in qualifying order. The round is scored into the championship with the same points table as your grip rounds, plus a pole bonus for the top qualifier if you use one. The qualifying runs, every judge's split and the full bracket are saved with the round.

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Menjalankan event drift

Kualifikasi yang dinilai juri, knockout tandem, dan hasil yang menghitung poin ronde, seperti yang dijalankan seri drift sungguhan.

Format singkatnya

Kompetisi drift punya dua bagian. Di kualifikasi tiap pembalap melakukan run solo dan juri menilainya; run terbaik yang dihitung. Urutan kualifikasi lalu menentukan seeding bracket tandem (Top 4, Great 8, Top 16, atau Top 32), tempat dua pembalap bertarung dalam dua run, masing-masing memimpin sekali, dan juri memutuskan siapa yang lolos. Untuk menjalankannya di FRLcast, mulai ronde baru dan pilih Ronde drift: malam itu berjalan sebagai latihan lalu kompetisi drift.

Menilai run kualifikasi

Di halaman Drift battles, tekan Di lintasan di samping pembalap yang akan melaju. Tiap juri menilai tiga kategori, mengikuti pembagian yang dipakai Formula Drift: Line (seberapa dekat mobil dengan jalur ideal dan clipping zone), Angle (seberapa besar dan konsisten mobil menyamping), dan Style (komitmen, kecepatan, dan tampilannya). Nilai maksimal bawaan 35, 30, dan 35 poin, dan bisa diubah. Nilai run adalah rata-rata total para juri, tercatat begitu juri terakhir mengirim nilainya. Kalau ligamu lebih suka satu angka per run, ubah penilaian menjadi satu angka.

Juri lewat HP

Juri tidak perlu berada di laptop operator. Kartu Juri memberi tiap juri link sendiri. Di HP, halamannya menampilkan run yang sedang berjalan dengan slider dan tombol langkah untuk tiap kategori, atau saat battle, tiga tombol besar: pembalap yang memimpin, One more time, dan pembalap yang mengejar. Tiap keputusan sampai ke race control dalam satu atau dua detik, dan konsol menunjukkan juri mana yang terhubung. Link membawa sebuah kunci; menekan Link baru menghentikan semua link sebelumnya, berguna kalau link terlanjur tersebar. Di setup lokal juri memakai alamat di jaringanmu; di event hosted link-nya bisa dipakai dari mana saja.

Battle, One More Time, dan juara 3

Kursi kosong diisi bye, jadi sebelas peserta muat di bracket enam belas kursi tanpa mengarang pembalap. Klik sebuah pasangan di bracket untuk menayangkan battle-nya, tandai run satu dan run dua saat posisi lead bertukar, lalu biarkan juri memutuskan. Mayoritas yang menentukan. Keputusan terbelah, atau juri yang menilai terlalu tipis, berarti One More Time: vote dihapus dan pasangan itu mengulang, sampai batas yang kamu tentukan, setelah itu keputusan harus diambil. Kamu bisa mengaktifkan battle perebutan juara 3 antara dua pecundang semifinal.

Yang dilihat penonton

Siaran punya grafis drift sendiri. Saat kualifikasi, sebuah kartu menampilkan siapa yang di lintasan dan terisi seiring juri menilai, lalu mengumumkan skornya dengan bar Line, Angle, dan Style serta posisi kualifikasi pembalap. Papan kualifikasi menampilkan nilai teratas. Saat battle, keputusan juri disembunyikan selama mereka memilih supaya hasilnya tidak bocor, lalu dibuka satu per satu setelah battle diputuskan, momen yang paling ditunggu penonton.

Yang dilihat pembalap

Aplikasi driver memberi tahu tiap pembalap kapan giliran berikutnya dan melawan siapa, apakah dia memimpin atau mengejar di run yang sedang berjalan, dan apakah dia menang atau tersingkir, beserta posisi kualifikasinya. Spotter suara membacakan hal yang sama, jadi pembalap yang sedang pemanasan tidak perlu melihat HP.

Hasil dan musim

Setelah final diputuskan, selesaikan sesi. Klasemen mengikuti bracket: pemenang, finalis yang kalah, juara 3 dan 4 dari battle perebutan juara 3 (atau pecundang semifinal), lalu pecundang tiap babak sebelumnya menurut urutan kualifikasi. Poin ronde masuk championship dengan tabel poin yang sama seperti ronde grip, ditambah bonus pole untuk top qualifier kalau kamu memakainya. Run kualifikasi, rincian nilai tiap juri, dan bracket lengkap tersimpan bersama ronde.

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