TURBOFEST
I wanna be Dave
Thanks for the reassurance Brian...Cant wait to see the courses you come up with!!!
See ya in August!!
See ya in August!!
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Rock crawling or circus
- Thread starter ROCKEDUP RICKY
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DRIVNMF
I wanna be Dave
TURBOFEST in da house. Can't wait to spend more comp time with a great driver and friend.
scatterbrains
RCC Addict
Lookin forward to this"thumbsup"
BIGJOEDUCKSLAYE
Quarry Creeper
I shur hope to get into lcq, then I will DO WORK not like @AWCC.
Parker your making them all scared, I say bring it beotch!!!!!
Parker your making them all scared, I say bring it beotch!!!!!
Kranberry
RCC Addict
why mud? its ROCK CRAWLING not mudding.:roll:
tim the toolman
Quarry Creeper
Water mud bridges cables & whatever else-bring it on it's just more variety:mrgreen: as long as the obstacles are set up to crawl thru & not power thru. What is this hobby again rc rockcrawlin or just rc CRAWLIN? Natural rock can't hardly be beat but there's pics & vids of crawlin about everything you can think of on this site. I'd rather crawl it all-minefields, tree roots sand dirt shallow water slick rock coarse rock, not just solid rock & nothing else Hmmm the last bprca comp comes to mind"thumbsup"8)"thumbsup"
Hmmm the last bprca comp comes to mind"thumbsup"8)"thumbsup"Red Rockcrawler
Trying to have Fun Again
Brian I will be back for another round of your madness this year. This time bringing radio parts. Don't know what most of these guys are worried about mud was dry and barley got the tires gooped up water was really shallow. But I was not there sunday.
Bring it on Brian I hope I do better this time.
Bring it on Brian I hope I do better this time.
dpdsurf
I wanna be Dave
Well, it was quite a bit more soupy on day two.
But it was not a big deal and made it more interesting. Novak's nautical nightmare is one of if not the coolest courses I have ever driven. It was actually an easy course with low scores posted both days. I'll take a creative thought out course like that any day over an "all rock course" that 90% of the field can't complete.
It will be great to see you out there again Cory. "thumbsup"
Red Rockcrawler
Trying to have Fun Again
krawlfreak
I wanna be Dave
i say suprise me with whatever you can imagine.:shock: i want to walk up to a course and say " what the f**k was this guy thinkin? ".
that way when you complete it you have a good sense of accomplishment, or you get staright up owned!:evil:
that way when you complete it you have a good sense of accomplishment, or you get staright up owned!:evil:
nitrojeff
Rock Crawler
the only issue I've seen with the man made stuff is it favors a certain truck, most of the cables I've seen were set up for a specific width, if your rig was wide or run different width front and back, you're hosed. I consider that poor course design.
I do avoid getting the comp rigs wet, as they are not water proofed, but a little tire dipping is ok.
I do avoid getting the comp rigs wet, as they are not water proofed, but a little tire dipping is ok.
1\4elliptic toy
Quarry Creeper
This is true with any course though, not just cables. There are plenty of courses that cater to bergs or shaftys. Its all part of the game, you might not make the cables but might school a climb that another rig can't. Is that poor course design? Bottom line is this, you cannot make everybody happy, so you try your best, Parker is a very talented course designer, I like his course because he MAKES you think about what your doing. His courses are not always what they seem, there are many times when I think "wonder if he intended for us to back in there" or " I bet he was was trying to make us do that". Nobody likes a kindergarden event...this is the world championships.....bring on the hardest drivable stuff you can find...no need to save it.
I could build a course that only a few could make the 1st or 2nd gate. I could build one that nobody but a small handful could get past the 1st gate. Is that good course design, No.
A good course design should progressively get harder as it goes. At our comps thats what we try to do. People come to drive, not spend their whole time trying to progess the 1st gate. The best still end up on top.
And thats how it seems Parker builds his, and in return you have a great event."thumbsup"
A good course design should progressively get harder as it goes. At our comps thats what we try to do. People come to drive, not spend their whole time trying to progess the 1st gate. The best still end up on top.
And thats how it seems Parker builds his, and in return you have a great event."thumbsup"
The Violator
RCC Addict
dpdsurf
I wanna be Dave
Yep, you nailed it. "thumbsup"
Of the 8 courses I ran at AWCC I only missed completing 1 by about 5' and it was pure greediness on my part going for the bonus line with not enough time.
1\4elliptic toy
Quarry Creeper
I found that the WCC courses were a PERFECT mixture of difficulty, length and time. If you went into them with your head on straight and kept moving forward there was enough time to finish them clean. Time management is up to the driver, If you set and spin trying to get through a gate clean and waste 2 minutes and time out on the rest of the course thats your time managment, I would rather slide left (if I cant make it) take a cone and continue on the course to the end (progress points win comps too) Driving is only a small part of this game....Its like chess..I for one plan on forcing Parker into check mate!
1\4elliptic toy
Quarry Creeper
IMO, I think that a properly designed course rewards the driver for "wanting" to do all the gates, Redrocks is the perfect example, the course to the right of the bling wheel had several very hard verts in it, so many in fact that the majority of people were chosing to run different lines to avoid the climbs and take cones to keep progressing the gates because there were so many DNF'S. The reward there was in altering the course so much to get points that no one ran it the intended direction, not in the satisfaction that you spanked the course the way it was intended to be ran. If I had set that course I would have been dissapointed to see so many people "butcher" my course to get to the finish. At WCC I didnt see a single person alter their travel through the course because there was stuff that was "to hard"
