2020 ARL Racing All-Star Night - Format / Details
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The 2020 ARL Racing Patch All-Star Night is here, running on Saturday, May 16th 2020 at 9pm ET. This year's events will be run under the ARL Patch Cup Series race configuration, including the 2018 Platinum G3 Cup Series cars in Hardcore mode. The night begins with the Opportunity Race where ANY sim racer / driver not pre-qualified for the All-Star Race can earn not only the opportunity to race against the best in the All-Star Race, but also earn an official ARL Victory! We welcome drivers of all skill levels and do not require registration to participate in the event! Be sure to invite all your friends and community members!



Schedule
9:00pm ET - Official Practice Sessions Begin
9:20pm ET - 2020 ARL Racing Patch Opportunity Race
10:00pm ET - 2020 ARL Racing Patch All-Star Race



Opportunity Race Requirements
- Open to all, any driver, registered or not, who has not won a race in any ARL series during 2019 or 2020 can compete.
- Winner is officially an ARL Winner.
- Winner and second place finisher advance to the 2020 All-Star Race, League Officials have the ability to advance other drivers based on overall turnout for both events, including the possibility of a fan vote to be determined following the completion of the Opportunity Race.

Opportunity Race Format
- Standard in-game qualifying session for all drivers.
- Live Cautions, no cautions after the leader begins 2 laps to go.
- 4x Wear Factor & Fixed Setup
- Segment 1: Ends at the completion of lap 10.
- Segment 2: Ends at the completion of lap 25.
- Segment 3: Remaining laps.
- Segment lengths have the potential to vary due to uncontrollable circumstances.



All-Star Race Requirements
- Any driver who has won a race in any ARL series during 2019 or 2020 are automatically eligible to enter the race.
- Advancing drivers from the 2020 Opportunity Race are eligible to enter the race.

All-Star Race Format
- Standard in-game qualifying session for pre-qualified drivers, none of the drivers advancing from the Opportunity Race are permitted to qualify (these drivers will start in the back).
- Live Cautions, no cautions after the leader begins 2 laps to go.
- 5x Wear Factor & Fixed Setup
- Segment 1: Ends at the completion of lap 15.
- Segment 2: Ends at the completion of lap 35.
- Segment 3: Ends at the completion of lap 70.
- Segment 4: Remaining laps.
- Segment lengths have the potential to vary due to uncontrollable circumstances.
- Cars between segments will have a standard lineup or inverted lineup restart based on randomness.



Automatically Eligible Drivers
2019-2020 ARL winners who will compete in the All-Star Race and will not compete in the Opportunity Race

Bandit
BlackKnight
DusterLag
Grumpy
GTSVip9
KartRacer63
lepage71
ltfireman1604
puttzracer
Rookiesrock
rwarren35
Speedyman11
viagra6car



Download the Platinum G3 mod here and the 2018 Monster Energy Cup add-on here.

Custom Paints for active league drivers can be downloaded here.

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<< Edited on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 5:54pm EDT. >>
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Fixed setups. Now we're on to something.
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Interesting
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Keyboard driving only?
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The pre-qualified drivers for Saturday's All-Star Race has been added to the post above based on qualification rules (having won an ARL race in 2019 or 2020).

The list was longer than I was expecting to be honest. I hope we have enough drivers to run the Opportunity Race! Invite your friends as it counts an an official ARL Victory if you win the race!

Should someone new win in this week's Touring or Truck series events, they would also become automatically qualified for the All-Star Race!

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Is there a minimum to run the first race? I know part of the big deal is to give someone that statistic of a win. I can only think of Brad, CR, Matt, Nicky, Red, Zach that could run.

Any info on the setup as in how it is selected and if it's a blind entry on race night for the first laps on it?
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Setup is posted for download on the schedule
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viagra6car wrote:
Is there a minimum to run the first race? I know part of the big deal is to give someone that statistic of a win. I can only think of Brad, CR, Matt, Nicky, Red, Zach that could run.

My intention of limiting the wins to the last year or so was to increase the list of drivers in the Qualifier/Opportunity race - perhaps I should have thought about that a bit longer as it didn't really have the impact I had hoped for.

The Opportunity race essentially requires 3 drivers minimum to run, I really hope we have more than that - please invite your friends!!

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DusterLag wrote:
viagra6car wrote:
Is there a minimum to run the first race? I know part of the big deal is to give someone that statistic of a win. I can only think of Brad, CR, Matt, Nicky, Red, Zach that could run.

My intention of limiting the wins to the last year or so was to increase the list of drivers in the Qualifier/Opportunity race - perhaps I should have thought about that a bit longer as it didn't really have the impact I had hoped for.

The Opportunity race essentially requires 3 drivers minimum to run, I really hope we have more than that - please invite your friends!!



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It was good. The formatting went well and I definitely think the identical setup was a winning move. Stage lengths are tough to assess since we didn't have any long runs or green flag pit stops. The final stage length is good.

My thoughts on what to do different are maybe a more open track (not a draft one) where there is more room to save it and successfully do the 3 and 4 wide we tried last night. Also, maybe hold the setup until the final day so nobody gets advantageous testing in.
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Thank you to everyone who came out and raced, it was definitely one of the best All-Star events we've run here.

The setup likely will have a different format next year, one where changes on pit road don't help as much, but I agree that returning to fixed sets worked out well.
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Great event ARL! Love love loved it. Except for the multiple wrecks I caused. Sorry to most of the field. Welcome to the new guys. Good win LT. There was just enough adjustability in the setup to make it exciting. Any less and your running normal mode. No thanks.
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I thought it was a pretty cool event. Just wish I wasn't running out of gas every time the pits were closed haha. I did like the fixed setup for it and I think for a one off event like this it can be beneficial for drawing others in. I would consider modifying the invert format a bit. I think having an invert everytime would be fine, just randomly choose how many get inverted.
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Thank you for your feedback all! And thank you for racing!
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