-The first one to arrive at the destination will be the overall winner of the constest. Obviously.
-The participant with the lowest mileage will get a trophy.
-The participant who crossed the most countries will get a trophy.
-Points will also be attributed daily, the participant with the most points will get a trophy. This will be rewarded on the basis of most km's travelled per leg.
-The participant with the best narration of their journey will get a trophy (this a bit subjective i'll admit, but i'd love to see people do an effort to be creative, however you will not be punished if you're not the creative type)
-This is a game about skill as well as adaptability to circumstances.
Chapter 2: The route
We will start our journey at the parking lot of kaap de goede hoop in South Africa (-34.357035838469486, 18.47363836096292), we mess around a bit on the African continent, those who survive get a smoother ride over Europe or Asia, and we will eventually finish at the Nordkapp in Norway (71.16971673452119, 25.783969312663665 ) , specifically at the public toilet positioned there. How you get there is up to you, as long as it fits the rules.
Chapter 3: How to participate
-First thing you'll need is google maps, obviously.
-You will make a post on the forum that you are participating. If you only have discord and not the forum, please make a forum account.
-You will post your specific starting location and end location of the leg and then post it on the forum thread, or send me a DM on the forum or the Discord server.
-You can either send a working link of your trajectory or send me a screenshot or your trajectory, but in both cases, the administrator, this time being me, must be able to recreate your route and be able to confirm this falls within the rules. Please include important information such as your time, your mileage (or kilometrage), and the location you stopped.
-I will post a roundup after every stage so everyone can see how well others are doing in the contest.
-You will have 48 hours after the roundup of every stage to post your next leg. Please do not post your next leg before the roundup post. I will notify when the next leg opens and when the deadline will be.
-If the map doesn't allow you to cross a border, like what happened in the past with China, please give me 2 seperate maps, and please zoom in properly so i have proof that a border-crossing road indeed exists
-If you want to do some roleplaying, please explain me in detail what car you drive, how you got the car, how you got it in South-Africa, who your drivers are, what their history is, what their personalities are, etc. This will (probably) not effect your race and is not mandatory.
-Keep in mind that if you roleplay and choose a car that is not road-legal, you can suffer some form of consequence for that.
How to turn off traffic:
If you switch to traffic mode, you will see this (in the language you use), it will give you the options of live traffic or typical traffic. You can turn off traffic by the blue button on the top right.
Chapter 4: Rules
Rule 1: Your route must exist and must be verifiable by the admin
Rule 2: You can drive maximum 10 hours per day in normal conditions
Rule 3: You must select 'car' on google maps
Rule 4: You must have traffic information off, due to time zone differences. I don't want people staying up the night just to get a faster route, like happened last time. If traffic is on, it is also harder to recreate your route for me. If you keep traffic on, and my verification show your route to take longer than when you posted it, i will use the time it shows on my screen. Penalty time will be adjusted accordingly.
Rule 5: You will sleep in a place that is listed as a proper sleeping accomodation, this can be a hotel, a hostel, a camping or something similar. If you're stranded in the absolute middle of nowhere, the admin can give you a dispensation to sleep in your car, but you must notify me BEFORE you make your route public. If you don't give me enough time to respond (we all have lives) or disregard this rule, i will rng the level of exhaustion your driver will experience, meaning that your maximum allowed time the next day might be a lot less.
Rule 6: for every minute your route is over the 10 hours limit,you will get a 5 minute penalty on your next day. If you make a habit of racking up penalties, i have the authority to remove you out of the competition. It's very unlikely that i will, but keep in mind the possibility exist.
Rule 7: an rng event regarding weather will be held for the relevant countries wich might be crossed the specific day. This has influence on the maximum allowed time you can cross in one leg.
Rule 8: an rng event regarding civil unrest will be held for the relevant countries wich might be crossed the specific day. This has influence on the maximum allowed time you can cross in one leg, If you manage to start that leg at all. If for example you insist on going trough the Gaza strip, be prepared for the risks of doing so.
Rule 9: after the winner has arrived, you have 7 in-game days to finish.
Rule 10: If you are the type of person who is forgetful, you can post your planned route beforehand in my DM's, this gives you a tactical disadvantage as opposed to those who post every day, but it will assure you will not forget to post.
Rule 11: if you forget to post one day, or post after the 48 hours limit, you have lost a full day.
Rule 12: you can not post more than 1 route on the same day.
Rule 13: I would like to participate myself, however, to make things fair, i will start one day later than the rest of you.
Rule 14: Keep in mind that whilst this is a contest, please keep it fun and don't overstress yourself.
Rule 15: You can still enter once the contest is going. However, you will not be allowed to make up for the lost days, as you would otherwise have a tactical advantage.
Rule 16*: If you choose roleplaying, it might affect your rng odds.
Rule 17: Once you post your route, you an no longer edit it.
Rule 18: Added rule, if rain is predicted for a country ,but you'revery close to the border, or if you barely touched the country, you will by defaul only lose 5 minutes.
Rule 19: Added rule after a competitor's question: yes it's allowed to intervene with other competitors and try to disadvantage them. But a few notes. 1) roleplaying-wise, this is always allowed, but 2) for it to have real-life effects, you must be sleeping in the same accomodation. Please only do this to people who you know would be ok with it. Not everybody is here to roleplay to that extent, so when in doubt, don't do it. 3) this only works if you post your route before they post theirs.
Rule 20: Tiebreakers: if 2 people arrive at exactly the same time the second criteria will be the amount of countries, the third criteria the least distance covered, and the 4th criteria the amount of wins in the points 5th criteria the amount of second places in the points, etc.
Chapter 5: Entry list
#01 Nessafox (1 day handicap)
#02 TommyKl
#03 Pinkd56
#04 Girry
#05 Aislabie
#06 NickyDustyOwl
#07 Forti
#08 pasta_maldonado
#09 Klon
#10 Shadaza
#11 Frogfoot9013
#12 Loadsamoney
#13 DigitDan7
#14 Kinnikuniverse
#15 Nuppiz
#16 Rob Dylan
#17 Ducktanian (entered from Leg 4 onwards)
The competition will start at Monday the 8th of April 2024 on 00:01 GMT+1 (my own time zone)
Please confirm your participation below:
https://formularejects.com/wiki/Google_ ... pe_to_Cape
Monika Flater and 
James Wilmington were still contracted to Team Bert Anzungolst, and they needed stuff to do. Herr Anzungolst nominated them to lead the charge in the Dakarney Rally. He handed them flight tickets to Gauteng, South Africa, and a 5,000 euro budget (~100k rand) for the event.
