[CES24] Redline Presents: Yuletide Rally 2024

[TheStigUSA]

Hi everyone, I am getting this message out soon after the conclusion of our event.

First, we wish to thank all participants for joining us in this first-ever event. All-in-all, things went smoothly and we worked through the planning stages efficiently. This is thanks to efforts put in by both TC Admins & TC Dev, and Redline Leadership, as well as Community support which we are grateful for.

We will tally scores and remit winnings, within the next 48 hours. Another post will be sent on this thread.

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Overnight, we were made aware of a couple of integrity issues done by two particular competitors, who each made changes to their own LFS mod vehicles to obtain an unfair advantage. One made a change before the event, the other made a change during the event. This is what happened and these are the facts.

I want to state clearly, other than the team member of ours who chose to do this to their mod, RedLine and any of our fellow participating team members were NOT aware of the change made to the Koenigsegg mod, until it was brought to our attention by a TC Staff member. As a result, the Koenigsegg was disabled by TC staff, and the person responsible was disqualified from the event.

The other participant who made changes to their mod before the event, did so in clear intent, taking advantage of a gray area of the rules. TC Staff and Redline agree this participant will see their earnings halved , but will not be disqualified.

RedLine did not conspire together to put together an unfair advantage. Spreading slander among the community about this is foolish as well as false. We took this event very seriously and were hoping for as much community engagement as possible.

It disappoints me personally that we had this issue with integrity. Those who ended up with top positions did earn their place by putting in the hours and racking up distance. This is noteworthy in case it is currently in question that the entire community did not get a fair shot to get in the top 8. Those top 8 participants put in anywhere from 18 to 22+ hours of driving.

For potential future events, we will clearly mark this activity (deliberately enhancing a mod's capabilities for competitive gain) as clear grounds for disqualification.

Thank you all for understanding.