Did you get first in all of them?

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Left or right for you?

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@@AXbcyz nope, i was wrong, i had forgotten i clocken on kan's vid

@@BOMBO- lol

What about the checkpoint at the top of that piece?

@@sky01james28 that will be your last before you drop to the finish

First of all, that strategy has you do 6 turns total, instead of 5 (the first one being a slight turn though). So there has to be a measurable benefit in path length. And no matter how you twist it, you're going up 6 spokes and down 7 spokes (if you count the drop in and drop out as 2 full trips down). @Baer pong It will not. Your 6 turns rotate you by 180° around the equator (not a full 360°). Meaning that you take your last circle in the opposite direction than the neighboring circle you started out on. Meaning that in your last circle you'd come into the first loop going up through that checkpoint that you did first, and then there's 3 checkpoints left to do on it (of which the last one doesn't line you up vertically for the straight drop into the finish). I was thinking about turning _at the top_ after the first 3 checkpoints and then lumping through the 4th checkpoint of that loop. But then you do the last loop you take in the opposite direction to the drop-in loop *and* start it from the top. That means you take its checkpoint furthest from the drop-in ramp first, on your path down, then the other checkpoint on that loop on your way up, immediately after which you can jump to the remaining upper checkpoint on the adjacent drop-in spoke. With this strategy, you'd do a 1/2 spoke down and 1 full spoke up of the first loop, then 4 full loops, and 1 spoke down and 1/2 a spoke up on the last loop, plus that final jump *UP* off the upwards part of the last loop. The problem with that jumped checkpoint is that you're going upwards with enough speed to easily take you through the apex of the atom. I don't know if you can crash into something there that instantaneously cancels your vertical speed or if you have to brake before that jump. But in total your path would consist of 10 full and 2 half spokes but with a fall that starts at zero velocity; as opposed to 11 full and 2 half spokes but with a fall that starts at 140 km/h downwards speed. Both would do 5 turns (if you don't count the turn off for the hoop jump - that you do after you slowed down anyways).

Glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that

So having 12 checkpoints on the map but you only need to hit 2 to finish.

Yep, like if you wanted to make 3 routes with 3 checkpoints each to prevent cheese, you only need 3 to finish. Or if you wanted to make something like a ski slalom course, but kinda freestyle, just a wide plain with 12 checkpoints, but you only need to get 4 of them, then the best time becomes about optimizing which ones to grab or skip.

@@Nevir202 But coundn't you just scal up a long checkpoint?

Trackmania allows linking checkpoints.... that is, you can group checkpoints together, so that the racer only needs to grab one checkpoint from each group. Might be a good addition to Zeepkist, too

@@jaskrolor depending on the layout, sure. After a certain point it becomes a bit un-feasible, and doesn’t leave any way to do something like my second example.

Where is the Dapper cut? We demand it!

I am willing to forgive that inaccuracy, because the track is just so cool. (For context, I usually would enjoy pointing out technical inaccuracies like this way too much to to pass up on the opportunity.)

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