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TrackMania Nations

Photo: Nadeo

Trackmania is a game that entered the eSport world in 2006 when it was searched for a racing game that would be used at the 2006 ESWC finals in Paris, France. The French developer Nadeo made "TrackMania Nations" in cooperation with the ESWC and since then the game has just grown and grown. Worldwide there are 3 385 909 registered players. In Norway there are just over 80 000 players who have made a user account. TrackMania run after "the first man in goal" -principle one versus one and teams against teams. The game, which is abbreviated TMN (F), has been picked up by many large computer festivals and tournaments over the past year and the fanbase continues to grow every day.

Information

Please take your time to read the rules for The Gathering 2011 Trackmania nations forever tournament:

Custom maps are made for The Gathering. The top 5 maps have been voted on by the community, and will be the official maps for The Gathering 2011:


The vote server will contiue to run with a rotation of the 5 selected maps, challange your oppenents already by adding it to your favourites, either paste it in your browser or inside the game itself: tmtp://#addfavourite=tgtest1


32 seats will be available in the TrackMania tournament at The Gathering 2011. You can aquire a slot either:

Invitations

Online qualified players:

Online qualifiers

The online qualification will be played on the participants' own computers over the Internet. You have four possible cups to qualify:

19-20 march: Online qualifier 1&2. [ Results ]
26-27 march: Online qualifier 3&4. [ Results ]

You will find registration and setup information by clicking on the signup link above.

BYOC-Qualification

This qualifier will be played on your personal computers during the first day of The Gathering 2011. Players will fight in Time-Attack for the possibility to gain a slot in the main tournament.

Execution:

11:30 p.m. begins TM BYOC on the server "TG - BYOC. This can be found in the server browser Online> Norway. (NOT LAN GAMES)

Those who have TrackMania United should be able to connect to the server without problems.

Those who have the free version of TrackMania Nations can experience not to get into the server and get a "connection failed". To circumvent this problem, the server must be added to favorites, and then connect to the server. A restart of TM is sometimes required for the server to appear in the favorite list.

The procedure for adding a favorite server is explained here:
- Open Trackmania and login.
- Open the console line (hold your mouse pointer at the top of the screen to a drop down menu will appear.
- Click on the "blue diamond"to open console
- print / copy the following command to the address bar: tmtp://#addfavourite=tg11-1
- the server should now show up in your favorite list found in "Online games"
- connect to the server and await instructions from the admin

Questions? Come to Game Desk and ask for "Erlend" or "Beasty".

Main Tournament

The main tournament will be played on separate, dedicated computers rigged in a eSports-area by the event:game crew. This last and crucial part of the competition will be held Thoursday - Saturday on The Gathering 2011. (NOTE: the schedule changes constantly)

There will be a total of 32 players who will participate in the playoffs / main event.






Information regarding maps and brackets for the TrackMania Nations:Forever tournament will be published within the next weeks.