After 7 editions that made them famous, the 24 hours of TMU are about to their eight edition this weekend. Little introduction of this event that make it sold out now.

What's this?

As indicated by their name, the 24 hours of TMU are a real endurance test that is raced on 24 hours, 7 environments and 48 maps. Mandatory hazing for every neophyte before to become a true Trackmaniac, the great race will put everyone's nerves under pressure. Alone in the night, at a speed that defies the physic laws as well as any rule, who wouldn't fear the fatal mistake, this one that leads you in the depths of the standings? And, when the aurora rises, one realize that even less than half of the race has been done. How to describe the developping stress when tireness grows and hours follow one after another?

Now, it is up to the writer to put the uninformed at rest : the 24 hours are a team race: it is not a question of a pilot who drives the entire race, from the start to the epileptic fit! But it keeps an endurance race and many addicts are keen on stay up. But the 24 hours are above all a big laugh where all the TM Community is guest to meet in a great mood. In fact, madnesses on Teamspeak exceed the looks on timetables and round trips to the fridge replace training hours. Actually, there is no train due to the schedule of the competition : the maps are kept secret and delivered only during the race.

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Most of the work is to test and touch up the 48 maps. Unlike usual leagues, we ask 48 maps to several mappers and we tuch up them until we get what we expect.

  

 

 

 

Since the runtimes have got eliminated by Nadeo, we didn't met problems with connexions. There are allways difficulties, like when we forgot the server config at the first hour of the season 7. But we have already seen more than 150 players on the server without lags neither disjunctions. Relays will be available as usually. Huge thanks to Vache's unfailing generosity, without which nothing would be possible.