There is now less than 1 week left before the deadline closes to submit your track entry to Nadeo as part of the 10 Years Competitions!.

Useful MX Links
Thread on MX forums
MX upload link
MX track group for maps uploaded

The Most Important Links
Nadeo's entry submission page
Nadeo's Offical rules

As you know, maps can be uploaded to either Mania Exchange or Steam Workshop - I've no idea how many entries there are from Steam, but MX has not made many (looking at the list). So come on everyone, we can't let Steam Workshop win!!! -

Lets see some more entries from the MX population!! - Overwhelm them with MX powa!

Basic Rules
o Players may only use TrackMania2 Stadium.
o First 10-15 seconds as PF that leads into a jump.
o Use a [10th] tag in the map title
o No custom signs, graphics, music, mods
o Upload your map to Steam (cough!) or ManiaExchange (click!)
o Post a link to your upload here: Link Submission Page

Soft Rules
o 3-5 second intro is encouraged (longer not encouraged)
o Copper Cost: Please try to not exceed 5000.

Building Advise
Build so a beginner can drive the track. The track length should be 40-50 Seconds. Players should be able to complete the track in one attempt. No section should require “perfection” in driving or speed... (if you can think back so far, think about StarTrack). Respwans should work.

Reminder of the full schedule bellow for a fun filled TrackMania Saturday!
A combination of MX Knockouts, SmurfsCup, and TMX Knockout...

o 1st MX Knockout, at 10:30 CET (09:30 GMT)
o SmurfsCup, at 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT)
o 2nd MX Knockout, at 21:30 CET (20:30 GMT)
o United TMX Knockout, at 23:30 CET (22:30 GMT)

The SmurfsCup will be driven in rounds on 7 tracks on the Smurfen.net TM2 server which is located in the Netherlands.

Next Knockout Environments - (16th November)
Stadium - A long drive - Start Time: 9:30 GMT
Canyon - Something once more - Start time: 20:30 GMT

The Knockout Servers are located under 'United Kingdom'. If you don't find them during the week, don't worry, we sometimes don't start them until the hours before the event.

Time for another one!

I have downloaded collections of short maps from the Trackmania Original (TMO) TMX site... the maps are from these guys: Fistule, Rax, MrD, JayPee, Nazgul, TeK, SMC, OgrO, FredoLeDingue

It will be a Retro TMO Knockout!

Starting
Thursday 14th November : 20:30 GMT (21:30 CET)

We love Trackmania so much this month, that we thought it would be nice to run the occasional spontaneous knockout.

Join the Usual TMU KO server before the designated time to take part!

If you don't own all titles (Canyon, Stadium, Valley), you can now access demo versions.

Quick Steps to be playing TM2 for free
1) Open ManiaPlanet
2) Double click on an empty station
3) Select the TM2 title you don't own
4) Let it install
5) Start playing by selecting the server names on the right (station must be max sized)

You can click on 'enter title' but this is for buying the full versions at huge discounts...

Don't have ManiaPlanet at all?
Get the empty client here and start adding demos!
http://static.maniaplanet.com/ManiaplanetTMDemoSetup.exe

Nice work Nadeo!

Let us know how you get on with this here

Reminder of the full schedule bellow for a fun filled TrackMania Saturday!
A combination of MX Knockouts, SmurfsCup, and TMX Knockout...

o 1st MX Knockout, at 10:30 CET (09:30 GMT)
o SmurfsCup, at 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT)
o 2nd MX Knockout, at 21:30 CET (20:30 GMT)
o United TMX Knockout, at 23:30 CET (22:30 GMT)

The SmurfsCup will be driven in rounds on 7 tracks on the Smurfen.net TM2 server which is located in the Netherlands.

Next Knockout Environments - (9th November)
Canyon - Something Different - Start Time: 9:30 GMT
Canyon - Something New - Start time: 20:30 GMT
This weekends KO is different again from last weekends

The Knockout Servers are located under 'United Kingdom'. If you don't find them during the week, don't worry, we sometimes don't start them until the hours before the event.

Who says everything must be planned? Welcome to the Spontaneous Knockout

Starting
Tuesday 5th November : 20:30 GMT (21:30 CET)

We love Trackmania so much this month, that we thought it would be nice to run the occasional spontaneous knockout. The first is on Tuesday 5th November on TrackMania United in rounds!

Join the Usual TMU KO server before the designated time to take part!

Throughout November, the MX KO is celebrating the TM 10th Anniversary with special events every weekend! Which will mean something different from usual!

But that's not all, check out the full schedule bellow for a fun filled TrackMania Saturday!
A combination of MX Knockouts, SmurfsCup, and TMX Knockout...

o 1st MX Knockout, at 10:30 CET (09:30 GMT)
o SmurfsCup, at 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT)
o 2nd MX Knockout, at 21:30 CET (20:30 GMT)
o United TMX Knockout, at 23:30 CET (22:30 GMT)

The SmurfsCup will be driven in rounds on 7 tracks on the Smurfen.net TM2 server, which is located in the Netherlands, Noord-Brabant, and starts each saturday in November at 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT). No registration, just turn up and play.

Next Knockout Environments - (2nd November)
Canyon - Special Surprise - 9:30 GMT
Valley - Its a secret - 20:30 GMT

The Knockout Servers are located under 'United Kingdom'. If you don't find them during the week, don't worry, we sometimes don't start them until the hours before the event. Just turn up to play.

Note the 20:30 GMT new start time for the 2nd KO
(UK Time currently = GMT, CET Time currently = GMT+1)
Check your own local times against London GMT

Right about now, Trackmania is 10 Years Old!, which means its 10 years since the first TrackMania game. In recognition of this, Nadeo are running a series of Creative Competitions!.

Contest Links
Car Creation Contest
Video Creation Contest
Track Creation Contest

MX Forum Link:
http://tm.mania-exchange.com/threads/view/2269

Uploading entries to Mania Exchange
For the track creation contest, we made a site update..... track groups! If you upload your track entry to ManiaExchange using our Special TM 10th Anniversary Upload Link, then the map will still be listed under your own account, but all maps uploaded via that link are attached to the group as well, making your entry easy for everyone else to find...

Track Group Listing: Special TM 10th Anniversary Tracks List Link

Please check the offical rules Nadeo have provided in their own posts for the full details, but here is a summary of the track building rules

Hard Rules
o Players may only use TrackMania2 Stadium.
o First 10-15 seconds as PF that leads into a jump.
o Use a [10th] tag in the map title
o No custom signs, graphics, music, mods
o Upload your map to Steam (cough!) or ManiaExchange (click!)
o Post a link to your upload here: Link Submission Page

Uploading to MX
Use our special TM 10th Anniversary upload link

Soft Rules
o 3-5 second intro is encouraged (longer not encouraged)
o Copper Cost: Please try to not exceed 5000.

Building Advise
Build so a beginner can drive the track. The track length should be 40-50 Seconds. Players should be able to complete the track in one attempt. No section should require “perfection” in driving or speed... (if you can think back so far, think about StarTrack). Respwans should work.

Nadeo Deadlines
◾November 24th: Submission Deadline for Tracks. .
◾November 29th: 20 Semi-Finalists Announced, Community Voting Starts.
◾December 6th: Deadline for Community Voting, Finalists Announced
◾December 14th: 10th Anniversary LAN Event, Car Contest Results [Top 3]



Note: The earlier 60 participant limit has been relaxed

Next events: 19th Oct 2013

Canyon - KO1 Rounds - 9:30 GMT
Canyon - KO4 TimeAttack - 19:30 GMT
Be sure to know your own time zone relative to GMT

What is Knockout?
Its a friendly online competition, where you join our server to play. All you have to do is be on the server before the starting time of the competition and you can play. The way it works is that after every round, the last placed driver is eliminated (the script forces the player to be a spectator). This happens each round until there is 1 winner. (Search for Knockout or MX to find the server)

And don't forget, at 21:30 GMT on the same day, TMUnited do their weekly KO event.