Mania Exchange Header Contest
Its been a while since we modified the banner at top of the site, and now that there is Stadium, and soon Valley, we thought now is a nice time to begin a contest to have some updated headers.
Here is the thread which explains how to submit
Thanks to Space for organising this for the site.

Here is an outline of a few things happening this month on Mania Exchange.

Mania Exchange Header Contest
Its been a while since we modified the banner at top of the site, and now that there is Stadium, and soon Valley, we thought now is a nice time to begin a contest to have some updated headers.
Here is the thread which explains how to submit
Thanks to Space for organising this for the site.

Knockouts
Knockouts take place each Saturday morning & evening. An online racing event where one player is knocked out of the contest each round. Next KO: 15th June 2013

Canyon KO1 Rounds - Start Time: 9:30 GMT
Canyon KO1 Rounds - Start time: 19:30 GMT

Please check your local time verses GMT to be on time.

Note: Maps still needed for Canyon pools
Get them in before Stadium building begins at the end of Stadium beta.

Monthly Track Contest
The MTC runs each month and involves building maps based on a set theme.
The theme for this months MTC is Dual Drive.
Read the detailed rules & how to participate

Results for last months MTC, The Offroad Monster, will be due soon.

SLIP5 building started
If you like building Stadium dirt maps, then the SPAM Team are waiting for your map submissions.
Dirt Mappers Needed
Deadline for submissions is 31/07/2013 midnight

Shootmania MMC
In SM, the Monthly Mapping Contest has a new theme for June, and the mode is TimeTrial.
Read the full rules
Results for last months Elite based MMC, will also be due soon.

Trackmania 1 still exists
That's right, and why not let your reason to revisit TM1 be the still running TMX KO & MTC events?
The United MTC theme is called 'Re-Uses'
The Nations Forever MTC theme is Pick 'Your Poison'

As well this, there is a TMU Knockout each Saturday at 21:30 GMT

The MX Weekly Knock Out will be played this weekend !
New players are always welcome ! This is a fun & friendly competition.

Start Times are 9:30 GMT and 19:30 GMT

We really need more tracks !.
There are some new things coming to the KO but we need more maps before we can introduce them ! All builders are welcome to submit maps.

Here are the results of MTC April 2013: "Feats of Skills",
in which builders were required to build a track with at least 4 challenges.

Winner:

1. uzon - "Death Jumpings Collection - MTC"
2. gadoweldosd - "mtc - fluency"
3. Alcator - "[MTC April 2013] Proving Grounds"

UZON, the winner of this round, would also like to draw your attention to "Deep", a challenging drift track with pretty wild layout.

If you are interested, visit the Monthly Track Contest forum and join in on the competition!

The MX Weekly Knock Out will be played this weekend !
New players are always welcome ! This is a fun & friendly competition.

Start Times are 9:30 GMT and 19:30 GMT

We always need more tracks.
All builders are welcome to submit maps.

MX Weekly Knock Out on every weekend !

Next Knockout Contest: 4th May 2013 KO1 - Rounds

1st KO Start Time: 9:30 GMT
2nd KO Start time: 19:30 GMT

Please note the NEW start time for the 2nd KO

We look forward to seeing you at the Knockout!

The Nadeo Leaderboard is now available for replay submissions!

Get crackin' on those replay submissions and work your way to the top spot!

o Uses the same point system from the normal LB.
o Limited to 25 'scoring' replays per map.
o Limited number of Nadeo tracks available.
o Tighter competition because of the reduced 'Nadeo' map pool.

Congratulations to the winners of MTC March 2013.
In March, the theme was to build an unusual multilap track. As crazy as it sounds, the submissions ranged from 25 seconds to 5 minute tracks, and there are some brilliant creative ideas in the tracks worth checking out.

Here are the top tracks:

1. "MTC 'knot your brain together' by   haenry. As winner, haenry would also like to draw your attention to the following duo track: Raving lobster.
2. "MTC.Apathetic»Epiphany by   FT»Osaka
3.-4. "[MTC] Lane Gank by   Enai Siaion and
3.-4. "MTC - Down Fall by   nevermind.wp

You can find all the tracks here and the detailed results here. Server owners may use the detailed results to find tracks suitable for online play.

A reminder: April MTC is in progress and there's still 2 weeks time to build your Feats of Skills track!

The MX Weekly Knock Out will be played this weekend as usual!
New players are always welcome ! If you have never played before, or recently purchased Canyon come join the fun (and stress)

Start Times are 9:30 GMT and 20:00 GMT

We always need more tracks. All builders are welcome to submit maps.

For those so inclined, here's a reminder that the Monthly Track Contest continues in April as well!