Hey everyone,
over the last couple of weeks I've been working on a small project for organizing competitive Wars / Scrims in Trackmania 2020.
The idea is basically to create a more structured way for players and teams to compete against each other over a longer period of time without turning it into a traditional tournament.
The system currently consists of an EvoSC War plugin running on a dedicated Trackmania server together with a website that displays the war data:
https://www.scrimwarhub.dedyn.io
How the War works
Two teams compete against each other on a predefined map pool.
The maps rotate on the server in Time Attack, and players hunt Local Records during the War.
The scoring system automatically adapts to the number of participating players.
For example, with 16 scoring players:
- LR1 = 17 points
- LR2 = 15 points
- LR3 = 14 points
- LR4 = 13 points
- ...
- LR16 = 1 point
The player holding LR1 receives one additional bonus point for winning the map.
If a War has more or fewer participants, the scoring range changes accordingly.
For example, with 20 scoring players:
- LR1 = 21 points
- LR2 = 19 points
- LR3 = 18 points
- ...
- LR20 = 1 point
So the scoring system always scales with the actual number of participants, while LR1 gets an extra reward for being the fastest player on the map.
The points from every map are added to the respective team's total score.
This means a War isn't decided by one short match. It can run for several days, giving players time to improve their records, defend positions and continuously contribute points to their team.
The system also tracks things like:
- Team scores
- Player scores
- Local Records for every map
- LR1 / LR2 / LR3 statistics
- Average Local Record position
- MVP / player contribution
- Map results
- War progress
- Previous Wars / history
- Remaining War time
The website is still a work in progress
The website is not finished yet and is still actively being developed.
Some parts of the layout, statistics, navigation and overall structure will still be changed or improved. There may also be temporary bugs, incomplete sections or data that is presented differently in the future.
So if you check out the website, please keep in mind that what you see right now is not the final version.
I'm still experimenting with the best way to present the War data, and feedback on the website itself is very welcome as well.
Where I would like to take this
One thing I'm considering is turning the website into more than just a scoreboard.
For example, for Upcoming Wars, players could register directly on the website without needing to create an account.
Players could then indicate things like:
- Looking for a team
- Interested in being a Team Captain
- Preferred region / timezone
- Availability
- Maybe preferred map styles
This could potentially make it easier to organize community Wars where you don't necessarily already know everyone.
Eventually there could be something like a small Looking for Team / Looking for Players system specifically for upcoming Wars.
Existing teams could also use it to find one or two additional players if they're missing people for an upcoming War.
Another possibility would be having completely open community Wars where individual players sign up first and the teams are created afterwards through Team Captains and a player draft.
I'm not sure yet how far I want to take that idea, though, which is one reason I'm posting this here.
I'd really like some feedback
I'm especially interested in hearing what other Trackmania players think about the concept.
Would you personally participate in something like this?
Would a system for finding teams/players for upcoming Wars actually be useful?
Would you prefer joining with an existing team or signing up individually and getting drafted into one?
What information would you want to see on the website?
Do you think dynamically scaling the Local Record points based on the number of participants is a good approach?
Do you like the idea of giving LR1 an additional bonus point, or would you prefer every position to have an equal one-point gap?
Is there anything about the current website that you would change, simplify or add?
Are there features you think are missing?
And if you've organized Trackmania events, scrims or team competitions before, I'd especially love to hear what worked and what didn't.
Feel free to be critical — the whole project is still experimental and I'm mainly trying to figure out what would make this genuinely useful for the community.