SRO Esports Sim Racing Night at the Fanatec Arena

SRO ESPORTS SIM RACING NIGHT @ 24HR OF SPA 

FANATEC ARENA EVENT - REGULATIONS

1. COMPETITION

   This year the Total Energies 24hr of Spa will play host to Round 3 of the Fanatec Esports GT Pro Series where real drivers will compete for points in the Endurance Cup, however, the weekend will also host a second virtual race wherein SRO Esports' best sim racers will go head-to-head on location at the Fanatec Arena. The competition will be run on the Assetto Corsa Competizione (PC) simulation developed by Kunos Simulazioni. The event is organised by SRO Motorsports Group & AK Esports in order to create an incredibly competitive event capable of promoting Esports racing. The organiser reserves the right to edit the regulations at any time. Any changes to the regulations will be communicated to all the drivers via the established channels.

2. TERRITORY

   The competition will be held on-site in the Fanatec Arena at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, participants will be required to travel to the circuit on the 30th of July 2022. Those unable to travel to the circuit will not be eligible to compete.

   The competition is open to drivers from any region, however, drivers will be required to manage their own travel & accommodation. Food & beverage vouchers for the weekend will be provided free of charge by the organiser for each participant.

3. DRIVER ELIGIBILITY

   A “Driver” is any participant who has registered through the official website during the registration window or is nominated by a manufacturer to represent them. Participants must meet the following requirements in their entirety to be eligible to participate in the event.

   1. Not be officially banned by any Esports competition managed by the organiser;
   2. Agree with the Terms & Conditions of this regulation;
   3. Agree with the Sporting Code;
   4. Agree with the Code of Conduct;
   5. Possess valid travel documentation that would allow you to travel to the event;
   6. Be invited to the competition via manufacturer nomination or qualify via the Pre-Qualifying stage in section 4;

   Participants who do not meet these requirements will be deemed ineligible for the competition and removed from the list of Drivers. The organiser reserves the right to investigate a Driver's information when eligibility is in question. Drivers should be prepared to provide a copy of personal identification or other applicable documents to verify if all the requirements are met.

   The competition will host a maximum of 24 Drivers on the 30th of July 2022. Of these 24 Drivers, 7 are reserved for manufacturer representatives, 2 are reserved for invitational wildcards and 1 is reserved for the on-site qualifier at the Fanatec Arena on the 30th of July 2022 between 10:00 - 16:00 CEST. This means that the remaining 14 spots are available via the online qualification of the competition.

4. PRE-QUALIFYING

   The Pre-Qualifying phase for the competition will be run on SimGrid from the 7th of July 2022 at 12:00 CEST to the 14th of July 2022 at 12:00 CEST, you can register for the competition on their website here:

   https://www.thesimgrid.com/championships/1607

   Participants will be required to partake in a Pre-Qualifying stage, this stage will be used to determine the Drivers that have the right to participate at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on the 30th of July 2022 for the on-site event in the Fanatec Arena.

   The Pre-Qualifying will be run as a hot-lap qualifying event. Each participant will be required to set hot-laps on the official Pre-Qualifying server running the Spa-Francorchamps circuit within Assetto Corsa Competizione.

   The best 10 lap times you set will be used to create an average lap time which will be placed on a public leaderboard. The top 14 participants will be selected to compete within the total of 24 competitors attending the event, pending documentation approval and travel & accommodation booking.

   There will be a maximum limit of 3 Drivers per manufacturer within the series, this means that once we reach 3 Drivers representing a single manufacturer we will no longer select Drivers from the leaderboard that have qualified under that manufacturer, even if they qualified within the Top 14 participants on the leaderboard.

   In addition to this, there are some manufacturers that have official representatives for this event & the wildcards that have been invited to attend, thus, some manufacturers may only have 1 or 2 spots remaining for Drivers to fill. The current representation means the following manufacturers have limited spots available:

   • BMW - 1 remaining
   • Ferrari - 1 remaining
   • Mercedes-AMG - 1 remaining
   • Lamborghini - 2 remaining

   The organiser has the right to change these maximums within the competition at any moment during the Pre-Qualifying stage and is allowed to increase the total number of qualified Drivers at the end of the Pre-Qualifying stage if necessary as well. Invitational wildcards & on-site qualifiers are exempt from the manufacturer maximums.

5. EVENT FORMAT OVERVIEW

   1. GENERAL RULES

      1. Cars allowed:
      • AMR V8 Vantage GT3
      • Audi R8 LMS Evo II
      • Bentley Continental GT3 2018
      • BMW M4 GT3
      • Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo
      • Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo
      • McLaren 720s GT3
      • Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo
      • Porsche 991II GT3 R
      2. Car setup: No restrictions, any Drivers wishing to install setups on the rigs must ask a member of the staff team. Plugging USBs into the PCs is NOT permitted
      3. Liveries: Custom liveries are allowed but must follow the SRO Esports 2022 Sponsor Charter and Sponsorship Restrictions documentation;
      4. Hardware for the event will be provided by the organiser on-site, Drivers are not allowed to bring their own equipment to the event;

   2. ON-SITE EVENT FORMAT

      • Free Practice: 11:00 - 19:00 CEST
      • Warm-up: 19:00 - 20:45 CEST
      • Qualifying: 21:00 - 21:15 CEST
      • Qualifying Race: 21:20 - 21:50 CEST
        • No mandatory pit-stop;
      • Full Race: 22:00 - 23:00 CEST
        • 1 mandatory pit-stop;
        • Fixed 25s pit-stop;
        • 1L of fuel minimum required
        • Pit window duration: 10 minutes;
        • Pit Window opens after 25 minutes after the start of the race and closes 25 minutes before the end of the race;

   3. BALANCE OF PERFORMANCE

      The organiser reserves the right to apply a custom Manufacturer Balance of Performance. The Pre-Qualifying & Event will use a custom Balance of Performance. This is applied as follows;

      • Audi - 20kg
      • Ferrari - 15kg
      • McLaren - 20kg

      This may be changed by the organiser at any point before or during Pre-Qualifying and at any point up to just before Qualifying.

   4. ASSISTS

      • Allowed: Traction Control, ABS, Auto Engine Start, Auto Wipers, Auto Lights & Auto Pit Limit;
      • Disallowed: Stability Control, Ideal Line & Automatic Gearbox;

6. CALENDAR & TIMES

   • Pre-Qualifying: 7th July to 14th July;
   • Event Day: 30th of July 2022;
   • Race Practice: 11:00 - 20:45 CEST on 30th of July 2022;
   • Race Event: 21:00 - 23:00 CEST on 30th of July 2022;

7. OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS

   All Drivers must be connected to the official Discord server. The official GT World Challenge Esports Discord server shall be considered as the main channel of communication between the Organiser, Race Direction and Drivers.

   It’s mandatory for every Driver to join the official Discord server with their real Surname and Last Name in order to be aware of official communication, participate in the mandatory Driver Briefing and let admins coordinate all the different racing sessions & communication.

   For any additional information please refer to the following contacts:

   Email: [email protected]

   Discord server: https://discord.gg/fBVmPFj2VK

8. PRIZE POOL

   The top 5 Drivers at the end of the Full Race will receive a split of the overall prize pool for the competition totaling €14,500. The split for the prize pool is below:

   1. €6,000
   2. €4,000
   3. €2,500
   4. €1,500
   5. €500

   Drivers eligible for the prize pool will be required to forward their payment details to the organiser at a later date, this will be communicated to the Driver after the event.

9. CODE OF CONDUCT

   Respect for the Code of Conduct is a fundamental aspect of every Esports competition. Every Driver who doesn’t respect the rules of the Code of Conduct will be considered ineligible to participate in the competition and, if an evident breach of the following rules of the Code of Conduct will happen during the event, the organiser may remove the guilty.

   All Drivers are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that reflects positively on the Organiser and shall not engage in conduct considered harmful to the business, reputation or relationships of an individual or of their partners; 

   All Drivers agree to avoid the following behaviours online and offline:

   1. Hate speech or discriminatory behaviour: Drivers must not use language that is deemed by the Organiser to be obscene, vulgar, insulting, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory or otherwise offensive or objectionable, or promote or incite hatred or discriminatory conduct, at any time, off or on the broadcast. Drivers may not use this type of language on any social media or during any public-facing events such as streaming;
   2. Harassment: any kind of harassment is strictly prohibited;
   3. Discriminatory language: any kind of discriminatory words, phrases or gestures offending the dignity or integrity of a private person, a group of people, a team, a brand, a sponsor, or a country through contemptuous or discriminatory words or actions on account of race, skin colour, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, language, religion, political opinion or any other opinion, financial status, birth or any other status, sexual orientation or any other reason, are strictly prohibited;
   4. Trolling: posting inflammatory, extraneous or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, blog, or any social media, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion, is strictly prohibited.
   5. All Drivers shall not offer or accept any gift or reward to or from anyone for services promised, rendered, or be rendered in connection with the event;
   6. Betting or gambling by any Driver or anyone connected to any participant is prohibited. Moreover, no Driver or related person may benefit directly or indirectly from any betting or gambling;
   7. Drivers must be respectful of the staff involved in the tournament by the organiser, sponsors, and/or their partners at all times;
   8. Drivers must remain respectful in official Discord chats against other drivers, organizers, and race controllers;

   Drivers posting negative, disruptive and brand-damaging content on social media about the organiser, the game, SRO Motorsports Group, Kunos Simulazioni, and their partners in general and/or any other participant, including but not limited to images and videos of game faults, may result in the participant disqualified (Driver removal) from the Event.

   9. FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY

      At any point during the Competition, the organiser has the right to exclude the Drivers in the event of:

      1. Alteration of the results, times and video files relating to the online phases;
      2. Hardware modification: any modification made to a piece of hardware allowing it to function in a way the manufacturer did not intend;
      3. Software modification: any modification made to Assetto Corsa Competizione and third parties’ software, allowing them to function in a way the developers did not intend;
      4. Exploiting game glitches: intentionally using any in-game bug to seek an advantage;
      5. Impersonation (including playing under another Driver’s Steam account) – to be understood as playing under another Driver’s account or soliciting, inducing, encouraging or directing someone else to play under another Driver’s account;
      6. Collusion: any agreement among two (2) or more Drivers and/or other persons to affect any competition or race and/or opposing Drivers;
      7. Any other behaviour as determined to be cheating, gameplay, gamesmanship or gaining an unfair advantage in any way by the organiser.

      Drivers must notify the Organiser of any unfair exploits that they become aware of. Any Driver who is deemed, in the sole determination of the organiser, to have cheated or behaved in any way as described above may be penalised and/or disqualified from the competition.

      Any conduct that is considered in violation of this Code of Conduct is punishable at the sole discretion of the Organiser and may result in disqualification from the competition. The Organiser also has the right to replace the excluded or disqualified Driver or who has abandoned the race by performing a repêchage.

      To see the Sporting Code, please Click Here.