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[Jelle Mees]

Official Trailer - Trackmania United Forever

The Steps:

1. Register on this forum.
2. Register on http://tmnforever.tm-exchange.com/ .
3. Build a track.
4. Upload it to http://tmnforever.tm-exchange.com/ .
5. Start a new topic in this forum ( Creators Forum -> Final Releases -> BeNeLux Forever Track Design Contest 2010.
6. Select Prefix: Your country
7. Subject: The name of your track.
8. Promote your track with a few lines of text and place the link to your track on Tm-Exchange.
9. Click on "Additional Options" and upload your track to this forum.
10. Click on the "Post" button below.

Once you've done this you've succesfully entered the contest and you will have a chance of winning the price.

The Rules:

1. Make sure your tracks don't include pornagraphy, vulgar language, racism, etc...
2. Make sure mediatracker (1st person camera view ) is available in every single loop on your tracks!
3. You can only enter the contest with one track per account!
4. The BNLF Airship must be visable at least once while racing your track. How long and how well it's visable is up tot the track designer
5. Don' try to bribe the judges or you'll be kicked from the contest.
6. A track has to be at least 25 seconds long and at most 1min 20 seconds. Other tracks will be ignored.
7. It has to be a stadium-track!
8. Do not use a texture-mod in your track!
9. Once your track has been submitted on this forum, DO NOT CHANGE IT! If you do. You can no longer compete.

The Goal

The goal is to encourage players from the BeNeLux to design tracks and keep on designing tracks in the future.
Good tracks can also be used for future BNLF race-contests for more and perhaps better pices.

The price

The winner will receive a Trackmania Untited Forever key and a movie will be recorded in HD and uploaded to Tm-Tube. This movie will include at least 50 replays from players all over the world and it will promote your track all over the world. If you already own a key you can enter the contest to give the key to someone and keep in mind you still get a nice movie

The FAQ

Who are the judges?
[ BNLF ] - Jelle Mees
[ BNLF ] - Crasher
ผoя๓へ*wds*

Most judges are BNLF members, can you promise honest and objective judging?
Yes we can. All tracks will get a rating for design, fun-factor and effort. We don't care who made the track, we only care about what he or she brings to the table. A fun track that has features like blockmixing, GPS, a cool intro, well calculated jumps, etc... will score much higher then a track that is fun but looks like it was created in a 5min time-limit. The one who wins this contest will have earned the price...not because he or she is our friend, but because he/she's a damn good track-designer.

We made sure that one of the judges is a player from another clan in the BeNeLux simply because we want to show that we are all for honest judging. WDS will make sure that everything will be judged correctly.

I want to score high, can I get a few tips?
Sure... Just make sure your track is nice to look at. The intro, the start-point, the environment around the player while racing, etc... Always keep in mind that your track has to be fun in order to win. Does that mean you have to make it easy? Hell no! A difficult track can be a fun track. An easy track can also be a fun track. Last but not least, every little detail counts. Meaning that if you like adding extra's like music in the background, make sure that the quality of the music is good. Crappy soundquality can downgrade your overall score instead of upgrading it. One final tip, after every step you have to think "do I like this when I encounter it in another track?" and "will players like this?". I say this because many track-designers design tracks in a way that they love to play it. For example, there are designers who don't add direction-signs because they like to discover the track-route, but keep in mind that most people prefer to know the direction they have to go.

Do you guys prefer Dirt, Speed, Tech?
We love and we play every genre. That's the reason why me,Crasher and WDS are judges. We are 3 players that play on a server with almost 550 tracks that include every single genre that exists. If we were players that only like and play one genre, we would not have a server with so many tracks and we sure wouldn't take the time to test all the tracks before we upload them.

What if you guys are having doubts about a certain track? Things can't always be black or white.
If and when the final decision has to be made, we will not only review our scores, but also look at the replies and comments givin on this forum and on Trackmania Exchange. We can not ignore positive reactions from trackmania players but we have to keep in mind that certain people that are well known in trackmania-communities always get a lot of positive feedback simply because they are already popular.

How long do we have to submit the track?
At the top of the page you see the countdown. You have untill the end of februari.
The winner will be announced in march.

Can I advertise my clan, company or website in my track.
Offcourse you can! You should always advertise for your own clan, company or website in your track 

[Jelle Mees]

11th Jan 2010  Hello TMX,   Due to the recent database corruption, we've had to go further than replacing our database to fixing an issue with corrupt tracks within our File System. We've therefor had to disable TMX Nations Forever site while we work on this problem. Sorry about this, please check back soon.  Huge aplogies,  The TMX Crew.

This does not mean the contest has been cancelled. This the exactly why one of the rules is to upload the track to the forum, so that we can still download it when TMX goes offline. Keep on submitting tracks people

[D4v1d]

I don't think it will be offline for a long time. They just had problems with their database (tracks/topics disappeared) from a certain date on (I believe from the 6th of January), so they only have to figure out the rest I guess...

[Qwerty]

I'd love to participate

Starting now 

[creatixx]

Well well well , look who we have here . David and Qwerty<3!!!
do you gonna make a track to?

[xzbobzx]

Nog een FAQ!
Kon ik mijn baan omruilen voor een andere?
De oude was nog niet gevalideerd!

HOPE SO

[pieterdie]

is het toegelaten met meerdere personen aan 1 track te werken?

[Kiekendief]

is het toegelaten met meerdere personen aan 1 track te werken?

ik vermoed van wel, het is immers onmogelijk om te controleren

[wannes47]

Als ge wint zult ge moeten uitmaken wie de prijs krijgt

[xzbobzx]

Als ge wint zult ge moeten uitmaken wie de prijs krijgt

lol "Als"

[Jelle Mees]

is het toegelaten met meerdere personen aan 1 track te werken?

Natuurlijk. Eén inzending per account. Jullie kunnen dus zelfs samenwerken aan verschillende tracks en ieder van jullie kan een inzending doen. Jullie hebben nog een maand, dus meer dan tijd genoeg

[Hummer]

Per account?
Dan kan ik nu net zo goed een nieuw account maken en daarmee een baantje gaan maken..

[wannes47]

das nie serieus
als ge da doet vinek u nie meer leuk (is dat dan zo? )

[xzbobzx]

bl0ckmixing mag wel?

[Jelle Mees]

bl0ckmixing mag wel?

Indeed.