Leaderboards updated. A bit later today since I had to stream and do some Sunday things. 
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Really dumb that you effectively have put a 24 hour timer on attempts because you are allowing clone jumps. Way to much setup work involved to compete, all interest gone.
Even if I wanted to put in the work, its too late now, no time to stage clones to cheat in all 3 routes
To each their own. For me the fact that it requires planning, set up, and even a bit of team work, and even then you can botch a run makes it more interesting, not less.
(I totally botched my South run. Again.)
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Lsund did his east route today without a jump clone and should be 2nd place after tomorrows update just fyi
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imho its better this way, because it allows creativity. If there was a waypoint every 2 systems this would come down to who has the fastest pc / better ping and there would be people complaining that its unfair because of that.
That being said, looking forward to everyones creativity. Given that one could go with multiple JFs to go over longer distances.
It could be interesting to have different brackets where different things are allowed - maybe one for things you can do with a solo character and another for anything that requires multiple characters like cyno or blops jumps.
But would be more tricky to referee/get results.
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Fastest possible time i could come up with is 30 to 40 sec per system with a waypoint.
So around 8-ish minutes for the southern run and 5-ish minutes for the eastern and northern run. Would abuse certain game mechanics and would take a bit of prep but can certainly be pulled of.
Going to share it once the run is over. Don’t want to needlessly create more competition 
Are we gonna expect another grand prix next year around the same month? 
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If there is I’m legit gonna demand that I get to design the routes
No one has that many Rhea’s to abandon post-jumps tho
You missed out a certain mechanic which restricts what you are doing to one run though if you are doing what i think you are doing for the hisec jumps
Only if it would involve chars that are less than 30 days old.
Otherwise we have different things in mind.
oh ■■■■ thats a sneaky workaround i love it (and will have to make sure it gets banned in later grand prix events cus lmao thats so abusable)
Someone will have to teach me jump freighters / cynos… never used one. I am in WH corp, so dont really use those
Exactly my thought, but only because i just thought of it and not like 1 week ago 
Joke aside, that is propably something that should be considered next time or noone attempting to do a race like that the “legit” way is ever going to have a chance to score top 10.
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Ya there’s other options i thought too late 
yeah straight up I didn’t even think about it because I was too focused on getting Drake Iddon to the top spots
There is an easy way to alter the wording of the rules to ban it without specifically mentioning it aswell so I’ll make sure to pester convict about it next time
Oh right, the unlimited remote home reset (with corp offices?). But this will not bring your main to the top ten, which IMO makes it pointless.
EDIT: don’t think this works, because the counter will only be reset on corp switch, right?
Yes, you would have to switch corp on each waypoint also. RIP corp history.
So basically set up dummy corps with office at each waypoint (including owning/dropping a citadel in the no station systems), and then hop corp, death clone all the way through the finish line, with quick shuttle rides back and forth to the beacons. This will likely limit the time to the number of session timers you have to swallow
With this out now, CCP has to do something for next year, which is good. Disqualify players with corp changes during the event could be an easy fix with small impact.
If you want to go really overboard, you could also drop a citadel on grid with each waypoint and get rid of all the shuttle rides that way. 
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