GGL’s Virtual Racing Season: Second ladder begins Sept. 3!

The first ladder of GGL and Bosch’s Virtual Racing Season is over, with Trackmania Nations Forever gamers leading the way!

VRS’s second ladder begins Sept. 3, which will again give the top seven competitors per ladder the opportunity to advance to the final ladder competition (Trackmania Nations Forever only). If this all sounds confusing or this is the first time you’ve heard of the VRS, you may need to hit the VRS Rules Page for the full skinny.

The VRS grand prize is entry for two to the 2009 Daytona 500, and 10 runners up will each receive entry for two to a 2009 Sprint Cup Series event!

Now, here’s the report for Ladder 1.

France’s pride, quentin, crushed all comers on the Trackmana Nations Forever ladder, finishing with a 10-3 record and a 6W streak. DigitalShot, who ended up with a 4-1 record and a 4W streak, won 2nd. The rest of the top seven competitors from the TMNF ladder are: NFSxMaster (3-1, 2W), Mizu-KaMe (2-2, 1W), domestoss (2-2, 2L), onio (1-1, 1W) and sHug4r (1-2, 1L).

You may notice that quite a few gamers with 0-0 records were skipped over in this report despite high placements; that’s because GGL values playing  matches (or attempting to play) over riding the default 1000 points you get for signing up for any ladder competition.

The inactivity timeout got the best of many gamers on the Need For Speed ProStreet ladder, but not before seven competitors were crowned in a number of 1-0 placements. Here’s the NFS list:

1) XIG Big j632, 980 points, 1-0
2) kriptakronik, 955 pts, 1-0
3) XIG KRASH, 955 pts, 1-0
4) trevino47, 880 pts, 1-0
5) clemons.daemon, 850 pts, 0-1
6) sonykid, 800 pts, 0-1
7) proaudio150, 650 pts, 0-2

Last, but certainly not least,  the Forza 2 ladder had an epic face-off between eMJay0910 and Eagleized Z that Eagleized won, but through some inscrutable logic of the ladder system, eMJay wound up with more points. Despite this quirk, both will advance to the final ladder.

If you missed out  on the first ladder, you still have a chance to compete for the prizes in the second round of ladders.

You will need to be a GGL member to participate - hit this registration link to begin.