8th Online Championship Match (Hakone Mount Taikan Up)
The 8th International Online Championship Match for Hakone Mount Taikan has been announced to start on the 27th of May. The course is the formidable Taikan Upwards route.
The sudden announcement of this OCM right after Japan's Taikan OCM is indicative of what we've been hoping will happen. That we can catch up with Japan and finally jump onto WMMT5DX.
Its unknown at the moment how long the OCM will go for, but this post will be updated when the information becomes available. Below is all the information you need for the event.
Online Championship match, or OCM, is a special event where players from around the world race a computer ghost on a set course.
This ghost is raced during the "Qualifying Period".
The player with the highest advantage in metres over the ghost then becomes the number one ghost to beat at the start of the main draw.
The main draw ghost then gets updated 3 times a day until the end of the event. The top 100 ranking get a special plate only available to top 100 placers.
Qualifying Period:
From 27/May/2016 6:00am - 12/June/2016 12:00am (Japan Time)
Main Draw Period:
From 12/June/2016 6:00am - 19/June/2016 1:00pm (Japan Time)
It seems that the shortened times weren't a typo as we thought for Yaesu OCM. This gives us very little time to actually compete in this OCM. I reccomend people convert the times above to their local time so they do not miss out.
No doubt Namco Bandai is trying to get the Taikan OCM out of the way for the release of WMMT5DX in international regions.
Qualifier Ghost:
Main Draw Gameplay:
999m advantage: TBA
1100m advantage: 2"54"2xx
Cheers to Dim Kozi for the figures obtained from the video below:
The braking section is mirror matched with where you end up stopping. So just brake when it's lined up with corresponding zone.