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So this week I have been mostly been racing the Criterion 205. Why may you ask? Because, it’s a car I like to drive, it has the word Criterion in it; it drives at 205 to 260mph, so boost jumping is less superior, it drifts well, not so quirky and twitchy, but it can crash off big jumps like the Black Elite Racer. I even flipped the car this week, and it’s ridged design, as I tried to land it on its back end after a full flip (Woo hoo, Suffur Rocks, ok, so maybe pebbles), wanted to break it in half, but since cars don’t do that on Revenge (and Paradise) it crashed for evar, wanting to disintegrate into more pieces than the program for entertainment would allow. Anyway I wanted to drive the 205 to see what would happen to my rank as well, but I was not after wins, just not crashing and making sure I did not time out, was the main goal. All the rooms were ranked, and all the cars were unlocked, and tracks were set to a host’s preference, Random, Random, Random, mostly, which enable White Mountain R, to come up 3 times in 3 games, until the host changed it manually. To, Random Europe, Random America and Random Asia, though Eternal City Long F came up in 3 times in 3 sets of games. At least it proves its random, lol.

My ranking started at 3000 < 4000. By day one and 5 games I was < 1000, 908 to be exact. And I did not time out in any races, and even won two sets with Zombie, in her Revenge Racer, to tell the truth everyone in that room had Revenge Racers. But they were below me in Rank except Zombie.  On Day 2 till day 5, I jumped into random rooms, Ranks ranged from 200 to -‘s and not one person timed me out on those sessions. I was looking for Burnoutaholics, but they must have been in rehab, as I did not see any, except the ones on my friends list, who were playing Halo 3, not a good week to experiment, or was it? In that 5 day period, I had to race the Revenge Racer once, as one host did not have the cars unlocked, and I came third over all, if I had the Criterion 205, I think I could have won. Yes, after using the 205 for 5 days I could not drive or race the Revenge Racer well, not that I did before, but I was a lot worse in that race. So on the night of the 5th day, drunknnumpty was hosting, which was nice, but pleased, see to the near start of the blog, drunk is a Random to the power of 3, track sort of guy, then used the EAA code, when too much repeats, like White Mountain ot Eternal City.

Now this session, was a good couple of hours long, though the racing never really go off till the room started to fill, which took a good half hour, with no ‘headers’, bad NAT’s or the noisy arguments, music, and breathing, in the feedback department were released to do it elsewhere. We even had a Groomer in the room, which was fun till, they were groomed back, and they got upset and left. Don’t start what, you can’t finish? People, even if you’re trying to have fun. Anyway, we had a number of racers in the room and different cars, from the Logitech, Black Elite, even a Prototype 205 and of course the weapon of choice, the Revenge Racer. Now after a few games, someone asked what I was driving, I had been coming in second after drunk for a while and my car was Black and not covered in flames, so maybe the person thought I was in a new car, so it was said I was in a Criterion 205, is that alright, he said it was fine. After that and drunk, telling the room on occasion what I was driving, I was repeatedly taken down, as people passed, and they were definitely trying to hunt me too, which was fun. I lead all on a merry chase and got takedowns back, lol; the Criterion seems small and does fit through some tight gaps, between cars and short cuts and pillars. Though I was owned by a Swedish Lass a lot, that had 24 meg connection, that did lag, sorry hun’, but I think your BF was downloading stuff on the PC at the same time, not that the lag in anyway, took away those takedowns, she really slammed me hard into walls, lol. Now I did time out a lot, in these sessions, at least on 2 occasions drunk was 1.5 to 2 miles ahead of me, and getting the occasional slap, meant that I was put behind in the worst but fun possible ways. The only way, I have worked out, to not time out, is to not crash, period. So I had to bring my game, and did, coming in first a couple of times, mostly second with numpty in the room unless he crashed a lot, lol. I have to say, that the Criterion has served me well, it takes tighter drift corners, so shorter distance travelled, it keeps a steady 220 mph off jumps, minimum, it’s just a bit heavier than the Revenge, so they bounce off to give me a takedown, so more boost, and is a stable drive as long as you don’t push the boost jump of big jumps like the White Mountain broken bridge, which makes it want to be a Black Elite, and crash at the landing of said boost jump. It also gets the entire use of pity boost it needs to finish a race, as long as I don’t crash, which means only the best will time me out with their Revenge Racers, as long as they don’t crash. I will be continuing to use the Criterion till the end of the week, still have 2 days to go, and probably into the foreseeable future, as I like the car, and if I drive well, it means I don’t time out. But also, I can desensitize, myself from the Revenge Racer, as it’s a car, with Special written all over it, and the cars in Paradise, are not going to be that Special until your Licence is nearly complete. And I would rather play the game with no notions of handicap that the Revenge will cause, when I try out new cars on the game. Oh and my Rank was around 5000 when I finished last night, but I was racing for every point. I raced most tracks, and the long races can, be hard to finish especially if there are three laps set rather than default, I enjoyed Angel Valley a lot, but that last shortcut near the end of the race needs some work, only hitting right once out of 3. Motor City was great as well as Central Route, though I did not do the big jump on Central Route Long R, sticking to my usual, wide but cut in front of the others, shortcut. Eternal City Longs, will need some work too, as a lot of air effects the driving of the car, but again fun. All the tracks were great, but they all needed a new approach, but I am happy so far and will continue to get better as time goes on. Lap times were, not far off my originals held, a few seconds is all, but I'm not after lap times, so that's ok.

Also on the sound of points, drunknnumpty and I broke the 500 takedowns on a Nemesis, last night, pictures have been taken and will be posted, and then drunk took me down again, for 501 against my 500, lol. This has taken, since the release of the game on the Xbox 360, which is not bad, some road ragers should have passed that mark by now, but if not, we would like a Burnoutaholic achievement, but only until we show the pictures, which should go for the rest of you, so if you do have over 500, prove it and who with, and take a picture.

Anyway, some bad news, it looks like FAQ, have lost their first clan match, without even playing a game. Oh well, it was out of our hands, and we will live on, knowing, that its only a game, which we do have fun playing, we just have to be more selective with whom we fight against, so we don’t lose that way again.