{"data":{"id":12870,"title":"News Update: Murray Cup Racing","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/12870-News-Update-Murray-Cup-Racing","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/12870","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/12870","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":290,"name":"MurrayCupRacing.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/ocq08395p7duwr\/source\/MurrayCupRacing.jpg","alt":"","size":1892337,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-07-19T05:25:31+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/290","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/290\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"MCRL Press Release\n\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nCommissioner Announces New Season of Murray Cup Racing As the first day of the Murray Cup Racing Season draws nearer, Marco Verender, Commissioner of MCR, met with the press earlier today to unveil this year\u2019s amended rules. The announcement came after months of debate following the collision and subsequent death of last year\u2019s champion, Zack Hugh. Fans will no doubt remember the amateur pilot who lost control of his ship and crashed into Hugh during his victory lap.\n\nMost of the league\u2019s structure will remain the same. There will still be the two divisions, known among fans as the Tortoise and Hare for armed races and pure racing, respectively. Ships will have to be certified by MCRL-sanctioned officials before being allowed to participate in regulation races for either division.\n\nVerender listed the types of weapons allowed in Div-T races, but this standard assortment of hard-ammo and energy-based weapons has undergone little change since last season. The most significant update here is that missiles and mines will be required to deliver lighter payloads to minimize damage to racing structures, potential fan casualties and unintentional detonation. He reminded the assembled journalists of the increasing frequency with which early heats of the Div-T Murray Cup immediately turned into warzones, not races. While Div-T has always been about combat, he felt that the pilots were forgetting that it was supposed to be a race too.\n\nThe biggest change in the upcoming season appears in the qualification system for the Murray Cup championship. Historically, any ship that met the requirements could be entered in the initial championship heats. Now, qualification will be based on points accrued from regulation races over the course of a qualifying season.\n\nPoints will be allocated as follows:\n1st Place = 3 points\n2nd Place = 2 points\n3rd Place = 1 point\nIn order to qualify for the first round of Murray Cup championship races, pilots must accumulate twenty (20) points over the course of the season. While he acknowledged that most participants will object to the new qualifying standards, Verender stated that the new system will not only raise the professional standard of the final championship competitors but, more importantly, create more dynamic races for the fans.\n\n\u201cFor decades, the Murray Cup has been the pinnacle of astro-engineering and piloting. While it was a nice egalitarian notion that the Cup should be open to all applicants with a qualifying ship, after last year\u2019s tragedy we need to set a higher standard. This new system makes the Cup difficult to achieve. That challenge is what gives it its worth.\u201d\n\nVerender continued to explain that over the previous seasons, there has been less emphasis on the regulation races. Viewership and attendance has been steadily declining as the only interest in the sport came from the Murray Cup competition itself. This new system would draw attention back to the season\u2019s races as they become the battlegrounds for the racers to qualify for the Murray Cup.\n\nPoints will be accumulated by the pilot, not the ship, which will allow racers to switch vessels during the season (or in the championship, should they qualify). For its inaugural year, Verender says the League will experiment with having points roll over between seasons, allowing racers to accrue the twenty points necessary to enter into the Murray Cup over several seasons. Once they enter (or \u201ccash in\u201d) their points for a shot at the Cup, the twenty points will be deducted from their MCRL Racer Profile. Non-regulation races, even ones that conform to MCRL standards, will not contribute to a racer\u2019s qualifying points.\n\nFinally, Verender announced that MCR has reached an exclusive agreement with GSN Spectrum Broadcasting to relay all regulation races throughout the UEE and beyond. The agreement also secured broadcasting rights for smaller non-regulation races, but specifies that, while they will be available through the MCR directly, their Spectrum relay will be location-specific and subject to black-outs.\n\n. . . END FEED","de_DE":"MCRL Pressemitteilung\n\nZUR SOFORTIGEN FREIGABE\n\nKommissionsmitglied k\u00fcndigt neue Saison des Murray Cup Racing an, da der erste Tag der Murray Cup Racing Season n\u00e4her r\u00fcckt, traf Marco Verender, Kommissar f\u00fcr MCR, heute fr\u00fch mit der Presse zusammen, um die ge\u00e4nderten Regeln f\u00fcr dieses Jahr vorzustellen. Die Ank\u00fcndigung erfolgte nach monatelanger Debatte nach der Kollision und dem anschlie\u00dfenden Tod des letztj\u00e4hrigen Champions Zack Hugh. Die Fans werden sich zweifellos an den Amateurpiloten erinnern, der die Kontrolle \u00fcber sein Schiff verlor und in seiner Siegerrunde mit Hugh zusammenstie\u00df.\n\nDie Struktur der Liga wird weitgehend unver\u00e4ndert bleiben. Es wird weiterhin die beiden Divisionen geben, die unter den Fans als die Schildkr\u00f6te und der Hase f\u00fcr bewaffnete Rennen bzw. reine Rennen bekannt sind. Schiffe m\u00fcssen von vom MCRL sanktionierten Beamten zertifiziert werden, bevor sie an Reglementierungsrennen f\u00fcr beide Abteilungen teilnehmen d\u00fcrfen.\n\nVerender listete die Arten von Waffen auf, die in Div-T-Rassen erlaubt sind, aber dieses Standardsortiment von Hartmetall- und Energiewaffen hat sich seit der letzten Saison kaum ver\u00e4ndert. Das wichtigste Update hier ist, dass Raketen und Minen ben\u00f6tigt werden, um leichtere Nutzlasten zu liefern, um Sch\u00e4den an Rennstrukturen, m\u00f6gliche Verluste von Fans und unbeabsichtigte Detonationen zu minimieren. Er erinnerte die versammelten Journalisten an die zunehmende H\u00e4ufigkeit, mit der sich die fr\u00fchen L\u00e4ufe des Div-T Murray Cup sofort in Kriegsgebiete und nicht in Rennen verwandelten. W\u00e4hrend es bei Div-T immer um den Kampf ging, f\u00fchlte er, dass die Piloten verga\u00dfen, dass es auch ein Rennen sein sollte.\n\nDie gr\u00f6\u00dfte Ver\u00e4nderung in der kommenden Saison zeigt sich im Qualifikationssystem f\u00fcr die Murray Cup Meisterschaft. In der Vergangenheit konnte jedes Schiff, das die Anforderungen erf\u00fcllte, in den ersten Meisterschaftsl\u00e4ufen eingesetzt werden. Die Qualifikation basiert nun auf Punkten, die bei regul\u00e4ren Rennen im Laufe einer Qualifikationssaison gesammelt wurden.\n\nDie Punkte werden wie folgt vergeben:\n1. Platz = 3 Punkte\n2. Platz = 2 Punkte\n3. Platz = 1 Punkt\nUm sich f\u00fcr die erste Runde der Murray Cup Meisterschaftsrennen zu qualifizieren, m\u00fcssen die Piloten im Laufe der Saison zwanzig (20) Punkte sammeln. W\u00e4hrend er anerkannte, dass die meisten Teilnehmer gegen die neuen Qualifikationsstandards sind, erkl\u00e4rte Verender, dass das neue System nicht nur das professionelle Niveau der letzten Meisterschaftsteilnehmer anheben, sondern vor allem dynamischere Rennen f\u00fcr die Fans schaffen wird.\n\n\"Seit Jahrzehnten ist der Murray Cup der H\u00f6hepunkt der Astro-Engineering und Pilotierung. W\u00e4hrend es eine sch\u00f6ne egalit\u00e4re Vorstellung war, dass der Cup f\u00fcr alle Bewerber mit einem qualifizierten Schiff offen sein sollte, m\u00fcssen wir nach der Trag\u00f6die des letzten Jahres einen h\u00f6heren Standard setzen. Dieses neue System macht es schwierig, den Cup zu erreichen. Diese Herausforderung ist es, was ihr den Wert gibt.\"\n\nVerender erkl\u00e4rte weiter, dass in den vergangenen Saisons der Schwerpunkt weniger auf den Regulierungsrennen lag. Die Zuschauerzahl und die Besucherzahlen sind stetig gesunken, da das einzige Interesse an diesem Sport vom Murray Cup selbst kam. Dieses neue System w\u00fcrde die Aufmerksamkeit wieder auf die Rennen der Saison lenken, da sie zu einem Schlachtfeld f\u00fcr die Fahrer werden, die sich f\u00fcr den Murray Cup qualifizieren.\n\nPunkte werden vom Lotsen und nicht vom Schiff gesammelt, was es den Rennfahrern erm\u00f6glicht, w\u00e4hrend der Saison (oder in der Meisterschaft, falls sie sich qualifizieren) die Schiffe zu wechseln. F\u00fcr sein erstes Jahr sagt Verender, dass die Liga damit experimentieren wird, Punkte zwischen den Saisons zu sammeln, so dass die Fahrer die zwanzig Punkte sammeln k\u00f6nnen, die sie f\u00fcr den Eintritt in den Murray Cup \u00fcber mehrere Saisons ben\u00f6tigen. Sobald sie ihre Punkte f\u00fcr einen Schuss im Cup eingeben (oder \"einl\u00f6sen\"), werden die zwanzig Punkte von ihrem MCRL Racer Profil abgezogen. Nicht regulierte Rennen, auch solche, die den MCRL-Standards entsprechen, tragen nicht zu den Qualifikationspunkten eines Rennfahrers bei.\n\nSchlie\u00dflich k\u00fcndigte Verender an, dass MCR eine exklusive Vereinbarung mit GSN Spectrum Broadcasting getroffen hat, um alle Regulierungsrennen in der gesamten UEE und dar\u00fcber hinaus zu \u00fcbertragen. Die Vereinbarung sicherte auch die \u00dcbertragungsrechte f\u00fcr kleinere Nicht-Regulierungsrennen, sieht aber vor, dass diese zwar direkt \u00fcber die MCR verf\u00fcgbar sein werden, ihr Spectrum-Relais jedoch ortsspezifisch und mit Black-Outs versehen sein wird.\n\n\n\n\n. . . ENDE VORSCHUB","zh_CN":"MCRL Press Release\n\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nCommissioner Announces New Season of Murray Cup Racing As the first day of the Murray Cup Racing Season draws nearer, Marco Verender, Commissioner of MCR, met with the press earlier today to unveil this year\u2019s amended rules. The announcement came after months of debate following the collision and subsequent death of last year\u2019s champion, Zack Hugh. Fans will no doubt remember the amateur pilot who lost control of his ship and crashed into Hugh during his victory lap.\n\nMost of the league\u2019s structure will remain the same. There will still be the two divisions, known among fans as the Tortoise and Hare for armed races and pure racing, respectively. Ships will have to be certified by MCRL-sanctioned officials before being allowed to participate in regulation races for either division.\n\nVerender listed the types of weapons allowed in Div-T races, but this standard assortment of hard-ammo and energy-based weapons has undergone little change since last season. The most significant update here is that missiles and mines will be required to deliver lighter payloads to minimize damage to racing structures, potential fan casualties and unintentional detonation. He reminded the assembled journalists of the increasing frequency with which early heats of the Div-T Murray Cup immediately turned into warzones, not races. While Div-T has always been about combat, he felt that the pilots were forgetting that it was supposed to be a race too.\n\nThe biggest change in the upcoming season appears in the qualification system for the Murray Cup championship. Historically, any ship that met the requirements could be entered in the initial championship heats. Now, qualification will be based on points accrued from regulation races over the course of a qualifying season.\n\nPoints will be allocated as follows:\n1st Place = 3 points\n2nd Place = 2 points\n3rd Place = 1 point\nIn order to qualify for the first round of Murray Cup championship races, pilots must accumulate twenty (20) points over the course of the season. While he acknowledged that most participants will object to the new qualifying standards, Verender stated that the new system will not only raise the professional standard of the final championship competitors but, more importantly, create more dynamic races for the fans.\n\n\u201cFor decades, the Murray Cup has been the pinnacle of astro-engineering and piloting. While it was a nice egalitarian notion that the Cup should be open to all applicants with a qualifying ship, after last year\u2019s tragedy we need to set a higher standard. This new system makes the Cup difficult to achieve. That challenge is what gives it its worth.\u201d\n\nVerender continued to explain that over the previous seasons, there has been less emphasis on the regulation races. Viewership and attendance has been steadily declining as the only interest in the sport came from the Murray Cup competition itself. This new system would draw attention back to the season\u2019s races as they become the battlegrounds for the racers to qualify for the Murray Cup.\n\nPoints will be accumulated by the pilot, not the ship, which will allow racers to switch vessels during the season (or in the championship, should they qualify). For its inaugural year, Verender says the League will experiment with having points roll over between seasons, allowing racers to accrue the twenty points necessary to enter into the Murray Cup over several seasons. Once they enter (or \u201ccash in\u201d) their points for a shot at the Cup, the twenty points will be deducted from their MCRL Racer Profile. Non-regulation races, even ones that conform to MCRL standards, will not contribute to a racer\u2019s qualifying points.\n\nFinally, Verender announced that MCR has reached an exclusive agreement with GSN Spectrum Broadcasting to relay all regulation races throughout the UEE and beyond. The agreement also secured broadcasting rights for smaller non-regulation races, but specifies that, while they will be available through the MCR directly, their Spectrum relay will be location-specific and subject to black-outs.\n\n. . . END FEED"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":79,"created_at":"2013-01-29T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"13 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-14 10:32:29","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":12869,"next_id":12871}}