"Shadow’s Trophy"
Tournament finished
December 13th 2021
Semifinal (Top-64) results.
The Shadow's Trophy Team would like to thank all the Top-64 pilots for their commitment and flying skills!
47 participants who have raced in this event, according to clauses 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4 of Appendix #1 (“Prize Fund”) to the Tournament Regulations will receive coupons for €50, which will be sent after the end of the tournament.
Also, 16 participants who showed the best time at this stage will join the VPC Founders Club with an unconditional lifetime 5% discount in VIRPIL Controls webstores.
Detailed results of the past event can be found in the table below, or by the link:
Shadow's Trophy Top-64 Results
The final stage of the tournament - the Final (Top-16) will be held on Saturday, December 18th at 15:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3).
Enjoy your flight!
Shadow’s Trophy Team.
VIRPIL Controls.
December 10th 2021
Top-64. The list of participants and the procedures.
The semi-final (Top-64) will be held on 11.12.2021.
The event starts at 13:00 (UTC+3). You can watch its broadcast at VIRPIL Controls Twitch channel.
The order of flights is determined according to the time shown in the Qualification, from worst to best (clause 2.11 of the Regulations).
To facilitate time planning for all riders and spectators, the pilots are divided into 8 groups of 8 participants. Each eight pilots have their own time slot, for which the participants must be ready.
Flights within the group will be carried out in turn - all eight participants make the first attempt, after which, in the same order, the second.
The schedule is presented below:
All pilots must timely (half an hour before the time indicated in the schedule) appear in the Discord chat channel — #stt-arrival-chat — on the server VIRPIL Controls Community Servers and leave a message with their nickname and then follow the instructions of the organizers.
Follow the news on virpil-servers.com to keep abreast of all the Shadow's Trophy events!
Good luck in the tournament!
Team Shadow's Trophy
VIRPIL Controls
December 8th 2021
Extending the confirmation time.
Hello pilots!
Unfortunately, we faced some technical difficulties, due to which not all qualifying participants had time to make their choice about further participation in the tournament.
Therefore, we are extending the confirmation time until the end of Thursday (23:59 UTC+3 December 9th, 2021).
All this time, it remains possible to contact the administration and declare the need to move the flight time closer to the beginning or end of the Top-64.
The final table of the Semifinal participants, broken down into groups and indicating the exact time of each of them, will be published on the tournament page on Friday, December 10 at 14:00 UTC+3.
Contacts of the organizers::
- Email - ShadowsTrophy@virpil.com
- Discord - https://discord.gg/tPRwwQcp
Shadow's Trophy Team
VIRPIL Controls
December 3rd 2021
Registration procedure for Top-64.
The Semi-Final of the Shadow's Trophy (Top-64) will be held on December 11, 2021!
We hope that all pilots who passed the Qualifications will be able to take part in the stage of the Tournament! We do understand that not everyone may have the time or opportunity to show up at the start of the next stage and some even flew exclusively for their own pleasure and to improve their personal skills.
To give the maximum number of pilots a chance to compete for prizes, we have prepared the following participation format:
On the Tournament page on virpil-servers.com, all pilots who have a result in the Qualification must log into their account and as soon as this is done, confirm or refuse further participation in the pop-up window.
The “Statistics / Results” page will display the Top-64 table with a maximum of 64 positions. It will include the pilots who agree to continue their participation.
We strongly recommend that all participants in the Qualification give such consent. Perhaps, if one of the leaders of the standings does not want or will not be able to appear in the Top-64, then there will be vacancies for those whose current position is outside the coveted threshold.
Confirmations of participation are accepted until 7 December. 2021 23:59 (MSK / UTC + 3).
After the expiration of this period, the pilots who have not confirmed their desire to continue the fight are considered to have dropped out of the Tournament.
In order to make an informed decision, the Shadow's Trophy team prepared a small table in which you can see the time of the Semifinal in relation to some time zones:
Shadow's Trophy Top-64 Time Schedule
According to clause 2.11 of the Tournament Regulations, the order of flights is determined according to the time shown in the Qualification of the Tournament from worst to best.
For the convenience of the participants and the simplicity of the event, the pilots will be divided into 8 groups of 8 people each.
Given the geography of Shadow's Trophy Tournament, for some participants the time determined by the Qualifying Draw may not be convenient. Therefore, we remind you that there is an opportunity to contact the organizers with a request to reschedule the race time (change the group) to a more convenient one.*
This can be done via email or or Discord all day on Dec 8th 2021 from 0:00 to 23:59 (Moscow time / UTC + 3).
Contacts of the organizers:
- Email — ShadowsTrophy@virpil.com
- Discord — https://discord.gg/tPRwwQcp
The final table of the Top 64 participants, the composition of the groups and their flight times will be published on the Tournament page on the virpil-servers.com website on December 9th, so stay tuned !
Good luck in the Tournament!
Shadow's Trophy Team
VIRPIL Controls
* — Clause 3.4 of the Tournament Regulations has been changed for the convenience of the participants.
November 27th 2021
Tournament Regulations and Prize Fund updates!
Greetings to all Shadow’s Trophy participants!
The main news for the tournament participants is the expansion of the prize fund! Eagle Dynamics wants to reward the best pilots and, in addition to the devices, will award each podium climber one DCS World module of their choice!*
* - As prizes, participants will be able to choose modules only developed by Eagle Dynamics. Third party modules are not included.
As many know from the Tournament Regulations, there will be online broadcasts of the event during the Semifinal and Final stages. Streams will be combined in English and Russian. One of the hosts will be Dmitry aka =[:)]=MI1T — VIRPIL Controls russian community manager. The experienced and well-known 104th Phoenix VFBS pilot — 104th Maverick — will cover the event for English-speaking spectators!
104th Maverick — Twitch — Discord — Youtube
Pilots should take a look at the changes in the Tournament Regulations that the organizers have made based on the Qualification, achievements and wishes of the pilots.
The main change was the transfer of Top-64 and Top-16 from the VPC Helicopter Race Release Server to its counterpart in the DCS World beta version.
VPC Helicopter Race Server (Beta) (IP address 86.57.174.42 port 10317)
This is due to the fact that the overwhelming majority of participants in the Qualification fly in Beta version and fewer pilots will have to install an additional copy of DCS World.
The next changes were additions to the regulations regarding the passage of the Shadow’s Trophy Race Track.
Section 3 “Rules for conducting timed flights (Top-64 and Top-16)” has been supplemented with clause 3.9, which reads:
In the Semifinals and Finals, if the helicopter is damaged, as well as the occurrence of failures and malfunctions, the following rules apply during the passage of the race track :
- Partial loss of power, i.e. shutdown of one engine on twin-engine helicopters during the race is not considered a malfunction, entailing zeroing the result of the attempt.
- A complete loss of power before the end of the race is considered a critical malfunction and will nullify the result of the attempt.
- After completing the course, the participant must be able to make a soft landing. A helicopter crash after crossing the finish line will nullify the result.
- The final decision on the result of the attempt in the event of the situations described in clause 3.9 will be made by the arbiter.
That is all new information today, but as Tournament Qualification is coming to an end, we’ll inform pilots more about the Semi-Final and Final.
Stay tuned!
Shadow’s Trophy Team